In each Yoga Bloom Advanced Training Module, you will choose 2-4 of these books to read.
Reflect on what they teach you about sharing this practice.
Write a short paragraph about how this would effect you as a yoga teacher.
Hatha Yoga
- Awakening The Spine– Vanda Scaravelli
- Relax and Renew – Judith Hanson Lasater
- A Women’s Book of Yoga & Health – Linda Sparrowe & Patricia Walden
- The Woman’s Yoga Book – Bobby Clennell
- I Am That – Sri Nisagardatta
- Yoga For You – Indra Devi
- Relax & Renew – Judith Hanson lasater
- The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America – Stephanie Syman
- Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence – Matthew Sanford
- The Inner Tradition of Yoga – Michael Stone
- Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body – David Emerson
- Yoga for Wellness – Gary Kraftsow
Teaching
- The Courage to Teach
– Parker J Palmer - Transformational Speaking
– Gail Larsen - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
– Paulo Freire - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
– Bell Hooks
Jnana Yoga
- Light on Life – BKS Iyengar
- The Yogas and Other Works – Vivekenanda
- YogaBody – Mark Singleton
- Four Chapters on Freedom – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
- Paths to God: Living the Baghavad Gita – Ram Dass
- Downward Dogs & Warriors – Zo Newell
- Ganesha Goes To Lunch – Kamla K. Kapur
- Health, Healing and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya – T. K. V. Desikachar
- The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice
Women and Yoga
- Wild Feminine – Tami Lynn Kent
- Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga – Janice Gates
- First There is a Mountain: A Yoga Romance – Elizabeth Kadetsky
Anatomy
- The Key Poses of Yoga – Ray Long
- Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana – Judith Hanson Lasater
- Yoga Anatomy – Leslie Kaminoff
- Anatomy Trains – Thomas W. Myers
- Anatomy of Movement – Blandine Calais-Germain
- The Female Pelvis: Anatomy & Exercises – Blandine Calais-Germain
- Clinical Kinesiology and Anatomy 4th edition – L. Lippert
Subtle Body/Intuition
- The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
– Cyndi Dale - My Stroke of Insight
– Jill Bolte Taylor - How the Body Shapes the Mind – Shaun Gallagher
- Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
Perfectly Imperfect
- Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach
- The Gifts of Imperfection – Brene Brown
- Emotional Alchemy – Tara Bennett-Goleman
- Loving-kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness – Sharon Salzberg
- Food for the Heart – Ajahn Chah
- Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? – Ajahn Brahm
- The Art of Disappearing: Buddha’s Path to Lasting Joy – Ajahn Brahm
Meditation
- Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind: Writings on the Connection between Yoga and Buddhism – Michael Stone
- Full Catastrophe Living – Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Learning to Breathe – Priscilla Warner
- The Miracle of Mindfulness – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Bringing Home the Dharma – Jack Kornfield
- The Wisdom of No Escape – Pema Chodron
- When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron
Chinese Medicine:
- Between Heaven & Earth – Harriet Beinfielf & Efrem Korngold
- The Web That Has No Weaver – Ted J Kaptchuk
- Rooted in Spirit – Claude Larre & Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee