200-Hour YTT

300-Hr Step 1 Advanced YTT

The above books from the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program plus the following

Links given for books on Amazon

Please join JJ Gormley’s YouTube channel and begin viewing her free yoga videos

Gormley, JJ and Laura Vanderberg, Holistic Healing Through Yoga Therapy (Link to this website for purchase)

Judith, Anodea, Eastern Body, Western Mind

Kaminoff, Leslie & Matthews, Amy, Yoga Anatomy

Kapit, Wynn and Lawrence M. Elson, The Anatomy Coloring Book,

or other Anatomy text* such as: Trail Guide to the Body by Andrew Biel

Lad, Vasant, Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing

Satchidananda, Swami, The Living [Bhagavad] Gita*

Step 2

Step 3

Want More?

The above books from the 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program plus the following

Links given for books on Amazon

Easwaren, Eknath, The Upanishads

Join the IAYT- Student Membership to the IAYT (scroll down on this link to Student Member for a reduced rate)

Mohan, A.G. and Ganesh Mohan, Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings

Moors, Franz, Liberating Isolation (Yoga Sutras) - though this is JJ’s favorite, it has become too expensive—if you do find a copy, please keep it. Otherwise, please begin collecting any version of the Yoga Sutras—eventually you’ll have many and begin to compare one version to the next. Other versions JJ and/or faculty like are by: Edwin Bryant, Bernard Bouanchaud, Chip Hartranft, Alistair Shearer, Mukunda Stiles, Georg Feuerstein, BKS Iyengar, Swami Vivekananda

Netter, Frank H., M.D, Atlas of Human Anatomy

Satyeswarananda, Swami (Giri Babaji), Mahabharata. There are many other versions, as well as Bollywood videos.

Svaboda, Robert, Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution

Vaughn, Phillip, Anatomy & Physiology Made Easy

Yarema, Thomas, Eat, Taste, Heal

The above books from the Step 2 Training Program plus the following

Links given for books on Amazon

Chiplunkar, Suman, Mudras & Health Perspectives: An Indian Approach (or other mudra book)

Desikachar, T.K.V, Nathamuni’s Yoga Rahasya—since Mr Desikachar’s death we have found the cost of this book to be prohibitive, but if you find it, do keep it :-)

Desikachar, T.K.V., Yoga Yajnavalkya or the version by A.G. Mohan.

Franklin, Carol, Mental Health: Personalities: Personality Disorders, Mental Disorders & Psychotic Disorders

Khalsa, Sat Bir, Cohen, Lorenzo, McCall, Timothy & Telles, Shirley, The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care

Lad, Vasant, Ayurveda: A Complete Guide to Clinical Assessment

Lad, Vasant DaTatray, Marma Points of Ayurveda

Lad, Vasant DaTatray, Secrets of the Pulse

Regan, Eva, Medical Terminology Made Easy


Attia, Peter, Outlive

Bennett, Matthew, Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation

Brown, R., Gerbarg, P., & Muskin, P., How to Use Herbs, Nutrients & Yoga in Mental Health Care

Brown, R., Gerarg, P., The Healing Power of the Breath

Bryant, Edwin, The Yoga Sutras

Desikachar, T.K.V., Health, Healing & Beyond: Yoga & The Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya

Desikachar, T.K.V., The Yoga of T.Krishnamacharya

Eden, Donna, Energy Medicine

Grace,, Annie, This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol—Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Goleman, Daniel, and Richard Davidson, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind Brain, and Body.

Helbert, Karla, The Chakras in Grief and Trauma: A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness

Leibel, Leigh and Anne Pitman, Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum

Levine, Peter, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

McCann, Stephanie & Wise, Eric, Kaplan Medical Anatomy Coloring Book (Anatomy Text)

McKeown, Patrick, The Oxygen Advantage

Houston,Vyaas, The Yoga Sutras Workbook

Kraftsow, Gary, Yoga for Wellness

Kraftsow, Gary, Yoga for Transformation

Mohan, A.G., Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings

Nakazawa, Donna Jackson, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal

Nestor, James, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

Porges, Stephen, & Deb Dana, Editors or Clinical Applications of The Polyvagal Theory

Rollnick, Miller, and Butler, Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior

Rosenberg, Marshall, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Rosenberg, Stanley, Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, trauma, and Autism

Sargeant, Winthrop, The Bhagavad Gita

Sarno, John, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

Schwartz, Arielle, The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control & Becoming Whole

Sjoman, N.E., The Yoga of the Mysore Palace

Tiwari, Maya, A Life of Balance, The Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types

Tigunait, Pandit Rajmani, Seven Systems of Indian Philosophy

Van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Wolynn, Mark, It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Yogananda, Paramahansa, Autobiography of a Yogi