Gay Hendricks Books in Order
Explore Gay Hendricks books in order, with quick summaries, mystery and coauthor pages, and simple advice on where to start reading.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
60 books
The Centering Book
by Gay Hendricks
1975
An early foundational book of centering exercises for children and adults. It is built around simple awareness activities that help calm the body, steady attention, and support learning.
Transpersonal Education
by Gay Hendricks
1976
An early education text that argues learning should develop feeling, awareness, imagination, and a sense of human connection, not just the transfer of information. It looks at how classrooms can make room for the whole person.
The Second Centering Book
by Gay Hendricks
1977
A follow-up to the original centering guide, offering more awareness activities for children and adults. It continues the same focus on relaxing the body and mind through direct practice.
How to Love Every Minute of Your Life
by Gay Hendricks
1978
A practical self-help book about bringing more ease, attention, and enjoyment into ordinary moments. Hendricks looks for simple shifts that make daily life feel less like a grind.
Cool and Creamy Ice Cream Yogurt
by Gay Hendricks
1979
A recipe book devoted to frozen yogurt and related treats. It is a lighter, practical outlier in Hendricks's bibliography, aimed at readers who want homemade desserts rather than mindset tools.
The Family Centering Book
by Gay Hendricks
1979
A family-focused collection of awareness activities meant to be done together. The goal is simple, to help children and adults relax, connect, and bring more attention to everyday life at home.
The Centered Teacher
by Gay Hendricks
1981
A teaching guide that applies centering skills to the classroom. Hendricks shows how presence, awareness, and calm attention can help teachers create better learning environments for themselves and their students.
Learning to Love Yourself
by Gay Hendricks
1982
A straightforward guide to self-acceptance and becoming more centered. Hendricks focuses on befriending the parts of yourself you usually criticize or avoid, rather than trying to outfight them.
The Centered Athlete
by Gay Hendricks
1982
A performance guide that applies centering skills to sport. It helps athletes use breath, focus, and body awareness to stay steady under pressure and perform with less tension.
Transpersonal Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy
by Gay Hendricks
1982
An academic overview of counseling methods that take spiritual experience and expanded states of awareness seriously. The book looks at how transpersonal ideas can be brought into psychotherapy.
The Moving Center
by Gay Hendricks
1983
An early body-awareness book that uses movement and attention to help readers feel more grounded and expressive. It treats the body as an active source of information, not just a vehicle for the mind.
Centering and the Art of Intimacy
by Gay Hendricks
1984
Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks connect body awareness and centering practices to the way people love and relate. The book is about getting more grounded so intimacy can become clearer and less defensive.
The Art of Breathing and Centering
by Gay Hendricks
1989
A concise guide to breath and centering practices designed to calm the mind and settle the body. It is built around simple exercises rather than theory-heavy explanation.
Conscious Loving
by Gay Hendricks
1990
A foundational relationship book about moving from blame and dependency toward co-commitment. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks focus on truth-telling, responsibility, and building love that supports growth in both people.
The Learning to Love Yourself Workbook
by Gay Hendricks
1990
A practical workbook of exercises aimed at building self-acceptance and centeredness. It turns Hendricks's ideas about loving yourself into activities you can actually try, not just concepts to admire.
Radiance!
by Gay Hendricks
1991
An early body-centered book about breathwork, movement, and psychotherapy. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks explore how physical awareness can release stuck energy and bring more presence into daily life.
Bicycle Tours of France
by Gay Hendricks
1992
A travel guide for cyclists planning routes through France. It focuses on practical touring details and the pleasures of seeing the country at road level, one ride at a time.
Bicycle Tours of Great Britain and Ireland
by Gay Hendricks
1992
A touring guide for riders who want to explore Great Britain and Ireland by bike. It combines route planning with the kind of practical advice that makes a long trip easier to manage.
Bicycle Tours of Italy
by Gay Hendricks
1992
A cyclist's guide to touring Italy, with attention to routes, logistics, and the appeal of traveling slowly through different regions. It is built for readers who want both adventure and useful planning help.
At The Speed Of Life
by Gay Hendricks
1993
This book presents Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks's body-centered approach to personal change. It offers an alternative to talk therapy by focusing on breath, posture, movement, and the felt signals that reveal deeper patterns.
Conscious Breathing
by Gay Hendricks
1995
A practical breathwork guide for health, stress relief, and greater self-mastery. Hendricks draws on years of breathing research and sessions to show how better breathing can change energy, mood, and focus.
The Corporate Mystic
by Gay Hendricks
1996
A business book for leaders who want to combine practical results with a broader sense of purpose. Hendricks argues that effective leadership depends on vision, integrity, and a feel for the whole system.
The Conscious Heart
by Gay Hendricks
1997
Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks outline seven powerful choices that can reshape a relationship from the inside out. The book focuses on conflict, control, appreciation, passion, and the creative growth of both partners.
A Year of Living Consciously
by Gay Hendricks
1998
A daily reader with 365 reflections on responsibility, purpose, love, and awareness. It is designed for small, regular moments of perspective rather than one big overhaul all at once.
The Ten Second Miracle
by Gay Hendricks
1998
Built around quick five-step shifts, this book argues that change in relationships can begin in a matter of seconds. Hendricks focuses on interrupting old conflict patterns before they take over.
Conscious Living
by Gay Hendricks
2000
A guide to creating a life of your own design through honest feeling, clear purpose, and direct action. Hendricks shifts the focus from pleasing others to living in ways that actually fit.
Achieving Vibrance
by Gay Hendricks
2001
A seven-minute-a-day plan for feeling more energetic, clear, and physically alive. Hendricks combines breath, movement, mindset, food, and mental exercises into a practical anti-slump routine.
Breathing Ecstasy
by Gay Hendricks
2003
This book uses simple breathing practices to deepen sexual pleasure and closeness. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks focus on relaxation, body awareness, and couple exercises rather than fantasy or performance tricks.
Conscious Golf
by Gay Hendricks
2003
Hendricks connects golf to the same principles he uses in coaching and personal growth. The book looks at presence, focus, and awareness on the course, while also drawing lessons for work and everyday life.
Attracting Genuine Love
by Gay Hendricks
2004
Hendricks offers a step-by-step process for attracting a healthy partner by clearing old patterns and becoming more honest about what you really want. It is aimed at building love on awareness, not wishful thinking.
Ecstatic Sex
by Gay Hendricks
2004
A guided exploration of how breath, awareness, and emotional openness can make sex more connected and alive. The emphasis is not performance, but presence, pleasure, and deeper intimacy.
Fly Without Fear
by Gay Hendricks
2004
A compact program for easing fear of flying through guided breathing and relaxation techniques. Hendricks focuses on calming the body first, so anxious thoughts have less control once the plane leaves the ground.
Lasting Love
by Gay Hendricks
2004
A practical relationship book built around five core secrets for keeping long-term love vital. It looks at how couples can deepen intimacy while still protecting each person's creativity, freedom, and aliveness.
Spirit-Centered Relationships
by Gay Hendricks
2005
Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks describe three presencing tools for bringing more love, harmony, and spiritual connection into relationships. The focus is on staying rooted in your own center while meeting another person more fully.
Spiritual Cinema
by Gay Hendricks
2005
A guide to films that inspire, heal, and expand the way viewers think about their lives. Rather than treating movies as pure escape, the book looks at how certain stories can open reflection and change.
The Breathing Box
by Gay Hendricks
2005
A four-week breathing program designed to help readers build healthier habits, reduce stress, and feel more energized. Hendricks breaks the process into manageable steps rather than making it feel mystical or complicated.
Already Home
by Gay Hendricks
2006
Hendricks presents Advaita wisdom in accessible language, focusing on nonduality, self-inquiry, and the idea that what we seek is already here. It is a compact introduction to a demanding spiritual tradition.
The Book of Life
by Gay Hendricks
2006
This modern rendering of Epictetus distills Stoic wisdom into a simple, usable principle: suffering grows when we chase control over what is not ours to control. The emphasis is inner peace and steadier relationships.
The Power of A Single Thought
by Gay Hendricks
2006
A modern rendering of classic thought-based wisdom, centered on the idea that one shift in attention can redirect a life. Hendricks makes the message practical, step by step, instead of purely philosophical.
Touching the Divine
by Gay Hendricks
2006
A brief spiritual guide that draws from contemplative traditions and asks how ordinary life can become a real conversation with the divine. It is meant for readers who want practice, not just inspiration.
You've GOT to Read This Book!
by Gay Hendricks
2006
A curated collection in which dozens of contributors share the one book that changed their lives. The result is part inspiration, part reading list, and part set of personal stories about turning points.
Five Wishes
by Gay Hendricks
2007
Built around one life-changing question, this book helps readers clarify what they most want and why they may be holding back. Hendricks turns that question into a practical process for change.
The Big Leap
by Gay Hendricks
2009
Hendricks explores why people often sabotage success just as things start going well. His answer is the upper limit problem, and his solution is learning to spend more time in your zone of genius.
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The Prosperity Principle
by Gay Hendricks
2009
A short prosperity guide about the inner habits that affect earning, receiving, and creating abundance. Hendricks focuses on attention, choice, and the mental patterns that quietly block growth.
The First Rule of Ten
by Gay Hendricks
2012
Ex-monk and ex-cop Tenzing Norbu steps into private investigation in Los Angeles and almost immediately finds trouble. Suspicious deaths, bullet wounds, and a new client teach him what happens when he ignores his own intuition.
The Broken Rules of Ten: Tenzing Norbu's First Mystery
by Gay Hendricks
2013
This prequel returns to Tenzing as a teenager in Dharamshala, where a brilliant young scholar, a stolen sacred teaching, and a local death pull him into his first real mystery. It is part coming-of-age story, part detective origin.
The Second Rule of Ten
by Gay Hendricks
2013
A dead Hollywood producer, a missing woman, and the return of cartel boss Chaco Morales pull Tenzing Norbu into a case with global echoes. The search sends him from Los Angeles toward Tibet and back again.
The Third Rule Of Ten
by Gay Hendricks
2014
Ten seems to have found his rhythm, until a missing housekeeper case leads him into drugs, trafficking, and dangerous secrets. Personal grief and old enemies make this one of his most emotionally loaded investigations.
Conscious Loving Ever After
by Gay Hendricks
2015
A relationship guide for midlife and beyond, focused on keeping intimacy alive as life changes. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks offer practical conversations and habits for solving recurring problems without losing warmth or closeness.
The Fourth Rule of Ten
by Gay Hendricks
2015
Ten is drawn into a case involving human trafficking, family strain, and a far-reaching criminal network. What begins in Los Angeles sends him well beyond home, while testing both his judgment and his closest relationships.
Fifth Rule of Ten
by Gay Hendricks
2016
Tenzing Norbu is juggling wedding plans, old loyalties, and a temple fundraiser when a novice lama vanishes and strange crimes begin to spread across the city. The case turns personal fast, and the pressure closes in.
The First Adventure of Sir Errol Hyde: The Case of the Wayward Prince
by Gay Hendricks
2017
In 1908 London, the eccentric Sir Errol Hyde agrees to handle a delicate royal errand and quickly lands inside a much larger conspiracy. It is a witty historical mystery with danger, scandal, and plenty of attitude.
The Second Adventure of Sir Errol Hyde: The Case of The Oxford Rasputin
by Gay Hendricks
2017
Sir Errol investigates a magnetic Oxford guru whose followers keep disappearing. The case pulls him into questions of power, belief, and manipulation, while keeping the series' mix of humor and suspense intact.
The Joy of Genius
by Gay Hendricks
2018
Hendricks shows how to move out of repetitive problems and into a more creative way of living. The focus is on simple practices that help readers quiet negative loops and spend more time doing what they do best.
The Corporate Mystic 2.0
by Gay Hendricks
2019
An updated look at Hendricks's ideas on leadership, vision, and inner development at work. It argues that strong business leadership depends on integrity, presence, and the ability to think beyond short-term fear.
The Final Adventure of Errol Hyde: The Case of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Secret Notebook
by Gay Hendricks
2019
Sir Errol Hyde takes on a missing fiancée case that leads him from Cambridge to Vienna and into the orbit of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophy, romance, and prewar intrigue collide as the mystery grows darker and stranger.
Conscious Luck
by Gay Hendricks
2020
This book argues that luck is not only random, it can be cultivated through attention, bold action, gratitude, and better choices. Hendricks lays out eight habits for creating more opportunity and flow in everyday life.
The Conscious Luck Workbook
by Gay Hendricks
2020
A hands-on companion to *Conscious Luck*, filled with exercises and prompts that help readers put the book's eight principles into practice. It is built for reflection, experimentation, and steady follow-through.
The Genius Zone
by Gay Hendricks
2021
A practical follow-up to Hendricks's ideas on genius and fulfillment. He introduces the Genius Move, a quick body-mind tool for interrupting negative thinking and opening more room for creativity and contribution.
Your Big Leap Year
by Gay Hendricks
2024
A yearlong companion to *The Big Leap*, organized to help readers keep working with genius, fear, and upper-limit patterns over time. It turns the big ideas into a steadier weekly practice.
Where should I start?
If you want his best-known big-idea self-help: The Big Leap → The Genius Zone → Your Big Leap Year
If you want relationship books first: Conscious Loving → The Conscious Heart → Conscious Loving Ever After
If you want practical mindset shifts: Five Wishes → Conscious Luck → The Conscious Luck Workbook
If you want mysteries with a spiritual edge: The First Rule of Ten → The Second Rule of Ten → The Third Rule Of Ten
If you want witty historical mystery: The First Adventure of Sir Errol Hyde: The Case of the Wayward Prince → The Second Adventure of Sir Errol Hyde: The Case of The Oxford Rasputin
Author bio
Gay Hendricks was born in Leesburg, Florida, the son of a farmer and a writer. He studied at Rollins College, earned a master's degree from the University of New Hampshire, and completed a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Stanford in 1974. Before readers knew him for books about love, breathing, luck, and creativity, he was building a very traditional academic career.
Then his work started moving in a different direction.
Hendricks taught for 21 years at the University of Colorado, eventually becoming a full professor in counseling psychology. Over time, he became less interested in staying only in the realm of ideas and more interested in what the body was saying, too. That shift led him toward body-centered work, conscious breathing, and the kind of practical personal-growth teaching that would define much of his writing.
A lot of readers first meet him through The Big Leap. That book gave simple names to experiences many people already recognized, especially self-sabotage around success and the search for a real zone of genius. People often come to it for work or creativity, but they stay for the way Hendricks connects ambition to fear, habit, and the everyday stories we tell ourselves.
Love is the other big thread.
With his wife, Kathlyn Hendricks, he wrote relationship books that have stayed in circulation for decades, including Conscious Loving, The Conscious Heart, and Lasting Love. These are not abstract books. They are about telling the truth, taking responsibility, staying close without losing yourself, and turning conflict into something useful instead of corrosive. He also wrote Conscious Breathing, which reflects another lasting theme in his work: meaningful change often begins with attention to the body, not just better thinking.
He and Kathlyn met in 1980, when Gay gave a presentation at the graduate school where she was studying and teaching. They went on to build the Hendricks Institute and later the Foundation for Conscious Living, creating seminars, trainings, and tools around relationships, creativity, and body intelligence. The work was never meant to stay on the page. It was built to be practiced.
He has also taken some unexpected turns. He co-founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle, worked in conscious entertainment, and moved into fiction. With Tinker Lindsay, he created the Tenzing Norbu mysteries, beginning with The First Rule of Ten, about an ex-monk and former cop working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. Later he launched the Sir Errol Hyde novels, historical mysteries with a much different setting but some familiar Hendricks interests beneath the surface: intuition, hidden motives, and the trouble people create when they stop being honest with themselves.
That range is part of what makes his bibliography interesting. One shelf may file him under self-help, another under relationships, another under spirituality, and another under mystery. The common thread is easy to spot. He keeps circling the same human questions: how to become more awake, more truthful, more creative, and less afraid of your own life.
These days, he continues to teach and create with Kathlyn Hendricks, and they are based in Ojai, California. Across decades of books, workshops, and coaching, his voice has stayed recognizably his own, curious, direct, encouraging, and always trying to bring big inner questions down to something you can actually do today.
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