Book: Your Spine Your Yoga – Bernie Clark
This is the third volume in the author’s five part work on variance in Yoga practice – two years ago I reviewed volumes one and two, and volumes four and five are still to be published. As with volumes one and two, looking at functional anatomy and the...Book: Too Many Pills – James Le Fanu
“How too much medicine is endangering our health, and what we should do about it” In the introduction the author, a retired GP, references that “In just fifteen years the number of prescriptions issued by family doctors in Britain has increased three-fold”...Book: Keep your Joints Young – Sarah Key
Joint pain can be one of the most debilitating things we experience – at best annoying; at worst restrictive; at very worst all consuming. Sometimes, eg accidents, unforeseen circumstances, physiological issues, joint pain is outside of our control. ...Clarifying Yin Yoga
A sad facet of modern yoga is the divisiveness that adherence to lineages and traditions can, sometimes almost blindly it seems, generate amongst Yogis. I’d hope that any one I’ve spoken to about yoga styles would feel that I’ve been honest on two levels: first in...Book: Younger for Longer – Dr Duncan Carmichael
“How you can slow the ageing process and stay healthy for life” I suppose remaining young is appealing to us all, even if I relished a little reaching 50 and allowing myself to be (more) cranky and temperamental. The author is a medical doctor, and his interests have...Book: Stalking God – Anjali Kumar
“My unorthodox search for something to believe in” We meet the author, a lawyer working for Google, just after the birth of her daughter, seeking to find spiritual meaning to pass on to her child. Over coming months we follow the authors visits to shaman, conmen,...Book: A Beginners Guide To Loosing Your Mind – Emily Reynolds
‘My road to staying sane, and how to navigate yours” The taboo around Mental Health, and talking about it, has thankfully receded to a degree that allows books like this to be published. And valuable writing it is. The author gives her account of personal experience...How Does Yoga Relieve Chronic Pain?
Fascinating article in Psychology Today on how Yoga helps relieve Chronic Pain. Chronic Pain is “pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing” – Used intelligently, Yoga can make a significant difference in conditions like Chronic Pain....Book: Happiness – Your Route Map to Inner Joy – Cope, Whittaker and Bason-Wood
There are a lot of books out there on self development- happiness, resilience, finding purpose. There becomes a tendency to feel once you’ve read one, you’ve read the lot. The authors it seems recognise this: “Our hunch is that people who buy personal development...Book: A Statin Nation – Dr Malcolm Kendrick
A Statin Nation – Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post Heath World Confession – I like Dr Kendrick’s writing. I’ve reviewed Doctoring Data and The Great Cholesterol Con here. In many respects this latest book brings both of those...Book: Yoga Therapy for Arthritis – Dr Steffany Moonaz & Erin Byron
Subtitled “A Whole Person Approach to movement and Lifestyle”, this is a useful and comprehensive manual on the topic of arthritis, living with it, and how yoga can help, The authors divide the book into three logical sections – “Living with...Book: Lost and Found – Jules Montague
Lost and Found: Memory, identity and who we are when we’re no longer ourselves The concept of identity is something we perhaps don’t think about very often; yes, we think about what we identify with, but not how we actually identify as ourselves. Of...Book: 10% Human – Alanna Collen
Human Sciences move fast. The Microbiome – our community of bacteria – is one of the areas of more recent insight and ongoing discovery. The title of this book reflects that on a cellular basis bacterial cells in our body are much greater in number than...Book: The Breathing Book – Donna Farhi
The subtitle “Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breathwork” sums this book up very well. Anyone who has been to my classes over recent months will know breathwork – Breathing well, and using the breath to improve our wellbeing – is something which...Book: All That Remains – a Life in Death – Sue Black
“Professor Dame Sue Black is one of the worlds leading anatomists and forensic anthropologists” so goes the introduction – this book was a birthday gift from friends who know me well, and I think it was a dead cert (no pun intended) it would go down well. Partly...Book: You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay
Written in 1984, this book is something of a classic in mind body healing, even though for me it was one I hadn’t read – too many books, too little time! Louise Hay is, or was as she died a year or so ago, a prolific writer in this area, and indeed founder of an...Book: Lies My Doctor Told Me, Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health – Ken Berry
“The Internet has given your patients access to more meaningful medical research and knowledge than ever before. Patients now have more medical research at their fingertips than the best of doctors used to have.” Written by a doctor, the title pretty much sums up the...Book: The Great Cholesterol Con: Dr Malcolm Kendrick
‘The Great Cholesterol Con – The truth about what really causes Heart Disease and how to avoid it” Malcolm Kendrick is a Scottish GP, and a sceptic about the Cholesterol Hypothesis – the idea that raised “bad” Cholesterol causes heart disease, and by...Book: The Healing Power of the Breath – Richard Brown & Patricia Gerbarg
Many readers of my website or book reviews will know that I’m very drawn to breath work. To a degree I think breath practices are yogas hidden secret, and sadly not often given enough attention in class – my classes included. Whilst the classical pranayamas of...Socials and Feeds
