April 17, 2002

NEW AUTHOR: Tami Anastasia has written a book with the same name as her business, and both enterprises echo her first name. The longtime health and fitness counselor has just written Toward A Magnificent Self: The Exercise Book For Every Body, published by Xulon Press.

Toward A Magnificent Self identifies the psychological roadblocks that stop people from making exercise a habit and teaches the reader how to break through those roadblocks. Included are self-assessment questionnaires, journaling, writing exercises and anecdotes.

Anastasia's private exercise studio is named TAMS (Toward a Magnificent Self) Wellness Studio and has been open at Vasona Station for the past two years. Before that her health consulting business operated out of the club on Los Gatos Boulevard started by her father, John.

Anastasia's Athletic Club in Los Gatos ran for 13 years and Tami was its manager. It was the first health club in Santa Clara County, having opened in 1967. Tami Anastasia specializes in working with people who are sedentary and have difficulty motivating themselves to exercise.

And she works with those who suffer chronic pain from arthritis, fibromyalgia, and osteoporosis, and those who are recovering from surgery. She has a master's in counseling from the Santa Clara University. She and her four siblings grew up in Saratoga, and her mother Gloria, now widowed, and brother Donald live here.