Recess with Janet

Katy Bowman’s book   Dynamic Aging   is not just for those of us who are senior citizens.     It’s for all of us who happen to be getting ol...

I was given   What Fresh Hell Is This:  Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You   by Heather Corinna by my kids.     It was a h...

Stephen Cope’s book   Yoga and the Quest for the True Self   is not the one to pick up for how to do poses.     It’s more about   why   to d...

In the West, yoga tends to be regarded as an exercise thing, but the tradition is much richer and deeper than that.  Anyone who would like a...

Bessel Van Der Kolk’s book   The Body Keeps the Score:  Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma   is only tangentially related to wha...

It has been a while since I read a book that was even tangentially   fitness-related .     But at last, the incomparable Joan Ryan has a new...