Essential Reading

10 Essential Herbs by Lalitha Thomas

AS IT IS: A Year on the Road with a Tantric Teacher by M. Young

Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science by Dr. Claudia Welch

Cultivating Spiritual Maturity: The Courage to Practice by Lalitha Thomas

Eat Taste Heal: An Ayurvedic Cookbook for Modern Living by Thomas Yarema, Daniel Rhoda, Johnny Brannigan 

Everywoman’s Book of Common Wisdom by Erica Jen, Lalitha Thomas, Regina Sara Ryan

Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar

Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer by Liz Lerman

Inner Yoga Selected Writings of Sri Anirvan

Intuitive Eating: EveryBody’s Natural Guide To Total Health And Lifegiving Vitality Through Food by Humbart “Smokey” Santillo, N.D.

Prakruti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution by Dr. Robert E. Svoboda

The Alchemy of Transformation, by Lee Lozowick

The Alchemy of Love and Sex by Lee Lozowick

The Joy of Sacrifice by E.J. Gold

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

The Yogi’s Road Map: Patanjali Yoga Sutra as a Journey to Self Realization by Bhavani Sylvia Maki

To Live Within by Sri Anirvan and Lizelle Raymond

Tree of Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar

Women Challenge the Lie: 8 Radical Moves to Get Beyond “Never Good Enough” by Regina Sara Ryan and Shinay Tredeau 

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

Yoga Body: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana by Judith Hanson Lasater, PH.D., P.T.

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