Recommended reading
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: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown M.D.
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
The Comedy of Survival: Joseph Meeker
Social Intelligence: Daniel Goleman
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
Animal Play Behavior: Robert Fagen
The Tangled Wing: Melvin Konner
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky
