April 3rd, 2011
Note from Sara
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Note from Sara
Dear Friends,
After a couple of years of hiatus, my newsletter is back in action! Let me know how you like this new format and what you'd like to hear/see more here...
My intention with these mailings is to give us all a bi-weekly touch point before we dive into our Mondays. For me, Sundays are sacred days. Not because of any religious orientation, but because they are my days to rest, abandon making plans with anyone, and to get clear about my upcoming week. With these notes I hope for us to share a common pause--to reflect, step back, and therefor see more clearly before moving ahead.
This week, what is your intention? What is it that you'd most like to see/be/do? Write it down in a word or a few on a notecard and tape it up on your wall. For me, for this week, my word is: EASE. I have some busy days ahead, with more plates spinning in the air than possibly ever before in my life as I get ready for my book tour and launch. Today I'm asking myself: How can I do all that I'm doing with full breath, ease, and a smile? One step at a time?
I'll let you know how it goes this time next week!
In the meantime, please enjoy what I and The Way of the Happy Woman team have put together for you below!
With love and EASE,
Sara
Inspiration
"Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness." — Mary Oliver
Book
LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATURE AND YOUR SOUL
Our ancestors adhered to the daily, seasonal, and yearly rhythms of nature by necessity, but modern life overrides these cycles, compromising women’s health and happiness. In this book, Sara Avant Stover shows how simple, natural, and refreshingly accessible practices can minimize stress and put us back in sync with our own cycles and those of nature. When we honor spring’s seedlings, summer’s vibrancy, fall’s harvest, and winter’s quietude, we harmonize our inner and outer worlds. Sara’s suggestions nurture the body, invigorate the mind, and lift the spirit. Illustrated yin and yang yoga sequences, one-day season-specific retreats, enticing recipes, and innovative self-reflection techniques make it easy to reconnect with the essential.
Praise for The Way of the Happy Woman
“Filled with health-promoting delight, pleasure, and truth. Just lovely.” — Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“In The Way of the Happy Women, Sara Avant Stoveroffers hundreds of baby steps — simple yet deceptively profound — toward living a happier, healthier, more balanced life. Even a few of these, practiced regularly, could be transformational. Highly recommended!” — Timothy McCall, MD, medical editor of Yoga Journal and author of Yoga as Medicine
The book will be released on May 1st. Click here to pre-order.
Join us on the booktour...
I’d love to meet you on the road! If you would like to schedule a The Way of the Happy Woman book talk/signing, workshop, or retreat for your organization or yoga studio, please contact us.
To schedule an interview, please contact my publicist kim (at) newworldlibrary.com.
East Coast Book Tour
May 6-8 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at Kripalu (Lenox, MA)
May 9 - Book Talk & Signing at Elm Street Books (New Canaan, CT)
May 11- Book Talk & Signing at PURE Yoga (New York, NY)
May 13 - Book Talk & Signing at Saraswati’s Yoga Joint (New Canaan, CT)
May 14 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at Saraswati’s Yoga Joint New Canaan, CT
May 15 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat at PURE Yoga (New York, NY)
Boulder/Denver Book Tour
May 19 - Book Talk & Signing at The Boulder Bookstore (Boulder, CO)
May 21 - Book Launch Party (Details TBA; Boulder, CO)
May 21 - Talk for the Boulder Writers’ Workshop (Boulder, CO)
May 23 - Book Talk & Signing for the women’s entrepreneurial group we2e (Boulder, CO)
May 25 - Book Talk & Signing at Tattered Cover (Denver, CO)
Oct 16-18 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at Shambhala Mountain Center (Red Feather Lakes, CO)
West Coast Book Tour
June 1 - Book Talk & Signing at Crystal Way Bookstore (San Francisco, CA)
June 2 - Book Talk & Signing at Yoga Loft (San Francisco, CA)
June 4 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at Yoga Loft (San Francisco, CA)
June 7 - Book Talk & Signing at Copperfield Books (Sebastapol, CA)
June 10 - Book Talk & Signing at Asha Yoga (Sacramento, CA)
June 11 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at Asha Yoga (Sacramento, CA)
June 12-15 - Portland, OR; Details TBA
June 16 - Book Talk & Signing at Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
June 17 - Book Talk & Signing at 8 Limbs Yoga (Seattle, WA)
June 17 - Radio Interview with KKNW/Seattle “Chat with Women”
June 18 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at 8 Limbs Yoga (Seattle, WA)
June 24 - Book Talk & Signing at Semperviva (Vancouver, BC)
June 22 - Radio Interview with Conscious Living Vancouver
June 25 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat® at Semperviva (Vancouver, BC)
Midwest Book Tour
July 14 - Book Talk & Signing at Flourish (Chicago, IL)
July 16 - The Way of the Happy Woman® Retreat at Yoga View (Chicago, IL)
Europe Book Tour
Sept 3-9 - Embodied Heart™ Summer Women’s Retreat (France)
Sept 14-18 - Women’s Yoga Teacher Training Level 1 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Asia Book Tour
Jan/Feb 2012
TBA
January 29- February 4 - Women’s Yoga Teacher Training Level 1 (Absolute Sanctuary; Koh Samui, Thailand)
February 6-12 - Embodied Heart™ Winter Women’s Retreat (Absolute Sanctuary; Koh Samui, Thailand)
Save the Dates...
May 6-8, 2011 - The Way of the Happy Woman Retreat at Kripalu (Lenox, MA)
Sept 3-9, 2011 - Embodied Heart™ Summer Women’s Retreat at Moulin de Chaves, France
Sept 14-18, 2011 - Women's Yoga Teacher Training in Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct 16-18, 2011 - Embodied Heart™ Fall Women’s Retreat at Shambhala Mountain Center, Red Feather Lakes, CO
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2012 - Women's Yoga Teacher Training at Absolute Sanctuary, Koh Samui, Thailand
Feb 6 - 12, 2012 - Embodied Heart™ Women’s Retreat at Absolute Sanctuary Koh Samui, Thailand
Featured Product...
Women’s Yoga Kit
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Learn that how to align with your feminine essence and monthly rhythms to relax, de-stress, and live a happy, successful, and healthy life.
If you’re longing for more balance and radiance in your life, here is a clear, simple way that you can embody these qualities in your day-to-day life.
Favorite Recipes...
Salad with Carrot and Ginger Dressing
Ingredients
For salad
1 head of baby gem lettuce (or any greens), roughly cut
1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
1/4 avocado, diced
For dressing
1 large carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
1 large shallot, peeled and roughly chopped
2 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh ginger
1 tablespoon sweet white miso
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon roasted sesame seed oil
1/4 cup grapeseed oil
2 tablespoons water
Preparation
Pulse the carrot, shallot and ginger in a blender until finely chopped. Scrape down the sides, add the miso, vinegar and sesame seed oil
and whiz together. While the blender is going, slowly drizzle in the grapeseed oil and the water.
Combine the lettuce, onion and avocado in a bowl, drizzle with plenty of dressing and serve.
