Fierce Medicine - by Ana T Forrest (Paperback)

About the Book

In Fierce Medicine, Ana Forrest, charismatic teacher and founder of Forrest Yoga, combines physical practice, eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony to help heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury.

Fierce Medicine is also part memoir, detailing Ana Forrest's journey to move beyond her past as she helps others to do the same. Filled with helpful yoga exercises, Fierce Medicine teaches us to reconnect with our bodies, cultivate balance, and start living in harmony with our Spirits.

Book Synopsis

In Fierce Medicine, Ana Forrest, charismatic teacher and founder of Forrest Yoga, combines physical practice, eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony to help heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury.

Fierce Medicine is also part memoir, detailing Ana Forrest's journey to move beyond her past as she helps others to do the same. Filled with helpful yoga exercises, Fierce Medicine teaches us to reconnect with our bodies, cultivate balance, and start living in harmony with our Spirits.

From the Back Cover

As the creator of Forrest Yoga, Ana T. Forrest has been transforming people'slives throughout the world for more thanthirty-five years. Her unique blend of physicalpractice, Eastern wisdom, and profoundNative American ceremony takes her teachingsliterally off the mat and into daily life--toheal everything from addictive behaviors andeating disorders to chronic pain and injury. InFierce Medicine, Forrest tells her own story ofhealing from the scars of abuse and physicalhandicaps, and reveals the proven practices thatenabled her to move beyond her past into a lifecommitted to helping others reconnect withtheir bodies, cultivate balance, and start living inharmony with their Spirits.

In her unique, powerful, and inviting voice, Ana Forrest reveals how to:

• Learn to stalk fear and break free from it instead of running from it.

• Be attentive to your body, discovering its own inherent healing properties.

• Speak and act from a place of honesty and compassion.

• Cultivate an open heart that is feeling, responsive, and reflexive and able to embrace change.

• Harness your intuition and the courage to live in alignment with your Spirit.

Whether you've never done yoga or are a seasonedpractitioner, Ana Forrest's practices, stories, and exercises will help you uncover yourown warrior's heart. With this wise woman as yourtrusted guide, you, too, can become centered, strong, and more alive than ever before.

Review Quotes

"Fierce Medicine is a brave, confronting, and unapologetically honest book that leads us to see into the depths of our soul and know that transformation is possible. Through stories and techniques Ana Forrest teaches us how to reclaim our bodies, expand our perceptions, and embrace the complexity of our spirit. As a teacher, this is a book that I would certainly share with my students, but as a student myself, there is much in this book that will aid in my own growth and for that I am grateful. I highly recommend this book to all seekers on the path." - Seane Corn, internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and founder of "Off the Mat, Into the World"
"One of the most compelling, inspiring, and eloquent stories you will ever read. I absolutely could not put it down and I'm thrilled for all the other readers who will be captivated by Ana's storytelling and wisdom." - Martha Beck, bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star
"Fierce Medicine is much more than just another yoga book. It's the "crazy wisdom" and riveting life story of an in-your-face, stir-it-up kind of teacher. Ana Forrest also happens to be an amazing healer, one who regularly guides her students into personal transformations and deep healing. What she asks may not be easy, but few things this good are." - Timothy McCall, MD, Medical Editor, Yoga Journal, author of Yoga as Medicine
"Fierce Medicine is a journey from the wounded to the healed soul using the grace and elegance of yoga as a guide. Only a master teacher like Ana Forrest, renowned for her ferocious determination, could accomplish such a rigorous task. Ana Forrest has given us all the best of herself in this book." - Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Defying Gravity
"Fierce Medicine is a journey from the wounded to the healed soul using the grace and elegance of yoga as a guide. Ana Forrest has given us all the best of herself in this book." - Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Defying Gravity
"As a teacher, this is a book that I would certainly share with my students, but as a student myself, there is much in this book that will aid in my own growth and for that I am grateful. I highly recommend this book to all seekers on the path." - Seane Corn, internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and founder of "Off the Mat, Into the World"
"I was lucky to have had Ana Forrest introduce me to the yoga experience many years ago. It transformed my life in such a positive way that I can suggest here that should the reader not be able to attend a live session with Ana, getting into Fierce Medicine would definitely be the next best thing." - Jerry Moss, Co-founder A&M Records
"Ana Forrest is a phenomenon: Her breathtaking yogic abilities and extraordinary, passionate teaching inspire and challenge people to go continually deeper. Ana's unique journey of triumph over adversities leads people to find strength from within." - Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad, coauthors of The Passionate Mind Revisited and The Guru Papers
"Ana Forrest has been a pioneer spirit in excavating the truths of our embodied experience. Like never before, she has courageously opened her life to share her own powerful healing experience through yoga as a way of liberating all beings to follow their own authentic journey of mending the sacred wheel of their life through breath, body and spirit." - Shiva Rea, yogini
"Fierce Medicine is classic Ana Forrest: straight ahead life tales from one of the meteors of the modern yoga movement...laced with the intense focus of a Tiger seeking the freedom of the heart." - John Friend, Founder of Anusara yoga
"Ana Forrest is one of yoga's fiercest females - she's a shaker-upper, a speaker of violent truths, a demanding teacher who pushes buttons and redefines edges...If you are struggling with difficult emotions and unhealthy behaviors, consider this a must-read. You'll be amazed at what's buried underneath your numbness, anxiety, depression, addiction: a radiant heart and a strong will to live. You'll gain new appreciation for the path you're on - and, perhaps, learn to walk it with a little more balance and grace." - Yoga Journal