Ballet Beautiful

Ballet Beautiful
Author: Mary Helen Bowers
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0738215899

Ballet-inspired fitness for every woman! You don't have to be a professional ballerina to look like one! With Mary Helen Bowers' Ballet Beautiful, forget beating yourself up in the gym and suffering through starvation diets for some unattainable goal. You can achieve your ideal body and develop the strength, grace, and elegance of a dancer by following Mary Helen's proven program-one that's got everyone from celebrities to busy moms to executives raving!Ballet Beautiful is a fitness method that blends the artistry and athleticism of ballet with an easy, accessible eating plan that works for every body - and absolutely no dance experience is required. Created by professional ballerina Mary Helen Bowers, this transformative approach to fitness and health will reshape your body and your mind!Ballet Beautiful's three-fold approach is not an extreme workout nor is it a radical diet for an overnight fix; it's a roadmap to achieving and maintaining your ideal health, shape and size-all with the elegance and strength of a ballerina. Part One of the book introduces the program's empowering mindset, the key to supporting and guiding you through lasting change. Part Two, the Ballet Beautiful Method, consists of challenging, effective, and fun workouts that sculpt and tone sleek ballet muscles and build beautiful posture. Whether you have a full hour or only 15 minutes, you can tailor the program to your own schedule and needs. Part Three shares the Ballet Beautiful Lifestyle, a healthy, balanced approach to nutrition. With meal plans, shopping tips and quick but delicious daily recipes that will satisfy and nourish your entire body, it's a stress-free, diet-free plan that will help keep you feeling as strong and healthy as you look.

Ballet for Life

Ballet for Life
Author: Mary Helen Bowers
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0847858375

A chic and informative guide to the Ballet Beautiful method, featuring dance-inspired exercises, wellness tips, and lifestyle advice that help readers achieve ballerina confidence and self-esteem. After a career with the New York City Ballet, Mary Helen Bowers created Ballet Beautiful, a fitness and lifestyle program inspired by ballet’s artistry and athleticism. Designed to give anyone a ballerina body, Bowers’s targeted exercises tone and lengthen muscles, develop good posture, and teach grace in movement. Since launching in 2008, Bowers and her training have been sought after by celebrities and models (Alexa Chung, Liv Tyler, and Miranda Kerr, to name a few), as well as thousands of women across the globe through their streaming service. This book delves into the Ballet Beautiful universe, showing readers how to attain a ballerina’s lean and powerful physique and graceful poise via exercises, posture lessons, wellness tips, and fashion and beauty advice that can be effortlessly incorporated into everyday routines. The book features original images by the legendary photographers Inez and Vinoodh coupled with technical photographs illustrating the Ballet Beautiful workout and lifestyle. A refreshing antidote to traditional fitness programs and restrictive diets, this book is a stylish and instructional guide to transforming your body and life though ballet.

Beautiful Ballerina

Beautiful Ballerina
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: African American dancers
ISBN: 9780545089203

Beautiful ballerina, you areslender,straight-legged,high-arched,symmetrical...Beautiful ballerina,You are the dance.In this celebration of ballet's splendor, lush photographs and a poetic narrative put readers center stagewith young ballerinas from the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The minimal text balances the harmony of thephotos and demonstrates the joy of movement--inviting bravissimos and encores at each reading.

Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays

Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays
Author: Charles William Johns
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-11-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1782798765

An ontological and epistemological framework and foundation for the psychological symptom 'neurosis'.

Brandstorm: Surviving and Thriving in the New Consumer-Led Marketplace

Brandstorm: Surviving and Thriving in the New Consumer-Led Marketplace
Author: Liz Nickles
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137096829

Branding has become ubiquitous, with new brands becoming word-of-mouth successes literally overnight, and many welcome the easy familiarity they bring to daily life. But now brand proliferation is threatening not only to stifle true choice in the marketplace, but to render hard-won brand identities - some decades in the making - meaningless. With today's unprecedented access to thousands of brands a day, via Twitter, Facebook, and the rest, the balance of brand power is shifting irrevocably away from the businesses behind them. In Brandstorm, branding guru Liz Nickles argues that, as a result, the brand is no longer a value proposition in itself, and that marketers and brand managers must stop the dilution and focus on meaningful, market-specific reinvention for those brands that can stand the test of time. She offers the success secrets behind leading brands like Ralph Lauren, Justin Bieber, and Revlon, and how to channel them today.

The Embodied Performance of Gender

The Embodied Performance of Gender
Author: Jack Migdalek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317610180

Norms of embodied behaviour for males and females, as promoted in mainstream Western public arenas of popular culture and the everyday, continue to work, overtly and covertly, as definitive and restrictive barriers to the realm of possibilities of embodied gender expression and appreciation. They serve to disempower and marginalize those not inclined to embody according to such dichotomous models. This book explores the ramifications of the way our gendered, sexed and culturally constructed bodies are situated toward notions of difference and highlights the need to safeguard the social and emotional well-being of those who do not fit comfortably with dominant norms of masculine/feminine behaviour, as deemed appropriate to biological sex. The book interrogates gender inequitable machinations of education and performance arts disciplines by which educators and arts practitioners train, teach, choreograph, and direct those with whom they work, and theorizes ways of broadening personal and social notions of possible, aesthetic, and acceptable embodiment for all persons, regardless of biological sex or sexual orientation. The author’s own struggles as a performance artist, educator, and person in the everyday, as well as the findings of empirical fieldwork with educators, performance arts practitioners, and high school students, are employed to illustrate and advocate the need for self reflexive scrutiny of existing and hidden inequities regarding the embodiment of gender within one’s own habitual perspectives, taste, and practices.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Multitasking Mom’s Survival Guide

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Multitasking Mom’s Survival Guide
Author: Jack Canfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1611599334

Laugh and learn with these 101 inspiring and amusing stories for moms who do it all! Make some “me time” to relax and read this collection of inspirational and entertaining stories— with great tips from other busy moms too. You can’t believe how busy you are, but you know you need to carve out some time for yourself. Read how other moms like you are surviving their multitasking years. They share their best tips, plus some of their funniest disaster stories. You’ll be entertained while you pick up some great ideas for your own life. You’ll learn about: Making “Me Time” – how to make sure you take care of yourself Feeding the Family – not everyone is a domestic goddess! Sharing Good Advice – moms pass on tips they wish they had known when they needed them! Feeling Guilty – story after story about why you should NOT feel guilty Learning from Our Kids – all we have to do is stop and listen Laughing After the Fact – disaster stories always get better with time Handling Housework Hassles – great tips and funny stories give you perspective Slowing Down – don’t be such a busy mom that you don’t have time to be a mom! Juggling a Career – yes, you can create balance