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