I’ve been teaching these Internal Process classes for the last few months. I put together a very incomplete reading list for the people joining the class and in the group on Facebook. These books have been helpful to me in my internal process work. I’ll add to it over time. Please suggest books in the comments. Thanks!
–Kazuo Ohno’s World: from without & within
by Kazuo Ohno
–There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch’ing and His T’ai Chi Chuan
by Wolfe Lowenthal
–Gateway to the Miraculous: Further Explorations in the Tao of Cheng Man Ch’ing
by Wolfe Lowenthal
–The way of Energy Lam Kam Chuen
–The way of power Lam Kam Chuen
–Principles of Effortless Power by Peter Ralston
–Zen Body Being by Peter Ralston
–Bone, Breath, and Gesture: Practices of Embodiment Volume 1 (Io Series) (Vol 1)
by Don Hanlon Johnson –This is a great anthology of the roots of embodiment work in the West.
–And There was Light : The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance
by Jacques Lusseryan
Against the Pollution of the I: Selected Writings of Jacques Lusseyran
–Inside Zhan Zhuang by Mark Cohen
–The zen teaching of Huang Po on the transmission of mind by Blofeld
–Chuang Tzu (Various translations)
–Tao Te Ching (various translations)
-Moving Medicine -(About the life of Milton Traeger) by Jack Liskin. (This book is a bit hagiographic but sweet in a lot of ways)
–Hara: The Vital Center of Man by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
–Hara Diagnosis: Reflections on the Sea
by Kiiko Matsumoto , Stephen Birch, et al. (this book is mostly for healers)
–Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness
by Moshe Feldenkrais
–The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
by Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn,
–Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception and Into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner
–Rolfing : The Integration of Human Structures by Ida P. Rolf
–Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement by Gabrielle Roth
-Your Inner Fish by Niel Shubin
How Life Moves: Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness
by Caryn McHose
-Sensing Feeling and Action by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
-Move your DNA By Katy Bowman
-Waking the Tiger By Peter Levine
–The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra Blakeslee
-Taoism: the Quest for Immortality by John Blofeld
–Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
-Mindsight by Dan Siegel
–Somatics: Reawakening The Mind’s Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health
by Thomas Hanna
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
by Shunryu Suzuki
The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho
by John Stevens
–Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
by Kaz Tanahashi
–The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker
–How to Live on the Planet Earth: Collected Poems by Nanao Sakaki
–Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness
by Will Johnson
–Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall
-The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts by
–Venerable Father by Paul Breiter
Rumi (Various translations)
Hafiz (Various translations)
Great list!!! I have studied with Peter Ralston years ago & Marc Cohen when I was living in Hawaii. Also studied with Kiko and Steve Birch as well. I’m familiar with a lot of these books. Dan Templeton always speaks so highly of you. I’ll have To make the time to come see you, my friend Blessings, Randy Clere
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Wonderful! Thanks so much, Randy!
Hi great list! I’m now reading zen body being. What are your top 5 books for developing the Hara or centering from the list?
Hi Beng! I think I would suggest practice more than books.