Healthy Happy Sexy: Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women

by Katie Silcox

Overview

A hip, sensual Ayurveda bible for the modern woman, this life-changing guide distills ancient teachings into a spirit-infused yet pragmatic approach to your physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Teacher and yoga instructor Katie Silcox is a leading expert on Ayurveda. She knows that bringing ancient wisdom into our modern lives does not mean sacrificing the occasional rendezvous with red wine, fashion magazines, and other sensual pleasures. In Healthy Happy Sexy, Katie offers not only a philosophy of life but a time-tested (we’re talking thousands of years!) method for living your most radiant, healthy, and sexually vital life possible.

Covering everything from how to get the perfect poo to glowing skin to deeper sexual fulfillment, here is a complete guide to women’s health. It offers evocative questions, journaling exercises, simple but deep meditations, and natural recipes and remedies for common health and beauty needs. By engaging in these lifestyle choices, you will experience ancient practices that resonate with the way we live our lives now.

Combining Ayurvedic wisdom with practical tools and her lively, playful, and down-to-earth voice, Katie provides a method to heal, entertain, inspire, and remind you that you are one sexy goddess.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582704739
Publisher:	Atria Books/Beyond Words
Publication date:	01/13/2015
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	389,574
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Katie Silcox is a nationally recognized yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, writer for Yoga Journal, and a senior teacher within the Tantric Sri-Vidya-based ParaYoga lineage under Yogarupa Rod Stryker. Katie was named one of San Francisco's Best Yoga Teachers by Common Ground magazine in 2009, and one of "70 Yogis Changing the World" in Origin magazine. Her signature teaching style blends classical yoga, vinyasa-based asana, and life-changing Tantric/Ayurvedic philosophy. She lives in Virginia. Learn more at KatieSilcoxYoga.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Rod Stryker xv

Preface xix

Introduction: So, What the Heck Is Ayurveda? xxiii

Part I Philosophy

1 Aligning with Big Mama 5

2 The Four Glorious Goals of Life 17

3 The Doshas and the Five Elements 27

4 Your Soulful, Subtle Self 45

Part II Healthy

5 Ayurvedic Nutrition and Your Dosha 59

6 The Secret of Great Digestion 71

7 Food and the Emotions 83

8 Setting Up a Living, Sexy Kitchen 95

Part III Happy

9 Glowing Goddess Routines 111

10 Boost Radiance and Slow Aging 133

11 Exercise Like an Ayurveda Queen 145

12 Why Modern Gals Should Meditate 151

Part IV Sexy

13 Ayurveda Sexuality and Deep Female Vitality 169

14 Tantra and Conscious Sex 181

15 Cultivating Sexual Energy from Within 191

16 The Power of Your "Womb 203

In Closing 217

Acknowledgments 219

Appendix A Open-Secret Recipes 223

Appendix B Kitchen Pharmacy: Herbs 245

Appendix C Let's Have Words 257

Notes 267

Resources 273

Editorial Reviews

"Katie translates the self-help ancient system of Ayurveda for the modern woman who wants to be more healthy, happy, and sexy, and achieve the goals of pleasure, prosperity, purpose, and freedom—living life to the fullest."

Sharon Gannon

"Katie Silcox has written a practical, spicy, and highly readable manual for creating a workable Ayurvedic lifestyle. She makes this ancient traditional approach to health completely accessible—and in the process, inspires us to revolutionize our health by following the principles she outlines. Carefully researched and irradiated by Kate's own years of practice, this is a book to keep by your side for guidance through all the seasons of your life. I highly recommend Healthy Happy Sexy–not least for the insights Katie offers on what it means to practice with the authenticity and radical self-honesty that real health and well being require!"

Sally Kempton

Happy Healthy Sexy is a great introduction to the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda and is brought to life by Katie Silcox, one of a new generation of gifted writers. Intelligently written and witty, readers will be inspired to take greater care of their sacred self and bring the sacred into everyday life.

Dr. Marc Halpern

Katie Silcox’s enthusiasm for yoga, Ayurveda, and loving relationships radiates with heart-warmth on every page of Healthy Happy Sexy. This book is packed with loads of information from the deep well of Indic traditional knowledge, all conveyed with her great joy and love of life.

Stuart Sovatsky

Katie Silcox, you are the Carrie Bradshaw of the yoga and Ayurveda movement in the United States.

Meredith Hogan

I have complete trust in Katie. She is one of those very rare yoga teachers for whom the inner journey is both central and powerful. You get the sense when you are around her that she’s been down this road before, that there’s a deep wisdom about yoga and Ayurveda encoded into her system and she’s waking up to it anew right in front of your eyes. She sparkles when she teaches and her path of ParaYoga shares unique secrets about breathing and posture found in no other tradition. If you are open to being transformed, visit her classes and enjoy the benefit of her soft touch and a wisdom that belies her years.

Eric Shaw

"Katie Silcox’s voice is strong, clear, nourishing and empowering. Healthy Happy Sexy is a contemporary yogini’s book of ancient secrets and profound knowledge of our body, spirit and soul. Katie masterfully presents the philosophy and practices of Ayurveda with her own wisdom and experience. She shows how we can create our own journey into wellness and embrace our inherent sexual and creative power. Her book is an open–hearted and soulful invitation to align our natural rhythm with Mother Earth so that we too may reap the benefits of a balanced and harmonious life. Katie’s wise and witty guidance inspires us to make empowered choices about wellness so we can live a life of juicy freedom. This beautiful and inspiring book is for any woman who wants to come into alignment with herself and the Divine.

Laura Amazzone

Katie Silcox is a breath of fresh, feminine air. She has the innate ability to translate ancient teachings into modern language that is tangible, relatable, funny, and by the end of the book you feel as though you have been sharing secrets with your dearest friend. And, Katie is just that. She is a friend for all who seek to know more of their wonderful, juicy, and highest Self. This book is an amazing vehicle for those who are ready to begin a journey towards happiness and health. It is also a must-have reference for teachers and students who are passionate about the possibility of transformation, and of course, bringing sexy back.

Jessica Durivage-Kerridge

"Katie Silcox leads the next generation of thought leaders—helping people live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. The fact that she can deliver what she has to say with so much clarity, humor, caring, and yes, sexiness is a gift, because it means that more and more of us will continue to be drawn to listen and thus, benefit from the ancient wisdom she so expertly conveys."

Rod Stryker

Ayurveda originated, in part, to address the disorders and ease the discomfort of a populous grown increasingly distant from the intimate practical knowledge of, and proximity to nature’s cycles, seasons, and wisdom. Katie Silcox empathizes with these city and worldly dwellers, and shares simple, light-hearted, possibly life-changing perspectives and techniques that hail from the time-tested sisters in Indian sciences: Ayurveda and Yoga.

Dr. Claudia Welch

"Katie's book feeds her readers, no doubt, but more importantly in many ways, it also nourishes the Ayurvedic tradition itself."

Prashanti de Jager

"Katie Silcox leads the next generation of thought leaders—helping people live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. The fact that she can deliver what she has to say with so much clarity, humor, caring, and yes, sexiness is a gift, because it means that more and more of us will continue to be drawn to listen and thus, benefit from the ancient wisdom she so expertly conveys."

Rob Stryker

I'm so excited for this book to come out—and we will promote it as well. You have our 100 percent support completely and fully.

Sianna Sherman

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