These readings reflect the general themes that animate the Exuberant Animal philosophy and method: physical performance, anthropology, environment, neuroscience and the human predicament.
Exuberant Animal: The Power of Health, Play and Joyful Movement by Frank Forencich
Play as if Your Life Depends on It: Functional Exercise and Living for Homo sapiens by Frank Forencich (out of print)
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown M.D.
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram
The Power of Story: Jim Loehr
The Power of Full Engagement: Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Robert Sapolsky
Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions by James Pennebaker
Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni
Muir: the collected nature writings of John Muir
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
The Third Chimpanzee: Jared Diamond
Sparks of Genius: Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein
Our Inner Ape: Frans de Wal
Omnivore's Dilemma: Michael Pollan
Emotional Intelligence: Daniel Goleman
Social Intelligence: Daniel Goleman
Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind: edited by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist
Pronoia: Rob Brezsny
Flow: Csikszentmihalyi
The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu
The Art of Happiness: The Dali Lama
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: Sharon Begley
The Old Way: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Sand County Almanac: Aldo Leopold
Exuberance: Kay Redfield Jamison
Tao Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee
Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense: Scott McCredie
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky
