5 best-selling self help books like Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World by Alison Zak

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Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World

By: Alison Zak

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Ever wonder about the dog in Downward Dog or the pigeon in Kapota? Rewild your yoga practice by con…

If you liked the self help plot in Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World by Alison Zak , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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2. Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

By: Sadhguru

3.86

Format: 256 pages,

The latest book, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, is published by Spiegel & Grau/Random Ho… read more

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3. Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , None

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Happy Teachers Change the Worldis the first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/P… read more

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4. The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga: The Philosophy and Practice of Yin Yoga

By: Bernie Clark , Sarah Powers

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bernie Clark's The Complete Guide to Yin Yogaprovides an in-depth look at the philosophy and practi… read more

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5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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6. Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life

By: Judith Hanson Lasater

2.83

Format: 64 pages,

If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga… read more

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7. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials, #3)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Jason DeAntonis

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third title in Parallax's Mindfulness Essentials Seriesof how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nha… read more

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8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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9. The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood

By: Emeran Mayer

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practica… read more

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10. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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11. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

By: Diana Helmuth

3.76

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It occurs to me that the energy in my body is the same as the energy in the red power lights, just a different current. What’s inside the office lights is inside me. It’s also what’s in the stars a m…"

-Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

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12. This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • health
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

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13. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

By: Florence Williams

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more

Similar categories in Florence Williams's The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative book and Alison Zak's Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • health
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14. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

By: Michael Easter

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more

Similar categories in Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self book and Alison Zak's Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • health
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15. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

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16. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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17. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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18. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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19. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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20. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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21. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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22. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

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"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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23. The Harbor (Kørner and Werner, #4)

By: Katrine Engberg

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Butterfly House, called “brazen and original”… read more

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24. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

By: Neema Avashia

4.26

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

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26. Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses: A Practical Workbook for Integrating Themes, Ideas, and Inspiration into Your Class

By: Sage Rountree

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Create class themes with yoga philosophy, inspirational quotes, and simple concepts to inspire and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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27. After You've Gone

By: Margot Hunt

3.35

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

2 hours, 59 minutes A gripping story of friendship and murder from acclaimed author Margot Hunt… read more

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28. An Academy for Liars

By: Alexis Henderson

4.01

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning … read more

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29. Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World

By: Alison Zak

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Ever wonder about the dog in Downward Dog or the pigeon in Kapota? Rewild your yoga practice by con… read more

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  • health
  • animals
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • self help
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30. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

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31. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

Diana Helmuth

3.76

Transform Your Habits

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

Michael Easter

4.29

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Yrsa Sigurdardottir

4.08

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Jørn Lier Horst

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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Jørn Lier Horst

4.10

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Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

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