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RECOMMENDED READING
PHILOSOPHY and STORYTELLING
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, Anodea Judith
Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, B.K.S. Iyengar
Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Bhagavad Gita, Eknath Easwaran
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, Jack Kornfield
A Path With Heart, Jack Kornfield
Myths of Light, Joseph Campbell
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, Lama Rod Owens
Threads of Yoga, Matthew Remski
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
How to Meditate, Pema Chödrön
The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chödrön
Paths to God, Ram Dass
The Mirror of Yoga, Richard Freeman
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow, Sanjay Patel
You Belong, Sebene Selassie
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor
Understanding Our Mind, Thich Nhat Hanh
ANATOMY
The Anatomy of Movement, Blandine Calais-Germain
Yoga Anatomy, Leslie Kaminoff
ANTIRACISM
The path of yoga includes engagement in dialogue and action on issues of social justice and inclusivity.
The following books are helpful in providing the language and tools that we may use to perceive and
disrupt the residues of colonialism that persist in modern wellness practices and spaces.
The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race,
Beverly Daniel Tatum
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, Bob Joseph
The Skin We’re In, Desmond Cole
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Olou
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King
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