Book Club
This is a book club like you've never seen before! As readers become Miraval guests, they are able to meet the author and bring the book to life!
"It is, to use Wyatt's words, "about how we relate to all living things." Read this book and you will know yourself a little (or maybe a lot) better."
- T. Rutledge on It's Not About the Horse
MINDFUL LIVING MIRAVAL
Mindful Living Miraval is designed to help you more fully celebrate each moment of your life. Twelve Miraval specialists ranging from exercise physiologists to chefs to spiritual healers—bring their expertise to chapters centered on the key tenets of the Miraval philosophy, such as balance, joy, and developing the ability to overcome obstacles. This book brings Miraval to the reader and is designed to be helpful for both those who have never visited and regular guests of the resort. Through recipes, exercises, meditations, and spa treatments, readers are shown a wide variety of practical ways to implement the changes they desire.
While the topics addressed in Mindful Living Miraval may seem broad, they are held together through the concept of mindfulness. Mindfulness is the ability to live in the present, using simple tools like the breath to help you remain focused, calm, and capable of making the kind of decisions that will lead to a better life. Just as life is a journey, so is Mindful Living Miraval, moving through the months of the year and encouraging you to get the most out of each stage of the cycle.
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Mindful Eating by Miraval
The pioneer for mindfulness in every aspect of life, one of the pillars of Miraval’s success is that healthy food can taste good. Long celebrated for delectable masterpieces in spa cuisine, Miraval’s culinary team has created this compilation of balanced recipes, representing an invitation to continue eating the Miraval way—by expanding and mixing and learning more about one’s needs while bringing diet into balance.
Meet the Authors at Miraval with Just Cook for Me Chef! and Hands-On Baking
Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Weil, M.D.
Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within. Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr. Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine, the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness, discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in treating depression, and elaborates on the inseparability of body and mind.
Dr. Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment, comfort, resilience, serenity, and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, these strategies include body-oriented therapies to support emotional wellness, techniques for managing stress and anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns, and advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Lastly, Dr. Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized according to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, supplements, environment, lifestyle, and much more. Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr. Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.
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Integrative Wellness Rules: A Simple Guide to Healthy Living By Dr. Jim Nicolai
Have you ever found that you needed to change things in your life, but for some reason life kept getting in the way? Integrative Wellness Rules will help you get around that obstacle. In the age of conflicting advice on health, this book provides quick and easy health tips for individuals who are on the run but still need strategies to better manage their fast-paced lives. Join Dr. Jim Nicolai, the medical director of the Andrew Weil, M.D., Integrative Wellness Program at Miraval Spa and Resort, as he shares with you the insights and strategies he has collected along the way to optimize health and create wellness.
With a style that is clear, concise, and entertaining, Dr. Jim will provide you with the keys to healthier living in a way that is profoundly simple and yet simply profound. He will teach you how to eat better, choose the vitamins and supplements that are best for you, manage stress more effectively, and get in touch with your spiritual side. Dr. Jim will call you to action with his pearls of wit, wisdom, and humor, and motivate you by providing real-world clarity on which health strategies to add within your already busy life.
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It's Not About the Horse by Wyatt Webb
Wyatt Webb is the creator of "The Equine Experience". This unique form of therapy blends horse sense with common sense. Wyatt uses the horse as a metaphor, explaining that how you relate to this animal will tell how you relate to all living things, hence the title "It's Not About The Horse". Using this analogy and case studies Wyatt shows the reader how to understand what they have learned over the course of their lifetime and explains how to examine what works for or against them. Wyatt then goes on to explain, drawing from his own life experience how anyone that wants to grow and really know who they are must travel through uncharted territory, the only place where you learn anything.
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Common Horse Sense by Wyatt Webb
This remarkable book speaks to our current stressful, fear-based mode of existing by offering simple, common-sense solutions that lead toward sanity and joy. And the wonderful thing is that these methods are available to us all in present-moment time. Wyatt Webb sticks to his belief that the cause of our most difficult struggles in this life are two things we’re not born with: fear and self-doubt. Since these two conditions are learned, there is definitely hope for overcoming them via the process of unlearning and relearning, which is at our intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fingertips. We’re able to move from the perception of being stuck by availing ourselves of the simple yet profound tools offered in this book.
Reporting for the Other Side by Tina Powers
News Anchor and Reporter, Tina Powers, is standing at the scene where a thirteen year-old boy has been shot and killed. Tina, her cameraman, and the police are the first to arrive at the crime scene. The parents of the boy have yet to arrive. Do they know their young son is dead? Just another tragedy that Tina stands to bear witness in the name of her job to the many nameless faces as the camera starts to roll.
For Tina, this day, feels different. As she witnessed the father arrive, the shame and horror of the senseless nature of all this hit her in the face. Has this man been told that his son is dead? Does he know that in a crime scene, you can't touch your child and hold him one last time? Tina is expected to nab the father's reaction and ask him how he feels in the name of reporting. This moment would be the breaking of a fissure that Tina has followed most of her life and yet denied.
Her journey begins when she realizes that she needs to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Her journey from standing on the brink of tragedy, loss, and grief, would take a severe turn when she begins honoring the seemingly senseless voices inside her head that she s been hearing since childhood, yet denied and ignored. Tina realizes that these voices are sent to be of comfort to the family members in deep despair, grief, and loss and to offer hope and peace in their most private intimate moments. But does Tina really have the courage to begin Reporting for the Other Side.
Living as Light by Brent Baum
In Living As Light, Brent Baum shares with us his journey to spiritual awakening through trauma. The traumas of our lives are a map to spiritual awakening. Inherent in the bodymind are the keys to conscious awakening as the quantum creators we are intended to be. Through his healing work with over 14,000 trauma survivors and his own intuitive abilities inherited from his family, Brent leads us into the realm of true alternative healing -- the emergent fields of somatic psychology and energy psychology.
The Healing Dimensions: Resolving Trauma in Body, Mind and Spirit by Brent Baum
At a time when "trauma" is such a prominent theme in our everyday lives, Brent Baum speaks to us of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual impact of these overwhelming experiences. After personally working with over 11,000 trauma survivors, including the survivors of Oklahoma City Bombing and September 11th, he details the impact of such trauma in our lives and offers resources for healing these breaches in our individual and collective consciousness. Stress and trauma cause an automatic protective reaction within us that pauses our "quantum" perception until we are ready to deal with such experiences. Intense feelings of shame, fear, anger, sadness, and even physical pain are frequently indicators that, within the ninety-three percent subconscious mind, we are still present in a scene of pain that has yet to be fully resolved. Through an emotional reframing process that Brent Baum has developed over the last fifteen years, we can learn to send our own corrective signal to the subconscious mind, indicating that we now possess the resources to free ourselves from the images and patterns of the past. This enables us to return to living fully in the present where authentic intimacy, serenity, and abundance are to be found.