Add These Instructor-Favorite Books to Your Winter Reading List
'Tis the season to get reading. We asked a few of our instructors about the books that have got them feeling inspired lately. Grab some tea, settle into your favorite chair, and cozy up to these good reads.
THE UNTETHERED SOUL
by Michael Singer
“This is a book I always return to and always recommend. It takes one into the heart of being present and mindful in everyday life. Where our practice is applied and lived. I can’t say enough about how I cherish the words of this timeless book.” - Laruga Glaser
Description: What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you've devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. You'll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“This book, written by a woman who is Indigenous, a scientist, and a poet, helps me to reconnect with the wisdom residing in our nation’s very first people and the only real teacher of teachers: nature.” - Adrienne Kimberley
Description: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings — asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass — offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.
The Aquarian Teacher
by Yogi Bhajan
“Knowledge becomes wisdom when you experience it with your own heart and being, when it becomes your personal experience.” - Naya Rappaport, quoting Yogi Bhajan
Description: The Aquarian Teacher is the official Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training book-set, published by the IKYTA and the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI).
The beautifully formatted, illustrated, and indexed Textbook contains 28 chapters, including topics such as:
The Aquarian Age & Awakening
The Roots of Kundalini Yoga
The Golden Chain, The Spiritual Teacher and Yogi Bhajan
Sound & Mantra
Kriya in Kundalini Yoga
Mind & Meditation
The Ten Bodies & The Ten Chakras
Spiritual Development & Yogic Lifestyle
The Identity of a Teacher
Looking for some good reads written by our instructors? Check out the following books:
5-Minute Daily Meditations: Instant Wisdom, Clarity, and Calm
by Sah D’Simone
Whenever you’re ready to take five — on your commute, between appointments, or after dinner — 5-Minute Daily Meditations offers quick and easy guidance for instant wisdom, clarity, and calm.
These short and accessible daily meditations allow you to practice mindfulness any day, anytime, and anywhere. With 365 daily meditations on everything from emotions and fears to forgiveness and love, 5-Minute Daily Meditations is a go-to guide for mindful living when life gets busy.
Practice Sah D’Simone’s blissful meditations here on Alo Moves.
Let Your Fears Make You Fierce: How to Turn Your Obstacles into Growth
by Koya Webb
Let Your Fears Make You Fierce will help you identify and transform self-limiting beliefs, let go of what’s holding you back, and open up your mind to your natural wisdom and true self.
It will take you on a journey of profound physical and spiritual healing through ancient yoga and meditation practices, as well as powerful affirmation exercises of forgiveness, gratitude, and self-love.
By the end of this book, you will understand that you are the creator of your own reality, and that you are able to attract and shape the life of your dreams.
Sweat, stretch, and reconnect with Koya Webb’s classes on Alo Moves.
Spiritual Graffiti: Finding My True Path
by MC YOGI
Hip-hop artist and famed yoga teacher MC YOGI offers his wisdom and inspiration for spiritual seekers in this enlightening memoir, which recounts his journey from a troubled youth to becoming a successful musical pioneer and one of the most beloved yoga teachers in North America.
Practice with MC YOGI here on Alo Moves.
The Desire Map
by Danielle LaPorte
The Desire Map is a holistic approach to life planning that uses your core desired feelings as the guidance system for your goal setting. Over 125,000 copies sold and print in multiple languages.
You’re a seeker who wants to get things done. You want to take your life from good to great. You want to strive less and at the same time, open up to the fortunes of life — from greater life force and passion to cash, adventure and freedom of every kind. You’re here to design a life that’s an expression of your soul.
Start Danielle Laporte’s The Desire Map online course here on Alo Moves.