Easy-to-follow 10 minute routines using the Pilates exercise ball to enhance your Pilates workout, from the bestselling Lesley Ackland. Used by Olympic coaches, ballet dancers and athletes to achieve optimal performance, this safe and effective exercise regime is also suitable for anyone wanting to get fit and toned, as well as pregnant women.
Do you dream of a flat stomach, a longer, leaner body and superb posture? Do you wish to improve your overall appearance? Pilates will help you achieve all this – and more. 20 Minutes to Master Pilates is a clear introduction to the practice and its background, guiding you through key exercises that benefit both body and mind.
Maintaining self-care through everyday practice can leave you feeling focused, energized, and confident—ready to face the world as your best self. This holistic approach to personal health comprises three important parts: physical health, mental-emotional wellness, and life-balance. When these three facets are aligned, you feel grounded, with a positive mind and healthy body. The Self-Care Bible helps put the emphasis back on you, guiding you through every component of an essential self-care routine, with detailed descriptions, step-by-step exercises, and motivating checklists. Learn key breathing techniques through yoga and meditation to combat stress and anxiety and build your emotional resilience. Discover helpful tips on better sleep and a balanced diet. Find the physical wellness program that best suits your life and goals, from Pilates to aerobics, dance to jogging. As critical to a healthy balance as your body and mind, a focus on friendships and kindness, curiosity and creativity, will ensure that you feel supported, nurtured, with your life in balance. Nourish, inspire, encourage, and motivate your way to a healthier, stronger, more balanced you.
What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.
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