SUGGESTED READING AND MUSIC LIST

GENERAL YOGA

“Yoga – The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness” – Erich Schiffmann
“Jivamukti Yoga, Practices for Liberating Body and Soul” – Sharon Gannon and David Life
“Anatomy of Hatha Yoga” – H. David Coulter
“Yogaflows” – Mohini Chatlani


“Yoga for Stress Relief” – Swami Shivpremananda
“The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga” – Swami Vishnu-Devananda
“The Complete Yoga Book” – James Hewitt
“Light on Yoga” – B.K.S.Iyengar
“Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha” – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
“The Book of Yoga” – Sivananda Yoga Centre
“Hatha Yoga – The Hidden Language” – Swami Sivananda Radha
“The Heart of Yoga – Developing a Personal Practice” – T.K.V. Desikachar
“Yoga the Iyengar Way” – Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta
“Awakening the Spine” – Vanda Scaravelli
“Yoga Mind Body an Spirit” – Donna Farhi
“Kripalu Hatha Yoga”- Christopher Ken Baxter
“Yin Yoga” – Paul Grilley
“YinSights” – Bernie Clark
“Mindfulness Yoga” Frank Jude Boccio
“Hatha Yoga Pradipika”, Swami Muktibodananda
“Yoga for Children” Stella Weller
“Yoga for Kids”, Liz Lark
“YogaBugs – The One Bug Your Kid Should Catch”. Fenella Lindsell
“Yoga For Body Breath and Mind”, A.G. Mohan
“Yogi Bare”, Philip Self
“Hatha Yoga – Its Content Theory & Practice” Mikel Burley
“Ashtanga Yoga”, John Scott


“Ashtanga Yoga – The Practice Manual”, David Swenson
“Journey into Power”, Baron Baptiste
“Power Yoga”, Beryl Bender Birch
“Dynamic Yoga”, Godfrey Devereux
“Hatha Yoga”, Godfrey Devereux
“Ecstatic Body Postures”, Belinda Gore

PRANAYAMA

“Light on Pranayama” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“The Breathing Book” – Donna Farhi
“Prana, Pranayama, Prana Vidya” – Swami Niranjananda Saraswati
“Pranayama – Beyond the Fundamentals” Richard Rosen
“The Yoga Tradition” Georg Feuerstein

ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY/EASTERN & WESTERN ENERGY SYSTEMS

“Structural Yoga Therapy”,Mukunda Stiles
“Anatomy of Hatha Yoga”, H. David Coulter
“Acu Yoga” Michael Reed Gach
“Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body”, B.K. Frantzis
“The Endless Web”, R. Louis Schults, Rosemary Feitis
“Yoga Anatomy”, Leslie Kaminoff
“Acupressure For Common Ailments”, Christ Jarney, John Tindall
“Physiology with Anatomy for Nurses”, Jackson Bennett

KUNDALINI YOGA/CHAKRAS

“Kundalini Yoga” – Shakta Kaur Khalsa
“Kundalini Tantra” – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
“Kundalini Yoga for the West” – Swami Sivananda Radha
“Kundalini – The Secret of Yoga” – Gopi Krishna
“The Awakening of Kundalini” – Gopi Krishna
“Awakening the Life Force” – Swami Rajarshi Muni
“The Theory of the Chakras” Hiroshi Motoyama
“Sexual Energy and Yoga”, Elisabeth Haich
“The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields”, Shafica Karajulla & Dora Van Gelder Kunz
“Kundalini Yoga- In Search of the Miraculous”(Volumes I & II) Osho
“Chakras Workout” , Blawyn & Jones
“Kundalini – The Essence of Yoga”, Guru Dharam Singh & Daryl O’Keefe

MUDRAS/BANDHAS

“Mudras, Yoga in your Hands” – Gertrud Hirschi
“Healing Mudras, Yoga for your Hands” – Sabrina Mesko
“Moola Bandha- the Master Key”, Swami Satyananda Saraswati

SOUND / MANTRA /VOICE

“Meditation and Mantra” – Swami Vishnu-Devananda
“Mantras, Words of Power” – Swami Sivananda Radha
“Sacred Sounds” – Ted Andrews
“Sound Medicine” – Leah Maggie Garfield
“Through Music to the Self” – Peter Hamel
“The Listen Book”, W.A. Mathieu
“The Inner Game of  usic”, Barry Green with Timothy Gallwey
“Music”, Inayat Khan
“The Naked Voice”, Chloe Goodchild
“L’Oreille a la Vie”, Alfred Thomatis
“Respirer, Parler, Chanter”, Marie-Claude Pfauwadel
“Healing with the Voice”, James d’Angelo
“La Voix Libere”, Yva Barthemlemy

YOGA PHILOSOPHY

“Yoga of Light – Hatha Yoga Pradipika” – Hans Ulrich-Reiker
“Effortless Being”, Alistair Shearer
“The Spirit of Yoga”, Cat de Rham & Michele Gill
“Four Chapters on Freedom” (Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras) – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
“Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali” – Swami Harittarananda Aranya (University of Calcutta)
“Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras”, Sri Swami Sachidananda
“The Power of Yoga” – Julius Evola
“You Are That Vols I and II” – Gangaji
“Wake Up and Roar” – H.W.L. Poonja”
“The Truth Is” – H.W.L. Poonja
“The Passionate Mind” – Joel Kramer
“The Only Dance There Is” – Ram Dass
“The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi” – Shambhala
“To Live Within” – Lizelle Reymond
“Yoga Dharshan, Vision of the Yoga Upanaishads”, Paramahansa Niranjanananda
“The Bhagavad Gita”, Swami Sivananda
“The Upanishads”, Eknath Easwaran
“The Principal Upanishads”, Swami Sivananda
“The Upanishads”, Juan Mascaro
“The Bhagavad Gita”, Juan Mascaro
“Essentials of Indian Philosophy”, M. Hiriyanna

MEDITATION

“Seeking the Heart of Wisdom”, Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield
“Insight Meditation”, Joseph Goldstein
“The Miracle of Mindfulness”, Thich Nhat Hanh
“The Blooming of the Lotus”, Thich Nhat Hanh
“After the Ecstasy , the Laundry”, Jack Kornfield
“Meditation Plain and SImple”, Christina Feldman
“Silence”,, Christina Feldman
“The Joy of Meditation”, Justin F. Stone
“Meditation for Healing”, Justin F. Stone
“Meditation for Inner Peace”, Eddie & Debbie Shapiro

SACRED SEXUALITY & LOVE

Yoni Shakti”, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, PhD
“Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships” John Welwood
“Intimate Matters”, Linda Valins
“The Path to Love” Deepal Chopra
“Sublime Union”, Mercedes Kirkel
“Passionate Enlightenment” Miranda Shaw
“The Kama Sutra”, Vatsyayana
“The Art of Sexual Ecstasy”, Margo Anand

WISDOM / MISCELLANEOUS

“The Power of Now”, Eckhart Tolle
“The Four Agreements”, Don Miguel Ruiz
“The Prophet”, Kahlil Gibran
“Creative Visualisation”, Shakti Gawain
“Still Here”, Ram Dass
“Grist for the Mill”, Ram Dass
“On Mind and Thought”, J. Krishnamurti
“Awakening the Buddha Within” – Lama Surya Das
“Tao Te Ching”, Lao-Tzu
“The Invitation”, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“The Dance”, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“The Call”, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“What We Ache For”, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“Holy Madness”, Georg Feuerstein
“On Death and Dying”, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Love and Awakening”, John Wellwood
“Journey of the Heart”, John Wellwood
” Awakening The Heart”, John Welwood
“Compassion”, Christina Feldman
“Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships”, John Welwood
“The Passionate Mind”, Joel Kramer
“The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”, Syogyal Rinpoche
“The Tibetan Book of the Dead”, Translated by Robert A FTHurman
“In the Company of the Wise “, Swami Sivananda Radha
“Who Dies”, Stephen Levine
“A Gradual Awakening”, Stephen Levine

SPIRITUAL POETRY

“The Crescent Moon”, Rabindranath Tagoe
“365 Tao”, Deng Ming-Dao
“The Tao of Healing”, Haven Trevino
“Letters to a Young Poet”, Rainer Maria Rilke
“Poetry for the Spirit”, edited by Alan Jacobs
“Dark Night of the Soul”, St ohn of the Cross
“A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran”
“Rumi – The Essential Rumi”, Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne
“Birdsong – Rumi”, Translated by Coleman Barks
“Poems of Love and Awakening”, John Wellwood
“Open Secret – Versions of Rumi”, Translated by Coleman Barks

YOGAFLOWS MUSIC

“Gladiator”, “More Music from the Gladiator” (Film Soundtrack), Hans Zimmer
“Aria” I & II, Café Del Mar
“Filippa”, Filippa Giordana
“Sundari” A Jivamukti Yoga Class
“The Essence”, “Love is Space”, Embrace”, Deva Premal
“Pilgrim Heart”, “One Track Heart”, “Breath of the Heart” “Live on Earth”,
Krishna Das
“Ascolta” , Izzy
“Sura”, “Devi”,”Fierce Wisdom”, Chloe Goodchild
“Jivamukti”, Bruce Becvar and Nada Shakti
“Hari Kirtan”, “Param Shradda I & II” Times Music
“Gypsy Caravan”, “Cairo to Casablanca”, Putomayo Music
“Mystic Traveller”, “Eros”, “Culture”, “Desires”, “Dancing with the Muse”,
Chris Spheeris
“Tiraganga” , Andrea Piazza
“Buddhists Chants and Peace Music”,
“Magical Healing Mantras”, “Secret of the Wind”, Prem Joshua – New Earth Music
“Anthem”, “Solas”, Ronan Hardiman
“Sacred Spirit”, Chants & Dances of the Native Americans
“Adiemus I & II” “One Armed Man” Karl Jenkins
“Quidam”, “Allegria”, Cirque du Soleil
“A Day without Rain”, “Shepherd Moons”, Enya
All CDs by Loreenna McKennitt
“Duality”, “The Mirror Pool”, Lisa Gerard
“Mystic Journey”, Suzanne Teng
“A Tribute”, Vangelis
“The Beyondness of Things”, John Barry
“Refuge”, Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors
“The Spirit of Bach”
“Adagios” , Albinioni
Any music by G F Handel and W A Mozart, Vivaldi
“Adagio Religioso”
“Baroque Celebration” Classical Selection
“Oboe Concertos”, J S and JPE Bach
“Buddha Bar” III, IV
“Deb”, “Rauoi”, Souad Massi
“The English Patient” (Film Soundtrack)
“Kama Sutra” (Film Soundtrack)
River of Life CDs (Relaxation), Fridrik Karlsson
Jan Gabarek, Selected Recordings, ECM
“Mnemosyne”, Jan Gabarek, The Hilliard Ensemble
“Officium”, Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble
“Savasana”, “Krishna”, “Hidden in the Name”, Wah
“World Hindu Chants”, Global Interpretation Times Music
“Mondo India” Part of the ‘Mondo’ Series
“The Best Arabic Album in the World Ever” 2
“Shelter”, Rasa
“Arunachala”, Yamuna
“Spirit of Yoga”, Ben Leinbach

YOGA DVDS

“Insight Yoga”, “Yin and Vinyasa Yoga”, Sara Powers
“Yin and Yang Yoga”, Simon Low
“Yoga Shakti”, Shiva Rea
“The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness ” Erich Schiiffmann & Ali McGraw
“Yin Yoga”, Paul Grilley

OTHER

“The Tibetan Book of the Dead”
“The Story of India”
“Ganges” (BBC1)
“The Secret”
“A Knock At the Door”
“Yoga Nidra”, (Satyananda Centre London)