Although it’s now more politically correct to say release weight rather than lose weight, due to the negative connotation with the word “lose,” I still appreciate the term, crass though it may sound, for what it states in black and white–you’re going to lose something.

And while it’s really easy to lose money, lose track of time, or lose papers on a messy desk–at least it is for me–weight is one of those pernicious areas that defies the idea that losing something is easy. Weight’s got the bad reputation for being hard to shake.

To break that bad rep, and to show you how the act of slimming can actually be pleasurable, on this week’s video blog I emphasize the importance of going deeper into the matter to reveal what at first might not be obvious.

When you go deeper into appreciation of the idea that, yes, something will be lost, something will be left behind, the path of wanting to shed pounds becomes more dimensional than a calorie-counter can comprehend, and becomes about the whole of your being.

That’s why I call this the feminine strategies for weight loss, because like the proverbial Mother Earth–who includes all, and excludes none–this approach looks to take all the parts of you that are influencing whether you lose weight or not into consideration, creating a naturally holistic solution.

One thing I can promise you–the parts of yourself you‘ll discover on this journey of going deeper will give you needed clues on how to have a fantastic life and lose weight in the process.

I know you’ll enjoy this video on approaching slimming in a way that probes much further than skin deep.

Leave me a comment in the comment section below with what this idea stirs up for you.

Love,
xo Jena

P.S. If you’re in or around NYC next Wednesday, February 1 at 7pm, and you’d like a free ticket to my workshop called “The Permission Slip for Pleasurable Weight Loss,” then let me show you how.

This event will break down the steps for you, on both a practical and mindset level and catalyze, as the title suggests, permission to have what you want.

This event will fill to capacity so get your name on the list to nab your spot. If old habits have been holding you back, this powerful live event for women will give you permission to forge powerfully and pleasurably ahead. Click here to reserve your complementary seat.

Sometimes I can’t help myself.

This year is all about getting pleasure into the hands of as many women as I can. (And into their hearts, minds & bodies, too.)

Are any of these your intentions this year?

• To pay more attention to food, exercise, eating and your overall health
• To relax your “death-grip” on eating rules… and STILL eat healthy and well
• To feel REALLY good about the way you look
• To stop being so hard on yourself
• To drop 5, 10, 30, or even 50 pounds
• To rev up your love life, your dating life, or your relationship
• To eat better
• To really LIVE your life… free from negative body image or unkindness to yourself

Because any of these are your intentions, I want for you & me to play. So I’m rolling out a whole series of ways for us to do just that.

Next up: New York City.

What are you doing Wednesday, February 1^st?

If you’re to shake up your normal routine… I warmly invite you to join me for a new evening workshop: “Your Permission Slip for Pleasurable Weight Loss”

Tickets are free (my treat!), but spots are limited.

 Learn more and get your ticket here > > >

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to finally put an end to cravings, binges, and emotional eating
• My simple approach to creating more time to move & exercise (and ENJOY it!)
• My secret to making simple, delicious meals and snacks quickly & easily
• Why more willpower and discipline isn’t the real problem—and what is
• Why HOW you eat is as key to weight loss as WHAT you eat
• How to start TRUSTING yourself around food again (or, for the first time ever!)

Look, I know from personal experience that trying to slim down can be so discouraging. It can even feel like drudgery! But that’s not going to happen on my watch. Join me, and learn a whole new way to slim down… while you “power up” your appetite and delight for life itself. That’s what the pleasurable approach is all about.

Don’t miss this! Claim your ticket to this live event with me now > > >

If your food, exercise, and eating habits have been eating at you recently (or for a really long time), I really hope you’ll come.

Bye for now,

Jena

P.S. This is way more than a weight loss workshop. It’s a whole new approach to life itself. It just so happens that this approach WILL help you slim down. But let me assure you, we WILL have a good time together, too… Click here to get your ticket to Your Permission Slip for Pleasurable Weight Loss with me now. 

I’m just back from Pleasure Camp SF and wanted to share one of the highlights with you–our special guest, Samba dance teacher, Theresa Stevens.

Theresa is an expert in “losing weight by dancing,” who lives by the philosophy that a woman’s “pleasure center” is in her hips.

She teaches how to use “the delicious art of shaking your hips and booty” to tap into the natural wellspring of creativity, pleasure, sensuality and power, innately within your female body.

Once that tap is turned on, says Theresa, you are reminded you that ANYTHING is possible, including slimming down in a pleasurable, sustainable way.

Since you weren’t able to be at Pleasure Camp SF, and because I’d love you to be impacted by Theresa’s inspirational teachings nonetheless, I wanted to introduce you to her inspirational and educational video sharing her top 3 secrets on how pleasure and happiness can help you dance with confidence and joy, love your body, and lose weight in the process.

Theresa’s been getting the feedback from her community that watching this free 23 minute video alone has caused them to feel more beautiful, sexy and alive, and I believe her. I was riveted when I saw this video and you will be too.

With love,
xo Jena

P.S. Theresa was telling me that studies in Jamaica have documented that confident dancers attract the best romantic partners. It turns out that dancing makes you very attractive to other people! Fancy that! What a sexy and satisfying side-benefit
Click here for the full story

P.P.S. If you want to know:
– How to fire up your “pleasure center” through dance by learning how to shake your hips and booty
– How dance helps you love and appreciate your body, your curves, and your unique beauty
– How the unique brain-chemistry of pleasure works and how to use it to your advantage to get the results you want
…then you will LOVE this video!

When I was in the grips of my painful and compulsive relationship with food, and struggling with my weight and my body image as a side-effect, the idea that MOST soothed and comforted me was a two-fold one.

The first part of the thought was this: your body is an animal. Literally it’s a mammal. It’s a warm-blooded furry creature. A standing-up chimpanzee.

The second part of the thought was the realization, that without exception, animals in the wild–standing up chimpanzees included–naturally *know* what to eat to be healthy and in shape.

There’s no confusion. They just *know.*

These thoughts combined gave me the comforting hope that perhaps MY animal, my very own female body, also knew a thing or two about how and what to eat to be in balance. Perhaps despite my certainty that my body would forever be tormented by what was in the fridge or pantry, I could after all have a “natural” in my relationship with food.

I realized that while hating my body was “old hat,” consciously listening for the soft, wordless voice of my female body was brand new skill I needed to cultivate.

In this week’s video blog I’m talking about how exactly to do that. It’s about how to *resync* with your body so that you can hear that voice loud and clear, prescribing for you, your own personal recipe for pleasurable weight loss.

Learning how to trust your instincts and impulses again, as you once did when you were a child–before the media had a chance to contort your mind about what your body *should* look like and *should* want–is different from learning to follow a diet, because the authority that guides you, comes not from outside, but from within.

The skill of intuitively *knowing* what to eat to lose weight, in your bones, and not just in your head, is a skill, that like any other, can be learned.

Teaching you to make that connection is my specialty.

In this week’s video blog, you’ll learn some of my favorite ways to get in sync with what I like to refer to as your “very own plot of mother earth,” that’s right, your body, so you can slim down with ease.

In the comments below the video, share your voice and tell me your #1 practice for getting in sync with the natural wisdom of your female body.

Thanks for reading, watching and sharing — it’s a pleasure to have you involved in this movement.

With and love,
xo Jena

P.S. Pleasure Camp SF is coming up in 10 days, on Sunday, January 8. The price was set to go up at midnight PST last night but we had a little internal confusion and the price went up at midnight EST, effectively 3 hours early–oops!–so to compensate we’re keeping the discount price available for a day longer until midnight PST tonight.

If you are on the West Coast here’s your chance to study the art and science of pleasurable weight loss live and in-person with me, without even changing time zone. We have women coming from LA, others from Oregon. Hotel rooms are being booked and room-sharing being arranged, friends’ couch’s are being “occupied,” and all kinds of arrangements are being put in place to allow Pleasure Camp SF to be a reality for the ladies involved.

If you’d like an in-depth “crash course” in my pleasurable weight loss principles, to get them truly “under your skin” and integrated into your life, then read up on the details and find out if this one-day Pleasure Camp can work for you.

Back when I was struggling with my weight, locked in my self-inflicted prison of restriction and denial, I searched everywhere for a way out.

All of the “diet books” sang the one same sorry tune –restriction, denial, control– and in my bones, I knew that couldn’t *really* be the way.

Many years later, I’ve since discovered the “feminine strategies for weight loss” I now teach, but I still rarely come across a book on the topic of weight loss I can really stand behind or vouch for.

One that helps you solve the puzzle with pleasure, enjoyment and freedom.

Happily, my dear friend and colleague, Renée Stephens has written such a book.

Renée is a colleague I’ve worked with closely on numerous occasions, and both from first-hand experience, and also from listening to her #1 rated weight loss podcast on iTunes, I can tell you, whatever Renée puts her attention to, she FILLS with heart, wit, intelligence, depth, compassion, wisdom and most importantly, with practicality.

And speaking of “FILLING,” if you’ve ever continued to eat, even when you’re know you’re “FULL,” but you’re craving all the same, then the title of her book will resonate with you.

Introducing… [hear trumpets sounding]…

“Full-Filled: The 6-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Changing Your Relationship with Food-and Your Life-from the Inside Out”

Having just been released today, this book is literally hot off the press and I highly recommend you pick up your copy today.

Education is power, so inform yourself on the “Inside-Out” approach to slimming with this ground-breaking book.

With love, enthusiasm and encouragement,

xo Jena

P.S. Below is a short synopsis of Renée’s book

Through her Inside Out Weight Loss program and seminars, along with podcasts downloaded more than 3 million times, Renée Stephens has helped countless people free themselves from emotional eating to achieve the body and life they’ve always desired. Now, in her first book, she shares the breakthrough lessons of her popular work and develops them into a complete, step-by-step program: Full-Filled: The 6-Week Weight- Loss Plan for Changing Your Relationship with Food—and Your Life—from the Inside Out.

With Full-Filled, you will gain freedom from dieting as you use some of the world’s most advanced mind and behavior-changing techniques. An intuitive and easy weight-loss program, Full-Filled will open the door to bigger transformations in your life. Not only will you drop excess physical pounds with Renée’s expert guidance, you will get to the root of why you eat and you will lose your spiritual weight—by identifying why you eat the way you do and finding better ways to satisfy your true hunger without food.

A former food addict, Stephens is a leading weight-loss coach who works with women and men who have spent years trying to free themselves from their weight struggle and to regain control of their lives. Women, Food and God led millions to spiritual insights; Full- Filled turns those insights into practical steps in an easy-to-follow program that will permanently change how you think about and behave around food.

The Full-Filled program will identify and heal your underlying food issues and provide you with the specific tools to create new habits that will make you slim and healthy for a lifetime. This isn’t about what foods you should and shouldn’t eat (although Renée does share some of her favorite recipes to make weight loss happen faster and easier). Filled with personal success stories and a whole bag of transformative tips and tricks, Full-Filled will set you up for significant weight loss and provide the no-fail techniques for keeping the pounds off permanently.

Click here to get your copy of Full-Filled

“I want to feel sexy,” my client Jasmina told me as I probed why losing weight was important to her. She had come to me for help with my specialty—pleasurable weight loss—and I was getting to know her.

“As soon as I lose the weight I can feel sexy, but I need to lose it first.”

Art by Aurora Andrews

I sympathized with her. From all outward appearances in our culture, it does seem that way: “weight loss” comes first, and “feeling hot and sexy” comes second. I used to think that way too.

It was only after close to a decade of working one-on-one with smart New Yorkers that I discovered through direct experience something startling. The fastest, most reliable route to lasting weight loss came through feeling sexy first.

Since I made this discovery I’ve been teaching my clients how to flip the concept that you need to “lose weight first, in order to feel sexy second” on its head. By inviting them to pay attention to the “feeling sexy” part first, I’m getting better results with my weight loss clients than ever before.

Allow me to arouse your curiosity and I’ll show you how.

Step 1: Discover Why Sexy is NOT Safe For You

The first step is to understand that in order to achieve a state (such as feeling sexy), you have to experience it as safe. For your body, what’s “safe” is what’s familiar. Meaning any experience you’ve literally “survived,” your body codes as “safe.” Even if it was traumatic or a difficult experience, because your body knows it didn’t kill you, (or you’d be dead!) and brands it as “survivable” a.k.a. “safe.”

On the other hand, anything you haven’t yet lived through and therefore haven’t proven to yourself as “survivable,” your body codes as “unsafe,” even if to your rational mind it seems harmless or even desirable. Anything in the realm of the unchartered or the unexplored–simply by virtue of the fact that it has not yet been proven to be “survivable” –signals alarm to the body as “unknown” and therefore “unsafe.”

What my client Jasmina didn’t consciously realize, as she was vocalizing to me her longing to be slimmer, was that over the years of gradually gaining weight, she’d now gotten pretty familiar, and in a strange way grown “comfortable”–even if she grumbled about it–with not feeling sexy.

She was now a wife, a mother, and full-time professional employee. Although she dreamed of her body looking otherwise than it currently did, when she was honest with herself she admitted her look allowed her to safely “blend in,” in family life and at work, without raising undue attention. Additionally not feeling attractive prevented her from flirting with other men, and she saw this as adding protection to her marriage.

As the pieces fell into place, she realized that even if I was able to wave a magic wand (which I’m not) and make her “cursed” extra pounds melt away in an instant, the “sexy” state she found herself in might not be as comforting as she thought–on the contrary might be quite alarming for her system.

When Jasmina stopped imagining a vague and foggy notion of what losing weight might mean for her, and started painting a clear and specific picture of what the future would hold if she succeeded in losing weight and feeling sexy, unexpectedly, the back of her neck bristled.

Her body, her animal, when visualizing the potential consequences of being that sexy, suddenly felt a little unsafe.

Inside her head, her mind contracted around stressful, worry-ridden thoughts, to accompany the sinking feeling in the belly.

“What if other parents at the school think I looked “too sexy” and looked down at me?”

“What if I make other women feel self-conscious and uncomfortable because I feel so attractive and self-confident?”

“What if men interpret my sexiness as sexual availability and hit on me, potentially arousing suspicion from my husband?”

All of a sudden the image of how wonderful feeling sexy would be lost its charm and it started to feel darn uncomfortable. Jasmina’s body, her animal, began to shift from its previously relaxed state to an agitated stress state. The tension in the room was palpable.

In that moment Jasmina didn’t realize that this low-level state of stress that was starting to creep over her, if allowed to become chronic, would be her ultimate enemy of weight loss. By disrupting the metabolism with constant signals of distress, chronic low-level stress signals to the body to take “protect” itself, in part by holding onto extra weight, and slowing the burning off any excess.
Over the course time, evolution has proven that if you gain weight under stress it’s more likely to ensure your survival than if you lose pounds in the same circumstances. Natural selection has groomed us to be a species for whom 85% of us have a tendency to gain weight in the face of stress, not lose it, a fact every stressed-out dieter needs to deeply reflect upon.

Nature’s strategy is to keep us stocked up with “reserves” of stored fuel, a.k.a. fat, to ensure our survival in a time of danger. And conversely, when times are good, nature designed us to shift the gears of our metabolism to let go of excess weight, as we are safe and there is no need.
Relaxation becomes the most essential ingredient to include for weight loss, and self-created stressful thought-loops the ingredient most important to be rid of.

In Jasmina’s case, she found herself caught in a bind, because even thinking about the consequences of losing weight was cause for her to feel stressed. Her self-created stress about her body was lowering her calorie-burning efficiency, resulting in the body promoting fat storage not fat loss, putting a spanner in the works of her plan to slim down. Before she’d even taken a step in the right direction, she’d unknowingly set a step back.

Jasmina, however, once it had been brought into the light how all of this fits together, was keen to retrain her body and her mind to feel “safe” in the face of sexy.

Step 2: Making Sexy Safe Again

The next step towards feeling fully comfortable feeling sexy is to address the learned shame that comes along with the topic of sex and sexuality in our society, by understanding what lies at its root–erotic innocence.

Your erotic innocence is the force in your body that innocently moves you towards sensory delight. This aspect of us has evolved since we existed as single cell organisms, when our only contact with the world as experienced either as a “pain”–a subtle contraction–signally the possibility of death, or as a “pleasure”–a subtle expansion–signaling survival.

Coded in its every cell, your body relates all pleasure, though especially erotic pleasure, to its very survival, and in the spirit of self-preservation and the preservation of life itself, your body will give you every encouragement to enjoy yourself.

For your body, being “turned on” is simply another version of “being alive.” Free from the baggage of “manufactured meaning” concocted by the mind, your body’s erotic innocence seeks enjoyment and pleasure purely and simply for your own good, absent of manipulation or complicated agendas
When we are children, we are born with this innate inclination to pleasure. All little children without exception explore their bodies and the world within their grasp for what delights them, and they do so with complete innocence. Long before children have been programmed to know “right” from “wrong,” they simply know what feels good.

Later that impulse matures and individuates, but at its essence it is undeniably the same erotic innocence that’s been within since you were a child. For Jasmina, as she began considering sexuality through this viewpoint, she experienced a deep sense of relief. Framing “looking and feeling sexy” as an extension of her “erotic innocence” made her feel light, and vindicated from any sexual guilt that lay in the shadows of her mind.

Reclaiming her “erotic innocence,” Jasmina allowed herself to feel unburdened by the cultural connotations and mis-interpretations she was starting to realize she’d unconsciously adopted, that being and feeling sexy implied being slutty, stupid or vain.

And as soon as she gave herself permission to experience her sexual desire as fundamentally driven by erotic innocence, she felt a softening and a relaxation. Soon that relaxation extended to others as she realized that any sexual attention she’d attract if she was embracing her “sexy” would also stem from this same innocent origin, and suddenly it didn’t seem so threatening after all.

She found herself able to breathe more deeply and already she felt a bit better about her body. The hairs on the back of her neck that had before bristled at the thought of receiving unbidden sexual attention from men were now at ease. As a side-effect of her relaxation, her metabolism was humming along like a steam engine, her calorie-burning efficiency was increasing, and she was smoothly sailing down the stream to weight loss. Or as I like to say, pleasurable weight loss.

Step 3: Creating a Safe Ecology For Your Sexy

Even with these understandings of the evolutionary origins of sexuality and erotic desire in her pocket, and a whole new map for navigating what it means (and doesn’t mean) to feel sexy up her sleeve, for Jasmina it was still going to take some trial and error to fully transform her silent and subtle fear of being sexy to the other polarity of fully embracing it.

And in a culture that has contorted sex from being an innocent expression of life force itself, into something loaded with guilt, shame and confusion, in order to do it, she would need backup. She would need support. She would to need “tribe.”

Like erotic innocence, the need “to tribe” also goes back to an ancient origin. Back in the days when we existed as small bands of people on the savanna, “belonging” to the tribe was of vital, because not belonging, or being rejected by the group would result in only one thing–sure death.

Back then “belonging” meant the difference between life and death. And to your body, even to this day, it still does.

To keep this spirit, of enjoying your natural sexiness alive in you therefore, it’s crucial that you connect with other people who will support your viewpoint and encourage the germination of your new and improved sex-positive attitude. The new you needs company.

Seek out people who have educated themselves about the benefits of natural, innocent pleasure for body and soul, and who live accordingly. Find friends who enjoy their succulence and their radiance, and and who will clap for your development of yours.

My favorite place to meet these types of people is dancing, especially belly dance and salsa, but any practice that involves embodiment will attract people who will support your endeavor.

Just as an animal in nature has a whole ecosystem supporting it’s existence, your new emerging safety with feeling sexy needs an ecology around it so that it takes root and thrives, and it’s up to you to seek it out.

The last thing you need to know about your “sexy,” your erotic innocence, is that although it may have been misunderstood, neglected, or completely forgotten for years if not decades, it is as resilient as life itself. Arising from within the living, breathing, feeling, animal part of you, the impulse of life itself coursing through your veins—even if forced “underground” by guilt or shame—it can never be lost or destroyed.

Even if you currently feel estranged from your “sexy” altogether and skeptical of ever losing weight, especially in a pleasurable way, by following these steps you can rediscover how to make sexy safe for you again, and despite all odds kick-start your metabolism through the enjoyment of your own body, helping you slim down and feel even more alive than ever.

As I write this message I am in LA, teaching a special edition of my Pleasure Camp for a reality TV show…

I’m super excited, and there’s one thing I really can’t wait to see — the look of sweet relief that crosses a woman’s face when she “gets” the counter-intuitive message of pleasurable weight loss.

It’s as if the weight of all the rules and regulations of dieting simply falls off of her, and she looks brighter and lighter in an instant.

When slimming stops being about calories-in-vs-calories-out and starts to be about something much more meaningful to your female body, your “animal” as I like to say, that the really fun begins, and that’s the topic of this week’s video.

Ask any woman does she “enjoy” calorie-counting and the answer will be no surprise to you.

Plus, when such methods most frequently fail is “in the heat of the moment” when your feelings overcome your rational decision to “eat by numbers.”

The “feminine approach” gets around this by teaching you how to “eat by feeling” instead, meaning there’s no reason to obsess about the numbers.

And –here’s the best part– it gives you all the reasons in the world to investigate what TRULY makes you feel good to your depths.

So please enjoy this video training.

Plus leave me a comment with your perspective on placing less emphasis on the numbers, and more emphasis on your feelings in this context.

With love,
xo Jena

P.S. Pleasure Camp SF is coming up, just around the corner, on January 8. Until December 26th, as a motivation for you to set up a fantastic beginning to the year in advance, the tickets are half price, so get yours now.
Here’s where you can get more information and register your spot.

I hope this message finds you well, and certainly you’re going to feel even better after checking out the resource I’m about to share with you.

It’s a fine day indeed, as pleasure is coming onto the stage, into the spotlight and is being seen and heard in the media.

What am I talking about? The TEDx talk of my beloved friend and teacher, Mama Gena, that has just hit the internet after a no-doubt knock-your-socks-off powerful TEDx Women event in SF only days ago.

This is hot off the press and I wanted you to have it to deepen your understanding of pleasure, from one of my favorite sources of inspiration on the planet.

You want to know where I turn to on a blue day when I’m struggling to find it in me to “practice what I preach,” the well I turn to for refreshment?

This is it.

Come meet Mama Gena, and the teachings she distills, the truth about pleasure, and why it’s so important that we know what that truth is.

The TEDx talk….

I’m a proud owner of a well dog-eared copy of her book, “Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts”….

Furthermore, I’m also a proud graduate of her actual school by the same name, “Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts“–an education I can’t recommend highly enough….

Plus, I’m the proud recipient of the school’s 2011 “Pleasure Revolutionary of the Year” award, for recognition for my contribution to spreading the message of the importance to a woman’s health and happiness to attend to her pleasure and her desires.

So that’s why I’m sharing this video with you, so that you can get a big, delicious, gulp of invigorating, inspiring energy, and be reminded, why in fact your pleasure is so very sacred after all…

Enjoy.

Oooh, and do leave me a comment with your thoughts on this.
The more we dialogue about the concepts, the more easily engrained in our lives them become.

May we all be revolutionary together.

With love,
Jena

I’m bouncing off my seat with excitement as something MONUMENTAL is in the air.

I’ve just been invited to teach a Pleasure Camp for a reality TV show, on Thursday, December 15, in the “city of angels” itself, LA…and if you’re in town and available, a free ticket can be yours.

Unfortunately I am not able to leak any of the juicy details of the show or how it came about, but read on to find out how you can be a part of the magic also…..

In case you haven’t heard of Pleasure Camp, it’s a dynamic, interactive workshop, where by experiencing pleasure, connection with the body, sensuality, and safety with feeling sexy, you create the conditions for natural, pleasurable weight loss to occur…and of course so much more…

Sooo…

If you’re in LA and would like to participate in this one-of-a-kind Pleasure Camp, here’s how you can get a free ticket:

You need to:

– Be available from 10am – 2pm, Thursday, Dec 15th (exact location to be determined)

– Be willing to be on camera

– Be willing to sign the media release form for TV (without strikethroughs or write-ins)

– Tell me a little bit about yourself. Are you local to LA or traveling to be there? How old are you? Why would you like to be at Pleasure Camp and why are you a match for this opportunity?

If you’re not in LA, but you have a friend or family member that you think would be a good fit for this, I’d love you to pass this email along to them and spread the word.

Email me at info@pleasurableweightloss.com as soon as possible, as this is only days away.

If this is a match for you I look forward to hearing from you,

With love always,

xo Jena

P.S. A few of the women who flew from LA to NYC for our last Pleasure Camp have already agreed to attend, so we have an exceptional group of woman already seeding the group.

Picture this, it’s January 2. You’ve survived the Holidays, and the New Year is beginning. If you’ve been feeling a tad heavy in your body, mind or mood, this is a spectacular opportunity to start anew, to be fresh, to be bold. Come join us, as we show you how.

Imagine looking back on the year 2012 as the year in which you became your lightest and brightest self ever. We have the recipe for you, and it’s a combination of yoga and pleasure. Seriously.

In this 3-hour workshop with inspirational yoga teacher, Aarona Pichinson, and pleasurable weight loss expert, Jena la Flamme–held intentionally in the season that has the reputation for holiday weight gain, winter blues, and adrenal exhaustion–you will:

– Learn how to quickly recover from the “holiday craze” and start your year on an inspiring note
– Discover how to make eating well for the season, pleasurable and satisfying, even if you’re super busy, so your body stays resilient all winter (includes recipes)
– Learn how to get to the root of depression, anxiety and mood swings while being at peace with your body’s natural fluctuations as a woman
– Learn how to listen to your “female animal,” the intuitive voice of your body, and never be confused about what to eat again
– Learn a take-home yoga sequence that will make you supple, sexy and strong
– Learn the secret health benefits of pleasure that will give you an “edge” in all areas of life

In this interactive workshop for women, you’ll move your body through an amazing yoga practice, tap into your deepest inspirations, and learn the secret of pleasure and why you’ll never lighten up without it. Plus, you’ll learn how to create a support system around you that forces you to stay on track all year long.

Ladies, it’s time to lighten up your body, mind and mood, through yoga and pleasure!

Saturday, January 14, 2012, 2.15pm – 5.15pm.
Yogaworks, SoHo, 474 Broadway, @ corner of Broome, New York, NY

$35 pre-reg
$45 at the door

To Register call Yogaworks at (646) 442-6203