Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit
Written by Ana T. Forrest
Narrated by Ana T. Forrest
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About this audiobook
As the creator of Forrest Yoga , Ana T. Forrest has been transforming people’s lives throughout the world for more than thirty-five years. Her unique blend of physical practice, Eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony takes her teachings literally off the mat and into daily life—to heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury. In Fierce Medicine, Forrest tells her own story of healing from the scars of abuse and physical handicaps, and reveals the proven practices that enabled her to move beyond her past into a life committed to helping others reconnect with their bodies, cultivate balance, and start living in harmony with their Spirits.
In her unique, powerful, and inviting voice, Ana Forrest reveals how to:
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Learn to stalk fear and break free from it instead of running from it.
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Be attentive to your body, discovering its own inherent healing properties.
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Speak and act from a place of honesty and compassion.
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Cultivate an open heart that is feeling, responsive, and reflexive and able to embrace change.
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Harness your intuition and the courage to live in alignment with your Spirit.
Whether you’ve never done yoga or are a seasoned practitioner, Ana Forrest’s practices, stories, and exercises will help you uncover your own warrior’s heart. With this wise woman as your trusted guide, you, too, can become centered, strong, and more alive than ever before.
Ana T. Forrest
Ana T. Forrest is an internationally recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. The creator of Forrest Yoga—a unique fusion of traditional yoga, new poses and sequences created by the author, Eastern wisdom, and Native American medicine—she is a contributing expert to Yoga Journal and other leading Asian and European wellness publications. Forrest teaches worldwide at yoga conferences, workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings. She lives on Orcas Island, Washington.
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Reviews for Fierce Medicine
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I really enjoyed this book and really hated it all at the same time. There is a lot of good knowledge and interesting story in this book. In between of all the good however, is babble and repetitiveness. Grateful to be done reading it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have no direct experience with the school of yoga led by Ana Forrest : I just bought this book on a whim. How what is written here is practiced and taught by that school's proponents, I have no idea. But I found the book itself to be worthwhile and inspiring.It's very much the personal vision of Ms. Forrest. It is largely an autobiographical work, describing many practices in the context of the life challenges that drove the author to learn and develop them. Generally she starts from some traditional practices and then adapts them as she sees fit. Of course this is dangerous, but then rigid adherence to traditional forms is dangerous too. That's something this book does, it forces the reader to confront that tension. Ms. Forrest comes across rather as a wild woman; for example, she tells us that she cannot adhere to non-violence. Given that non-violence is fundamental to the yoga tradition, that really is a wild confession. I would say that Ms. Forrest is brutally honest in this book. An aspect of this book that I really appreciate is that it treats the classical yoga practices of asana and pranayama - posture and breath control - as components in a broader system, where one observes one's emotional responses to daily life, and where one further digs up emotions that have become buried. That asana and pranayama can be used as tools to investigate one's emotional responses and to manage them, this is vital to a genuine life of yoga. Ms. Forrest's personal stories show this genuineness in action. The story Ms. Forrest tells is of a hard life. This might confuse some readers. Perhaps the kind of deep confrontation with one's emotions is only applicable to such a hard life, or perhaps that confrontation pushes one into such a life. This is a tricky question. Maybe the truth is that we all live hard lives, if we allow ourselves to open to our actual lives. This is a hard world we live in, and our lives are truly inseparable from that hard world. The real tragedy is when tools like asana and pranayama are used to create a comfortable shell for our lives, as vehicles to escape from the hardness that surrounds us, that runs through us if we dare look. This is a daring book. There are some specific practices here that one can surely use to cultivate a deeper perception of life, but the most valuable aspect of this book seems just to be that inspiration to dare to live.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ana Forrest is one of a kind. I have had the privilege of studying with her during past workshops and was thrilled to read more about her background and personal life in this book. And has overcome so many challenges including sexual abuse, alcohol and drug addictions, an eating disorder, physical challenges during youth and a neglectful family. I think it's remarkable what she has accomplished in life in spite of those challenges. As a student and teacher of yoga, I will definitely incorporate some of her wisdom into my practice and classes. The book is probably best suited to yoga practitioners but her life story is powerful enough to engage almost anyone. I would definitely recommend this book to others.