Welcome to my resources page (movement nerds… unite!!!).
I have included books, articles and more. These are some of the things, people, ways of living and working that inspire me to do my own living and working. This stuff can help with:
cultivating curiosity, breaking down, analyzing, building up, creating and recreating, experimenting, failing, growing, evolving and finding joy in movement and stillness, effort and ease, learning and teaching…
….and in cultivating friendship with myself and with this beautiful world.
I hope you find some of these resources useful to answer the WHYs and HOWs (and the SAY WHATs??) and to ultimately experience all the beauty and sorrows, art and science… and doing life each day to the best of our abilities, over and over again – this experience of being human.
I’ll continue to add more, (including my own work!), from time to time. Please reach out if you want to discuss any or all of this! I’m always happy to learn and relearn and, and, as always, doing this discovery together.
In joy,
– Michelle
Table of Contents
Books
Sustainability, Daily Practices
- Move Your DNA, Bowman
- Dynamic Aging, Bowman
- Fascial Fitness, Schleip
- Daring to Rest, Brody
- Relax and Renew, Lasater
- Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit, Farhi
Training Modalities
- Power, Speed, Endurance, Mackenzie
Educational
- Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System, Nordin & Frankel
- Yoga Anatomy, Kaminoff & Matthews
- Anatomy Trains, Myers
- Explain Pain, Butler & Moseley
Life’s Mysteries, Philosophy
- The Heart of Yoga, Desikachar
- The Gifts of Imperfection, Brown
- Falling Upward, Rohr
- Light on Yoga, Iyengar
- Voices of Qi, Holland
- The Yamas & Niyamas, Adele
- Yoga Myths, Lasater
For Teachers, Elevating Pedagogy
- Teaching Yoga, Farhi
Research Articles
Mindfulness, Pain & Stress Management
- How Does Mindfulness Work?, Holzel
- The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults, Ma
- Mindfulness mediates the physiological markers of stress, Pascoe
- Inducing Positive Emotions To Reduce Chronic Pain, Muller
- Pain as a reward: Changing the meaning of pain from negative to positive co-activates opioid and cannabinoid systems, Benedetti
- Affective modulation of nociception at spinal and supraspinal levels, Rhudy
- Can positive affect attenuate (persistent) pain? State of the art and clinical implications, Hanssen
- A translational neuroscience perspective on mindfulness meditation as a prevention strategy, Tang
- Effects of stress on the corticolimbic system: implications for chronic pain, Vachon-Presseau
- Mindful attention to breath regulates emotions via increased amygdala–prefrontal cortex connectivity, Doll
- The Effect of Deep and Slow Breathing on Pain Perception, Autonomic Activity, and Mood Processing—An Experimental Study, Busch
- Gloomy Forecasts Prove True; The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy, Bingel
- Stress Enhances Muscle Nociceptor Activity, Chen
- Effects of progressive muscle relaxation training on nociceptive flexion reflex threshold in healthy young adults: A randomized trial, Emery
