Resources

Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley

An easy-to-follow and empowering guide to asana and sequences by the brilliant, body-positive queer yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley. She shares her personal journey with yoga and challenges mainstream yoga culture, exploring how to make the practice more accessible for folks of different abilities, sizes, and backgrounds.

A Queer Dharma by Jacoby Ballard

A powerful, personal and political exploration of how Buddhist teachings can support healing and liberation for queer and trans folk. Jacoby brings together mindfulness, justice and lived experience with care and clarity. It includes some practical tools in meditation, breathwork and somatic practices.

Practices for Embodied Living by Hillary L. McBride

A gentle and compassionate guide to reconnecting with our bodies holistically. Offering reflections, somatic practices and insight to support healing with presence and grounding.

How We Heal by Alexandra Elle

A tender and practical guide about self-care, community, and emotional healing. Through personal stories, reflective prompts, and interviews with other healers, Alexandra Elle invites us to reconnect with ourselves and helps us to find strength in softness.

Skill in Action by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Written by a Black, queer yoga teacher, social worker, and activist, this powerful book explores the intersection of yoga and social justice. We are invited to look deeply at systems of oppression and privilege, highlighting how our practice can support collective liberation.

Your Body Your Yoga by Bernie Clark

This detailed anatomical guide explores how every body is unique - and how our anatomy and physiological structure affects how we experience yoga poses. Bernie Clark encourages us to consider how we can make informed decisions when adapting a practice to suit our own structure and varying needs.

Yamas & Niyamas by Deborah Adele

A clear and easy to follow guide to the first two limbs of the eightfold path of yoga. This book explores the ethical principles / practices that underpin yogic philosophy. Deborah shares weekly reflections and questions for enquiry, alongside beautiful stories from her own life, helping to make these ancient teachings relevant and relatable for modern life.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda

A classic translation and commentary on one of yoga’s most influential texts. This book offers insights into the yoga sutras, which are short philosophical teachings on the nature of mind, suffering, and liberation - offering thoughtful reflections on this ancient wisdom.

The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna Dwaipayana / Vyasa

The Art of Receiving and Giving. The Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin

This book offers practical tools and insights for balancing the flow of giving and receiving in our lives. Betty Martin explores the depths of true consent, the nuances of touch, and the importance of boundaries - encouraging gentleness and compassion, both for ourselves and others. 

Healing the Child Within by Dr Charles L. Whitfield

An insightful introduction to inner child work. This book offers tools to reconnect with and care for our inner child, looking at how this connection can foster deep healing and emotional resilience.

Boundaries and Relationships by Dr Charles L. Whitefield

Lunar Living by Kirsty Gallagher

A practical and insightful guide to understanding the moon’s cycles. Including rituals, astrological insight and guidance to help us reconnect with natural rhythms and cycles.

Body Positive Power by Megan Jayne Crabbe

A bold and empowering book that challenges diet culture and invites us to unlearn body shame. Megan shares her personal story and encourages us to celebrate our bodies and find freedom, joy and self- acceptance. 

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

A powerful exploration of how Black bodies have been pathologized and feared in Western culture. Sabrina sheds light on the intersections of race, beauty standards and medical history, challenging us to rethink ingrained biases and value Black embodiment.

Radical Belonging by Linda Bacon

Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon

A compassionate and evidence-based approach to health that challenges weight stigma and diet culture. Linda Bacon promotes body respect, intuitive eating, and holistic wellness, encouraging us to focus on health behaviours rather than numbers on a scale.

Body Respect by Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramore

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

Crip Theory by Robert McRuer

An exploration of the intersections between disability and queer theory. Robert McRuer challenges dominant ideas of normalcy and identity, offering new ways to think about access, inclusion, and liberation.

Walking Each Other Home by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush

A tender and gentle book exploring death, dying, and what it means to live with love and awareness. With beautiful illustrations throughout, the book follows a series of conversations between Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush as they reflect on religion, soul, psychedelics, and presence.

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh

A peaceful, yet powerful call to mindfulness and compassion in the face of the climate crisis. Renowned peace activist and Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh weaves ancient Zen wisdom and ecological awareness to guide us to healing the planet, and ourselves. 

The Yoga Manifesto by Nadia Gilani

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed

A brilliant book that names and challenges harm (especially from rigid gender norms and systems of oppression like racism and ableism) as a powerful act of resistance and care. Sara speaks of the importance of trans inclusion and intersectionality, weaving in theory, activism and lived experience.

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker

An accessible graphic guide to queer theory and history. Trans author and illustrator Meg-John Barker uses lively storytelling through illustration to explore identity, desire, and social norms with clarity and warmth. 

The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

The Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide: Social Justice, Science, Politics and Power by Harriet McAtee & Theo Wildcroft

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

This book explores how embracing joy and pleasure can be acts of resistance and healing. With a collection of amazing writers, we are invited to centre pleasure and joy in social justice work and personal liberation.

No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

An insightful introduction to Internal Family Systems, looking at understanding and healing our inner parts with compassion, curiosity and self-acceptance.

Radical Dharma by Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens & Jasmine Syedullah

An important anthology bringing together voices exploring how Buddhist teachings intersect with race, social justice, and liberation.

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor