“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
books by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
Awareness Through Movement
The Potent Self
Body and Mature Behavior
Higher Judo: Groundwork
The Elusive Obvious
Body Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora
Embodied Wisdom
Thinking and Doing
The Master Moves
Practical Unarmed Combat
Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense
books on neuroscience
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, Sandra Blakeslee
The Plastic Mind, Sharon Begley
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, Daniel Siegel
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, Daniel Siegel
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Daniel Siegel
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, Dr. V.S. Ramachandran
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at their best and their worst, Robert Sapolsky
The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Jill Taylor
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and other lessons from the biology of consciousness, Alva Noë
Subliminal: How your unconscious mind rules your behavior, Leonard Mlodinow
Elastic Thinking: Unlocking your brain’s ability to embrace change, Leonard Mlodinow
How Emotions Are Made: The secret life of the brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Extended Mind: The power of thinking outside the brain, Annie Murphy Paul
mindful learning
Mindfulness, Ellen Langer
The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer
On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity, Ellen Langer
Counter-clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, Ellen Langer
inner experience and learning states
Focusing, Eugene Gendlin
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
The Evolving Self: Psychology for the Third Millennium, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, Tiffany Sankary
The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, Josh Waitzkin
Learning as Self Organization; Origins: Brain and Self-Organization; Scale in Conscious Experience, etc., essays and books by Karl Pribram
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Conversations with Robert Irwin, Lawrence Weschler
somatics and ideokinetics
Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy, Irene Dowd
Bone, Breath, and Gesture: Practices of Embodiment, Don Hanlon Johnson
Human Movement Potential: Its Ideokinetic Facilitation, Lulu Sweigard
Body Space Image: Notes Toward Improvisation and Performance, Miranda Tufnell, Chris Crickmay, David Vaughan
balance and body language
Walking Your Talk: Changing Your Life Through the Magic of Body Language, Lavinia Plonka, GCFP
Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense, Scott McCredie
Ageless Spine, Lasting Health: The Open Secret to Pain-Free Living and Comfortable Aging, Kathleen Porter
exploration of underpinnings
A Basis For the Theory of Medicine, A.D. Speransky
The Spinal Engine, Serge Gracovetsky
Of Habit, Felix Ravaisson
The Thinking Body, Mabel Todd
The Hidden You, Mabel Todd (out of print)
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture, Frank R. Wilson
Beyond Culture, Edward Hall
The Mass Psychology of Fittism: Fitness, Evolution, and the First Two Laws of Thermodynamics, Edward Yu
consciousness and intention
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Antonio R. Damasio
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, Antonio R. Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Antonio R. Damasio
