read, watch, listen

Like many things on this website, these lists are alive!
I'll update and review regularly :)

TO READ

recommended non-fiction

❀ Douglas Abrams with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu -- the book of joy
❀ S. Barkataki -- ignite your yoga
❀ Albert Camus -- the myth of Sisyphus
❀ Ram Dass -- paths to god
❀ Dirk De Wachter -- liefde (NL)
❀ Jason Hickel -- the divide
❀ B.K.S. Iyengar -- light on yoga
❀ Carl Jung -- man and his symbols
❀ J. Krishnamurti -- freedom from the known
❀ Gabor Maté -- the myth of normal: trauma, illness, and healing in a toxic culture
❀ Pankaj Mishra -- from the ruins of empire
❀ Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj -- I am that
❀ R.C. Schwartz -- no bad parts
❀ Patti Smith -- just kids
❀ Bessel van der Kolk -- the body keeps the score

fiction favourites

❀ Alessandro Baricco -- silk
❀ Francesca Ekwuyasi -- butter honey pig bread
❀ Kahlil Gibran -- the prophet
❀ Kazuo Ishiguro -- Klara and the sun
❀ Paul Murray -- Skippy dies
❀ Amélie Nothomb -- mercure
❀ Miriam Toews -- fight night
❀ John Williams -- stoner

TO WATCH

❀ art, yoga, worldview - it's all the same to me
My octopus teacher (2020) / Becoming nobody (2019) / I am not your negro (2016) / Voyage of time: life's journey (2016) / 20.000 days on earth (2014) / Marina Abramovic: the artist is present (2012) / I AM (2011) / Synecdoche, New York (2008) / Into the wild (2007)

❀ gorgeous animation and big life-lessons combined: a genre for me
Memoir of a snail (2024) / Marcel the shell with shoes on (2021) / Soul (2020) / Kirikou (1998)

❀ deep films about dedication and discipline: a genre for me
The Iron Claw (2023) / the Menu (2022) / King Richard (2021) / I, Tonia (2017) / Whiplash (2014) / Black Swan (2010) / Million Dollar Baby (2004) / Billy Elliot (2000)

❀ I feel like we know way too little about disability & chronic illness and contemporary yoga is way behind on inclusivity themes, so here's some films that stuck with me:
Crip Camp: a disability revolution (2020) / Sound of Metal  (2019) / Babyteeth (2019) / Hors Normes (2019) / Adem (2010) / Ben X (2007) / Dancer in the Dark (2000)

❀ some all time favourite films to close the list:
C'è ancora domani (2023) / Her (2013) / Mulholland Drive (2001) / Boogie nights (1997) / Perfect blue (1997) / My neighbor Totoro (1988) / The fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

PODCASTS

❀ Love Serve Remember -- Ram Dass here and now

❀ Molly Adler -- back from the borderline
(psychology, psychiatry, social critique)

❀ DAMN, HONEY (NL)
(cross-sectional feminism, activism)

❀ This Jungian life

❀ Anna Howard -- wild geese
(creativity, self-employment, inspiration, conversation)

❀ Academy of Ideas
(free minds for a free society)

❀ Let's talk Palestine