Winging It: A Memoir of My Journey to Asia Book One

by Lia Russ

In Winging It, Lia Russ recounts her experiences as a young woman traveling through Japan, Thailand, India, Nepal and the Philippines in the mid-1980s. Readers can share how Lia's experiences broadened her horizons (she had never been outside the United States). The act of leaving home, where she had not been successful in school due to her dyslexia, altered her view of what she could accomplish in life and, ultimately, who she was. Readers will become acquainted with Lia's story and with places that have changed greatly since her visit. Many of Lia's own photographs help the reader appreciate the places and events she encountered on her travels.

This is Book One of a two-volume set, covering Lia's first visit to Japan as well as her time in India, Thailand and Nepal.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published September 5, 2000

About the author

Lia Russ began her journey into the unseen world at nine years old when she unexpectedly healed a horse — and spent the next 50 years finding out why.

Armed with nothing but courage, $500, a tent and a sleeping bag, she left the United States at 19 for Japan — beginning a 2.5 year cross-continental journey through Asia that would shape everything that followed. Over the next five decades she searched across continents, studied ancient texts and healing traditions from multiple cultures, and dove deep into the intricacies of modern physics — not to prove what she had experienced but to understand it.

The result is Connecting the Dots: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science — a 450-page transformation manual that bridges ancient wisdom and modern science so completely that readers finish it understanding not only how the world works but how to work with it.

Lia is also the author of The Ascension Guide: Practical Advice for Lightworkers, Lightworker Archetypes: Honoring Our Sensitivities and Remembering Our Gifts, and Winging It: A Memoir of My Journey to Asia, and the founder of Lightworkers Lifeline. She writes for every reader who has felt the specific frustration of finding books that honor the ancient wisdom but dismiss the science — or honor the science but dismiss the ancient wisdom. Connecting the Dots was written to be the bridge between both worlds.

Reviews

[Carson Buckingham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you ever had the desire to explore Asia? Well, pull up a comfortable armchair and be that traveler from the comfort of your own home. Winging It is a thought-provoking memoir of Lia Russ' travels through Japan, Thailand, India, Nepal, and the Philippines during the mid-80s. Having never been outside the United States, it was rather brave of her to just take off on her own to search for meaning and personal growth--but that's the strong, driven woman that Lia is and always was. This is a two-volume set, so you will visit Japan, India, Thailand, and Nepal in the first book, and the Philippines in the second (which has not come out yet). I urge you to pick up both books. They will become old friends on your bookshelf.