Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide [Paperback]

Myra Lewin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009

In a culture driven by advertising, convenience, and weight-loss gimmicks, our relationship with food has become sadly out-of touch. Yoga teacher Myra Lewin encourages us to slow down and cultivate a healthy relationship with what we put in our bodies. Drawing from the basic principles of Ayurveda and Yoga, Freedom in Your Relationship to Food is a simple and effective guide to enhancing your relationship with food and the process of eating. Including lists of foods to seek out or avoid, simple breathing and meditation exercises, and practical recipes, this book will help you overcome mental and physical obstacles to attain excellent health.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Freedom in Your Relationship with Food is an essential book for everyone today. It dispels the myth that freedom is eating what you want when you want and questions the validity of media and science over personal experience. -- Vaidya Atreya Smith, author of Perfect Balance, Ayurvedic Nutrition for Mind, Body and Soul, Ayurvedic Healing for Women, and Practical Ayurveda

In a simple, detailed and informative manner, Myra Lewin invites us to reflect on the nature and meaning of nourishment, from day to day practicalities to sharp insights into our deeply held habits and beliefs. -- Sama Fabian, CSTA, IYN500H, founder of Aurolab Yoga Project, founder and R&D officer of the Independent Yoga Network, UK

Myra Lewin...insightfully and expertly explains how to nurture yourself and achieve vibrant physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. -- John Ruskan, author of Emotional Clearing

This book takes a creative approach to modern problems with food and eating. The author's personal and compassionate offering supports the opportunity to journey inward. -- Hari Sharma, MD, DABHM

Using Ayurvedic principles, Freedom in Your Relationship with Food provides natural, simple, and effective approaches for changing eating ideas and patterns so you can enjoy excellent health, feelings of well-being, and enhanced spiritual experience. This indispensable guide is for everyone. Highly Recommended. --Sandra Summerfield Kozak, MS, founder of International Yoga Studies, co-author of Yoga for Your Type: An Ayurvedic Guide to Your Asana Practice

In a simple, detailed and informative manner, Myra Lewin invites us to reflect on the nature and meaning of nourishment, from day to day practicalities to sharp insights into our deeply held habits and beliefs. --Sama Fabian,Founder of Aurolab Yoga Project, founder of Independent Yoga Network UK

Myra Lewin...insightfully and expertly explains how to nurture yourself and achieve vibrant physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. --Amazon paperback listing

In a simple, detailed and informative manner, Myra Lewin invites us to reflect on the nature and meaning of nourishment, from day to day practicalities to sharp insights into our deeply held habits and beliefs. --Sama Fabian

Myra Lewin...insightfully and expertly explains how to nurture yourself and achieve vibrant physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. --John Ruskin, author of Emotional Clearing

Review

In a simple, detailed and informative manner, Myra Lewin invites us to reflect on the nature and meaning of nourishment, from day to day practicalities to sharp insights into our deeply held habits and beliefs.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Synergy Books (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981546218
• ISBN-13: 978-0981546216
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,169,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A strong dual choice for spirituality and health collections, April 10, 2009

By 

Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide (Paperback)

Food is no longer a source of joy for many people, but instead a source of stress and misery. "Freedom In Your Relationship with Food" is a guide for making food what it should be - a source of enjoyment and nourishment instead of what is killing us. Using the discipline of yoga, Myra Lewin tries to inspire readers to improve their relationship with food so that other aspects of their existence may flourish. An interesting examination of the spirituality of what runs our bodies, "Freedom in Your Relationship with Food" is a strong dual choice for spirituality and health collections.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide to transformation, August 29, 2010

By 

learner101 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide (Paperback)

This book offered me much more than I expected. I always thought I was healthy in my consumption choices, but I had no idea that my relationship with food was actually quite dysfunctional... I would never have even regarded myself as having a relationship with food! Myra Lewins book is amazing and has resulted in great, much needed change in my life. Encouraging me as a reader to do my best at making small changes, the material is presented in a way that resulted in the small changes building and building. As my understanding of my relations with food (when, why, and how I eat) unfolded, I was able to follow suggestions that I understood- the book clearly states the effects of eating in balanced ways for you as opposed to not. The ability of the book to help me understand the impact of my choices has led to lasting change- my physical body has changed, but most importantly as my body becomes healthier, stronger, and much better nourished, my whole quality of life has increased. Perhaps the greatest gift this book has given me is the insight that what we consume affects all areas of our lives, and that what, why, and how we consume is a huge teacher in our spiritual development. As we work with the lessons that our consumption has for each of us as individuals, we do gain great freedom. I've experienced this in my own life as strikingly greater clarity, ability to be present, increased vitality, and joy and appreciation not only of food, but of all life. I continue to work with my relationship with food, as I can now connect my consumption choices to all areas of my life- it is all connected and I am grateful to have crossed paths with this book. Making changes has been a challenge but very liberating and well worth it. My whole sense of well-being has been elevated beyond what I thought capable when first having picked up the book. Highly highly recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perceptions of life can be changed, August 2, 2011

By 

S.Merrell - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide (Paperback)

I absolutely loved this book. I suggest anyone who decides to pick this book up, read it with total attention. I had to re-read parts over and over, I found it so easy to read and read, and notice I wasn't paying attention to the context. When I stopped and actually took the time to focus, I was engulfed by the message. This book is awesome, be open minded, and read if you are truly wanting a change in your life. I'm almost done with the book, and keep debating on whether I want to pass on to someone else, or if I want to keep a hold of it for those moments I feel myself needing that renewing text...