When Your Yoga Practice Calls You Deeper…
All yoga practitioners reach a point when they start to look beyond their yoga class for resources to explore more. Some look for more guidance and some for answers. Usually we turn to the internet and look up all the books and reviews we can find. We start to look for teachers and students see if we can find the light through the avenues which they are seeking answers.
There are many many books written on the subject of yoga. From coffee table books to instruction manuals. YouTube gives you access to teachers old and new. I’ve been through my fair share of texts. Some have been forgettable, some have been good and some I consider essential. The challenge for new yoga practitioners is finding books that resonate with them as beginner yogis. Academic texts and translations are often too obtuse, and other sources contain only rudimentary and superficial information.
The books below have not only given me food for thought, but have also helped with my asana practice, philosophy etc. I still have a bunch of books that I’m waiting to devour (birthday shopping), but until now, the below are books I consider indispensable for beginner yogis.