Too many books!!!!
My meetings with people at the massage school and the with friends from yoga and other random friends keep adding to my pile of books which is sitting on my desk beside me this very moment.
Here, let me read them off to you!!
Planet India – Mira Kamdar
India – Lonely Planet
Ayurveda, Secrets of Healing – Maya Tiwari
Ayurvedic Healing – Gray – Davidson
Yogi Philosophi – Ramacharaka
The Field – Lynne McTaggart
Philosophies of India – Zimmer
Choice and Change – O’Connell O’Connell
The Essential Rumi – Barks
O tao da fisica – Fritjof Capra
Sampoorna Yoga – Yogi Hara
The book of understanding – Osho
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Steps to an ecology of mind – Gregory Bateson
The Structure and dynamics of the psyche – C.G.Jung
The Formation of Stars – Stahler – Palla.
The Business of Massage
Tappan’s Handbook of Healing Massage Techniques
…

Anybody want to help me read these!?

Three Cups of Tea

An awesome read!  An amazing story!  A real story!!!
I highly recommend this book telling the story of one single man who finds a goal and how his sheer determination (and stubborness) touches the lives, in an extremely positive way, of so many people in some of the remotest places in the world.

Touching

“Touching” by Ashley Montagu, a book on the importance of touch and its history.

I am only a quarter of the way through the book and already I have been taught so much…  I can only say that I HIGHLY recommend this book to everyone.  From the parent who (in my opinion) can learn so much about the development of their baby, to just about anyone interested in understanding their own development!

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Gorgeous.  I will come back to this and write more but in the meanwhile go out and buy this book, i’ll pay you if you don’t like it.
Thanks M.

Tantric Orgasm for Women

Ok, give me a second here.  This is a very good book and no, it is not about which positions you should do in order to make your partner multi-orgasmic, it is very much about looking at our present philosophy of love and opening the reader’s eyes to a new approach.
Written by Diana Richardson and highly recommended.
Thanks J. for the recommendation.

Free Play: IMPROVisATIOn in Life and Art

Written by Stephen Nachmanovitch.
This is an amazing book dealing directly with inspiration.
Very highly recommended.
J – thanks for showing me this book.

Blink and The Tipping Point

A double review here.  Both of these books, “Blink” and “The Tipping Point” are by Malcolm Gladwell.  Both are very good.  Many of the studies mentioned in Blink can be found in the book “The adaptive unconscious” which I highly recommend, but the styles of writing are completely different in that Blink really carries the reader through (even though it does not go as deep as The Adap. Un.
Whereas Blink deals with how we are so amazingly good at evaluating a situation in the blink of an eye, The Tipping Point deals with the different factors that go into an idea or an epidemic tipping from small-scale to large-scale.
Both books are amazing, I especially enjoy insights into human sociology and thought and both do just that.
Enjoy!!

First New Entry

Hummm, should start this with what I am reading at the moment.  A whole bunch of things!
From yoga books to astronomy articles.

My recommendation for this first blog entry:
“Strangers to Ourselves” by Wilson (can’t remember his first name).  A very good book helping to understand how misguided we are when we think we know ourselves.
Highly Recommended.

Light on Yoga

“Comparison and criticism must begin with the alignment of our left and right sides to a degree at which even finer adjustments are feasible: or strength of will will cause us to start by stretching the body from the toes to the top of the head in defiance of gravity. Impetus and ambition might begin with the sense of weight and speed that comes with free-swinging limbs, instead of with the control of prolonged balance on foot, feet or hands, which gives poise. Tenacity is gained by stretching in various Yoga postures for minutes at a time, while calmness comes with quiet, consistent breathing and the expansion of the lungs. Continuity and a sense of the universal come with the knowledge of the inevitable alteration of tension and relaxation in eternal rhythms of which each inhalation and exhalation constitues one cycle, wave or vibration among the countless myriads which are the universe.

What is the alternative? Thwarted, warped people condemning the order of things, cripples criticising the upright, autocrats slumped in expectant coronary attitudes, the tragic spectacle of people working out their own imbalance and frustration on others.”

Part of the Foreword by Yehudy Menuhin in the book: “Light on Yoga” by B.K.S. Iyengar.