256 pg, paper, ‘02

What Are You Hungry For? reveals how obsessive dieting, a distorted body image, and eating disorders are often symptoms of a deep spiritual void. The author's offer a revolutionary and easy to follow approach using methods adapted from Eastern mind/body practices, such as yoga and meditation. This approach allows women to quiet the outer world, make peace with their present situation, and recognize deeper, more satisfying paths to fulfillment. Step-by-step instructions lead readers through over 20 consciousness-building practices, teaching effective methods for listening to one's body and utilizing its important feedback on hunger and satiation. The book also presents a comprehensive yoga routine, complete with illustrations showing each pose.

CONTENTS:

1 – Start where you are
2 – Are you looking at yourself from the outside in?
3 – Turning yourself inside out
4 – The importance of a practice
5 – The feedback loop
6 – Finding a food practice that works
7 – Moving into your own mind/body practice
8 – Deepening your food practice
9 – The conscious choice
10 – You are a work in progress

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Mary Taylor and Lynn Ginsburg are columnists for “Eating Wisely,” featured in the Yoga Journal. They conduct workshops on women, food, and spirituality nationwide.

REVIEWS:

“Finally, an insightful book that ties together food and our spiritual practice! What Are You Hungry For? provides both philosophical and practical ways to understand our relationship with what we take into our bodies and how we are following our internal voices.”
—Rodney Yee, author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

“Eating is not just a biological process. It involves all of us, including our emotions and our spirit. What Are You Hungry For? supports and enables women to bring a quality of mindfulness to their relationship to food. This is a book that can help readers become liberated to more authenticity and consciousness around eating.”
—John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America

“This book offers a good balance of the theoretical and the practical, encouraging attention and mindfulness with gentle, easy exercises. For all those who regularly fight with their food and their body, Lynn and Mary’s loving approach offers a sane way out of the conflict.”
—Annemarie Colbin, author of Food and Healing