All of these are recommended and optional books. The list will grow and change over our year together.

There are many other amazing books in each category - these are of my favorites. Some of these are more reference books - the very practical books that I reach for again and again are marked with ***. Some of these are out of print, and some books that are hard to find didn’t make the list. You can explore all the books at DayDream before you order anything. We have a LOT more books on all of these subjects.

Acupuncture + Traditional East Asian Medicine

  • *** Wood becomes Water, Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life, Gail Recichstein

  • The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine, Ted Kaptchuk

  • Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine, Harriet Beinfield and Efrem Korngold

  • ***Kigo, Exlporing the Spiritual Essences of Acupuncture Points Through the Changing Seasons, by Lorie Eve Dechar

Aromatherapy

  • *** Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit: Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance with Essential Oils, Gabriel Mojay

  • The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy Volume 1 Foundations and Materia Medica, Salvatore Battaglia

Herbal Medicine

  • *** Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living, Robin Rose Bennett

  • The Gift of Healing Herbs: Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life, Robin Rose Bennett

  • *** The Complete Floral Healer, Anne McIntyre

  • *** Healing with the Herbs of Life, Lesley Tierra

  • The Way of Herbs, Michael Tierra

  • Book of Herbal Wisdom, Matthew Wood

  • The Energetics of Western Herbs Vol 1 + 2, Peter Holmes

  • The Wild Medicine Solution, Guido Mase

Working with Bodies: Trigger Points, Anatomy, Cupping and Gua Sha

  • The Guide to Modern Cupping Therapy: Your Step-by-Step Source for Vacuum Therapy, Shannon Gilmartin, CMT

  • Cupping Therapy for Muscles and Joints, Kenneth Choi

  • Gua Sha: A Traditional Approach for Modern Practice, Arya Nielsen

  • The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief , Clair Davies NCTMB, Amber Davies CMTPT LMT, David G. Simons MD

Trauma Informed Care + Nervous System Regulation

  • *** Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us, Stephen Porges + Seth Porges

  • *** Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion, Zahabiyah Yamasaki

  • *** My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem

  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo

  • What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, Prentis Hemphill

Yoga Nidra + Restorative Yoga

  • *** Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear your Mind, Open Your Heart, Jillian Pransky

  • *** Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity, Tracee Stanley

  • *** Pause Rest Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change, Octavia F. Raheem

  • Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, by Tricia Hersey

  • Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, Julie Lusk

  • Yoga Nidra Meditations: 24 Scripts for True Relaxation, by Julie Lusk

  • Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep by Kamini Desai, PhD

  • Yoga Nidra, Satyananda Saraswati

Sound Healing

  • Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy, Eileen Day McKusick

  • Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind, Kulreet Chaudhary, MD

  • Human Tuning: Sound Healing With Tuning Forks, John Beaulieu

Racial Healing

  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde

  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing, Anneliese A. Singh

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, Heather McGhee

  • How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

Other Relevant Books on Healing

  • Get Rooted: Reclaim Your Soul, Serenity & Sisterhood Through the Healing Medicine of the Grandmothers, Robyn Moreno

  • Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health, Elena Avila + Joy Parker

  • American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We can Truly Heal, Kerri Kelly

  • Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba