I started my Book Club in 2008 to discuss inspirational books on a wide range of holistic topics including yoga philosophy, spiritual growth, the natural world and more. Our quarterly gatherings are held the 2nd Wednesday of February, May, August + November in my home or poolside. Bring a dish to pass for a healthy vegan potluck. FREE to current in-person and virtual students; $20 for all others. Note: proof of COVID vaxx is required to attend all indoor events. RSVP below for our upcoming meeting!
Bittersweet
In Bittersweet, Susan Cain employs a mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. But bittersweetness is not, as we tend to think, just a momentary feeling or event. It's also a way of being, a storied heritage. Our artistic and spiritual traditions - amplified by recent scientific and management research - teach us its power. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own sorrows and longings, she says, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know - or will know - loss and suffering, we can turn toward each other. And we can learn to transform our own pain into creativity, transcendence, and connection. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways.
Do Nothing
Celeste Headlee
The Way of Integrity
Martha Beck
The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin
The Shift
Wayne Dyer
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach, PhD
Waking Up
John Earle
Under the Sky We Make
Kimberly Nicholas
The Science of Yoga
William J. Broad
Broken Open
Elizabeth Lesser
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brene Brown
The Day the World Stops Shopping
J.B. MacKinnon
The Heart of Yoga
TKV Desikachar
10% Happier
Dan Harris
Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses
Claire Dederer
The Faith Club
R. Idliby, P. Warner & S. Oliver
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
TKV Desikachar Translation
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
What The Eyes Don't See
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Wisdom of Yoga
Stephen Cope
Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff, PhD
Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
Geri Larkin
All About Love
bell hooks
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
World Peace Diet
Will Tuttle
The Art of Extreme Self-Care
Cheryl Richardson
At Home In The World
Thich Nhat Hanh
My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor
There is Nothing Wrong with You
Cheri Huber
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen
Mark Nepo
The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
How Yoga Works
Michael Roach & Christie McNally
Lovingkindness
Sharon Salzberg
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Living Beautifully With Uncertainty & Change
Pema Chodron