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Simon Thakur (SimonT) has been kind enough to put together a list of his favorite tomes and texts, the ones most influential (along with practice and experiential studies, of course) to the development of his method Ancestral Movement. [ http://ancestralmovement.com/about/ ] EVOLUTION - ANTHROPOLOGY Shapes of Time - Kenneth McNamara Morphogenesis - John Tyler Bonner The Evolution of Complexity - John Tyler Bonner On Deep History and the Brain - Daniel Smail Darwin Machines - Henry Plotkin Darwin's Cathedral - D.S. Wilson Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky The Natural Science of the Human Species - Konrad Lorenz Your Inner Fish - Niel Shubin The Chosen Ape - Adam Kuper The Invention of Primitive Society - Adam Kuper The Lopsided Ape - Michael Corballis Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris The Human Zoo - Desmond Morris Manwatching - Desmond Morris The Domestication of the Human Species - Peter J Wilson Evolution of Sickness and Healing - Horacio Fabrega The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram Coming to Our Senses - Morris Berman The Re-enchantment of the World - Morris Berman Wandering God - Morris Berman Animal Wise - Virginia Morell Sex At Dawn - Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan Born To Run - Christopher McDougall The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins Shamanism: Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade The Book of Life - Stephen Jay Gould The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell The Forest People - Colin Turnbull The Shaman's Apprentice - Mark Plotkin The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby Shamans Through Time - Jeremy Narby Intelligence in Nature - Jeremy Narby The Way of the Shaman - Michael Harner The Archaic Revival - Terrence McKenna Singing to the Plants - Stephen Beyer Plants of the Gods - Richard Schultzes, Albert Hoffman Food of the Gods - Terrence McKenna Songlines - Bruce Chatwin DAOISM/CHINESE MEDICINE Yijing - several Daodejing - several Chuang tsu - several Mantak Chia The inner smile, iron shirt, daoist sexual yoga, etc The Secrets of Chinese Meditation - Kuan Yu Lu The Secret of the Golden Flower - ? Cultivating the Energy of Life - Liu Hua Yang The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine - Maoshing Ni In the Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor - ? An Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels The Stone Monkey: An Alternative, Chinese Scientific, Reality - ? The Web That Has No Weaver - Ted Kaptchuk Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Joseph Needham? Foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Giovanni Maccioccia Nourishing Destiny - Lonny Jarrett Oriental Medicine - Edward O'Baidey Between Heaven and Earth - Harriet Beinfield, Efrem Korn The Practical Application of Meridian Style Acupuncture - John Pirog Japanese Classical Acupuncture - Shudo Denmei Traditional Acupuncture: Traditional Diagnosis - J.R. Worsley YOGA/HINDUISM The Deeper Dimension of Yoga - Georg Feuerstein Inner Yoga - Sri Anirvan Philosophy of Goraknath - Akshaya Kumar Banerjea The Upanishads - various translations and commentaries. From the Satyananda/Bihar School of Yoga: - Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra - Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha - Practical Yoga Psychology - Kundalini Tantra - Hatha Yoga Pradipika - Moola Bandha: The Master Key - Yoga Nidra - Yoga Darshan: Visions of the Upanishads - 9 Principle Upanishads - Dharana Darshan By Swami Sivananda: - several books but can't remember the titles Yoga Therapy - A.G. and Ganesh Mohan Yoga for Body, Breath and Mind - A.G. Mohan Anatomy of Hatha Yoga - David Coulter Yoga Yajnavalkya - A.G. Mohan Introduction to Indian Philosophy - Bina Gupta The Yoga of Mindfulness - Asokananda BUDDHISM The Anapanasati Sutta, different translations and commentaries by: - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu - Thanissaro Bhikkhu - Ven. U Vimalaramsi Mindfulness of Breathing - Buddhadasa Bhikku Mahamudra: The Moonlight - Dakpo Tashi Namgyal Yogins of Ladakh - John Crook and James Low Library of Tibetan Archives (lots of small books) Mindfulness in Plain English - Henepola Gunaratana The Bliss of Inner Fire - Lama Yeshe MIND/BODY Job's Body - Deane Juhan The Endless Web - Schultz Structural Integration - Ida Rolf Anatomy Trains - Thomas Myers Mobilization of the Nervous System - David Butler The Sensitive Nervous System - David Butler Explain Pain - David Butler, Lorimer Moseley Awareness Through Movement - Moshe Feldenkrais The Body and Mature Behaviour - Feldenkrais The Elusive Obvious - Feldenkrais The Body Has a Mind of Its Own - Sandra Blakeslee The Psychobiology of Mind-body healing - Ernest Rossi Life On Land - Emelie Conrad Sensing Feeling and Action - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Wisdom of the Body Moving: an introduction to body-mind centering - ? Behind the Mirror: a Butoh Manual for Students - Rhizome Lee Bone, Breath and Gesture - ? Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction - ? The Body and Society - ? Mind and Nature - A Necessary Unity - Gregory Bateson Steps to an Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson A Mind So Rare - Merlin Donald The Developing Mind - Dan Siegel Mindsight - Dan Siegel Zen and the Brain - James H. Austin The Buddha's Brain - Rick Hanson The Brain that Changes Itself - Norman Doidge The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks CHAOS/COMPLEXITY/SYSTEMS THEORY/ECOLOGY CHAOS - James Gleick Chaos and the Evolving Ecological Universe - Sally Goerner The Web of Life - Fritjof Capra Emergence - ? Order out of Chaos - Ilya Prigogine Our Place In Nature - Stephen Boyden GAIA - James Lovelock Gaia: Towards a Physiology of Earth - ? Gaia: Birth of an Idea - ? Gaia In Action - Lovelock, Margulis, others The Long Descent - John Michael Greer The Ecotechnic Future - John Michael Greer What is this thing called Science? - Chalmers

Here's the latest three video movement-patterning series from Simon Thakur (of Ancestral Movement) and Craig Mallet (of ARC training). The three videos follow the theme of leading movement patterns with the eyes (and finger-tips), and cover rolling and spiralling (rotating) through a number of postures and positions. The drills are excellent, and can be done just about anywhere! Simon is demoing them with the smoothness and movement control-awareness that you want to work towards. Nice work guys!!