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Atkinson, Brooks. (2000). The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 New York: Random House.

 

Bekoff, Marc. (2014). Rewilding our Hearts.  California: New World Library.

 

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Chapple, Christopher Key. (2008) Yoga and the Luminous, Patanjali’s Spiritual Path to Freedom. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

 

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Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

 

-Matthieu Ricard

I am often asked about the sources for subjects we talk about in class. The following are books I have read and loved and recommend.  Some of them are more “classical” yogic texts.  And others cover such topics as the microbiome, microexpressions, and the environment.

namaste