Road Trip Guide to the Soul: A 9-Step Guide to Reaching Your Inner Self and Revolutionizing Your Life [Hardcover]

Sadie Nardini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2008

Yoga and mind-body expert Sadie Nardini shows readers how to attract their best life now Sadie Nardini is the founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, director of East/West Yoga in New York City, and one of the leading yoga teachers in the United States. With her powerful techniques and dynamic personality, she's helped thousands of people transform their lives. Now, she takes readers on an inner road trip to the soul. Her new nine-step program helps people rev up their lives and make positive changes in health, relationships, finances, and career while learning to lose unnecessary baggage, fall in love with themselves, turn no into yes, and much more. Drawing from the best of Eastern wisdom and Western science, Nardini shows contemporary readers how to easily overcome roadblocks that get in the way of reaching desired goals while enjoying the adventure of truly living life along the way.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Have you ever made a wrong turn in your life?

Do you feel unsure about where you're going in your relationships or job?

Get ready for the journey of a lifetime an inner road trip to your soul. In this life-changing guide, yoga and mind-body healing expert Sadie Nardini gives you a nine-step program that will help you rev up your life an d connect with your true self so that you can live your very best life now.

Nardini gives you both the road map and the tools you need to make positive changes in your health, relationships, finances, and career. You'll discover the secrets to success by harnessing the power of alignment, allowing, and acting at every stage of your journey. You'll learn how to lose unnecessary baggage, fall in love with yourself, assemble a supportive community of friends and family, find wealth in all the right places, improve your health, and maximize our energy.

Throughout the book, Nardini includes easy-to-do exercises and meditations as well as helpful take the Wheel and Road Rules tips to keep you moving and motivated. She also uses inspiring true stories from her own road trip experiences and from everyday life to show you how to put the tools and techniques into action to create positive change.

Because every trip has its challenges Nardini shows you how to recognize and overcome roadblocks that can get in the way of our reaching your goals, all while enjoying he adventure of truly living life along the way.

Once you find your inner self and trust it to guide you, you'll discover the freedom and joy of being in touch with your true nature and following your own unique path.

From the Back Cover

Take the wheel to reach your inner self and revolutionize your life!

"Road Trip Gide to the Soul is a hands-on, practical, and delightful guide to spiritual growth. Full of accessible wisdom and helpful tips, it's written in a hip, personal style that bring yogic truths right down to daily reality. Highly recommended." - Sally Kempton

"Sadie Nardini's delightful new book is a user-friendly guide to transformation. It's packed with easily digestible portions of wisdom for body,mind, and soul. It's fun. And in the best spirit of yoga-it's practical!" - Stephen Cope

"This book is a compassionate, illuminating, and empowering companion for anyone looking to make holistic change in his or her life. Nardini's stories, sprinkled throughout the book, are filled with a refreshing dose of humanity, and Nardini also includes expert advice based on yoga, Buddhism, and feng shui. The book shows us in practical terms how to create the life we want in our relationships, love, money, health, and most importantly, in our relationship to ourselves." - Brent Kessel

"It's now more than five years since my brain cancer surgery. Now I call myself a survivor. One of my goals is to learn something new every day, and Road Trip Gide to the Soul is a great tool for accomplishing this goal." - Lynn Kohlman

"This is a bold and heartfelt offering to everyone who is starved for authentic spiritual nourishment. Born of the author's extraordinary life journeys, the book is filled with real-world insights, dynamic wisdom and good old-fashioned storytelling. Road Trip Guide to the Soul is a taste of how life can and should be when lived with meaning, courage, clarity, and depth." - John Raatz

"No matter where you are on your journey, Road Trip Guide to the Soul provides a wonderful vehicle filled with tools that will reignite the passion,joy, and excitement in your life. If you find yourself in the back seat of your own life or at a fork in the road, Sadie Nardini is the ultimate tour guide." - Barry Goldstein

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470187743
• ISBN-13: 978-0470187746
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.9 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am the Director of East West Yoga, a studio on 5th Avenue and 14th street in New York City.

I'm the proud author of the Road Trip Guide to Your Soul, and the bestselling yoga DVD, the Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga: Power Hour.

I like fiercely creating life and love and art from the depths of who I am, and encouraging all my students to do the same in their own unique ways.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerfully simple guidance! August 3, 2008

By Martha Konrad

Format:Hardcover

Not "just another" how-to book, added to the many that purport to change your life! (And haven't you heard that statement before? You can imagine the number of "how to change your life" books I've read in 67 years!) What made me want to encourage you to read Sadie's book is her unabashed use of the word "rule" as in her Road Rules, clues for the life journey where "direction" and "discipline" are joyful practices rewarded by life-changing outcomes. She writes (one is tempted to say "speaks"-- her book is engaging, interactive, and conversational) simply and articulately about profound truths. She inspires one to follow where one can, to adapt where one should, and to believe that full and abundant living is well within the range of the human condition. Since I'm on the trip anyway, I'm really glad to be sharing the road with Sadie.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Thing July 27, 2008

By Peter Arcese

Format:Hardcover

Sadie has the gift for teaching. Together with hard-earned, lived wisdom, her gift comes through on these pages, as it does in the yoga studio. Her lessons are specific, practical, and rooted in the teachings of ancient wisdom traditions. Using examples from her own life blended with the road trip metaphor, Sadie offers compelling, memorable, and empowering guidance. A key teaching that runs throughout is how self-reliance combines with generosity and compassion. She shows you how being intelligently and courageously generous with yourself benefits both you and others. Anyone who has taken a class with Sadie can see the integrity and discipline in her work. She brings these same qualities to this book. Her writing is both conversational and authoritative. You would be hard pressed to find a more engaging guide to life's rich journey. And you don't need to be a yogi to benefit from reading it. You only need to be alive with a commitment to living at full throttle!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for the Current Generation October 22, 2009

By Alexaskhan

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm a little biased, an all-or-nothing type person. I don't know if this is the best book ever written in the Whole Wide World, but I'm giving it a 5 because it helped me in ways other advice columns and self-help books have yet to do.

Some people may complain that this self-help book gives information everyone already knows, or doesn't interpret the information everyone already knows in a creative way. But I think these books are called self-help in part, because most people with even a little common sense know what they should do, they are just missing some essential thing or things to go out there and help themselves!

Therefore, as a self-help book, I think this is a success. Especially for young to middle aged adults right now, living in a time where so much of ourselves are generated outward, through the internet, exponentially easier access to material wants and needs, etc.

The book states what you know you need to do for yourself. Then it gives insight, using various theoretical backgrounds (but put very simply), to the many reasons why these self-help steps are necessary. This provides understanding and motivation. For me, best of all, the book then provides very detailed directions and examples of how to go about putting the world's common sense advice into action.

As an engineering student, I also enjoyed how she simplified the aspects of physics and other sciences to show that all the rules apply to us too, not just to some little point in space or an object on a slope or a circuit or piece of furniture.

I watch her yoga videos too, so this made me perhaps a little biased as I have been exposed to a small glimpse of her personality, diction, way the thinks, etc. However, (I liked that) she did not discuss too much about her personal life until the end. I like when advice is not completely directed from another person's personal experiences. The "if I were you..." deal. Instead, it was kind of a kill bill approach, in which you don't know anything about the bride, all we know is she's a mass murderer, but we're still rooting for her because of the way she takes control of her life despite disabling situations.