REQUIRED AND SUGGESTED READINGS
Required Readings (for all beginning students)
- The Ultimate Guide to Tai Chi by The Best of Inside Kung Fu, edited by John R. Little and Curtis F. Wong
- Integral Yoga Hatha by Swami Satchidananda
Students must read at least one book from the Suggested Reading list below:
Suggested Reading
- Tai Chi for Health by Edward Maisel
- Embrace Tiger Return to mountain- the essence of Tai Chi Chuan by Al Huang.
- The Little Zen Companion by David Schiller
- The Ronin by William Dale Jennings
- The Inner Structure of Tai Chi by Mantak Chia and Juan Li
- The I-Ching. Translated by Wilhelm Baynes
- The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
- The Zen teachings of Master Lin Chi translated by Barton Watson
- The Zen Teachings of Huang Po translated by Thomas Merton
- The Three Pillars of Zen by Richard Kapleau
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Paul Reps
- Zen Mind beginners Mind Shunryu Suzuki
- The Tao of Tai Chi Chuan by Da Liu
- Movements of Majic by Bob Klein
- Movements of Power by Bob Klein
- The Complete Book of Tai Chi Chuan by Wong Kiew Kit
- The Essence of Tai Chi by Wayson Liao
- The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, translated by Thomas Cleary
- The Yin Yang Butterfly by Valentine Chu
- The Secret of the golden flower by Richard Wilhelm
- The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba
- Psychotherapy East and West by Alan Watts
- Tao the watercourse way by Alan Watts
- Zen in the art of archery by Eugen Herrigel
- Chop Wood, Carry Water by Rick Fields
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
- The Bhagavad Gita translated by Juan Mascaro
- The Mahabharata translated by William Buck
- Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination
- Upanishads by translated by Juan Mascaro
- Eight lectures on yoga by Alister Crowley
- The Ramayana by R. K. Narayan
- The Sermon on the mount according to Vedanta by Swami Prabhavananda
- The gospel according to Zen edited by Robert Sohi and Audrey Carr
- The Dhammapada by Juan Mascaro
- Yoga the lyengar Way by Silva Mira and Shyam Mehta
- Bhakti, Karma, Raja, Jnana, Yoga all by Swami Vivekananda
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
- How to know God the Yoga aphorisms of Pantanjali
- A Chakra and Kundalini workbook by Dr. John Mumford
- Yoga Therapy by Stella Weller
- Yoga Mind Body by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
- The Hatha Yoga Pradipika translated by Brian Dana Akers
- The Song of the Bird by Anthony de Mello
- Yoga for Fitness and Wellness by Ravi Dykema
- Kama Sutra by Sir Richard Burton
The following books are recommended for both the ESSF 1057 and Theatre 3210 Courses
