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"The Tao of Physical and Spiritual"
This critic found it necessary to educate himself a little, in a formal way, before approaching the book, thinking that it might prove to be extremely esoteric. What a truly delightful surprise to be introduced, as if on a purely one-to-one correspondence basis, to the richly varied life of an author who has ranged widely in the Arts, inclusive of the ballet, beautiful illustrative work and the enervating, even cut-throat world of modeling for commercial organizations.



Anybody expecting a prima donna persona arising from this would be quickly disabused. This author was a child whose love of writing never faded. And whatever the pleasure she... More > brought to many during her dancing years, one thing emerges with superb clarity - it is her spirituality - not a surface phenomenon, but something that informs her whole attitude to life. One senses the sheer hard work and the disappointments, the details of her health crises and the overwhelming certitude of values that far transcend the experiences of this earthly life, that passes so quickly. Nonetheless, her writing is free of escapism. All the practicalities of our contingent day-to-day life are to be found in her comments on tiresome attitudes displayed so readily in our stress-producing society and in her views on the consumerism that drives so much of the contemporary world into a state of chronic dissatisfaction.

Reading this book was like being in the company of a truly sophisticated, well-traveled person fully capable of deflating silly notions, yet gifted with a finely-balanced knowledge of that which best promotes physical wellbeing and
spiritual insight of a rare character. < Less