Vorwort
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






  Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows readers that fitness can be mindfulness.

Zusammenfassung

Discover the Benefits of Exercise as Meditation

“Let me say it simply. Someone should have written this book a long time ago.” —Shinzen Young, meditation teacher, neuroscience research consultant, founder of Unified Mindfulness, author of Meditation in the Zone and The Science of Enlightenment

**Award-winning Finalist in the “Health: Diet & Exercise” category of the 2022 International Book Awards 

1 New Release in Sports Health & Safety, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Cycling, Sports Psychology, Walking, Theravada Buddhism, and Meditation**

Transform movement and meditation into the powerful practice of mindful movement

Exercise can be meditation. What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation?

Let's combine the two. In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows us fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine.

Inside you’ll learn to:

• Turn exercise into a meditation tool
• Make any activity a mindful practice
• Enjoy the benefits of meditation while getting fit

If you like meditation books and best sellers such as Think Like a Monk, Practicing Mindfulness, or Breath, you’ll love Make Every Move a Meditation.

Leseprobe

Chapter 1

Why Bother?

 

If you’re like most people, including me, you exercise for a variety of reasons. You’re depressed so you exercise to cheer up, or you’re anxious and want to calm…