Learn to Be Lean: A Yoga-Based Approach to Healthy Weight Loss

While many self-help and fitness gurus offer crash courses in weight loss and silver-bullet solutions for getting fit, Shannon Leavitt, MS, RD, does something else entirely.

She offers you the chance to get healthy—physically, spiritually, and emotionally healthy—once and for all.

A certified personal trainer, yoga instructor, registered dietitian, and health coach with more than twenty-five years of experience, Leavitt knows the only way to actually lose weight and keep it off is by getting and staying healthy. She also knows that being fit means a lot more than a number on a scale.

Drawn from Leavitt’s successful programs to help clients achieve their fitness goals, this workbook-format guide to holistic health incorporates yoga, strength training, meditation, and personal reflection to help you bring every aspect of your being into harmony.

Leavitt believes cultivating a deeper awareness and practicing mindfulness are critically important to weight management and fitness—yet those aspects are often overlooked by most conventional fitness and weight-loss programs.

Empowering, enlightening, and incredibly practical, Learn to Be Lean will set you on a path to physical health and emotional and spiritual wellness for the rest of your life.

Shannon Leavitt, MS, RD, is a nutritionist, certified personal trainer, professional health coach, and hatha yoga instructor who has worked with hundreds of students and clients over the past twenty-five years.

Leavitt earned her BA in psychology from the University of Minnesota and her MS in nutrition from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She worked as a dietitian and trainer before opening her own business in 1992. Inspired by the power of yoga, she continues to create new methods for helping others achieve their wellness goals. In 2003 she created Yogalift(R), a fusion of yoga, strength training, and meditation.

Shannon's work has received acclaim from fellow professionals, most notably, The Yogalift Inner and Outer Strength Workout DVD was named Best Yoga Video by Health Magazine at their inaugural Best of Fitness Awards in 2005.

This book represents the latest culmination of her system to teach clients to lose weight holistically.