Book: God is Not a Christian – Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu will need little introduction – the first black Archbishop of a Cape Town, when South Africa was undergoing a period of lengthy trouble, change and adjustment around apartheid. This book is a collection of extracts from sermons, interviews, letters...Book: Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog – Dan Ariely
So I admit I knew very little about the author or the book when I started reading; I saw it on Waterloo Station and through it worth a go, maybe as slightly lighter holiday reading. The author is a columnist on the Wall Street Journal writing a column about life...Books: Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama – BKS Iyengar
Two masterpiece works by Iyengar, some would say the Grandfather of modern Hatha Yoga. I’ve dipped into these books before, but never studied them in depth, and so for my recent holiday I took them with me for some quality reading time. At 450 and 300...Book: Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East – Charles Russell
Living in the rural outskirts of England, it’s easy to become distanced from the world around us, it’s trial and tribulations, viewing it as images in the media, rather than the stories of real men, women and children. No where more prominent is this...Books: Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You are There You Go – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is a buzz word these days, which is not to decry it in anyway, but sometime you have to ask, has it become over used and diluted? The author of these books, Jon Kabit-Zinn is, arguably, one of the leading exponents of modern mindfulness: “(I tried...Socials and Feeds
