Recommended Reading

Instead of watching TV or scrolling on your phone tonight, grab a red book light or lamp and read a paperback book instead.

These book recommendations are organized into Sophia’s eight categories of health, plus some suggestions of books focused on nature and Pilates.

Mindset:

• Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David Hawkins

• The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

• Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James Doty

• Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How it Changes Everything by James Doty

• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

• You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

• Thank and Grow Rich by Pam Grout

• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza

• You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter by Joe Dispenza

• Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality by Dawson Church

Movement:

• Move Your DNA by Katy Bowman

• Playing with Movement by Todd Hardgrove

• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman

Nervous System:

• Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenberg

• The HeartMath Solution: The Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence by Doc Lew Childre and Howard Martin

Light:

• The Light Doctor: Using Light to Boost Health, Improve Sleep, and Live Longer by Martin Moore-Ede

• The Healing Power of the Sun: A Comprehensice Guide to Sunlight as Medicine by Richard Hobday

• Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Out Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes

• The Sunlight Rx ebook by Heathar Shepard

• The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricty and Life by Arther Firstenberg

• Embrace the Sun by Marc Sorenson (out of print but used versions available)

Sleep:

• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Breath:

• Breath by James Nestor

• Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How To Lose Weight by Changing the way your Breathe by Pam Grout

• Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork by Dan Brule

Water:

• The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor by Gerald Pollack

• The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto

• The Living Language of Water by Veda Austin

• Water Codes: The Science of Health, Consciousness, and Enlightenment by Carly Nuday

Food:

• Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan

• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price

Nature:

• Earthing by Clinton Ober

• Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help you Find Health and Happiness by Qing Li

• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

Pilates:

• Caged Lion by John Howard Steel

• The Pilates Effect: Heroes Behind the Revolution by Sarah Holmes

• Carola Trier: The First Woman to Ever Open a Pilates Studio by Reiner Grootenhuis

• Return to Life by Joseph Pilates