BalanceHER Journey — Second Edition
Women’s Wellness Without Perfection
Body Rhythm · Yuan Qi Qigong · Movement · Self-Care Through Every Stage of Womanhood
The foundation book behind BalanceHER Body Wisdom
This now matches the actual publication rather than an older website concept.
BalanceHER Journey — Second Edition
Women’s Wellness Without Perfection
alanceHER Journey is the foundation book behind BalanceHER Body Wisdom.
It is about learning to respond to the body you have today — not yesterday’s body, not the body you had before children, and certainly not the body the internet has decided you should have by next Tuesday.
At the movement root of the work is women’s Yuan Qi Qigong, alongside more than three decades of Qigong and internal practice, around four decades of martial arts, women’s changing life stages, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern African lived heritage and the ordinary experience of living inside a female body.
This Second Edition replaces the first published edition.
It keeps the roots of the original work while reflecting what years of practice, teaching, listening, changing my mind and getting things wrong have taught me since.
Balance is not the absence of movement.
Balance is the ability to respond.
Coming Soon
WHY A SECOND EDITION?
The work changed because I did
The first edition carried the original BalanceHER landscape.
It was generous, wide and full — very much the book I needed to write at the time.
But practice keeps teaching.
Women keep teaching.
Bodies keep changing the conversation.
And so do I.
The Second Edition is not a shortened version of the original book.
It is a clearer expression of what BalanceHER has become.
Some ideas have been strengthened.
Some have been questioned.
Some have been given their own chapters.
And some technical practice has deliberately been moved out of the book and back where it belongs — into guided teaching.
The result is a book with more space to think.
More room for story.
More humour.
More lived experience.
And a much clearer distinction between understanding a practice and being taught how to perform it.
This book explains the why.
The practice teaches the how.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE
The women-centred root of the work
Part One — The Body You Actually Live In
Why BalanceHER is not really about becoming “balanced”, why modern women are carrying too many tabs, and why strength needs more than one gear.
Part Two — Learning to Read the Body
Grounding, slow movement, the body as a map, the Figure Eight, the sash and the physical intelligence we often stop noticing.
Part Three — The Female Rhythm
The changing choreography of a woman’s life — including monthly rhythm, Tian Gui as a traditional framework, pregnancy and postpartum, menopause and Second Spring.
Part Four — Movement, Breath and Return
Yuan Qi Qigong, the intelligence of the hands, Inner Silence, rhythm, dance, completion and nourishment.
Part Five — Wellness Without Perfection
How to respond to a body whose needs change, preserve what is already working, and stop turning wellbeing into another job.
And then:
Appendix — Fifteen Knowledge Doorways in Plain Language
Traditional ideas made clearer without making them shallow.
YUAN QI QIGONG AT THE MOVEMENT ROOT
The BalanceHER Foundation
Why balance is not a straight line.
Why women need rhythm as much as routine.
Why movement, breathing, and stillness belong together.
THE 90-SECOND IDEA
Small enough to use. Deep enough to matter.
Not every useful practice requires an hour.
Sometimes a short return is enough to interrupt the rush and notice what your body is asking for.
BalanceHER uses the idea of ninety seconds as a practical doorway into everyday awareness.
It is not the whole practice.
It is not a magical number.
And it is certainly not a shortcut to mastery.
It is simply small enough to fit into real life.
One thing is enough.
That protects the internal practice construction.
THE ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION
The original edition of BalanceHER Journey was first published before the work developed into its current form.
It remains part of the history of BalanceHER and contains the wider original material from which the Second Edition evolved.
The Second Edition now replaces it as the current BalanceHER foundation book.
If remaining First Edition copies are still available, they can be offered here as the original edition.
Then your old Takealot/Paystack buttons can live there only if you still want to sell those copies:
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THE COMPLETE FOUNDATION EDITION
The original first edition
The original edition of BalanceHER Journey was first published before the work developed into its current form.
It remains part of the history of BalanceHER and contains the wider original material from which the Second Edition evolved.
The Second Edition now replaces it as the current BalanceHER foundation book.
📖 View The Original First Edition
📱 Original First Edition PDF, Epub or Mobi Book
FROM BALANCEHER TO MAPMEHEALTHY
Understand the deeper conversation. Then begin where you are.
BalanceHER Journey holds the deeper women-centred conversation.
It gives you the story, context and ideas behind the work.
MapMeHealthy is the online Guidance space.
It turns selected BalanceHER body wisdom into short, practical experiences organised around one simple question:
What does your body need today?
CALM · RESTORE · MOVE · GROUND · RHYTHM · PRESERVE
You do not have to complete a course.
You do not need to remember everything in the book.
You simply choose one useful place to begin.
BalanceHER helps you understand the deeper conversation.
MapMeHealthy helps you use one part of it today.
READ IT YOUR WAY
Begin at page one.
Jump to the chapter that suddenly matters.
Listen while you walk.
Put the book down for three months.
Come back when your body changes the question.
There are no streaks.
No thirty-day challenge.
Nobody is giving you a badge for finishing Chapter Twelve before Thursday.
The body is cyclical.
The reading experience is allowed to be too.
If one sentence changes the way you notice your body, that is enough for today.
Coming Soon BalanceHER Journey — Second Edition