Recommended resources for further education
Books we read and recommend:
The Four-Fold Way – Angeles Arrien
Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
The Extended Mind – The power of thinking outside the brain — Annie Murphy Paul
No Bad Parts – Richard C. Schwartz
Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach
The Psychophysiology of Self-Awareness – Alan Fogel
The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor, and Meaning – Daria Halprin
The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life’s Transitions – Richard Strozzi Heckler
Maps to Ecstasy: Teachings of an Urban Shaman – Gabrielle Roth
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry – Rumi, edited by Stephen Mitchell
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk. M.D.
Articles we read and recommend:
Lessons from the Bones and Belly, by Pat Samples (PDF)
Essential Motion: An Improvisational Movement Approach to Embodied Awareness and Its Relationship to Rosen Method Bodywork, by Karen Roeper & Jane Flint (PDF)
Interviews, Ted Talks & Podcasts:
Diahna Fortuna (Google Talks) interviews Annie Murphy Paul about The Extended Mind (1 hour)
Pat Samples / Tedx Talk: Your Aging Body is a Great Read (18 min)
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