information & inspiration
© Lisa Sarasohn 2000
www.honoringyourbelly.com

Preface

I   WHAT POWER-CENTERING CAN DO FOR YOU

1   You Can Feel Good About Your Belly!
2   Recharging Your Energy
3   Rejuvenating Your Body
4   Coming Home to Yourself

II  BEFRIENDING YOUR BELLY

5   Centering Meditation
6   Deepening Awareness

a  Naming Your Belly's Sensations
b  Writing a Letter to Your Belly
c  Dialoguing with Your Belly
d  Drawing Out Your Belly's Wisdom
e  Chronicling Your Belly's Biography
f  Making Your Abdominal Shield
g  Touching Center	

Energy Circulation
Tummy Rock
Abdominal Massage
Meridian Reflexology

h  Eating Consciously
i  Making a Belly Picture Book
j  Appreciating Your Artful Belly
k  Creating a Belly-Celebrating Culture
             

                  
IV  LIVING
                  A GUTSY LIFE

                  
10   Designing Your Practice
11   Conspiring with Friends
12   Frequently Asked Questions

V   ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgements

III THE HONORING YOUR BELLY PROGRAM

7   Planning for Safety and Pleasure
8   The Moves: exercising your self-respect

Limbering Your Spine

1. Side Stretches
2. Diagonal Stretches
3. Belly-Centering Breath

Opening Your Hips

4. Belly Bowl
5. Cradle
6. Making Waves

Energizing Your Hara-1

7. Spinning from Center
8. Standing in Stillness

     Haaa! Breath

9. Blessing Breath
10. Power-Centering Breath

Energizing Your Hara-2

11. Spiraling Circles
12. Releasing to Ground
13. Stretch Up/Press Down

Energizing Your Hara-3

14. Squat to Full Standing
15. Circular Squat
16. Squat to Half-Standing
17. Rise into Standing

Balancing

18. Spreading Wings
19. Toe-Balancing Squat
20. Stretch Up and Squat

Focusing

21. Tree
22. Heaven and Earth
23. Alignment

9   More Moves: radiating soul-power from your center

24. Perineal Squeeze
25. Full-Body Breathing
26. Meridian Stretches
27. Full-Body Relaxation