A Book List for Yoga-Lovers

I was talking with a friend about a yoga book recommendation and looking through my yoga home library.  WHOA.  I have a ton of yoga-related books!  I give yoga book recs out on the regular, so I thought “wouldn’t it be nice to have a handy list on the blog for people to access?” There are thousands of yoga or yoga-related books, so this is BY NO MEANS an exhaustive list.  But it is a place to start and most of these are books I return to, time and time again.  That’s when you know it’s a good one! I also consulted my partner-in-crime, Gabe, for some of her favorites that were not on my list.

Ancient Yoga Texts:

Many of these are hard reads, not gonna lie!  But these are where lots of the teachings come from, so yoga nerds might want to check these out.  I recommend finding awesome translations (there are tons of Yoga Sutras’ translations, for example, that break it down so well) or teachers who know how to teach this stuff in bite-sized pieces (I am looking at you, Noah Maze the master of the Bhagavad Gita, as well as you, Theresa Murphy and Tias Little!)

The Bhagavad Gita

The Vedas

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The Rg Veda

Sutras Translations:

Living the Sutras by Kelly DiNardo & Amy Pearce-Hayden

The Path of the Yoga Sutras by Nicholai Bachman

The Wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras by Ravi Ravindra

Anatomy Books:

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

Anatomy Trains by Thomas W. Meyers

Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank Netter

The Key Muscles of Yoga by Ray Long

Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews

Yoga Philosophy:

The Practice is the Path by Tias Little

Meditations from the Mat by Rolf Gates

Brining Yoga to Life by Donna Farhi

A Life Worth Breathing by Max Strom

Awake in the World by Michael Stone

The Inner Tradition of Yoga by Michael Stone

Life on Yoga by BKS Iyengar

The Mirror of Yoga by Richard Freeman

Yoga and the Quest for True Self by Stephen Cope

The Yamas and Niyamas by Deborah Adele

My Body is a Temple by Christina Sell

Your Body Your Yoga by Bernie Clark

Meditation Books:

Natural Meditation by Dean Sleuyter

Mindfulness in Plain English

Other fun reads:

Yoga Mama, Yoga Baby by Margo Shapiro Bachman

Yinsight by Sarah Powers

Autobiography of a Yoga by Yogananda

The Science of yoga by William J. Broad

Yoga & Ayurveda by David Frawley

Hope this gives good starting point for lots of different areas!  Please reach out with more specific questions.