Yoga Myths

What You Need to Learn and Unlearn for a Safe and Healthy Yoga Practice

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Pub Date 25 Aug 2020 | Archive Date 25 Aug 2020

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The essential guide to correcting yoga misconceptions and avoiding injuries in your practice from Judith Hanson Lasater, a yoga instructor, physical therapist, and bodywork expert.

"Tuck your tailbone to protect your back." "Increase your breath." "Pull your abdominal muscles into your backbone." Following these movement cues is often believed to benefit your yoga practice and protect your body when entering and holding poses. However, what may seem like a helpful correction can actually lead to injury or physical harm.

In Yoga Myths, Judith Hanson Lasater draws on almost fifty years of experience as a yoga instructor and physical therapist to address the most common mistakes in our yoga practice and provide clear instructions for correcting these errors. Focusing on the eleven "myths" most detrimental to our practice, Lasater provides a comprehensive discussion of what the myth is, why it can hurt us, and how we can avoid it through step-by-step instructions and guiding photos. This book will allow you to return to the inherent wisdom, natural goodness, and spiritual wholeness of yoga and avoid life altering injuries for as long as you practice.
The essential guide to correcting yoga misconceptions and avoiding injuries in your practice from Judith Hanson Lasater, a yoga instructor, physical therapist, and bodywork expert.

"Tuck your tailbone...

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PAGES 288

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This is a very comprehensive book that would be great resource for any library. The illustrations and photographs are clear and easy to understand. They book is laid out nicely and makes it easy to find the information you are looking for.

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I love all of Judith Lasater's books and this was no exception. It is full of incredibly helpful instruction, tips, and ideas for a strong and healthy yoga practice. I highly recommend this fantastic resource to any yogi.

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This book is so informative! Judith Hanson Lasater goes into great detail regarding many different poses, when is the right time to do them (i.e. avoid certain poses or modify when on your period or when pregnant). She also includes a lot of diagrams, take aways from each chapter as well as things to be cautious of. I recommend this book for anyone who practices or teaches yoga, even if it is a home practice.

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There are a ton of yoga books out there, so why should you buy this one? Because chances are, you're doing it wrong. Or at least some of it. But again, why THIS one? Because Judith Hanson Lasater knows yoga and anatomy, and how to teach it.

Judith Hanson Lasater is not just an author of yoga books or a yoga enthusiast. She is THE go to person for yoga. I don't say this lightly. Judith is quite an impressive woman. She has a Ph.d. in East-West Psychology and is a physical therapist. She has taught yoga around the world since 1971.and trains yoga teachers in just about every state. She is president emeritus of the California Yoga Teachers' Association. .She is also a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, CA, and a founder of Yoga Journal magazine. If you've ever been to a yoga convention, chances are, she's been a guest speaker.

I have a few other books by her, so when I saw Yoga Myths on Netgalley, I might have squealed a little. Okay, a lot. I've been practicing yoga ever since I became ill in 2013, and I've learned a lot, but Yoga Myths really put me in my place and explained in detail how and why I was doing certain things wrong. Parts of this book are very technical, keep in mind she's also a physical therapist, so she knows anatomy and physiology, which is incredibly important when practicing yoga safely. While the technical portions may seem dry and boring to someone that's not into that stuff, I encourage you to get through it, because you, and your body, will see huge benefits from it. After going through the technical details, she does walk you through poses and the proper way to go about it for your body and how to recognize what is correct for your body. I wish I had this book years ago!

This book is absolutely brilliant. I highly recommend this book and any others by her. She is phenomenal.

Huge thanks to Netgalley and Shambhala Publications, Inc for providing me with this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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With the increasing popularity of yoga, a book like this is incredibly necessary for anyone looking to maintain health and safety in their practice. As a yogi myself, I found the information presented in the book to be content I've encountered numerous times in yoga classes and I've always wondered how credible the information on alignment, breathing, etc. I was being told really was. It turns out that a lot of the claims are false and I appreciated the breakdown of the anatomy of the body during yoga, as well as the proper way to approach poses. I hope every yoga teacher and practitioner gives this a read!

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This was such an interesting and helpful book as a yoga teacher. I try to focus my classes on facts and science so my classes are safe and enjoyable for students. I ended up recommending this book to many students to try out.

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