On a rainy day in October 2023, I drove to Boston to retrieve a few resources Father Tom wished to donate to CPY. We ate New England Clam Chowder around the corner from the Paulist House at stuffy tavern and spoke about his favorite memories growing up in Michigan. The box of resources he donated included his personal library which had inspirational books on the topic of Christians practicing yoga.

Some of these titles you may be familiar with and others you might not. Quite a few of them are located in our bibliography which we complied a few years ago. We invite you to take a moment to browse these books. If the book is available on our Bookshop page, you may click on the title to purchase the book. Each purchase from the Bookshop page donates a small amount to the programming of CPY. 

Happy reading!

Father Tom’s Library

• Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Teachers by Joanne Spence

• Yoga for Children by Mary Stewart and Kathy Phillips 

• Yoga for your Spiritual Muscles by Rachel Schaeffer

• Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope

• Honoring the Body Stephanie Paulsell

• Praying with our Hands by Jon Sweeney

• Patanjali’s Meditation Yoga by Vin Bailey 

• Meditation from the Mat by Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison

• Echo of the Soul by Philip Newell 

• Finding Jesus on the Mat by Bethany B. Connelly

• Christianity and Yoga by O’Brien 

• Yoga Body by Mark Singleton

• L’autre et les autres by JM Dechanet

• Yoga and the Jesus Prayer Tradition by Matus 

• I am My Body by Moltmann-Wendel

• Jesus in the Lotus by Russill Paul

• Airplane Yoga by Rachel Lehmann-Houpi and Bess Abraham 

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Alistair Shearer 

• Yoganap by Kirsten Rentz

• Yoga for Integral Health and Growth by Swami Devaprasad 

• Jesus Christ and Yoga by Goswami 

• Beatitudes, Christ and the Practice of Yoga by Randazzo/Ferrara-Matheis

• Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality by St. Romain 

• The Four Yogas: A Guide to the Spiritual Paths of Action, Devotion, Meditation, and Knowledge by Swami Adiswarananda 

• The Wisdom of Yoga by Stephen Cope 

• The Spiritual Quest and the Way of Yoga: The Goal, the Journey and the Milestones by Swami Adiswarananda

• The Deeper Dimension of Yoga by Georg Feurstein 

• Kripalu Yoga by Richard Faulds 

• Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda 

• Christian Yoga by JM Dechanet

• Yoga and God JM Dechanet

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