The Way of the Happy Woman - by Sara Avant Stover (Paperback)

About the Book

"The Way of the Happy Woman" playfully prescribes how to honor each season of the year with wholesome foods, yoga, meditation, and reflections. Yoga teacher and retreat leader Stover presents suggestions for yoga sequences, meditations, affirmations, journaling exercises, and healthy meals and recipes for each season.

Book Synopsis

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 recommendations 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.

Review Quotes

"Heartfelt and rich with personal stories, this book presents practical wisdom for women of all ages who are seeking to live a healthier, happier life."
-- Yoga Journal

"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 Woman, Sara Avant Stover offers 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

"Rest in the nest of this beautiFULL book, and allow it to soak in and beam its wisdom to you. Your way is that of the happy woman, and these words will awaken, inspire, and deeply support you on your way-finding."
-- SARK, artist, creative fountain, and author of Glad No Matter What

"This lovely, born-of-experience book is a primer on how to live in accord with the energies of the natural world. Clear and thoughtful, it will help you remember that even amid the demands of work, school, family, and incessant email, you're still a goddess."
-- Susan Piver, author of The Wisdom of a Broken Heart and The Hard Questions

About the Author

Sara Avant Stover is an inspirational speaker, teacher, mentor, and the founder and director of The Way of the Happy Woman.(R) After a health scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Thailand, where she embarked on an extensive healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia and served as one of the pioneer Western yoga teachers in that part of the world. She now lives in Boulder, Colorado, and continues to teach around the world.