Recommended Reading
Mind / Body:
When the Body Says No: The Hidden Cost of Stress
by Gabor 
Mate
Dr. Maté explains how the dynamics of self-repression operate in all of us. With the help of dozens of moving and enlightening case studies and vignettes drawn from his two decades as a family practitioner, he provides poignant insights into how disease is often the body's way of saying "no" to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
by Eckhart Tolle
Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. In very practical terms, Tolle leads readers into this new consciousness to learn to live and breathe freely.
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind 
to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinns renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation but its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to all. In essence, mindfulness is about wakefulness. Our minds are such that we are often more asleep than awake to the unique beauty and possibilities of each present moment as it unfolds. In Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in one's own life. It speaks both to those coming to meditation for the first time and to longtime practitioners, anyone who cares deeply about reclaiming the richness of his or her moments.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey
The beloved classic that provides powerful yet timeless lessons in personal change celebrates its 15th anniversary with this edition that features a new Foreword and Afterword by the author. This beloved book, which reveals a step-by-step pathway for living, is reissued to coincide with the release of Covey's new book, "The 8th Habit."
Healthy Self: Improve your Immune System and Improve your Life
by Dr. Paul Chhabra
Breakthrough philosophy on health and well-being from Dr. Paul Chhabra.
Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness
by Kathy Freston
Freston, the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The One," is back with a life-changing guide to increasing health of the mind, body, and spirit through small steps that can yield extraordinary changes.
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz asserts lives will "become filled with grace, peace, and unconditional love".
Ultraprevention, by Mark Hyman, MD and Mark Liponis, MD
Two physicians unveil a revolutionary new science-based, patient-centered program they developed at America's pre-eminent health resort, Canyon Ranch, for living an active, age-defying, disease-free life.
Spontaneous Healing, by Andrew Weil, MD
Drawing on fascinating case histories from his own practice as well as medical techniques he has observed in his travels around the world, Dr. Weil shows how the mechanisms of self-diagnosis and self-regeneration have worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. But spontaneous healing is also the essential element in the maintenance of our basic daily health. The book outlines an eight-week program that each of us can use to alter our diet, avoid environmental toxins, and reduce stress in order to enhance our innate healing powers.
The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton, PhD
This book is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology, and it will forever change how you think about thinking. Through the research of Dr. Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question - why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them.
Nutrition
The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook, by Alissa Segersten and Tom Malterre, MS, CN
With The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook, learn how to prepare foods that promote optimal health, prevent disease, and energize your body. Not just a cookbook, but a guide on how to make the change to a whole foods based diet. There are over 200 delicious, nourishing gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free recipes in this cookbook that will delight your taste buds and satisfy your soul. **Staff Favorite**
The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones: A Holistic Approach, by Annemarie Colbin PhD
It's essential to maintain strong bones to keep an active lifestyle, but aside from taking a daily calcium supplement, is there really anything you can do to improve your bone 
health? With this complete program for stronger bones created by health educatorAnnemarie Colbin, you'll learn the best foods to eat to build bone mass and find out which foods actually weaken bones. In The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones, you'll also discover how exercise and finding personal balance can improve your health and prevent fragility fractures, menopause-related bone loss, and osteoporosis. Wonderful book on how to prevent and maintain strong bones through a whole food-based diet, without ever taking a calcium supplement.
Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods, by Cynthia Lair
Recipes for Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents. Are you concerned about t
he freshness of commercial baby food? Are you frustrated with making separate meals for your picky eater? Would you like move toward a plant-based, whole foods diet? Families all over the country have found satisfying, delicious answers to these questions and more in Cynthia Lair's Feeding the Whole Family. There are over 150 family-tested recipes using whole grains, beans, vegetables, and fruit. Each recipe contains suggestions on how to transform dishes parents will love into food for babies and young children. Plus the book contains valuable insights on breastfeeding, starting solids and how to attract children to healthy eating. Delicous recipes and information on wholesome eating, along with wonderful meal planning ideas for every meal.
Real Food: What to Eat and Why, by Nina Planck
Hailed as the "patron saint of farmers' markets" by the Guardian and called one ofthe"great food activists" by Vanity Fair's David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedlychanging the way we view "real food." She shows how industrial foods like corn syrup and soybean oil have created a triple epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Real Food is a thoroughlyresearchedrebuttal to dietary fads and a call for the return to old-fashioned whole foods.
The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy and Weight Loss, by Marc David
We eat fast, on the run, and often under stress, not only removing most of the pleasure we might derive from our food and creating digestive upset, but also wreaking havoc oon our metabolism. Many of us come to the end of the day feeling undernourished, uninspired, and overweight. Marc David presents a new way to understand our relationship to food, focusing on quality and the possibilities of pleasure in eating to transform and improve metabolism in an 8 week breakthrough program.
Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being, by Marc Dav
id
For so many people today food is a source of conflict and confusion rather than a source of nourishment. Nourishing Wisdom addresses this dilemma by encouraging us to observe what happens when we thing about food adn when we eat it, and how both our thoughts and the food affect our bodies and emotions. Marc David offered practical ways for us to bypass our habits and free ourselves from the illusion of a "perfect" diet.
Your Body's Many Cries for Water, You're Not Sick; You're Thirsty. Don't Treat Thirst with Medication, by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
Dry mouth is not the only sign of dehydration; waiting to get thirsty is wrong. You will learn the different signals of thirst when your body is calling for water. Simply adjusting your water intake can help you to live a healthier, pain-free life.
The New Moosewood Cookbook, by Mollie Katzen
Originally published in 1977, author Mollie Katzen has been leading the revolution in American eating habits. Listed by New York Times as one of the top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time. With her sophisticated, easy-to-prepare vegitarian recipes, Molly introduced millions to a more healthful, natural way of cooking.
The Worlds Healthiest Foods, by George Mateljan
100 of the world's healthiest foods that are not only nutrient-rich but among the 
mostdelicious foods in the world. Here is a definitive guide that shows you how eatinghealthier doesn't mean you have to sacrifice taste. Discover 500 recipes that take under 7 minutes to prepare. Plus the 4-Week Plan to easily incorporate the World's Healthiest Foods into your "Healthiest Way of Eating"- it can change your life permanently.
Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It,
by Kris Carr
Infused with Carr's signature sass, wit and advice-from-the-trenches style, Crazy 
Sexy Diet is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health, happiness and a great ass! Along with help from her posse of experts, she lays out the fundamentals of her Crazy Sexy Diet: an anti-inflammatory, vegetarian program that emphasizes balancing the pH of the body with lush whole and raw foods, nourishing organic green drinks, and scrumptious smoothies. Plus, she shares the steps of her own twenty-one-day cleanse, and simple but delectable sample recipes. Carr empowers readers to move from a state of constant bodily damage control to one of renewal and repair, making this a must-have for anyone who seeks to be a confident and sexy wellness warrior.
Movement:
The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern Wo
rld,
by
Mary Bond
Mary Bond explains that healthy posture comes not by training our muscles into an ideal shape, but from a new sense that we can develop?by learning to feel. She identifies the key anatomical features that impact alignment, and, proposing six zones that help create postural changes, she offers self-help exercises that enable healthy function in each zone.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit, by Deepak Chopra and David Simon
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga brings spirituality back to yoga. Chopra and Simon show how the Seven Spiritual Laws play a crucial role in yoga's path to enlightenment while providing you with a wealth of meditation techniques, mantras, breathing exercises, and marvelous yoga poses. Whether you are a newcomer to yoga or an experienced practitioner, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga is a portal to yoga's deeper spiritual dimension and a beautiful step to a happier, more harmonious, and more abundant life.
Generous Movement: A Practical Guide to Balance in Action,
by Alexandra and Roger Pierce
Generous Movement takes a practical approach to such questions. It simplifies several of the commonest human activities—including sitting, standing, reaching, and walking—to their basic shapes, then sets to music these brief movement studies in a pleasurable, repeatable form on the accompanying cassette tape or CD. Doing the processes daily will improve your grace and efficiency and help free you from past habits. The movements are easy, invigorating, and quieting.
Anatomy Trains, by Tom Meyers
Understanding the role of fascia in healthy movement and postural distortion is of vital importance to bodyworkers and movement therapists. Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists presents a unique 'whole systems' view of myofascial/locomotor anatomy in which the bodywide connections among the muscles within the fascial net are described in detail for the first time. Using the metaphor of railway or train lines, Myers explains how patterns of strain communicate through the myofascial 'webbing', contributing to postural compensation and movement stability. Written in a style that makes it easy to understand and apply, Anatomy Trains provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the anatomy and function of the myofascial system in the body. The DVD ROM in the back of the book contains video of techniques, Anatomy Trains-based dissections and computer animations of the myofascial meridian lines.
Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health, by Thomas Hanna
In the revolutionary Somatics, Thomas Hanna demonstrates that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time-chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and even high blood pressure -need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, a state which Hanna calls sensory-motor awareness. This gentle, lifelong program can help almost anyone maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a five-minute routine once a day.
