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Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times

Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times
By Judith Hanson Lasater

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Experience the rest of your life with restorative yoga, the supported poses and breathing practices that will help you heal the effects of chronic stress. In Relax and Renew, the first book exclusively devoted to this work, the author offers in-depth guidance in the Basic Relaxation Pose (Savasana), the heart of restorative practice. In addition, this book provides yoga sequences for busy days, including a fifteen-minute practice, yoga at your desk, and the Totally Invisible Relaxation; programs for back pain, headaches, insomnia, jet lag, and breathing problems; a special section for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause; a guide to props; and resources for finding a yoga teacher, recommended books, magazines, newsletters, audio programs, yoga vacations, and more.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #9670 in Books
  • Published on: 1995-08
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

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Relax & Renew is the first to devote itself entirely to restorative yoga, providing a series of yoga postures designed to relieve chronic stress. Exercise programs are introduced with a series of insights and stipulations which instructs on yoga techniques for everything from insomnia to basic relaxation. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author
Judith Lasater has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. Judith is president of the California Yoga Teachers Association, and serves on the advisory boards of Yoga Journal and the Yoga Research and Education Center.

Her yoga training includes study with B.K.S. Iyengar in India and the United States. She teaches ongoing yoga classes and trains yoga teachers in kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutra at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. Judith also gives workshops throughout the United States, and has taught in Canada, England, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Russia.

She writes extensively on the therapeutic aspects of yoga. In addition to her best-selling Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times (Rodmell Press), she is the author of Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life (Rodmell Press).

Her popular "Asana" column ran in Yoga Journal for thirteen years, and she continues to contribute articles on a variety of subjects. In addition, her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and books, including Yoga International, Natural Health, Sports Illustrated for Women, Prevention, Alternative Therapies, Numedx, International Journal of Yoga Therapy (formerly The Journal of the International Association of Yoga Therapists), Complementary Therapies in Rehabilitation (Slack), Living Yoga (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee), American Yoga (Grove Press), The New Yoga for People Over 50 (Health Communications), and Lilias, Yoga, and Your Life (Macmillan).

Judith Lasater lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children.

Customer Reviews

Restorative yoga is the best!5
Relax & Renew is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to deepen their practice, reduce stress or learn to focus on their breath. This book is great for an individual or for a teacher who wants to offer a Restorative Yoga class. Thank you Ms. Lasater for encouraging us to slow down.

Great Book, indespensible. A must have for your library!4
This is a really great book. Well put together. This is a must have for any Yoga Instructor. Thank you Judith for putting this together.

Kris

Relax and Renew : Restful Yoga for Stressful Times 5
I use the poses in this book for my Restorative Yoga classes and for my own personal practice.I always recieve a wonderful response from my clients.The knowledge that Judith Lasater brings is the top of her field. I'm very happy with my purchase.Thank you for the great service!