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RAGE YOGA de Lindsay Istace

An irreverent and hilarious guide to unleashing your inner badass, from the creator of Rage Yoga.

RAGE YOGA: Unleash Your Inner Badass
by Lindsay Istace
Sourcebooks, April 2021 (voir catalogue)

From the creator of the international viral sensation Rage Yoga comes a book that will empower readers to crush their bullsh*t, unleash their inner Badass Self, and be Zen as f*ck. Rage Yoga is taught by certified instructors and done while blasting hard rock music, hydrating with a cold beer, loudly cursing like a sailor, and extending your fist unicorns in a state of bleeped-out bliss. This book will explore how and why Rage Yoga came to be and how to create a regular practice through breath work, positional exercises, and mindfulness, along with two 7-day programs.

An award-winning circus artist, Lindsay Istace performs contortion, sword swallowing, comedy-variety acts and fire arts. They have trained contortion and extreme flexibility with top coaches in Beijing, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Their keen interest in flexibility ended up bringing them into the world of Yoga and taking them on a deeper and more Badass path. They became a certified Yoga instructor and founded Rage Yoga in 2016. Since then, they have taught the viral phenomenon across North America and Europe as well as online. Rage Yoga has continued to grow and expand and had begun to bring in new teacher with annual Rage Yoga Certified Badass Instructor programs.

CHAKRA RITUALS de Cristi Christensen

In this new book, internationally renowned yoga instructor Cristi Christensen guides readers who are seeking a connection to something greater than themselves by showing them how to tap into the single most perfect system living inside of each of us—the seven chakras.

CHAKRA RITUALS
by Cristi Christensen
St. Martin’s Essentials, May 2021 (voir catalogue)

Celebrating, honoring, and using the chakras frees us to express our authenticity and live a life of power, love, joy, creativity, connection and purpose. In today’s yoga culture, the chakras are for much more than healing, which has been the traditional application of this 4000-year-old wisdom. While the idea and attributes of the chakras have become trendy, sexy, cool, and very spiritual, few people today really know how to activate the chakras’ powerful energy for deep transformation. Cristi aims to change that, and her book offers readers a multi-dimensional, practical and inspiring, structured seven-week step-by-step program.
Each week, readers will be instructed how to activate a different chakra, and each weekday they will be led through a dynamic, easy, and motivating practice which distills the esoteric concepts and makes them tangible, living experiences. A self-discovery and self-help guide, Cristi’s book employs the chakras’ potential to open the pathways to a full, enlightened “aliveness.” Accomplished yogis and newcomers alike will be invited to flow with their emotions, claim their power, open their hearts, feel their bodies, speak their truths, and align with the divine. CHAKRA RITUALS approaches an ancient science that is often considered unrelatable and makes it accessible to the spiritually curious, with the chakras as a roadmap to transformation, something no other chakra book has done.
This will be a full-color book with some illustrations throughout, but not be heavily illustrated – mostly line drawings and some illustrative material of the movement-based sequences.

A former elite-level gymnast and platform diver, Cristi Christensen trained with the US Olympic diving team as a young adult. After an injury cut her Olympic dreams short, Cristi shifted her focus to helping others improve their level of fitness through personal training, Pilates, Core Fusion, and yoga. After earning her degree in Kinesiology, Cristi studied extensively for over 10 years with world-renowned teachers including Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Elisabeth Halfpapp, and Fred DeVito. She now has a personal network following of over 15.2 million people in the US, Asia, and Europe. In the past two decades, she has taught yoga, meditation, movement, and dance on five continents in venues ranging from private studios to festivals attended by thousands.

MILL TOWN de Kerri Arsenault

Part memoir, part journalism, MILL TOWN is a multi-layered book that wrestles with some of the most worrying themes in our world today, including economic inequality, the environment, and unchecked corporate behavior, delivered in the most intimate package that is the story of one woman, her family and the small town in Maine where they are from.

MILL TOWN: Reckoning With What Remains
by Kerri Arsenault
St. Martin’s Press, September 2020

Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for that seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, moral, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.” In Mill Town, Arsenault undertakes an excavation of a collective past, sifting through historical archives and scientific reports, talking to family and neighbors, and examining her own childhood to present a portrait of a community that illuminates not only the ruin of her hometown and the collapse of the working-class of America, but also the hazards of both living in and leaving home, and the silences we are all afraid to violate. In exquisite prose, Arsenault explores the corruption of bodies: the human body, bodies of water, and governmental bodies, and what it’s like to come from a place you love but doesn’t always love you back. A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

Kerri Arsenault serves on the board of the National Books Critics Circle, is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine, and Contributing Editor at Lithub. Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University’s Communication for Develoment master’s programme. Her writing has appeared in Freeman’s, Lithub, Oprah.com, and The Minneapolis Star Tribute, among other publications. She lives in New England. This is her first book.

Le secret pour mincir? Manger plus gras !

Un nouveau régime venu tout droit des USA s’apprête à bouleverser les habitudes alimentaires actuelles ainsi que les a-priori contre les matières grasses. De plus en plus de spécialistes du monde entier semblent confirmer cette théorie : manger moins de gras n’est pas forcement une bonne idée.

En France, le magazine ELLE vient de consacrer un reportage à cette nouvelle tendance, qui plaira aux plus gourmands.

Et au printemps 2016, HarperOne publiera l’ouvrage des pionniers du « Mangez plus gras », le très médiatisé Jonny Bowden et le Dr. Steven Masley :

EAT MORE FAT, LOSE MORE WEIGHT
The Fat Solution to Shed Pounds, Reverse Chronic Illness, and Finally Feel Fantastic!
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., and Steven Masley, M.D
HarperOne | Spring 2016

Low-fat diets have made us fatter and sicker than ever, and eating fat has gotten a bad rap. But recently there has been a lot of buzz and research in the health world about the benefits of a higher fat diet. In fact, doctors and health practitioners, Paleo fanatics and trainers, plant-based researchers and vegans, and high-protein, low-sugar, and gluten-free experts all actually agree that the average dieter is eating way too little fat. When dieters stop swapping out butter, stop replacing red meat, and ditch the low-fat and no-fat diet foods, they lose more weight and reduce their risk of disease.
Healthy fats are the new low-carb. And eating more fat is the key to losing weight faster, reversing many everyday symptoms and chronic illnesses, and looking and feeling amazing. But how much fat is too much? What sources of fat are the healthiest? And how do you eat fat to burn fat? This is not your mother’s Atkins. In EAT MORE FAT, LOSE MORE WEIGHT, a bestselling nutritionist and a bestselling physician will change how readers think about fat and offer readers three healthy weight loss solutions tailored to their specific needs—The Mediterranean Fat Solution, The Paleo Fat Solution, and The Ketosis Fat Solution—that will have them feeling, thinking, and looking better than they have in years. The right fats will address cravings. They will nourish brain and heart health. And they will reverse metabolic syndrome and increase weight loss.

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D, C.N.S. is a board certified nutritionist and nationally acclaimed author of The Great Cholesterol Myth, which has sold over 100000 copies, and 13 other books, which have sold more than an additional 800000 copies.
Steven Masley, M.D. is a renowned physician and the former medical director of the Pritikin Longevity Center. His recent book, The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up, has sold nearly 50,000 hardcovers in its first four months of publication.