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[close] This is a book club for anyone interested in: dance, movement, storytelling, and trauma healing. We'll be reading and discussing some of the books that inspire my blog, moveyourstory.org, which explores how stories and culture are passed down through dance, how people express themselves through movement, and how trauma healing can be facilitated through dance and movement. Books are focused on the history of dance, ways to improve your own movement, creative exercises, exercise science, psychology, and a few fictional reads that I feel are relevant.

[close] Browse our bookshelves for recommended reading for Joy Muscle followers

[close] Here we read Japanese manga and Novels / Light novels that are focused on food, dieting, exercise, and healthy life styles. Use the reads to motivate yourself, or use them to relax after an exhausting day. Feel free to post IRL tips for those who are looking to recreate dishes or burn calories. In addition to officially published reads, we may read some unofficial translations if we catch up to everything released stateside, but buying the original Japanese works before engaging with those will be encouraged. All are welcome.

[close] "By Your Boot Straps" is for discussing books and resources that help people "pick themselves up by their boot straps". In other words, this is to give visibility to resources, books, authors and new research that can help folks who are stuck/debilitated, frustrated, low-energy or poorly resourced, in the doldrums or otherwise in need of rejuvenating their lives. Areas of discussion will include, but not limited to, enhancing physical, psychological, financial, spiritual and other areas of wellness. Examples of books that members are encouraged to discuss and suggest include motivation, various business and personal self-help strategies, financial, humor, meditation, the spiritual classics & modern perspectives, new psycho-physiological research & practical application as well as constructive mood-enhancing and stress-relieving strategies from natural medicine to thrilling and humorous tales as therapy.