Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Reading List
*required reading is marked in red
Yoga Practice
Tatjana Mesar: Transcending tradition and finding a contemporary yoga that fits
Tatjana Mesar: What is Buddhist Yoga?
Bo Forbes: Yoga for Emotional Balance
John Stirk: The Original Body, Primal Movement for Yoga Teachers
Donna Farhi: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness
Methodology of Teaching
Matthew Remski: WAWADIA: Six Lenses for Studying MPY
read here
Carolina Dias: Yoga& Ideokinesis: Applications of dynamic alignment and imagery
read here
Todd Hargorve: A Guide to Better Movement
Buddhist Teaching
Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding Our Mind
Christopher K. Germer, PhD: The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
Sheng Yen: Tea Words I
Sheng Yen: Tea Words II
read here
Sheng Yen: Hoofprint of the Ox
Shantideva: The Way of the Bodhisattva: Bodhicaryavatara
Yoga Philosophy and History
Mark Singleton: Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Roots of Yoga, edited and translated by James Mallison and Mark Singleton
The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
David Gordon White: Yoga, Brief History of an Idea
read here
Stefanie Syman: The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America
Georg Feuerstein: The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice
Anatomy & Health
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
Linda Hartley: The Wisdom of the Body Moving
Andrea Olsen: Body Stories, a Guide to Experiential Anatomy
Thomas Hanna: Somatics
Daniel Keown: Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
Philip Shepherd: New Self New World, Recovering Our Senses in the 21st Century
Katy Bowman: Move your DNA
Paul Pitchford: Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Yoga of Business
Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organizations
Carl Cederström and André Spicer: The Wellness Syndrome
Jeremy Carrette and Richard King: Selling Spirituality, The Silent Takeover of Religion
Other
Teodor Schwenk: Sensitive Chaos
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Julie Henderson: The Lover Within, Opening to Energy in Sexual Practice