30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers

A yoga teacher and student of B.K.S. Iyengar offers guidance on how to develop a yoga practice--from poses and sequencing to creating targeted routines for pain relief, relaxation, and more

Judith Hanson Lasater draws on her wealth of yoga practice and teaching experience, as well as her training as a physical therapist, to present this comprehensive resource for beginning students and their teachers.

Several pages are devoted to each of the yoga poses or asana, including photos and charts, introductory steps and variations, benefits, which props to use, and more. Teachers will find guidance on adjustments for beginners learning new poses as well as how to help students more fully realize the pose. Lasater also helps practitioners with notes on how to go inward and what to explore when holding each pose.

You'll also learn how to put poses together in sequences, and Lasater provides several to get you started. You'll find quick sequences for busy days, for areas of tightness such as the lower back or the hamstrings, and even routines to remedy fatigue, or foster relaxation, or just for strength and balance. Sequences are presented with photographic charts for easy visual reference, as well as a "Mantra for Daily Practice. A glossary of anatomical terms and resources for further study are also included.

Author: Judith Hanson Lasater
Publisher: Rodmell Press
Published: 06/10/1990
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.42w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781930485044


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2003 pg. 60

About the Author
JUDITH HANSON LASATER has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. Dr. Lasater is the president emeritus of the California Yoga Teachers Association, and is one of the founders of Yoga Journal magazine.

She trains yoga teachers in asana, kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutras, and she leads workshops and retreats throughout the US and abroad. She is a pioneer in the teaching and practice of Restorative yoga.

Dr. Lasater writes extensively about yoga. Her feature articles, columns, and essays appear in numerous books, magazines, and anthologies. She is the author of ten books on yoga, including Relax and Renew, Restore and Rebalance, Yogabody, 30 Essential Yoga Poses, Living Your Yoga, among others.