Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Reading
REQUIRED READING:
Jules Mitchell: The Science of Stretching, a Master Theses – read here
Robert Schleip, Ph.D. and Divo Gitta Müller: Training Principles for Fascial Connective Tissue – read here
Tatjana Mesar:
- Transcending tradition and finding a contemporary yoga that fits – read here
- What is Buddhist Yoga? – read here
- Suchness of the Body – read here
Jeremy Carrette and Richard King: Selling Spirituality, The Silent Takeover of Religion
David Gordon White: Yoga, Brief History of an Idea – read here
Sheng Yen: Things Pertaining to Bodhi, The Thirty-seven Aids to Enlightenment
SUGGESTED READING
Teaching Yoga and Movement
Carolina Dias: Yoga& Ideokinesis: Applications of dynamic alignment and imagery – read here
Matthew Remski: WAWADIA: Six Lenses for Studying MPY – read here
Todd Hargorve: A Guide to Better Movement
Buddhist Teaching
Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding Our Mind
Sheng Yen: Hoofprint of the Ox
Shantideva: The Way of the Bodhisattva: Bodhicaryavatara
Sheng Yen: Tea Words I – read here
Sheng Yen: Tea Words II – read here
Yoga Philosophy and History
Roots of Yoga, edited and translated by James Mallison and Mark Singleton
The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
Mark Singleton: Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Body Politics:
Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology
adrienne maree brown: Pleasure Activism
Philip Shepherd: New Self New World, Recovering Our Senses in the 21st Century
Cultural Critique:
Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Carl Cederström and André Spicer: The Wellness Syndrome
Stefanie Syman: The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America
Anatomy, Biomechanics and Somatics
Katy Bowman: Move your DNA
Linda Hartley: The Wisdom of the Body Moving
Andrea Olsen: Body Stories, a Guide to Experiential Anatomy
Thomas Hanna: Somatics