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ELAINE'S ARTICLES,
EXCERPTS & RECIPES

ELAINE'S ARTICLES & SHORT STORIES
Elaine's Articles & Short Stories
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ELAINE'S YOGA BOOKS
The Yoga Minibook for Stress Relief
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The Yoga Minibook for Energy and Strength
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The Yoga Minibook for Longevity
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HEALTHY COOKBOOKS
Secrets of Fat-Free Greek Cooking
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CONSULTATIONS WITH ELAINE


Email Elaine: AskElaineG@aol.com

Elaine is available for yoga, diet, fitness and wellness coaching, classes, seminars, and workshops for individuals, groups and institutions, and directs a weight loss and fitness email support group. All services are conducted through in person sessions, over the phone, and/or email.

Elaine’s Yoga Minibooks series, Yogi in the Kitchen, and successful weight loss program were featured on the NBC TODAY show, SEEING BEYOND Radio Program, PBS, Glamour, Self, Natural Health, Shape and The New York Daily News

Email Elaine with any questions you may have about Yogi in the Kitchen or the Yoga Minibooks Series programs and how they can work for you. In just a couple of minutes you can use yoga to boost your energy, relax, tone body parts and improve youthfulness.

Call or email Elaine for your personalized weight loss and fitness program, providing you with the best food choices, pertinent nutritional information, therapeutic yoga programs and holistic fitness techniques for a lifelong healthy lifestyle.

Join Elaine’s diet and fitness email support group, to help you reach and maintain your desired weight and fitness goals. Studies have found that online and email weight loss programs of exercise and nutrition advice and support from weight management specialists have resulted in successful weight loss.


ELAINE’S CONSULTATIONS INCLUDE:


1. Assessment and personalized fitness and weight management prescription designed to help you reach your goals, in person, by phone or email.

2. Follow-up consultations and support weekly, bi-weekly, or daily, depending upon need and goals, in person, by phone or email.

3. Email Weight Loss and Fitness Support Group.


ELAINE’S YOGA AND FITNESS PROGRAMS INCLUDE:


1. WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM: Researchers found that an hour of intense yoga, as featured in THE YOGA MINIBOOK FOR WEIGHT LOSS, can burn up to 540 calories - the equivalent of an eleven-minute mile. This program includes therapeutic yoga and holistic fitness techniques to increase your cardiovascular fitness, burn calories, boost metabolism, tone specific body parts, sculpt abdominals and choose a healthy diet.

2. STRESS RELIEF PROGRAM: We are in the midst of a world-wide stress epidemic, and yoga has been proven to help relieve stress. This program includes therapeutic yoga and holistic fitness techniques for rest, relaxation, and tranquil sleep, with meditation and breathing, yoga to relieve depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and other stress-related problems.

3. FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH PROGRAM: Yoga is the best and safest defense against the effects of aging and promotes healthy aging. This program includes therapeutic yoga and holistic fitness techniques to improve youthfulness, enhance sexual vitality, alleviate arthritis and back pain, relieve the symptoms of menopause and andropause, enhance prostate health, improve functional fitness and a gentle yoga
practice for seniors.

4. ENERGY AND STRENGTH PROGRAM: Yoga can help all of you who are run down, out of shape and feel tired way too often. By following this yoga program you can revitalize and strengthen your body, mind and spirit. This program includes therapeutic yoga and holistic fitness techniques for your unique body type - whether you’re an apple, pear or hourglass shape - to promote lean strength and high energy, to relieve fatigue and gain energy, and increase strength with an exclusive yoga weight training practice.


ELAINE'S BIO


Elaine Gavalas received her Master's degree and Certification from Columbia University, New York, and is an Exercise Physiologist, Yoga Instructor, and Fitness and Weight Management Consultant. Elaine’s studied and practiced many yoga styles such as Integral, Iyengar, vinyasa, kundalini, mantra, nada and tantra, with somoe of yoga’s most beloved gurus including Ram Das, Bhagavan Das, Krishna Das,and Swami Satchidananda.

Elaine has helped people of all ages, shapes, and sizes reach and maintain their ideal weight, fitness, and wellness goals. She works with individuals, classes, seminars and groups, utilizing yoga and holistic fitness principles for weight management, stress management, longevity, wellness, cardiovascular fitness, and strength training. She conducts yoga, fitness and weight loss lectures, seminars and classes for numerous institutions, groups and clients.

Elaine’s therapeutic yoga programs and holistic fitness techniques are featured in her Yoga Minibook series - The Yoga Minibook For Weight Loss, The Yoga Minibook For Stress Relief, The Yoga Minibook For Longevity, and The Yoga Minibook For Energy & Strength. Elaine wrote her yoga Minibook Series as self-help guides in response to people’s many wellness, fitness, and diet problems, questions and concerns.

Health experts have found the Mediterranean diet is the world’s healthiest diet and cuisine. As an exercise and nutrition specialist, Elaine has shared her traditional Greek Mediterranean recipes with colleagues, patients and clients, to help them make their best food choices, enjoy delicious, healthful eating, and achieve and maintain their desired weight goals. These recipes can be found in her cookbook, Secrets of Fat-Free Greek Cooking, which was featured on PBS nationally with the television program,“The Greek Americans”.

Elaine’s been a print model for Veggie Life Magazine, demonstrating the exercises in her articles, including “Staying Flexible and Fit with Yoga” and “Menopausal Exercises”, and a Photo Shoot Yoga Consultant for Glamour Magazine. Elaine was interviewed and quoted as a health expert for the Center of Science, seen on CNN and MSNBC.






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