Reading List

REQUIRED READING:

1. Barbara Stoler Miller: : Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali 2. Eliade Mircea: Yoga, Immortality and Freedom 3. Judith Hansen Lasater: Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology and 4. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Wherever You Go, There You Are 5. The Effects of Chan Meditation free downdload: http://chancenter.org/cmc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/TheEf- fectsofChanMeditation.pdf 6. The Six Paramitas: Perfections of the Bodhisattva Path free download: http://chancenter.org/cmc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/TheSix- Paramitas.pdf

SUGGESTED READING:

Yoga Philosophy and Practice:

1. Erich Schiffman: Moving into Stillness free download (extracts): www.movingintostillness.com/teachings.html 2. Desikachar: The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice 3. Georg Feuerstein: The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice 4. Bhagavadgita 5. Yogananda, Paramhansa: 6. Vanda Scaravelli: Awakening the Spine 7. Boby Clennell: The Women’s Yoga Book 8. : Insight Yoga 9. J.H. Lasater: Relax and Renew 10. Sandra Sabatini: Breath: The Essence of Yoga Buddhist Teaching:

1. Chan Master Sheng Yen: Tea Words Vol I free download: http://chancenter.org/cmc/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Tea- Words_I.pdf 2. Thich Nhat Hanh: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching 3. Mattheiu Ricard: Happiness 4. Shantideva: The Way of Boddhisattva 5. Pema Chodron: Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness

Anatomy and Health:

1. Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight 2. Blandine Calais-Germaine: Anatomy of Movement 3. Leslie Kaminoff & Amy Matthews: Yoga Anatomy 4. Mary Pullin Shatz: Back Care basics 5. Paul Pitchford: Healing with the Whole Foods – Asian traditions and modern nutrition 6. Cyndi Dale: : An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy

Other:

1. Philip Shepherd: New Self, New World 2. Jennifer Lee: Right Brain Business Plan