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Spiritually Fly: Wisdom, Meditations, and Yoga to Elevate Your Soul
For anyone who has struggled with self-acceptance and faith, a real-world guide to elevate your soul and feel more worthy, vibrant, and alive
Next-generation yoga teacher and trainer Faith Hunter is known for her ability to blend classic yogic principles with modern-day wisdom into an integrated experience that is grounded, radical, and unforgettably Spiritually Fly. In her newest book of the same name, Hunter shares her Spiritually Fly™ life philosophy, empowering women from all walks of life to embrace their true self-worth and live their most epic lives.
Hunter developed Spiritually Fly as a way to cope with her own life challenges—as a young black girl in the South whose brother was dying of AIDS, she’d had a difficult relationship with God. Struggling to find her place in the world, she turned to yoga and meditation to meet life’s challenges with grace and strength.
In Spiritually Fly, Hunter shares the seven foundational principles of her philosophy—the “Spiritually Fly Life Sutras.” Each sutra bridges classical yoga wisdom with modern-day living, creating a fresh way to embrace your unique flow in life, on and off the mat.
With raw vulnerability, Hunter shares the personal stories behind the sutras—diving into lessons on the shadow, honesty, passion, and more. Highlights include: exercises for working with mantra, meditation, breath, and movement; yoga sequences featuring beautiful photographs of Faith; journaling prompts; and a wealth of “SoulPrints”—creative activities to integrate each sutra into daily life.
Next-generation yoga teacher and trainer Faith Hunter is known for her ability to blend classic yogic principles with modern-day wisdom into an integrated experience that is grounded, radical, and unforgettably Spiritually Fly. In her newest book of the same name, Hunter shares her Spiritually Fly™ life philosophy, empowering women from all walks of life to embrace their true self-worth and live their most epic lives.
Hunter developed Spiritually Fly as a way to cope with her own life challenges—as a young black girl in the South whose brother was dying of AIDS, she’d had a difficult relationship with God. Struggling to find her place in the world, she turned to yoga and meditation to meet life’s challenges with grace and strength.
In Spiritually Fly, Hunter shares the seven foundational principles of her philosophy—the “Spiritually Fly Life Sutras.” Each sutra bridges classical yoga wisdom with modern-day living, creating a fresh way to embrace your unique flow in life, on and off the mat.
With raw vulnerability, Hunter shares the personal stories behind the sutras—diving into lessons on the shadow, honesty, passion, and more. Highlights include: exercises for working with mantra, meditation, breath, and movement; yoga sequences featuring beautiful photographs of Faith; journaling prompts; and a wealth of “SoulPrints”—creative activities to integrate each sutra into daily life.
264 pages, Paperback
First published May 4, 2020
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April 17, 2021
This is an empowering self-help book for women and girls that uses yoga as one aspect of its teachings. It's full of personal stories, yoga poses, exercises, journal prompts and advice on a range of topics like anger, trust, faith, passions and more. I really appreciate the author's perspective and think many will find it very interesting and helpful. Colorful photos and illustrations accompany the text throughout.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
September 30, 2021
Spiritually Fly is not an armchair read. It took me almost a month to finish, reading and completing the meditation and journaling exercises daily, but now I have a practice I've adopted and I feel wonderful. I've also dog-eared pages with exercises I'll return to as needed.
I'd abandoned my yoga practice during the pandemic lockdown, but from day 1 of reading the book, I adopted a nightly ritual including the yoga practice of chapter 1, then added two postures from chapter 2's yoga practice a few days later (lion's breath and mountain pose with lateral stretch). My sleep improved immediately, which is a gift, and by now I've been practicing more than 21 days of yoga, over halfway to finishing the 40-day yoga challenge Faith mentions in her book.
The slim 169 page volume is packed with practices from which to create life changing rituals. At first I was overwhelmed, but then I realized, like the author, I only needed to adopt what worked in my life.
For someone who wants to change and blossom more fully into life, and who is open to learning deeply about other philosophies, this book is for them.
Because of the photos throughout, I chose to purchase the physical book.
I'd abandoned my yoga practice during the pandemic lockdown, but from day 1 of reading the book, I adopted a nightly ritual including the yoga practice of chapter 1, then added two postures from chapter 2's yoga practice a few days later (lion's breath and mountain pose with lateral stretch). My sleep improved immediately, which is a gift, and by now I've been practicing more than 21 days of yoga, over halfway to finishing the 40-day yoga challenge Faith mentions in her book.
The slim 169 page volume is packed with practices from which to create life changing rituals. At first I was overwhelmed, but then I realized, like the author, I only needed to adopt what worked in my life.
For someone who wants to change and blossom more fully into life, and who is open to learning deeply about other philosophies, this book is for them.
Because of the photos throughout, I chose to purchase the physical book.
February 13, 2021
Faith Hunter is a next-generation yoga teacher and trainer whose "Spiritually Fly: Wisdom, Meditation, and Yoga to Elevate Your Soul" expands upon her trademarked "Spiritually Fly Life Sutras," a set of seven foundational principles through which she weaves classical yoga wisdom, modern day spiritually-centered living, and embracing one's unique flow on and off the mat.
The name itself, "Spiritually Fly," is infectious in both spirit and practicality. While Hunter does a tremendous job of grounding this material in the vulnerability of where she's been, she keeps everything elevated and the book itself is one empowering flow from beginning to end.
While "Spiritually Fly" undeniably has lessons for everyone, or at least everyone who can embrace yoga, there's also no denying that Hunter's wisdom here specifically targets the empowering of women and girls. This soars home during her sharing of a life-changing trip, given and received, in Haiti.
Much of "Spiritually Fly" is centered around Hunter's well developed and obviously lived into sutras serving as the foundation of Spiritually Fly. Hunter provides us with yoga wisdom and movements, meditations, personal stories, and gentle guidance toward a more spiritually fly life.
While it's hard to imagine someone not interested in yoga picking up a book with yoga in the title, it's worth acknowledging that "Spiritually Fly" is, in fact, a rather immersive journey through yoga including moves both simple and more complex and terminology that may leave less experienced yoga practitioners rather befuddled. While Hunter moves slowly and compassionately and is frequent in her acknowledgement of physical challenges that may impact yoga movement, it's safe to say that "Spiritually Fly" is a book that demands both reading and the application of that reading.
Truthfully, if you're not going to apply "Spiritually Fly" you're probably wasting your time actually reading it.
Hunter beautifully shares the journey that led her to develop "Spiritually Fly," a journey that included being a young Black girl in the south and watching as her brother was dying from AIDS. She shares other journeys, as well, best left to the experience of reading "Spiritually Fly," but suffice it to say that it was largely yoga that put her on a healing journey and she's taken that yoga and infused it with the wisdom, spirituality, and actions that empowered her and now empower others.
There's a wonderful balance in the pages of "Spiritually Fly" as each sutra includes pages upon pages of exercises for working with mantra/meditation/breath/movement, yoga sequences, journaling prompts, and "Soulprints," or creative activities to help one infuse these sutras in daily living.
Throughout the book, there are full-color photographs of Hunter in poses herself, her own "super fly" energy radiating off the page and empowering regardless of one's place in life right now.
As noted, I'm not necessarily the target reader for "Super Fly" - a paraplegic/double amputee with spina bifida who's lived far past his life expectancy yet who's in the infancy of the yoga journey - but I found much to love here in both spirit and practicality and share with Hunter a love for the land and people of Haiti. While there are times I felt more than a bit lost as more of a beginner on the yoga journey, "Spiritually Fly" was still a great teacher and I have a feeling as my yoga journey continues it'll be a book I turn to time and again.
The name itself, "Spiritually Fly," is infectious in both spirit and practicality. While Hunter does a tremendous job of grounding this material in the vulnerability of where she's been, she keeps everything elevated and the book itself is one empowering flow from beginning to end.
While "Spiritually Fly" undeniably has lessons for everyone, or at least everyone who can embrace yoga, there's also no denying that Hunter's wisdom here specifically targets the empowering of women and girls. This soars home during her sharing of a life-changing trip, given and received, in Haiti.
Much of "Spiritually Fly" is centered around Hunter's well developed and obviously lived into sutras serving as the foundation of Spiritually Fly. Hunter provides us with yoga wisdom and movements, meditations, personal stories, and gentle guidance toward a more spiritually fly life.
While it's hard to imagine someone not interested in yoga picking up a book with yoga in the title, it's worth acknowledging that "Spiritually Fly" is, in fact, a rather immersive journey through yoga including moves both simple and more complex and terminology that may leave less experienced yoga practitioners rather befuddled. While Hunter moves slowly and compassionately and is frequent in her acknowledgement of physical challenges that may impact yoga movement, it's safe to say that "Spiritually Fly" is a book that demands both reading and the application of that reading.
Truthfully, if you're not going to apply "Spiritually Fly" you're probably wasting your time actually reading it.
Hunter beautifully shares the journey that led her to develop "Spiritually Fly," a journey that included being a young Black girl in the south and watching as her brother was dying from AIDS. She shares other journeys, as well, best left to the experience of reading "Spiritually Fly," but suffice it to say that it was largely yoga that put her on a healing journey and she's taken that yoga and infused it with the wisdom, spirituality, and actions that empowered her and now empower others.
There's a wonderful balance in the pages of "Spiritually Fly" as each sutra includes pages upon pages of exercises for working with mantra/meditation/breath/movement, yoga sequences, journaling prompts, and "Soulprints," or creative activities to help one infuse these sutras in daily living.
Throughout the book, there are full-color photographs of Hunter in poses herself, her own "super fly" energy radiating off the page and empowering regardless of one's place in life right now.
As noted, I'm not necessarily the target reader for "Super Fly" - a paraplegic/double amputee with spina bifida who's lived far past his life expectancy yet who's in the infancy of the yoga journey - but I found much to love here in both spirit and practicality and share with Hunter a love for the land and people of Haiti. While there are times I felt more than a bit lost as more of a beginner on the yoga journey, "Spiritually Fly" was still a great teacher and I have a feeling as my yoga journey continues it'll be a book I turn to time and again.
March 1, 2021
This book was received as an ARC from Sounds True in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.
I loved everything about this book. Faith was so open about her personal life and how yoga and wisdom really affected her mindset and was such a powerful adjustment from how she grew up and all of the mental and physical abuse she took. As I read, Spiritually Fly, I actually felt Spiritually Fly. The language Faith used while writing this book put me at ease, made me smile, and I felt so refreshed like when I did a yoga workout for the first time. This book reminded me why I got into yoga in the first place and why it works so well. Thank you Faith Hunter for sharing your story and writing this book.
We will consider adding this title to our R Non-Fiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.
I loved everything about this book. Faith was so open about her personal life and how yoga and wisdom really affected her mindset and was such a powerful adjustment from how she grew up and all of the mental and physical abuse she took. As I read, Spiritually Fly, I actually felt Spiritually Fly. The language Faith used while writing this book put me at ease, made me smile, and I felt so refreshed like when I did a yoga workout for the first time. This book reminded me why I got into yoga in the first place and why it works so well. Thank you Faith Hunter for sharing your story and writing this book.
We will consider adding this title to our R Non-Fiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.
October 3, 2021
I discovered Faith through iFit and had to buy her book. Best experienced as a 40-Day experience, I read a chapter a week to absorb and meditate on.
Enjoyed her weaving of personal experience, wisdom, yogic movements and meditations. Very clear instruction and I felt the glow and glitter as I read and practiced. The religious aspects of God to gods to inner god/goddess was the only thing I felt cluttered the book but I wasn’t looking for spiritual awakening in that way either. It just got in the way as not instructional or inspirational.
I would give the book 4.5 stars. I look forward to devoting 40 Days to the practice to dig deeper and will come back to recharge thru the book often.
Enjoyed her weaving of personal experience, wisdom, yogic movements and meditations. Very clear instruction and I felt the glow and glitter as I read and practiced. The religious aspects of God to gods to inner god/goddess was the only thing I felt cluttered the book but I wasn’t looking for spiritual awakening in that way either. It just got in the way as not instructional or inspirational.
I would give the book 4.5 stars. I look forward to devoting 40 Days to the practice to dig deeper and will come back to recharge thru the book often.
September 25, 2024
I will return to this unique book on yoga, meditation, self-exploration and ritual again and again. The journal prompts, kriyas, meditations, poems, and the personal stories shared by Faith in this part-spiritual guide/part-memoir are tender, loving, and healing. I hope to get the opportunity to practice with Faith in person one day.
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