Inspiration
Lectori salutem! A list of much loved & recommended reading, watching & listening.
Books
Wild & Sacred Feminine
Women’s Cyclical Wisdom, Health & Power
Ecofeminism – Carol J. Adams ☽
Women Who Run With The Wolves – Clarissa Pnkola Estés ☽
Daughters of Copper Woman – Anne Cameron ☽
Kissing the Hag – Emma Restall Orr ☽
Women’s Work – Elizabeth Wayland Barber ☽
Yoni Shakti – Uma Dinsmore-Tuli ☽
Sacred House – Carolyn Hillyer ☽
Weavers Oracle – Carolyn Hillyer ☽
Book of Hag – Carolyn Hillyer ☽
The Motherline – Naomi Ruth Lowinsky Ph.D
The Womens Wheel of Life – Elizabeth Davis & Carol Leonard
The Way of All Women – M. Esther Harding
Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom – Christiane Northrup
If Women Rose Rooted – Sharon Blackie
13 Original Grandmothers – Jamie Sams
Burning Woman – Lucy Pearce
Women Who Fly – Serenity Young ☽
Het vergeten weten – Sifra Nooter
Witches, Sluts & Feminists – Kristen J. Sollée ☽
Witches, Midwives and Nurses – Barbara Ehrenreich
Our Lady Of the Dark Country – Sylcia V. Lindsteadt
Belonging – Toko-Pa Turner ☽
Woman as Healer – Jeanne Achetberg
Medicine Woman – Lucy H. Pearce
When the Drummers were Women – Layne Redmond
Wild & Wise – Amy Bammel Wilding
Peace-Weavers & Shield-Maidens – Kathleen Herbert ☽
Love Your Lady Landscape – Lisa Lister
Vagina – Naomi Wolf
Vrouwelijk manifest – Maitreyi D. Piontek
Full Curcle Health – Lucy Pearce
Alles draait om je hormomen – Rineke Dijkinga
The Optimized Woman – Miranda Gray
Hygieia – Janine Parvati
The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets – Barbara G. Walker
Sacred Circles – Robin Carnes
Wild Feminine – Tami Lynn Kent
Feminisme ou le Mort – Françoise d´Eaubonne
Women & Animals – Carol J. Adams ☽
Awakening to Kali – Sally Kempton
Cunt – Inga Muscio
Menstrual Cycle & Fertility
Wild Power – Alexandra Pope & S.H. Wurlitzer ☽
Moon mysteries – Nikiah Seeds & Nao Sims
Dochters van de maan – Annemarie Peters
Moontime – Lucy Pearce
Blood magic – Thomas Buckley & Alma Gottlieb
Blood Relations – Chris Knight ☽
Yoni Shakti – Uma Dinsmore-Tuli ☽
Her Blood is Gold – Lara Owen
Red Moon – Miranda Gray
Code Red – Lisa Lister
The Optimized Woman – Miranda Grey
Women’s Code – Alisa Vitti
In the FLO – Alisa Vitti
Thirteen Moons – Jane Hardwicke Collings
4 Seasons in 4 Weeks – Suzanne Mathis McQueen
Taking Charge of Your Fertility – Toni Weschler
Anticonceptie als tijdloos probleem – J. Wesselius & J. M. Hollander
Sacred Sexuality – A. T. Mann & Jane Lyle
Menarche
First Moon, Welcome to Womanhood – Anke Mai
Reaching for the Moon – Lucy Pearce ☽
Becoming – a Woman – Jane Hardwicke Collings
A Time to Celebrate – Joan Morais
First Blood – Sally Dammery
Moon Mother, Moon Daughter – Janet Lucy & Terri Allison ☽
The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche – Kristi Meisenbach Boylan
Becoming Peers – DeAnna L’Am
Menarche, a Journey Into Womanhood – Rachael Hertogs
Pregnancy & Birth
Spiritul Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth – Ina May Gaskin ☽
Birthing from Within – Rob Horowitz & Pam England ☽
Bevallen op eigen krcaht – Wendy Schouten
Birth in Focus – Ina May Gaskin & Becky Reed
Ten Moons – Jane Hardwicke Collings
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering – Sarah Buckley ☽
Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful – Gurmukh
Yoga en Geboorte – Rita Beintema
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth – Henci Goer
Heart & Hands, a guide to midwifery – Elizabeth Davis ☽
The Doula Book – Klaus, Klaus & Kennell
Birth Partner – Penny Simkin
Ancient Map for Modern Birth – Pam England
A-Z For a Healthy Pregnancy & Natural Childbirth – Jacky Bloemraad-De Boer
The Heart of the Doula – Amy Gilliland
Labor Progress Handbook – Penny Simkin & Ruth Ancheta
Motherhood & Parenting
The Moods of Motherhood – Lucy Pearce
The Rainbow Way – Lucy Pearce
The Awakened Family – Shefali Tsabary
Wij in het wild – Andrea Hejlskov
The Motherline – Naomi Ruth Lowinsky ☽
Discovering the Inner Mother – Bethany Webster ☽
Body Full of Stars – Molly Caro May ☽
Newborn Mothers – Julia Jones
The Fourth Trimester – Kimberly Ann Johnson
Revive, Reclaim, Restore – Layla B. Rachid
The First Forty Days – Amely Greeven
Mother Nature | Moederschap – Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ☽
Childhood
Free To Learn – Peter Grey ☽
The Continuum Concept – Jean Liefdloff ☽
Het gedwongen onderwijs voorbij – Peter Hartkamp
Home Grown – Ben Hewitt
Unschooled – Kerry McDonald
Conscious Parenting – Shefali Tsabary
The Awakened Family – Shefali Tsabary
Elevating Childcare – Janet Lansbury
Unconditional Parenting- Alfie Kohn
How to Love a Child – Janusz Korczak
Last Child in the Woods – Richard Louv
The Elder
Book of Hag – Carolyn Hillyer ☽
The Wisdom of Menopause – Dr. Christiane Northrup
Myths & Stories of the The Dangerous Old Woman – Clarissa Pinkola Estés:
The Dangerous Old Woman (Volume I)
The Power of the Crone (Volume II) ☽
The Joyous Body (Volume III) ☽
The Late Bloomer (Volume IV)
How to Be an Elder (Volume V) ☽
Dansende grootmoeders – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Sacred House – Carolyn Hillyer ☽
Weavers Oracle – Carolyn Hillyer ☽
The Motherline – Naomi Ruth Lowinsky Ph.D ☽
The Womens Wheel of Life – Elizabeth Davies & Carol Leonard
13 Original Grandmothers – Jamie Sams
Goddess Worship & the Matriarchy
Lady of the Beasts – Buffie Johnson ☽
Vrouw Holle en de verborgen wijsheid in sprookjes – Annine van der Meer
Goddess Holle – Garden Stone ☽
Artemis – Sorita D’Este
Hekate – Sorita D’Este
The Motherline – Naomi Ruth Lowinsky Ph.D. ☽
Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe – Marija Gimbutas ☽
The Once and Future Goddess – Elinor Gadon
Seven Daughters of Eve – Bryan Sykes ☽
Venus is geen vamp – Annine van der Meer
The Ancient Brittish Goddess – Kathy Jones
When God Was a Woman – Merlin Stone
Summoning The Fates – ZsuZsana E. Budapest
Tantric Kali – Daniel Odier ☽
De Godin – Shahrukh Husain
The Chalice and the Blade – Riane Eisler ☽
Goddess in the Grass – Linda Foubister ☽
Dark Feminine
Dancing in the flames – Marion Woodman & Elinor Dickson ☽
Journey to the dark goddess – Jane Meredith ☽
Het boek Lilith – Rosa Wouters
Mysteries of the Dark Moon – Demetra George
Kissing The Hag – Emma Restall Orr ☽
Women Who Run With The Wolves – Clarissa Pnkola Estés ☽
Burning Woman – Lucy Pearce
Witches, Sluts & Feminismt – Kristen J. Sollée ☽
Cat Call – Kristen J. Sollée
Witch Hunt – Kristen J. Solleé
Further on the Dark
Trauma, Depression & Shadowwork
Feeding Your Demons – Tsultrim Allione ☽
Cutting Through Fear – Tsultrim Allione
Longing For Darkness – China Galland ☽
The Fruitfull Darkness – Joan Halifax ☽
Standing At The Edge – Joan Halifax
In an Unspoken Voice – Peter A. Levine ☽
Het drama van het begaafde kind – Alice Miller
Scattered Minds – Gabor Maté
Touched by Fire – Kay Redfield Jamison
Pema Chödrön:
When Things Fall Apart ☽
The Places That Scare You
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better
When Pain is the Doorway ☽
Night & Dreams
Sprekend nog met de nacht – Mels de Jong
Waking Up to the Dark – Clark Starnd ☽
Dream Yoga – Andrew Holecek
Active Dreaming – Robert Moss
Dream On – Sven Goedbloed ☽
Death & Grief
The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller ☽
Het grote afscheid – Rufus C. Camphausen
Die Wise – Stephen Jenkinson
Being With Deying – Joan Halifax
Griefwalker (Film) – Stephen Jenkinson ☽
Come of Age – Stepehn Jenkinson
Spirit Work, Magic & The Old Ways
Shamanism, Animism & Rites of Passage
The Woman in The Shaman’s Body – Barabara Tedlock
The Shamanic Way of The Bee – Simon Buxton
Seidr en het Noordse pad – Linda Wormhoudt ☽
Kind van de wegen (Trilogy) – Linda Wormhoudt
Goden en sjamanen in Noordwest-Europa – Linda Wormhoudt
Prehistoric Belief – Mike Williams ☽
Animism – Graham Harvey ☽
The Way of The Shaman – Michael Harner ☽
Sjamanistische rituelen – Daan van Kampenhout
Handboek Sjamanisme – Daan van Kampenhout
De vier richtingen | Four Directions – Daan van Kampenhout
Sacred Hoop Magazine, Special Guide to Shamanism – Nicholas Breeze Wood
Sacred Drums of Siberia – Nicholas Breeze Wood
Shamanic Visioning (Audio) – Sandra Ingerman
Shamanic Journeying – Sandra Ingerman
The Shamanic Journey – Gerry C. Starnes
De Sjamaan – Piers Vitebsky
White Buffalo Woman Comes Singing – Brooke Medicine Eagle
Book of Ceremony – Sandra Ingerman
Soul Retrieval – Sandra Ingerman ☽
Vader Aarde – Olof Smid
Ancestral Medicine – Daniel Foor ☽
The Wounded Healer – Jeanne Achterberg
Speaking with Nature – Sandra Ingerman & Llyn Roberts
Plant Spirit Medicine – Eliot Cowan ☽
Sacred Travel – Katie Weatherup
The Untold History of Healing – Wolf Dieter Storl
Shapeshifting Into Higher Consciousness – Llyn Roberts
Westers sjamanisme en de vision quest – Rob Top
The Rites of Passage – Arnold van Gennep ☽
Hedgeriding & Witchcraft
The Psychic Witch – Mat Auryn ☽
A Deed Without a Name – Lee Morgan
Standing and Not Falling – Lee Morgan ☽
Black Toad – Gemma Gary
Traditional Witchcraft, A Cronish Book Of Ways – Gemma Gary
Spells from the Wise Womans Cottage – Steve Patterson
Witches and Pagans – Max Dashu ☽
Women Who Fly – Serenity Young ☽
Hedge Rider – Eric de Vries ☽
Serpent Songs – Sarah Anne Lawless (et al.) ☽
Witchcraft & Medicine – Wolf Dieter Storl
Witches, Sluts & Feminists – Kristen J. Sollée ☽
Seidways – Jan Fries
Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness – Llyn Roberts
The Encyclopedia of Magic & Witchcraft – Susan Greenwood
Witch – Lisa Lister
Witches, Sirens and Soothsayers – Susannah Marriott
Earth Power – Scott Cunningham
Earth, Air, Fire & Water – Scott Cunningham
De Heksen van Breugel – Renilde Vervoort
Compendium van Rituele planten in Europa – Marcel de Cleene & Marie Claire Lejeune ☽
Moon
Moonology – Yasmin Boland
In het licht van de maan – Petra stam & Marja de Zeeuw ☽
Het grote boek van de maan – Claudia van de Sluis
In harmonie met de maan – Johanna Paungger & Thomas Poppe
Sun | Pagan Wheel of the Year
The Stations of the Sun – Ronald Hutton ☽
De acht jaarfeesten – Joke en Ko Lankester ☽
In het licht van de maan – Petra stam & Marja de Zeeuw
Earth | Animals, Plants & The Wild
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer ☽
Bear – Wolf Dieter Storl ☽
Ecofeminism – Carol J. Adams ☽
Animism – Graham Harvey
The Faithful Gardener – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Corinne Boyer: ☽
Under the Bramble Arch
Under the Witching Tree
Plants of the Devil
Kiss The Ground – Josh Tikell
Our Wild Calling – Richard Louv
Speaking With Nature – Sandra Ingerman & Llyn Roberts
Compendium van Rituele planten in Europa – Marcel de Cleene & Marie Claire Lejeune ☽
Jeneverbes – Jan van Ginkel ☽
The Practice of the Wild – Gary Snyder
The Earth Moved – Amy Steward
Phillip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm:
The Druid Plant Oracle
The Druid Animal Oracle
Krachtdieren – Petra Stam
Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben
The Inner Life of Animals – Peter Wohlleben
Plants of the Gods – R.E. Schultes, A. Hofmann & C. Rätsch
Een leven met gorilla’s, brieven van Dian Fossey – Camilla De La Dédoyere
Hygieia – Janine Parvati
The Faithful Gardener – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Groot handboek geneeskrachtige planten – Dr. Geert Verhelst
Het Kruidenboek van Ingrid – Ingrid Kropf ☽
Plant Spirit Medicine – Eliot Cowan ☽
Het grote wildplukboek – Edwin Flores
Grown Your Own Drugs – James Wong
The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture – Christopger Shein
Practical Self Sufficiency | Overleven op je eigen km2 – Dick & James Strawbringe
The Earthwise Hebal – Matthew Wood
Mythology & Archetypes
Poetic Edda – Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda – Snorri Sturlson
Kalevala
The Mabinogion
Norse Mytholgy – Neil Geimann
Myths of The Norsemen – Roger L. Green
Russische Sprookjes
Lady of the Beasts – Buffie Johnson ☽
Vrouw Holle en de verborgen wijsheid van het sprookje – A. van der Meer
Goddess Holle – GardenStone ☽
Artemis – Sorita D’Este
Hekate – Sorita D’Este
The Ancient Brittish Goddess – Kathy Jones
When God Was a Woman – Merlin Stone
Summoning The Fates – ZsuZsana E. Budapest
Goddess in the Grass – Linda Foubister ☽
Goden en sjamanen in Noordwest-Europa – Linda Wormhoudt
Oerbeelden – Carl Gustav Jung ☽
The Red Book – Carl Gustav Jung
Living History & Craeft | Wild Wool, Textile Magic & Reenactment
Women’s Work – Elizabeth Wayland Barber ☽
Prehistoric Textiles – Elizabeth Wayland Barber ☽
The Distaff Gospels – Antoine Duval
The Art of Prehistoric Textile – Karina Grömer ☽
Spinnen met plezier – Tonny Schutten
The Viking Way – Neil Price
Food & Farmin in Prehistoric Britain – Paul Elliot & Phil Carradice ☽
Ice Age Art & The Bear Cult – Philipp C. Grote
The Horse, The Wheel and Language – David W. Anthony
Prehistoric Belief – Mike Williams ☽
Kindom of Salt – Anton Kern
Ancient Wanderings – Peter Canton
Heidens Nederland – Judith Schuyf
Heidense heiligdommen – Judith Schuyf
Yoga
Yoni Shakti – Uma Dinsmore-Tuli ☽
Zien Door Yoga – Jochem Dijkstra ☽
Yoga Sutras – Patanjali
Dream Yoga – Andrew Holecek
Yoga Nidra – Richard Miller
Yoga Anatomy – Leslie Kaminoff
Yoga en geboorte – Rita Beintema
Aspecten van Yoga – Vivian Worthington ☽
Chakra Meditatie – Swami Saradananda
Tantra – Georg Feuerstein
Chakras – Harish Johari
Phylosophy & Ethics
Ecofeminism – Carol J. Adams ☽
Epictetus – Discourses ☽
Living in Honour – Emma Restall Orr
Eating Animals – Jonathan Saffran Foer
A Guide to the Good Life – William B. Irvine
Meditation & The Art of Beekeeping – Mark Magill ☽
The Untethered Soul – Michael Singer
Happiness Hypothetis – Jonathan Haidt
Ask Baba Yaga – Taisia Kitaiskaia ☽
The Practice of the Wild – Gary Snyder ☽
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
Make Magic of Your Life – T. Thorne Coyle
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
Food for Imagination
Novels
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf ☽
A Room Of Ones Own – V. Woolf
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen ☽
Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Temple of my Familiar – Alice Walker ☽
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Possessing The Secret of Joy – Alice Walker ☽
Boudica – Manda Scott
Practical Magic – Alice Hoffmann
Terry Pratchett: ☽
I Shall Wear Midnight
The Color of Magic
Wintersmith
Equal Rites
Witches Abroad
Shepherds Crown
Wee Free Men
Wyrd Sisters
A Hat Full Of Sky
Ragnarok – A. S. Byatt
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand ☽
The Hours – Michael Cunningham ☽
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Saffran Foer
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Poetry
What is a Witch – Tin Can Forest & Pam Grossman ☽
Literary Witches – Taisia Kitaiskaia
Washeen Sherat
Rupy Raur
Mandragora – Scarlet Imprint
Serpent Songs – Sarah Anne Lawless (et al.) ☽
Alice Nahon
Wendell Berry ☽
Rainer Maria Rilke ☽
Theodore Roethke ☽
Art
Symbolism – Michael Gibson ☽
Fatale Vrouwen – Thijs Tromp & het Groninger Museum ☽
Alphonse Mucha
Helene Sschjerfbeck
Frida Kahlo
Artforms in The Plant World – Karl Blossfeldt
Camera Work – Alfred Stieglitz ☽
Julia Maragret Cameron
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
John William Waterhouse
Ivan Bilibin ☽
The Pre Raphaelites – Michael Robinson
Jugendstil
Frantisek Kupka
Gustav Klimt
John Everett Millais
Lauren Marx ☽
Tin Can Forest, Pat Shewchuk & Marek Colek: ☽
Baba Yaga and the Wolf
What is a Witch
Strange Dirt, Marscha Robinson ☽
Aleah Chapin
Sineater, Matthew Glover ☽
Tamsin Abbott
India Flint: ☽
Eco Colour
Second Skin
Children’s Books
Monica Furlong: ☽
Juniper
Wise Child
Coleman
Lotje (series) – Lieve Baeten
Het verhaal van de Wortelkindjes – Sybille Olfers
Nils Holgersson – Selma Lagerlöf
Astrid Lindgren: ☽
Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter
Pippi
Tomten Tales
Brothers Lionheart
Elsa Beskow
Neil Gaiman:
Sleeper and the Spindle
Odd and the Frost Giants
Coraline
Sweetest Kulu – Celina Kalluk
Brons – Linda Dielemans
De verhalen van kleine Beer – Martyn Wadell & Barabara Firth
Baba Yaga and Vasalisa the Brave – Marianna Mayer & K. Y Craft
Vasalisa the Beautiful – Ivan Bilibin ☽
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse – Charlie Mackesy
Media
Audio & Podcasts
Mother Night – Clarissa Pinkola Estés ☽
Max Dashu on Youtube – Max Dashu ☽
Emma Restall Orr – Animism
Oh Mother, Oh Earth – Sylvia Linsteadt ☽
Kari Tauring – The Way of the Völva
Ekhart Tolle – Epictetus
Moonlight Musings – Jade Moon
Sarah Anne Lawless – HedgeFolk Tales ☽
Podcast – Danielle LaPorte
Why Shamanism Now – Shamanism Online ☽
Rune Soup – Gordon White ☽
The Hedge School – Sharon Blackie
Dream Freedom Beauty
The Witch Wave – Pam Grossmann
The Sacred Womb Podcast – Melanie Swan
Healing Wisdom – Max Dashu ☽
Hakai Magazine – Audio Edition
Fair Folk Podcast – Danica Boyce ☽
Druidcast – OBOD
BBC Life podcast – spotify ☽
A Grown-up Guide to Dinosaurs – Professor Ben Garrod ☽
Belonging Podcast – Becca Piastrelli ☽
The Authentic Sex Podcast with Juliet Allen
In the Weeds – Nicole Asquith
Unruffled – Janet Lansbury
Annine van der Meer – Lecture “Wisdom Returning” (In English)
S-Town Podcast – Serian & This American Life ☽
Jeanne Achterberg – Imagery in Healing (The Wounded Healer)
In Search of Black History – Bonnie Greer
Rewilding | Ancestral Skill Share
Film
Birth Story – Ina May Gaskin ☽
Orgasmic Birth
BBC Divine Woman
BBC Ascent of Women
The Moon Inside You
Birth As We Know It
Le Primier Cri ☽
Burning Times
Signs Out Of Time
These Are My Hours ☽
Things We Don’t Talk About – Deanna L’am
The Goddess Project
Feminists, What Were They Thinking
My Octopus Teacher ☽
Embrace
Griefwalker (Film) – Stephen Jenkinson ☽
The Game Changers
The Biggest Little Farm ☽
Kiss The Ground
Secret of Kells ☽
Song of the Sea ☽
The Breadwinner ☽
Wolfwalker ☽
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