Standalone
M.A.O.I. Does Sway My Life
For supreme self care.
The largest book in the catalogue and the one furthest from the others in subject — four hundred and ninety-eight pages across twenty-seven chapters on the body, its chemistry, and the care of it.
Built as a working manual rather than a treatise. Thirty-one full-bleed chapter openers break the text into movements, and the apparatus — appendices, data sheets, a guided practice section — is meant to be used rather than admired.
Its subject is what the title names: the enzymatic and monoamine chemistry that governs mood, energy and repair, and what a person can actually do about it from inside their own life. The same discipline of attention that runs through the other books, turned on the one instrument the author has always said he fully controls — himself.
Set in Crown Quarto, printed on cream stock, matte cover.
About the Author
Art Aloka — also known as Artesius Meltin Aloka — is a poet, healer, and independent researcher in human perception whose life has been devoted to understanding the relationship between awareness, the body, the environment, and the habits that shape human vitality. His work began in the early 1970s with Silva cognitive training and expanded into a lifelong study of attention, physiological refinement, energy work, detoxification, and the effects of modern living on the human organism. For more than fifty years he has treated his own life as a field of observation — periods of simplification, dietary discipline, and sustained attention to the body’s signals.
He lives off-grid on Kīlauea’s eastern rift in Hawaiʻi, where the body is experienced within a living environment of wind, ocean, volcanic earth, and changing weather — a setting that taught him to see health as a relationship rather than a single fixed outcome.
In Enzyme Manifesto, enzymes become a doorway into a larger conversation about vitality, nourishment, renewal, and the intricate processes by which the body sustains itself. The book encourages readers to look past quick fixes and build a more attentive relationship with food, rest, movement, stress, and environment. Its call to “supreme self care” is not vanity but stewardship — a summons to treat the body as a living system worthy of patience, respect, and informed attention. Art does not offer his experience as a substitute for medical guidance; he offers it as an invitation to become a more conscious participant in your own well-being, to ask better questions, and to take part more fully in your own transformation.
ISBN 979-8-951493-11-8 · Crown Quarto, 7.44 × 9.68 in · 498 pp · In proof