The Semi-Official Yoga for Writers Recommended Book List
Motivation, inspiration, insight and general enlightenment, randomized – and in no way comprehensive – for your creative edification.
- The Shakti Coloring Book/The Bhakti Coloring Book – Ekabhumi Charles Ellik
- The Creative Habit – Twyla Tharp
- The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
- Tantra Illuminated – Christopher ‘Hareesh’ Wallis
- Awakening Shakti – Sally Kempton
- Eastern Body, Western Mind and Wheels of Life – Anodea Judith
- Rings of Saturn – WG Sebald
- Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
- Tantric Quest – Daniel Odier
- Ganesha Goes to Lunch: Classics of Mystic India – Kamla Kapur
- Ka – Roberto Calasso (Hindu creation myth gorgeously re-imagined)
- The Subtle Body – Encyclopedia of Energetic Anatomy – Cyndi Dale
- Feeding Your Demons – Tsulrim Allione
- Roots of Yoga – James Mallison
- Extraordinary Knowing – Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
- Buddha’s Brain – Rick Hanson
- Spiritual Enlightenment, The Damnedest Thing – Jed McKenna
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages – Manly P. Hall
- The Path of Yoga: The Essential Guide Its Principles and Practices – Georg Feuerstein
- Bhagavad Gita (Jab van Buitenen, Graham Schweig or Eknath Easwaran translations)
- Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy – Georg Feuerstein
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – Charles Mackay
- The Greatness of Saturn: A Therapeutic Myth – Dr. Robert Svoboda
- Light on Yoga and Light on Life – B.K.S Iyengar
- Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible – Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet
- On Becoming an Alchemist – Catherine MacCoun
- Pronoia – Rob Brezsny
- Hatha Yoga Pradipika
