Ballet Beautiful Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer

Artistic. athletic. attainable. These three words represent the promise of Ballet Beautiful, a transformative approach to reshaping your body so that it becomes slender, long, and lean--with the strength and grace of a ballerina. Founder Mary Helen Bowers has used this method to help women lose weight, turn fat into lean muscle, and re-contour their bodies to achieve the regal posture, strength, and elegance of a ballerina. Deeply connected to ballet's rich yet mysterious tradition, the Ballet Beautiful program is unique in the way it enables women to let their own inner beauty emerge. With this new book, you too can attain and embody a truly feminine energy of poise and power.

Kara Richardson Whitely has hiked Mount Kilimanjaro three times while weighing as much as 300 pounds. Kara, a motivational public speaker, has written for Self, Everyday with Rachael Ray, and Runner's World magazines. She has been featured on Oprah's Lifeclass and Good Morning America, and in the New York Times, Redbook, Weight Watchers, and Backpacker magazines. She lives in Summit, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.