Kristen Schultz Dollard - The yoga body diet : slim and sexy in 4 weeks : (without the stress)

First and foremost, to all of those people who touched this project, who were willing to look at yoga and reinvent its image to be both mainstream and simple without sacrificing a pound of its power to improve your body, mind, and heart.

I am most grateful to the team whose expertise created a brain trust for this book. Thank you to my editor Shannon Welch for championing the project and for your tenacity around translating yoga for a mainstream audience. Paige Greenfield, your biblical consistency and writing chops invigorated the experience. Jennifer Iserloh, without your boundless commitment to and fluency with fresh, healthy delicious food, the menu would be mung bean stew 75 ways. And John Douillard, you are more healer than doctor and more human than any doctor Ive ever known. To all the women who test drove the diet, this book is for you.

I am infinitely grateful to Rodale and the Rodale family for being the kind of place where yoga is as much a part of the culture as newsstand sales. Steve Murphy, thank you for believing in me always and for getting behind the idea that that yoga is as powerful a product as a personal practice. Yes, you have yoga cred.

A special thanks to everyoneand there were manywho made YogaLife magazine and iyogalife.com the platform from which this book came. Not the least of whom is Bill Stump, who championed yoga at Rodale (and does yoga in his basement.) Bill thanks for supporting me and your editorial heroics. And to those who made my yoga life one of the best professional experiences Ill ever have not to mention a site with yoga cred: Nicole Kwan, John Capouya, Siobhan Hardy Royer, Jessica Levine, Dana Meltzer Zepeda, Sean Nolan, and Brunello Creative.

I wanted to thank those people who have supported me in my career because in leading by example youve been the kind of people I didnt think existed in corporate America. Your high standards, smarts, and commitment to showing up have kept me in the game. Cosmic Robin Ormsby, Ann Pleshette Murphy, Bill Stump, David Willey, Steve Madden, and Michelle Meyercord thank you.

To my yoga teachers Baron Baptiste, Seane Corn, Jean Koerner, and Mary Wirick I offer a humble thank you. I am in your debt. You have inspired me to be and do more on and off the mat. Anything I say here would be inadequate so simply, Namaste.

To Nancy Lonsdorf who was my first Ayurvedic doctor when some physicians questioned my fertility. Your wise water is powerful stuff. I believe Avery is here, in part, because of your recipe for health.

For my friends and family, you know who you are. Mom, Dad, Bill, John, and PeteI love you guys. Thanks for loving me back and supporting me. This book helped me realize that I have the kind of family some people only dream of having. Mom, thanks for artfully setting the Schultz family health standards so high without making us feel no-sugar cereal was anything but normal. Your teachings have served our families and us so well.

I would be incomplete if I did not thank the friends who supported me as I struggled to balance writing a book, motherhood, wifedom, and a full time jobnot to mention some yoga teaching on the side. Jenny Dee (and Uncle Paul), Laura, Fama, My Chicas, and the Koffs and the Thomisons (our commune). And Erica, because I know youre always out there and I love you. And a special thanks to Nila and Kirit Shah and Ba. Thanks for bringing India to me. It was at your house the tastes, smells and symbols of India connected me to yogas birthplace. What a gift.

And to all of my yoga students: especially Lina, Johanna, Steve, and Jane, your energy is sustaining. Thanks for letting me and yoga into your life.

Terry and Avery, thanks for the sacrifices you made to help me do this. How did I get lucky enough to live with two people for whom unconditional love comes so easy?

Kristen Dollard

I would like to thank Kristin Schultz Dollard for inviting me to be a part of this project and whose vision, dedication, and sacrifice became The Yoga Body Diet. To my good friend Felicia Tomasko from LA Yoga who referred me to Kristen and the Rodale team. I would like to thank our editor Shannon Welch for being so competent and such a joy to work with. To Paige Greenfield for extracting knowledge out of me that I didnt know I had, and to Jennifer Iserloh whose expertise and recipes have taken this book to a whole other level.

I would like to thank my patients who continually teach me how to speak and listen to the silent language of the human healing system.

And, most important, to my greatest accomplishment: the bond of unconditional love I enjoy with my incredible wife and teacher Ginger and our six children, Janaki, Devaki, Austin, Mason, Jensen, and Gigi.

John Douillard