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The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems
by Ronald D. Siegel PsyD

Mindfulness offers a path to well-being and tools for coping with life's inevitable hurdles. And though mindfulness may sound exotic, you can cultivate it--and reap its proven benefits--without special training or lots of spare time. Trusted therapist and mindfulness expert Dr. Ronald Siegel shows exactly how in this inviting guide. You'll get effective strategies to use while driving to work, walking the dog, or washing the dishes, plus tips on creating a formal practice routine in as little as 20 minutes a day. Flexible, step-by-step action plans will help you become more focused and efficient in daily life; cope with difficult feelings, such as anger and sadness; deepen your connection to your spouse or partner; feel more rested and less stressed; curb unhealthy habits; find relief from anxiety and depression; and resolve stress-related pain, insomnia, and other physical problems. Start living a more balanced life--today.

About Face: Amazing Transformations Using the Secrets of the Top Celebrity Makeup ArtistAbout Face: Amazing Transformations Using the Secrets of the Top Celebrity Makeup Artist
by Scott Barnes

About Face is a compendium of everything make-up artist Scott Barnes has learned during his career working with A-list celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jennifer Aniston. About Face is packed with techniques for every area of makeup application. Part One focuses on dramatic makeovers of real women with a twist: each woman comes in looking the best she thinks she can look. The author then deconstructs and debunks their look taking them from attractive to amazing. Step-by-step photos outline makeup techniques and products while Scott provides commentary on how he pinpointed the woman's strongest asset and built a look around it. Part Two highlights beauty rituals, must-have makeup items, and inner and outer preparations that a woman must embrace in order to look beautiful and radiate charisma. Part Three focuses on the celebrities Scott Barnes has worked with.

The Beauty Cookbook: 200 Recipes to Make Your Kitchen Your Spa -- for Your Face, Your Body and Your Hair The Beauty Cookbook: 200 Recipes to Make Your Kitchen Your Spa -- for Your Face, Your Body and Your Hair
by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman

Looking good is in. Spending a lot of money on beauty treatments is out. Forget about $200 facial creams and break-the-bank treatments at your local spa. You can achieve the same results in your own home by just looking in your pantry, your fridge and your medicine cabinet. From the best-selling authors of The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets comes a new type of beauty book for our eco-conscious, economically challenged times. The Beauty Cookbook is the first-ever recipe book where what you create will be used on your body instead of put on your plate. It features inexpensive recipes, beauty treatments and tips for head-to-toe beauty. Readers will be able to achieve results in their own home with natural, fresh, very affordable ingredients that are probably already in their kitchen. Both authors have appeared on numerous TV shows, sharing their beauty tips, including Kym s role as the beauty expert on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and her guest appearances on The View as well as regular appearances on the popular Good Day LA. Cindy has done beauty reporting for national publications including People, In Touch and The New York Times syndicate, as well as appearing on the Today show. In The Beauty Cookbook, Kym and Cindy bring their unique, no-powder-puff-left-unturned knowledge of beauty, cutting-edge tips from experts, plus the humor and fun they are known for in their other books. Recipes include My Husband Ate My Facial and Stop Noshing on My Nail Care. They also offer natural beauty recipes from A-list celebrities that only confide their beauty secrets to them. Who leaves crushed rose petals in her bra to smell good all day? What actress slathers on sesame seed oil, but worries she smells like chicken stir fry? Who likes to take romantic chocolate bubble baths with her leading man? Learn how to have radiant skin, shiny hair, beautiful nails and a soft, smooth, thinner looking body without breaking the bank or even looking past their own home. Each chapter begins with a grocery list of beauty ingredients and then explains the treatments, how to create them, how to use them and why they work. Never again will women have to waste their money on expensive beauty products that contain the same basic ingredients that cost pennies instead of hundreds of dollars. Your spa is already in your pantry, resting on your closet shelves and even in your fridge. It s time to book your appointment!

 

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The International Standards of SpaExcellenceSM2010
Managing for the Sustained Success of a Spa
A Quality System Approach

By Linda Bankoski and
Julie Register

The fifth edition of The Standards has been released. This edition has been reorganized and expanded and more guidance and examples have been provided. The Standards are available in four formats:

With guidance and examples
262 pages
Print - $195
PDF - $95

Without guidance and examples
69 pages
Print - $70
PDF - $35

Click HERE for details about the book's contents, the changes for this edition, the Model of a Process-Based Spa Quality System and The Table of Contents.

The International Standards of SpaExcellenceSM has been sold to spas in over 20 countries.

The International Standards of SpaExcellenceSM is used as the textbook for SpaQuality's on-line, 6-week course, Building and Sustaining High Quality Systems for Spas.


SpaQuality LLCUC Irvine

SpaQuality's on-line, 6-week course, Building and Sustaining High Quality Systems for Spas will be offered this fall from February 8 - March 21, 2010 in conjunction with the University of California - Irvine Extension. This course can be taken alone or as an elective in the online Spa and Hospitality Management Certificate Program at UCI. The International Standards of SpaExcellenceSM2010 will be used for the textbook. Linda Bankoski, SpaQuality's Managing Director of Education and Certification and myself, Julie Register, SpaQuality's Managing Director of Operations will teach the course.

Learn how to:

    • Continually maintain a focus on your spa's Guests
    • Establish a team-based, nurturing culture
    • Keep your spa quality system documents relevant and current
    • Manage according to your documents
    • Maintain records and use them
    • Seek objective feedback
    • Regularly assess your spa quality system
    • Use a robust improvement process
      • Manage it consistently
      • Use data
      • Prioritize problems
      • Make improvements

Feedback from past classes:

  • The instructors were very knowledgeable and very available for any questions we had as students. I learned a tremendous amount of information that will help me in my future career.
  • The presentations were very organized & straightforward. Great visuals & examples. They were very friendly, helpful & knowledgeable.
  • ...this course is unbelievably interesting.
  • I have to say that this course has been the best structured so far!
  • As instructors: YOU GUYS ROCK!!! I have NEVER had such thorough feedback. The best class I have EVER taken!!!
  • This was a great course & I'm so happy that I took it.

Click HERE to enroll in the course (MGMT X426.31).
Registered students can buy a PDF of The Standards for $85 HERE.

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