HUNGER, HOPE AND HEALING: A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food By Sarahjoy Marsh

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1 HUNGER, HOPE AND HEALING: A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food By Sarahjoy Marsh hunger hope & healing A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food Sarahjoy Marsh EATING DISORDERS HAVE THE HIGHEST MORTALITY RATE OF ANY MENTAL ILLNESS. Up to 24 million people of any age or gender suffer from an eating disorder (anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating) Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among eating disorder adolescents 9 out of 10 college-age women attempt to control their weight through dieting 25% of college-age women engage in bingeing and purging to manage weight 35% of normal dieters progress to pathological dieting. Of those, 20% to 25% develop partial or full syndrome eating disorders. In this engaging, methodical, and inspiring book, Sarahjoy walks readers through the steps and stages of recovery from disordered eating patterns including yo-yo dieting, emotional eating, binge eating, compulsive eating, restricting, obsessive food thoughts, and body-centered shame and self-hatred. Reclaim your relationship with your body, its innate intelligence, your courage, your faith in yourself, and your 360-degree life, a life that encompasses and allows for the whole of you in full expression. Hunger, Hope and Healing What the experts are saying: For so many women, issues with food and body can hijack life. Sarahjoy Marsh skillfully weaves together principles from yoga philosophy with breathing, movement, and meditation practices to offer a path out of the perpetuating patterns of self-doubt, isolation, and unhappiness that can arise. This book is an invaluable contribution to the worlds of yoga and women s health and for anyone exploring the natural intelligence of body and mind as a means of finding balance and freedom. Mary Taylor, yoga teacher and author of What Are you Hungry For? In this compassionate, down-to-earth guide, Sarahjoy Marsh shares profound lessons learned from over twenty-five years of yoga practice, personal recovery, and successful 360 degree living. She gracefully integrates traditional yogic wisdom with modern psychological insight, and offers a much-needed road map to reconnecting with the healing powers of our innate life force. Carol Horton, PhD, author of Yoga Ph.D., and coeditor of 21st Century Yoga Sarahjoy Marsh offers an important methodology to those impacted by disordered eating one that creates connection, harmony, and synthesis in one s own being. Melanie Klein, coeditor of Yoga and Body Image, and cofounder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition HUNGER, HOPE, AND HEALING SHAMBALA PUBLISHING PUBLICITY@SHAMBHALA.COM

2 CONTACT: AMANDA SCHARPF & LYNANN POLITTE PR WEBSITE: YONISPEAKS.COM AHTUOR WEBSITE: SARAHJOYYOGA.COM Innovative and Integrative Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food Author Sarahjoy Marsh Announces the Release of her new title Hunger, Hope and Healing: A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food. In this engaging, methodical, and inspiring book, Sarahjoy walks readers through the steps and stages of recovery from disordered eating patterns including yo-yo dieting, emotional eating, binge eating, compulsive eating, restricting, obsessive food thoughts, and bodycentered shame and self-hatred. Reclaim your relationship with your body, its innate intelligence, your courage, your faith in yourself, and your 360-degree life, a life that encompasses and allows for the whole of you in full expression. Yoga philosophy and practice are increasingly being used therapeutically to help people overcome disorded eating patterns- like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating and the resulting emotional distress they can cause. Sarahjoy Marsh offers a program using yoga to address food-centered behaviors and body image issues. She illuminates the nature of addiction and offers a methodical approach to recovery that is neither dogmatic nor rigid; rather, it is compassionate, hopeful, and deliberate. Full of clear, empathic advice and photographs of the step-by-step practices, this book will help alleviate the isolation that people with food-oriented issues and body image problems feel; offer strategies for changing the behaviors; and give clear guidelines about the processes of recovery and the development of new life skills. The purpose of this book is to: Help end/alleviate/reduce the isolation women with disordered eating behaviors feel Offer empathy and understanding Give clear guidelines about the processes of recovery, which must include the development of new life skills taught in the book Sarahjoy Marsh, MA, RYT-500 yoga teacher and author, is a vibrant, compassionate catalyst for transformation to those who suffer. Her teachings are informed by her extensive Eastern and Western studies including transpersonal counseling, art therapy, the psychology of yoga, Ayurveda, and rehabilitative yoga. Committed to supporting marginalized populations and using yoga for social justice Sarahjoy founded Living Yoga and the DAYA Foundation. A sought after teacher of teachers, she leads multiple 200hr and 500hr teacher trainings and yoga therapy professional trainings in the Northwest, international retreats and a regular instructor at Kripalu. Her book Hunger, Hope & Healing: A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship with Your Body and Food outlines her unique approach; integrating powerful yoga and mindfulness tools with modern day psychological modalities for an effective and comprehensive approach to healing. Sarahjoy is available for interviews and appearances. For booking Sarahjoy interviews and live appearances contact Lynann Politte or Amanda Scharpf at info@yonispeaks.com or (206) All other queries and requests about the book: publicity@shambhala.com

3 biography SARAHJOY MARSH Sarahjoy Marsh, MA, E-RYT-500 yoga teacher, therapist and author, is a vibrant, compassionate catalyst for transformation to those that suffer from addictions in particular disordered eating patterns/emotional eating. The combination of her ability to identify when a conditioned mind crowds out clear thinking and to inspire the courage to bring insight into action, her knowledge of powerful yoga and mindfulness tools, her perspective on the terrain of the stages of recovery and the tools to use along the way to recovery make her methodology a comprehensive and effective healing modality. Her approach is outlined in her new book Hunger, Hope & Healing: A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship with Your Body and Food. Her 25+ years training and facilitation background includes transpersonal counseling, art therapy, and community mental health, the psychology of yoga, Ayurveda, and rehabilitative yoga. Committed to supporting marginalized populations and using yoga for social justice Sarahjoy founded two non-profits, Living Yoga and the DAYA Foundation. A sought after teacher of teachers, she leads multiple 200hr and 500hr teacher trainings and yoga therapy professional trainings in the Northwest, international retreats and is a regular instructor at Kripalu and Breitenbush Hot Springs.

4 Hunger, Hope & Healing Sample Interview Questions What is your reason for writing Hunger, Hope & Healing? What issues should readers look to see addressed in your book, and how wide an audience of readers might benefit from this book? I understand you have been a student of yoga, meditation, and the dharma for more than 25 years. How were you introduced to these teachings, and what compelled you to stay invested to this practice for so long? The book ties in with Yoga Therapy. This seems to be a relatively new field, yet yoga has been provided as part of a therapeutic programs in treatment centers for several years now. What is yoga therapy and what distinguishes it from yoga classes in treatment centers? In the time that you ve been teaching yoga, you ve provided yoga to inmates in prisons, people in rehab centers, homeless youth, and students in hospital settings who are struggling with addiction, anxiety and chronic pain. You ve also founded two non-profit organizations to expand the reach of yoga to those who otherwise would not have access to it. What drives you, fundamentally and on a daily basis, to engage with people and communities in need? How do you stay hopeful about the possibilities of change? How is this drive reflected in the explorations you write about in your book, Hunger, Hope and Healing? With all the work you have put into helping people heal themselves with yoga over the past 25 years, have you gained any insight into how to reach more people before they hit a state of personal crisis? Who are your inspirations, today, in the fields of yoga, mindfulness, or psychotherapy? Do you have future writing projects lined up?

5 body of teachings YOGA FOR PTSD, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION Understanding the how our brain s respond to trauma A yogic perspective on anxiety and depression Accessible yoga, breathing, and mindfulness tools The yogic model of the Koshas as a roadmap YOGA FOR RECOVERY Recovery from addiction as well as from behaviors that are self-harming, impulsive/compulsive, or that cause ongoing pain The yogic model of Kriya yoga: a tripod for recovery A yogic perspective on how addiction develops, the initial intelligence behind addictive behaviors, the poignant importance of pain and suffering, and the readiness for change The cycle of addiction and the cycle of freedom from addiction NURTURING RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH YOGA Understanding our social brains Our development relies on our interdependence with family, community, nature, and the world Polyvagal theory and the yogic model Yoga as a tool for developing interpersonal compassion, loving-kindness, appreciative-joy, and equanimity YOGA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Yoga as a tool for transforming the internalization of our social dilemmas including the perceptions and actualities of heirarchy, power and powerlessness, self and other dynamics, and the necessity for ending isolation The yogic model of our shared humanity, including our potential, poignancy, and courage Developing the yogic skills of soverignty, dignity, belonging, and humility NEW TO ADVANCED YOGIS PRACTICING YOGA AT STUDIOS Using yoga to support improving your body image, navigating this in group classes at studios Nurturing self-care when taking group classes at yoga studios Choosing a yoga studio to support your personal health goals including your psycho-social-spiritual process HUNGER, HOPE, AND HEALING SARAHJOY MARSH THE ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS LEARNED THROUGH YOGA Mindfulness: Getting in the GAP (Grounding, Attention, Presence) Getting Comfortable Feeling Uncomfortable The value of befriending distress Moving from Love not Shame A life-saving paradigm shift Personal Buoyancy Courage and Resiliency FOR YOGIS: CHOOSING YOGA STYLES FOR YOUR PRACTICE Understanding the pros and cons of various styles of yoga Identifying the benefits of the different styles of yoga for physical issues (such as improving sleep, balancing adrenal function, reducing anxiety, & improving digestion) Finding a style of yoga for the alleviation of pain, stiffness, restlessness, sports performance, etc UNDERSTANDING AYURVEDA and YOGA PITTA: supporting your pitta dosha in a pitta culture when you re in the pitta phase of life VATA: calming your vata dosha in a vataaggravated culture to inspire finer expressions of vata KAPHA: nurturing your kapha dosha for resilience, grounding, and healthier foundations FOR THOSE NEW TO YOGA Where and how to start a yoga practice What components of yoga are most meaningful for development in early practice and over a long term practice Improving sleep, digestion, sensuality, and overall vitality with a daily 15-minute commitment