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In
Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows readers that fitness can be mindfulness.
List of contents
ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1: Why Bother?
Chapter 2: How to Meditate While You Move
Chapter 3: Why I Bother
Chapter 4: Splendid Body—Sense Gates
Chapter 5: Tricky Mind—Working with Thoughts
Chapter 6 Advanced Awareness Techniques
Chapter 7: Tangles of Emotion
Chapter 8: How to Grow Through Pain (and Joy)
Chapter 9: Cultivating Mind States
Chapter 10: Struggling? Check the Hindrances
Chapter 11: Variations on a Theme
Chapter 12: Whose Idea Was This?
Chapter 13: More About Forms of Movement
Chapter 14: Make It Yours
Chapter 15: Taking It on the Road
Chapter 16: Who’s Meditating?
Chapter 17: Why Therapists Have Therapists and Teachers Have Teachers
Chapter 18: You Might Already Be Doing It
Chapter 19: Find Your Fellowship
Chapter 20: Illness, Injury, and “Bad” Workouts
Chapter 21: Performance
Chapter 22: See You on the “Path”
An Invitation and a Request
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
References
About the author
Nita
Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and
mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running
with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing
journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration &
Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A certified meditation leader,
mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and former assistant to writing
practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the groups “Mind, Mood, and
Movement” to support well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing
practice, and “The Writer’s Mind,” to share using writing practice to produce
publishable work. Nita also publishes the writing resource newsletter, “Write
Now Columbus.” Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their
yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Head to her website to download your free
copy of Nita’s eBook Three Ways to Heal Your
Mind.
Summary
In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows readers that fitness can be mindfulness.
Foreword
Nita has a proven marketing track record which includes landing promotional opportunities. While she pursues media placements, as her reputation as a wellness author has grown, people now reach out to her. For example, Mindful Working recently contacted her to write for them.
Her many contacts in the meditation, movement, writing, and wellness community combined with her passion for these topics make her a recognized wellness authority and an excellent podcast and interview guest.
Nita’s launch action plan for EVERY MOVE includes:
- Speaking/Classes/Workshops: Nita plans to offer more than 25 in person and virtual events beginning in August 2021 and leading up to the release. These will include bookstore readings, movement meditation workshops, sporting event expos, continuing education programs on wellness in various fields, keynote speeches, and more. The Book Loft of German Village has agreed to host the launch reading at their store.
- Social Media Launch Campaign: Nita’s impressions on social media average between 500,00 and 750,000 each month. She regularly posts popular live videos of “movement meditation” tips and has a Youtube channel for these. In advance of the launch, she will create a strategic social media plan.
- Street Team: Nita will create a “street team” of her newsletter subscribers and Facebook Group members to help with early reviews and social media buzz.
- Podcast Tour: Already a regular podcast guest, Nita will speak on 25 podcasts in the months leading up to the release.
- “Nita’s News:” Nita will also continue to court the thousands of subscribers on her email lists. Using reader magnets and social media ads, Nita continues to grow her email lists and will push this more heavily as release date approaches.
- Blogging: Nita includes meditation and movement as part of the wellness-related content on her blog. She will include even more content related to EVERY MOVE as the launch approaches.
- Blog Tour: Nita is creating a “blog tour” to promote the book leading up to the release.
- Guest Blogging: Nita will pursue more writing opportunities in media related to EVERY MOVE for other relevant outlets.
- Co-authoring: Nita will seek out experts in various movement modalities to interview on her blog and to co-author articles in expert publications.
- Endorsements and Reviews---Nita has begun to gather endorsements and ARC reviews from the following individuals:
- Sensei Sean Murphy, author, NEA grant recipient, and Zen Master
- Tania Casselle, award-winning author and spiritual teacher
- Becca Anderson, author
- Tara Brach, Ph.D., author and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C.
- Richard Davis, Ph.D., neurofeedback expert and founder of Comprehensive Services, Inc.
- Mirabai Starr, author of Wild Mercy and spiritual teacher
- Daron Larson, meditation teacher, podcast host, and founder of Attentional Fitness
- Laura Staley, author and Feng Shui consultant
- Eric Zimmer, author and podcast host of The One You Feed
- Julia Cameron, best-selling author of The Artist’s Way
- Ven. Shinzen Young, author of The Science of Enlightenment
- Trudy Goodman Kornfield, Ph.D., founding teacher of Insight LA
- Maria Shriver, author and former First Lady of California
- and many more
- Nita will seek editorial reviews of the book from publications including:
- Mindful Magazine
- Tricycle Magazine
- Lion's Roar Magazine
- Buddha Weekly Online Magazine
- Buddhism Now Magazine
- bpMagazine
- Women’s Health
- Psychology Today
- First for Women
- Woman’s World
- Health
- Prevention
- Shape
- Spirituality & Health
- Eden
- Runner’s World
- Outside Magazine
- Women’s Running
- Yoga Journal
- Movement Magazine
- Dance Magazine
- Dance Teacher
- Whole Living
- Health
- Asana Journal
