Yoga Myths: What You Must Be taught and Unlearn for a Protected and Wholesome Yoga Follow
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The important information to correcting yoga misconceptions and avoiding accidents in your apply from Judith Hanson Lasater, a yoga teacher, bodily therapist, and bodywork professional.
“Tuck your tailbone to guard your again.” “Enhance your breath.” “Pull your stomach muscle tissue into your spine.” Following these motion cues is commonly believed to profit your yoga apply and defend your physique when coming into and holding poses. Nevertheless, what could look like a useful correction can truly result in damage or bodily hurt.
In Yoga Myths, Judith Hanson Lasater attracts on virtually fifty years of expertise as a yoga teacher and bodily therapist to handle the most typical errors in our yoga apply and supply clear directions for correcting these errors. Specializing in the eleven “myths” most detrimental to our apply, Lasater gives a complete dialogue of what the parable is, why it may damage us, and the way we are able to keep away from it by way of step-by-step directions and guiding photographs. This ebook will help you return to the inherent knowledge, pure goodness, and non secular wholeness of yoga and keep away from life altering accidents for so long as you apply.
Writer : Shambhala; 1st version (August 25, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1611807964
ISBN-13 : 978-1611807967
Merchandise Weight : 2 kilos
Dimensions : 8.49 x 0.76 x 10.98 inches
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Paula Gardner –
Trust. Yourself. First.
One of the shining lights of the yoga world, Judith Lasater continues to inspire through her incisive, laser-like focus on what we need to internalize as students, teachers, advocates, practitioners of yoga. Too often, we get caught up in trying to figure out what we’re “supposed” to do instead of feeling what we feel here and now in the body we’re in today and not the one we remember or always wanted.In this book, she hones in on what has been a mystery to me for my 20 years of yoga practice: How can I honor my body if I’m trying to squeeze it into some traditional form that doesn’t reflect what my bone structure, weight, habitual movement patterns have produced over the course of my lifetime? The simple answer is, you can’t. Judith, of course, is far more detailed and gracious and appreciative of the tradition as well as the bottom line–trust yourself first, not exclusively, but first.This book is an invitation to be open to learning the why’s and how’s of the body’s construction so that you can make some sense of what you experience and make your choices of how to do the poses based on how your body does them rather than according to how you’re told to do them.From Mary Richard’s lovely and loving introduction to the end of the book, I felt guided through the issues that have reared their heads throughout my years of practice and teaching. And the first chapter alone makes us sit up and pay attention and be curious about what we’ve been taught and leads us to ask: “does this fit me?”Judith Lasater tends to organize her books with great grace and in a way that allows the reader to learn as much as you’d like AND to practice what you do choose to learn. “Myths” follows this same helpful pattern.I highly highly highly recommend this book for every person who wants to: appreciate your body in the yoga poses and/or learn more about the anatomy of the poses and/or enjoy what may become my 2nd favorite in Judith’s series (because nothing can surpass her restorative yoga books or workshops for me). It is for practitioners and it is for teachers…to help us open our minds and eyes to the bodies of the people in front of us so that we’re teaching people and not yoga.Five stars is not enough for this book.
Leslie Glenn –
Highly recommend for yoga students and teachers
I love Judithâs straight forward and accessible approach to everything yoga. The wisdom of this book is so important for both teachers and students to understand yoga poses in a deeper way and let go of old cues and myths that do not support the individual yoga experience. Highly recommend.
Fancynancy –
Yoga Myths is a yoga practice bible.
I am 80 years old, a yoga practitioner For many years and student of Judith Lasater. She is my inspiration. Her knowledge and deep understanding of the body and benefits of yoga are beautifully explained in The Yoga Myths.
MirMirOnTheWall –
Science-based guide!
Great guide for all yogis who struggle with pain during yoga.
Khob85 –
Excellent
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erbain –
Busting the fake anatomy lessons taught at yoga teacher trainings
Until very recently, every high-level yoga teacher I had ever met had experienced one or more very serious injuries–usually to the hips, hamstrings, shoulders, or pelvis–often unintentionally inflicted by the hands of their yoga teacher. In the early days of yoga’s popularity (in the US, at least) there were very few yoga teacher training programs. Those that existed were fairly exclusive, in that you needed years of experience practicing and the recommendation of your own yoga teacher before you could apply for the program. On the one hand, this had the result of yoga teachers who had years (often decades!) of practice before studying to become teachers. On the other hand, this also resulted in a very small number of yoga teacher training programs, and in the case of most yoga schools what you learned as a student, you learned to teach, and you taught to your students–no outside study, no “cross-pollination” with other yoga teachers, schools, and practices. In many ways, Judith Hanson Lasater is both a product of that yoga teacher training system, and one of the greatest forces for its evolution.I was lucky enough to be able to read an advance copy of this book, and I knew I wanted to buy this book before I finished reading chapter one. Maybe even before that. When I saw the subtitle for chapter 2 (“Why you don’t need neck rolls, but do need blankets for shoulder stand”) I got really excited–I was fortunate enough to have a yoga teacher training program that explained the anatomy of the neck and why blankets are essential for shoulder stand, and cringed every time I attended a class where the teacher included shoulder stand without blankets. (I may have even “suddenly developed a shoulder issue” that prevented me from executing a shoulder stand in those classes, wink, wink.)While Judith Hanson Lasater’s name often appears in discussions of yoga ‘”celebrities,” it’s not because she’s playing the role of yoga rock star, standing in front of hundreds and teaching to a live band. It’s because among all yoga teachers, Ms. Lasater is one of the few who has continued to learn and experiment with that knowledge in her practice, then translate that knowledge into something useful for other yoga teachers. She’s been writing for Yoga Journal since before it was purchased by a media conglomerate, and regularly teaches for Yoga U and other teacher training course offerings. In doing this, Ms. Lasater is not afraid to upset the sacred cows. She is one of the first instructors I remember speaking out against the “position your pelvis between two panes of glass” instruction (attributed to Iyengar teacher training and repeated daily by thousands of yoga teachers–I used to be one of them) often used in trikonasana or virabhadrasana II.This book continues to question the assumptions taught in even some of the most well-known yoga teacher trainings, explaining the anatomy involved and WHY that assumption is incorrect. But more than just explaining it, Ms. Lasater provides step-by-step instructions for how to personally experience what she is explaining. (For this reason, it might be worth purchasing the audio book as well, especially if you don’t have someone to read it aloud to you so you can focus on your movement.)While you might think this book is geared exclusively towards yoga TEACHERS, I highly recommend it for all students. This is NOT a “beginning yoga book” but I highly recommend it for beginners to yoga. The reason for this is simple. Given the proliferation of yoga teacher training programs, many of which provide little instruction in anatomy, or were written with the assumption the trainees are already involved in a discipline that requires advanced anatomy knowledge, if you read this book you will likely know more than your teacher the next time you go to yoga class. This is important because then YOU the student will know the right feel of the pose in YOUR body (regardless of what it looks like) and will be able to opt-out of misguided but well-intentioned attempts to assist/correct/etc. your pose.
StaticGirl –
Useful
Judith Hanson Lasater is such an incredible resource of yoga information and I always enjoy her books – this was no exception. She tackles common yoga asana instructions that are actually counter to what your body should be doing from a functional anatomy perspective, and presents the information in an in-depth yet accessible way with diagrams and photographs. A book that every teacher should read, at the least.
Donna Rowen –
Excellent for yoga instructors and anyone interested in efficient and safe movement!
orlandovoy –
Estupenda invitación a reflexionar siempre sobre cada indicación que des a tus alumnos o sobre cada indicación que recibas. ¿Para qué he de posicionarme exactamente asà y no de otra manera? ¿Y si valen las dos?
Ana P. –
Wonderful book, made me perceive and practice in a different way. I benefited immensly, especially from the chapter about pelvis.
Linda –
Everything to like and acknowledge as Judith Lassiter is the go to on the subject matter! Bravo!
Pugfanatic –
A tremendous disappointment. Just another how-to-do yoga book. Not even yoga but a sort of gentle, prop-based form of calisthenics, as distinct from yoga as Pilates.