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movies:


So Many Great Heart-Warming Movies out there!
In the time to come I'll be adding as I remember those
that opened my heart, brought me into contemplation
- or just cracked me up!

- SV

A Beautiful Mind
A Love Song for Bobby Long
About Schmidt
Almost Famous
American Beauty

Amadeus
Amelie
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony

As Good as it Gets

Babette's Feast
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Baraka
Bend it Like Beckham
Benny & Joon

Beyond the Sea
Big Night
Blow Dry
The Blues - a Musical Journey
Breaking Away
The Breakfast Club
Born Into Brothels

Boys Don't Cry
The Butterfly

Cacoon
Calendar Girls

Cast Away
Chasing Amy
Children of Heaven
Chocolat
The Cider House Rules
Coach Carter
Cold Mountain
The Color Purple
The Constant Gardener
The Color of Paradise
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Crash

Dances with Wolves
Daughter from Danang
Dear Frankie
Dead Poets Society
Daughter from Danang
DeLovely
Dirty Dancing
Dr. Strangelove
Driving Miss Daisy

Edward Scissorhands
The Elephant Man
Elf
Erin Brockovich
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Fabulous Baker Boys
Father of the Bride (1991)
Finding Neverland
The Fisher King
Free Spirits
Frequency
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Full Monty

Forrest Gump
Finding Neverland

Gandhi
Genghis Blues
Ghostbusters
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Will Hunting
The Green Mile
Ground Hog Day

Happy Accidents
Harold and Maude
Housekeeping
Hotel Rwanda
House of Sand and Fog

I'm Not Scared
In America
In My Country
In the Bedroom
Into the Arms of Strangers:
.........Stories of the Kindertransport
Jersey Girl

Koyaanisqatsi
K-
Pax
Keeping the Faith
The Kid
Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge
Ken Burns' America: The Shakers
Ken Burns' America: The Civil War
Kundun

The Last Waltz
Lean on Me
The Legond of Bagger Vance
Life is Beautiful
Like Water for Chocolate
Lillies of the Field (1963)
Little Big Man
Little Man Tate
Little Voice
Lone Star
Love Song for Bobby Long

Ma Vie En Rose
Mad Hot Ballroom
The Magdalene Sisters
Malcolm X
The Man Without a Face
Maria Full of Grace

Me, Myself & Irene (I'm sorry - I just cracked up!)
Mermaids
Memento
Men of Honor

Michael
Midnight Cowboy
Millions
Million Dollar Baby
Monsieur Ibrahim
Monster
Monster's Ball
The Motorcycle Diaries
Much Ado About Nothing
Murderball
My Cousin Vinny
My Life Without Me
Mystic Pizza
Mystic River

Napolian Dynamite (again - you' gotta laugh!)
The Negotiator
New Orleans (1947)
Nowhere in Africa

Ocean's Eleven
Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?
Off the Map
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Other Sister

Pale Male
Paper Clips
Pappilion (1973)
Pay it Forward
Pearl Harbor
The Pianist
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pleasantville
The Professional
Powder
Power of One

Rabbit-Proof Fence
R
adio
Rain Man
Raising Arizona
Ray

Return to Paradise
Rize
Riding in Cars With Boys
Rosewood
Roxanne
Run Lola Run

Saving Grace
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Score
Seabiscuit
The Sea Inside
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Secret of Roan Inish
Secondhand Lions
Shine
The Shipping News
Shawshank Redemption
Shirley Valentine
Simon Birch
Sideways
Six Feet Under (5 year series)
The Sixth Sense
Sling Blade
Smoke Signals
Small Change (1976)
Sophie's Choice
Spellbound
Spiderman
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring
The Squid and the Whale
The Station Agent
The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Straight Story
Strictly Ballroom
Supersize Me

Taxi Driver
Tea with Mussolini
Transamerica
Truly, Madly, Deeply
The Triplets of Belleville
The Truman Show
To Be and To Have - Etre et Avoir

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Torch Song Trilogy
Touching the Void
Trading Places
Tucker: The Man and His Dreams

Unbreakable
Unstrung Heroes
The Usual Suspects

Vera Drake
The Village

Waiting for Guffman
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Whale Rider
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Wide Awake
Wonder Boys
What Dreams May Come
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?


links:

everythingyoga.com - just like it says!
Healing from the Inside Out - programs, which take place in the same room as The Hadley Yoga Studio's classes.
Yoga Network - find a yoga or meditation teacher or event
Yoga Finder - find an event,class, kirtan where you're going

ExTension and Recovery Yoga info on healing through yoga
Yoga Everywhere - great website for practical yoga.
The Yoga Site - if you're traveling you can find a class/teacher here.
The Yoga Directory - a wide variety of information on yoga
Belief.net ~ world spirituality
Kripalu Center fairly local yoga retreats and products
Lotus Palm Thai Yoga Bodywork - my teacher's web site
Yoga International - periodical, not a commercial venture ~ beautiful!
Yoga Journal - great resource!
Tricycle Magazine the Buddhist Review
Anusara Yoga - this is the work we're currently doing in classes, so there's a volume of information here!
Omega Institute - workshops and retreats


books:

Yoga = Om artwork

ardha chandrasana

Yoga and/or Philosophy:
The Seat of the Soul - Gary Zukav
The Tree of Yoga -
B.K.S. Iyengar
Owning Your Own Shadow -
Robert Johnson
The Blue Dove Foundation -
inspiration from the world's religions
The Power of Now -
the idea of enlightenment made accessible
Meditation and Buddhist practice:
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self - Steven Cope
A Path With Heart - by Jack Kornfield
When Things Fall Apart - by Pema Chödrön
Who Dies - by Stephen Levine
The Tao of Pooh - by Benjamin Hoff

A Gradual Awakening - by Stephen Levine
Asana:
Relax and Renew - by Judith Lasater
Yoga the
Iyengar Way - by Silva, Mira & Shyam Mehta
Power Yoga - Beryl Bender Birch
Recovery Yoga - by Sam Dworkis
Poetry and Inspiration:
The Leaf and the Cloud - by Mary Oliver
The Illuminated Rumi
- translated by Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi
- translated by Coleman Barks
Grace Unfolding - Greg Johanson and Ron Kurtz
The House of Belonging - David Whyte
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Siddhartha - Hesse, Hermann


music:
InSpirit Common on Rt. 9 in Hadley carries a great selection of music for Yoga practice, as well as many other useful tools. "For the Record" in Amherst carries a very nice variety of music appropriate for yoga sadhana (practice). I've heard recently that Barnes and Noble also does.
 Music:

Structures from Silence by Steve Roach ~ the ultimate in quiet
Robert Gas - On Wings of Song  
The Crimson Collection
by Singh Kaur and Kim Robertson
Deva Premal you've heard her in class - you love her
Krishna Das sanskrit chanting made popular
Wah Music I love this site; this sound
Krishna Chanting that says it
New Age Music miles of music
Dead Can Dance - hauntingly beautiful world music
Sheila Chandra - meditative, upbeat, world music. Amazing Grace.
Jai Uttal - world music, very eclectic, very sacred, upbeat.
Rasa - melodeous, sacred, heavily flavored with an eastern style.
emusic.com - subscription downloads for independently produced music - including world music
Ayoub Ogada... En Mana Kuoyo is the album you've been hearing in class
Chinmaya Dunster
Manish Vyas


Yoga on video:
godess pose

Eric Shiffmann - ali macgraw yoga mind & body *My personal favorite for practice ~ it's hypnotic!
Yoga with Richard Freeman - Ashtanga Yoga, Primary Series
Patricia Walden - Yoga Journal's Yoga for Beginners
Yogi Amrit Desai - Kripalu Yoga - Meditation in Motion
I doubt you'll be able to find this, but I can lend you my copy. -SV

You'll find most of these in the pages of Yoga Journal or Yoga International or at the Kripalu Shop at Kripalu in Lenox, MA. And you're sure to find a yoga video in any library or video store.


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