Resources

Stay curious.
Meditation, Mindfulness, and Yoga
Anatomy for Vinyasa Flow and Standing Postures by Ray Long
*How Yoga Works by Gesne Michael Roach
I Am Yoga by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds
*Insight Timer Guided Meditations
*Mindfulness: Six Guided Practices for Awakening by Joseph Goldstein
*Yoga Beyond Belief by Ganga White
Living with Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, and/or Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
The iRest Program for Healing PTSD: A Proven-Effective Approach to Using Yoga Nidra Relaxation & Deep Relaxation Techniques to Overcome Trauma by Richard C. Miller, PhD
*The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine with Ann Frederick
*You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Restore Well-Being by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman
Fiction, Philosophy, and Poetry
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Chants d'Ombre // Shadow Songs by Léopold Sédar Senghor
*Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning by Peter H. Johnston
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
*Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy edited by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee
*L'Aventure Ambigüe // The Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Lyrics: 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
nejma by Nayyirah Waheed
*Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
*Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu
salt. by Nayyirah Waheed
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
*my personal favorites