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Fajardo Method Reading List

Brain/ Neuroscience

 

 

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Norman Doidge

 

The Body Has A Mind Of Its Own: How Body Maps In Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better

Sandra Blakeslee & Matthew Blakeslee

 

Brain, The Complete Mind: How it Develops, How it Works, and How To Keep It Sharp

Michael S. Sweeney

 

The Genie In Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention

Dawson Church Ph.D.

 

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

 

How We Decide

Jonah Lehrer

 

My Stroke Of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor

 

 

Motor Patterning and Brain Development

 

 

Awakening The Child Heart: Handbook for Global Parenting

Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.

 

Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head

Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.

 

Wisdom Of The Body Moving

Linda Hartley

 

 

Stress and the Autonomic Nervous System Response

 

 

The Stress of Life

Hans Selye

 

The End of Illness

David B. Agus

 

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

Robert M. Saplosky

 

Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain To Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions and Thrive in the 21st Century

Marc Schoen, PH.D.

 

Anatomy, Physiology and Biomechanics

 

 

Atlas of Anatomy: Atlas of Anatomy/General Anatomy & Musculoskeletal System/ Neck & Internal Organs/ Head & Neuroanatomy

Thieme: Editors Lawrence Ross and Edward Lamperti

 

Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System 3rd Edition

Margareta Nordin and Victor H. Frankel

 

Anatomy of Breathing, Anatomy of Movement & Anatomy of Movement Exercises

Blandine Calais-Germain

 

Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy

Irene Dowd

 

 

Fascia

 

 

Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians For Manual and Movement Therapists

Thomas W. Meyers

 

The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality

R. Louis Schultz,Ph.D and Rosemary Feitis, DO

 

The Fasciae: Anatomy, Dysfunction and Treatment

Serge Paoletti

 

Functional Atlas of the Human Fascial System 1e

Carla Stecco

 

Biotensegrity: The Structural Basis of Life

Graham Scarr


Emotional Connection to Nervous System/ Somatic Psychotherapy

 

Mind Body Health: The Effects of Attitudes, Emotions & Relationships on Health

Keith Kraven, Brent Hafer, Kathryn Frandsen and Lee Smith

 

Emotional Anatomy

Stanley Keleman

 

The Body Reveals

Ron Kurtz and Hector Prestera, M.D.

 

Somatic Psychology: Body, Mind and Meaning

Linda Hartley

 

Your Body Never Lies

Carmen Renee Berry

 

When The Body Says No

Gabor Mate

 

 

Pain and Survival

 

 

The Gift of Pain

Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand

 

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzales

 

Surviving Survival

Laurence Gonzales

 

Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

 

The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved So That Millions Could Live

Todd Tucker

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