Goddess to the Core: An Inspired Workout to Maximize your Fitness, Beauty & Power
Sierra Bender with Jeff Migdow, M.D.
$21.95 (P), ISBN 978-0-7387-7503-2
Llewellyn Publications
www.llewellyn.com 

Goddess to the Core is a wonderfully presented workshop style text that is written in a holistic and inspiring manner. Sierra Bender has channeled her deep knowledge of healing and transformation as well as her hands on experience from her successful retreat, Boot Camp for Goddess ®, into an easily accessible book. It is geared towards women to help them “speak your truth.” She has developed something she calls “Four Body Fitness.” This is not merely physical fitness, but rather fitness that encompasses the whole person on multiple levels.

The book can be read straight through, successively engaging the different bodies: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. In this way it works from the inside out. It can also serve as a deeper focus on one of the bodies. Each chapter stands on its own and is multidimensional, incorporating different healing elements such as an expository text, medical reflections by Jeff Migdow, MD, an assessment quiz, yoga postures, etc.

Ms. Bender draws on many different healing modalities and schools of thought in an effort to guide women to break free from suppressive conditioning and instead embrace themselves as empowered, liberated and healed. Her approach is set up to open up the truth and enable healing for those aspects that have been injured. The beautiful result of this effort is claimed to have multigenerational results. Four generations before and after the woman that is courageous enough to undertake the process of healing, will heal as well. That might be the most compassionate thing a woman can do both for herself and her family lineage. 

Victoria Holmberg
www.victoriaholmberg.com

New York, NY