Recommended Reading List

– Movement Medicine: How to Awaken, Dance and Live Your Dreams by the Darling Khans
– Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart – The Real-Life Initiation of an Everyday Shaman by Ya’Acov
– The Body keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
– My Grandfather’s Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen
– Finding Our Way and So far from Home by Margaret Wheatley
– Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius
– The Subject Tonight is Love by Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky
– The Brain that Changes by Itself by Norman Doidge (see below *)
– Animals in Translation by Temple, Grandin
– Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson
– The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
– Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice  by Peter A. Levine
– The Guru Papers – Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad
– Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown
– The Shaman’s Body by Arnold Mindell
– Earth-Based Psychology by Arnold Mindell
– A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
– Tears of the Ancestors by Daan van Kampenhout
– The Human Cycle by Colin Turnbull
– The Pregnant Virgin and Addiction to Perfection by Marion Woodman
– The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron
– Grace and Grit by Ken Wilber
– A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
– Why Love Matters by Sue Gerhardt
– Choosing Happier by Jem Friar

* Heart warning: the The Brain That Changes By Itself is an amazing book, written by a psychoanalyst about latest discoveries in neuro science. I (Susannah) found it painful in places in the way that animal experiments are talked about. However, that’s only a part of the book – there is much learning that is fantastic and important, in particular, understanding the mind and how to hone it.

You can order some of these titles from Music Medicine Shop.