The Power Of Now Epub File

[Carlota Sproul]

Drawingon multiple disciplines including critical food studies, Black studies, history, sociology, and southern studies, Smith makes critical connections between civil rights activism and present-day food justice activism in Black communities, revealing how power struggles over food empower them to envision Black food futures in which communities have the full autonomy and capacity to imagine, design, create, and sustain a self-sufficient local food system. About the Author Bobby J. Smith II is assistant professor of African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

For more information about Bobby J. Smith II, visit the Author Page.

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Expand your energy and raise your sense of personal power with power yoga, the athletic and dynamic style of yoga that delivers high intensity and quick results. In Power Yoga: Strength, Sweat, and Spirit, you will learn the poses, practices, and philosophy of this fitness- and focus-boosting training method to strengthen your body and awaken your spirit.

This potent practice is a complete workout on its own, but it also offers tremendous benefits when combined with other workouts and sports. In addition to physical strength, stamina, and flexibility, the dynamic movements of power yoga challenge you to develop focus, balance, and purpose that extend to life beyond the yoga mat.

Power Yoga: Strength, Sweat, and Spirit is your vehicle for creating extraordinary physical and spiritual results that you will notice quickly and be able to maintain for a lifetime. Become your most powerful self with power yoga.

Leah Cullis, E-RYT 500, is a celebrated power yoga teacher and holistic health coach. Since 2009 she has worked with the Baptiste Institute and her teacher, world-renowned yogi and best-selling author Baron Baptiste, to design and deliver transformational power yoga programs. She has also studied under Jonny Kest and Lama Marut.

Cullis is an all-star teacher with DoYouYoga.com, where she has created the Ultimate Guide to Power Yoga program and a free power yoga challenge that has been joined by over 20,000 participants from around the world. She has been featured in Mantra Magazine, ElephantJournal.com, and MindBodyGreen.com. Cullis teaches at conferences and festivals across the country and has presented at prestigious institutions such as the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

Cullis is a two-time ambassador for lululemon in Austin, Texas, and has represented her community at international conferences and retreats. From 2009 through 2016 she organized the Yoga Garden at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, leading a team of nationally recognized teachers who shared yoga with more than 30,000 participants, as part of a presidential initiative encouraging healthy lifestyles for children and families. Her greatest honor is being a mom.

The fact that many chronic diseases, once thought to only affect adults, have been increasing in prevalence in adolescents, is alarming. Many of these diseases also happen to be preventable, though preventing disease is only the start of the benefits lifestyle medicine offers. Practicing lifestyle medicine principles, such as participating in physical activity, eating mostly whole, plant-based foods, and minimizing stress, can positively influence mental well-being, academic performance, and even athletic performance!

The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: The Power of Healthy Living was written for teens to not only educate them in lifestyle medicine principles, but more so to give them the practical tools and skills needed to implement these principles. The content provided in this book offers evidence-based information and is delivered in a way that will be thought-provoking and catalyze changes in health behaviors. There is not only a focus on the delivery of information but also a strong emphasis on practical applications that can be immediately applied. This timely book is accessible to a wide range of readers, whether they have a strong background in lifestyle medicine or not. The health and well-being of children everywhere are of the utmost importance, and this book spearheads the education of lifestyle medicine for teens.

Adolescence is often a challenging time, and the six pillars of lifestyle medicine can really help to ease any pain teens might experience during this period and enhance their joy of life. By reaching teenagers, lifestyle medicine advocates are able to help set a course for self-care and optimal well-being for a lifetime. Furthermore, by encouraging teachers, students, parents, grandparents, pediatricians, and others that care for teenagers to read the book, a village of knowledgeable people will be created to help empower these adolescents and future leaders to live a healthy lifestyle and elicit their full potential.

Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. thelred the Unready is one, yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or his mother who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of witchcraft and regicide. A royal abbess educated five bishops and was instrumental in deciding the date of Easter; another took on the might of Canterbury and Rome and was accused by the monks of fratricide.

Anglo-Saxon women were prized for their bloodlines - one had such rich blood that it sparked a war - and one was appointed regent of a foreign country. Royal mothers wielded power; Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons.

thelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued her own coinage. She, too, was accused of murder, but was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly-educated.

From seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making extensive use of primary sources, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England examines the lives of individual women in a way that has often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives, sisters, mothers and daughters. It tells their stories: those who ruled and schemed, the peace-weavers and the warrior women, the saints and the sinners. It explores, and restores, their reputations.

What makes this such a compelling read is this richness of sources that Whitehead has drawn on. Many medieval sources have different versions and the placing of these together enables us to infer more of the role of these women. Furthermore, the constant interrogation of each source, why one has been mentioned and them omitted does not allow Whitehead to get carried away; It could be tempting to overstate the record for many of these women and the power they did exert but the balanced view is one that prevails. It is clear however as you venture throughout the book that these medieval women did leave their mark! I think it is a good book to refer back to, with each section detailing a different geographical area or set of circumstances, making it easy to dip into. It is a broad book with quite an ambitious scope, but Whitehead has delivered a succinct and genuinely interesting read! Personally, as a 21st century feminist interested in medieval history, it was a refreshing read to just place women back where they belong.

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Annie Whitehead is an exemplary historian and writer of history who is not afraid to delve into the past head first to bring us such a jewel in this enchanting and immersing panoramic vision of historical women. It is every bit as fascinating, if not more so, as any other historical tome about the female figure of any particular time zone. The language is not laborious and it flows from one subject to the next seamlessly and what I can conclude from this is that the noble Anglo-Saxon woman was fierce and independent when she wanted to be, gentle and pious when society dictated, steadfast and loyal when needed, and as ambitious as any man of any era.

Highly recommended.

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