Babar's Yoga for Elephants - Laurent de Brunhoff

All's I can say is I loved the Babar books as a child and Babra's Yoga for Elephants did not let me down as an adult. It's a great book and goes through 15 poses. So if you have young ones in your life that you want to teach yoga this is the book for you. It is one of my favorite yoga books.

Babar's Yoga for Elephants: de Brunhoff, Laurent: 9780810930766: Amazon.com: Books

The Spiritual Side of Being Though the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master - Tao Porchon-Lynch

"One of the most acclaimed yoga teachers of our century... a mentor to me. Like yoga she teaches us to have exquisite awareness in every moment." - Deepak Chopra

This is Tao Porchon-Kynch's life story, the only thing I can say is it's amazing and well worth reading.

Amazing 96-year-old Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch - Inspiration, Life & "Dancing Light" - YouTube

My Guru Wears Heels - Joanna Rajendran

When I heard this book was out I got it and stayed up way past my bed time and read it in two days. lf you liked the Tao Porchon-Kynch's life story you will enjoy reading about this young woman's journey with Tao and how she over came a lot and made her dreams come true.

My Guru Wears Heels

MY GURU WEARS HEELS | OFFICIAL BOOK TRAILER | Tao Porchon-Lynch - YouTube

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by John E. Sarno

My thumb joints have been giving me a lot of problems. Dr. Sarno says we should ask our brain to send the sore area the blood and oxygen it needs to feel better. As nutty as it sounds I did. Call it mind over matter or what ever you want but after a week my thumbs felt better and I'm really happy they do not hurt none stop. So Dr. Sarno is okay by me, and this must help other people or the book would not be a best seller.

Here is an interesting link of people thanking Dr Sarno for helping them. It also has a link to a trailer for his film All the Rage: Saved by Sarno.

The Mindbody Prescription - Thank You, Dr. Sarno

This was the first Yogi book I read. The only book that out sold Be Here Now in '71 was the bible. I have a number of Ram Dass books and his lectures cracks me up with some of his stories, but at the same time he can be very deep.

This book talks about Dr Richard Alpert, PhD transformation into Baba Ram Dass as he studied the importance of the spiritual side of human nature.

The links below are both have basically the same Ram Dass reading I just could not decide which was better. Both have kinda long music intros.

Be Here Now - Ram Dass - YouTube - 8.5 minutes

Wisdom Film - Ram Dass - "Be Here Now" - YouTube - 10 minutes

This was the second Yogi book I read, because everyone said it was great. They were right.

1. “Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

2. “Don’t depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don’t become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi Mini Documentary - YouTube

If you are a George Harrison fan you will love it. I loved it.

Meet the Author – Here Comes the Sun Tribute

Sure it explains the power of mantra meditation, but I got it because it had John Lennon and George Harrison on the cover. LOL

If I would have know the whole book is right here.

Meditation: Chant and Be Happy - The Power of Mantra Meditation by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (harekrishna.com)

Called the Yoga Bible by us in the West our yoga reading group read the Eknath Easwaran version because it is Western friendly. It was nice taking turns reading it out loud in a group and then talking about it. It really does relate to life today.

If you don't have time to read it but you have 3 and a half minutes here you go.

The Bhagavad Gita in 3 Minutes! - YouTube

If you have 18 minutes this is good.

Decoding the Gita, India's book of answers | Roopa Pai | TEDxNMIMSBangalore - YouTube

In the Flow of Grace Krishna Das talks about the Hanuman Chalisa that gives praise to Hanuman. So if you want to gain great strength, confidence and be filled with divine energy recite this mantra.

Flow of Grace Book & CDs *Revised Edition* – Krishna Das Music

One who recites Sri Hanuman Chalisa 108 times becomes free from the bondage of life and death and enjoys highest bliss at last.

Chanting 108 Hanuman Chalisas -- Part 1 - YouTube - 5 hours 58 minutes

Chanting 108 Hanuman Chalisas -- Part 2 - YouTube - 5 hours 6 minutes

Yes I chant the Hanuman Chalisa, no I did not do it for 11 hours.