Yoga Bloom Reading YTT List

In each Yoga Bloom LAB1000 Training Module, you will choose 2-4 of these books to read. Reflect on what they teach you about sharing this practice.

• Write a 400-600 word essay about how this would effect you as a yoga teacher. List a minimum of 5 points for each book you review.

* Please note you are always serving yourself as a student, so the more you expand your views, the more your students are  served. It is an honour and privilege to be a teacher. Respect and honour  teaching.

 

Meditation

• Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind – Robert Thurman
• 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
• A Path With Heart – Jack Kornfield
• A Heart Full of Peace – Joseph Goldstein

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
• Yoga For You – Indra Devi
• Relax & Renew – Judith Hanson Lasater
• The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America –  Stefanie Syman
• Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence – Matthew Sanford
• The Inner Tradition of Yoga – Michael Stone
• Overcoming Trauma through Yoga – Elizabeth Hopper
• Yoga for Wellness – Gary Kraftsow
• Yoga Beyond Belief – Ganga White
• Yoga and The Quest for the True Self – Stephen Cope
• First There is a Mountain – Elizabeth Kadetsky
• Hatha Yoga: The Hidden Language – Swami Sivananda Radha
• Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life – Charlotte Bell
• Yoga for Meditators – Charlotte Bell

Jnana Yoga

• Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali – Swami Hariharananda Aranya
• The Science of Yoga – I. .K. Taimni
• The Unadorned Thread – Salvatore Zambito
• The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition – Edwin Bryant
• The Bhagavad Gita –  Christopher Chapple & Winthrop Sargeant
• The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi – Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation – Stephen Mitchell
• The Upanishads – Max Müller
• The Upanishads – Sri Aurobindo
• Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda – Swami Vivekananda
• The Life Divine – Sri Aurobindo
• Barefoot in the Heart: Remembering Neem Karoli Baba – Keshav Das
• Education and the Significance of Life – Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Think on These Things – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Women and Yoga

• Wild Feminine –  Tami Lynn Kent
• Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga – Janice Gates
• Women Food and God– Geneen Roth
• The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman’s Guide – Nischala Joy Devi

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 – by Shaun Gallagher
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
• Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing – Caroline Myss

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
• Experience And Education – John Dewey
• We Make The Road by Walking – Myles Horton & Paulo Freire
• Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction – Ralph W. Tyler
• Education as Service  – J. Krishnamurti

Perfectly Imperfect

• Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach
• The Gifts of Imperfection –  Brené Brown
• Emotional Alchemy –  Tara Bennett-Goleman
• Loving-kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness –  Sharon Salzberg
• Imperfect: An Improbable Life – Jim Abbott
• It’s Easier Than You Think – Sylvia Boorstein

Anatomy

• The Key Poses of Yoga – Ray Long
• The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys – Ray Long
• Yogabody – Judith Hanson Lasater
• 30 Essential Yoga Poses – Judith Hanson Lasater
• Yoga Anatomy – Leslie Kaminoff
• Anatomy Trains – Thomas W Meyers
• Anatomy of Movement – Blandine Calais-Germain
• Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women – Mark Vella

Sanskrit

• The Language of Yoga – Nicolai Bachman
• Sacred Sanskrit Words Book for Yoga, Chant, and Meditation – Leza Lowitz & Reema Datta
• The Yoga Sutras Sanskrit-English Dictionary – Salvatore Zambito
• Tools and Materials for Study of Sanskrit 
• Academic Sanskrit Studies around the World

Chinese Medicine & Ayurveda

• Rooted in Spirit –  Claude Larre & Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee
• The Web Has No Weaver – Ted Kaptchuk
• Between Heaven and Eart – Harriet Beinfield & Efrem Korngold
• Wood Becomes Water – Gail Reichstein
• Healing With Whole Foods – Paul Pitchford
• Ayurveda: The Science of Self Healing – Vasant Lad
• Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution – Robert Svoboda
• Ayurveda: A Life of Balance – Maya Tiwari
• Yoga for your Type – David Frawley & Sandra Summerfield Kozak
• Marma Points of Ayurveda – Vasant Lad
• Ayurveda and Marma Therapy – David Frawley & Subhash Ranade
• Ayurveda for Women – Robert Svoboda
• The Eight Extraordinary Meridians – Claude Larre
• The Seven Emotions – Claude Larre &Elisabeth Rochat De LA Valle
• The Way of Qigong – Ken Cohen
• The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine – Maoshing Ni

Miscellaneous

• Imagine: How Creativity Works – Jonah Lehrer
• Sitting Kills, Moving Heals – Joan Vernikos
• Uncommon Learning – Henry David Thoreau
• Downward Dogs and Warriors – Zo Newell
• Ganesha Goes to Lunch – Kamla K. Kapur