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“The mind is a friend or it is a foe.” – Baron Baptiste, Perfectly Imperfect

Planning your next yoga retreat or wellness event?

When you're hosting a retreat or event, you want your attendees to get the most out of your instructions. So how can you help them further develop their practice after the retreat ends? Give them books! Not only do yoga and wellness books help illustrate and supplement your teachings, but they also help attendees deepen their practice long after your event is over.

Yoga books are also a great promotion tool to spread the word about your event. This type of health book provides information to newcomers and veterans alike on all kinds of yoga — whether it be Vinyasa, Iyengar, a combination of existing styles, or your own creation derived from a traditional method. It can help put new attendees at ease and encourage their participation.

What yoga books yogis are buying...

Many yoga studios across the country have purchased books from us. To help you get a few ideas for your yoga studio or wellness event, here are a few recent wholesale yoga book purchases from yoga studios and wellness event planners that buy books from BookPal.

1. Perfectly Imperfect by Baron Baptiste

The author of 40 Days to Personal Revolution and Journey Into Power, Baron Baptiste is well known for his signature yoga method known as Baptiste Yoga. In Perfectly Imperfect, Baptiste takes readers beyond the foundations of the practice by speaking to the transformation that happens in their bodies and minds after they get into a yoga pose.

2. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob people of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements — be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best — offer a powerful code of conduct to rapidly transform life into a new experience of freedom, love, and true happiness.

3. The Heart of Yoga by T. K. V. Desikachar

T. K. V. Desikachar is the son of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's Yoga. The Heart of Yoga offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach.

4. Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar

Light on Yoga is the definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of yoga — the ancient healing discipline for body and mind. Written by the greatest living yoga teacher, B. K. S. Iyengar, the book provides complete descriptions and illustrations of yoga positions and breathing exercises.

5. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth expands upon the powerful ideas introduced in Eckhart Tolle's New York Times best seller The Power of Now. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness. He shows readers how to awaken a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

6. Beginning Mindfulness by Andrew Weiss

Buddhist teacher Andrew Weiss emphasizes mindfulness – the practice of seeing every action as an opportunity to awaken meditative inquiry. Beginning Mindfulness is perfect for anyone practicing mindfulness in daily life.

This post was written by Michelle Drucker, the chief of staff at BookPal. She is currently reading The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery.