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Praise for Living Your Yoga

Judith Lasaters new book is a down-to-earth discussion of how we can use the age-old wisdom of yoga in order to reconnect with the sacred in everyday life.

Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., from the Preface
Founder-Director of the Yoga Research and Education Center

Yes! Living Your Yoga is what its all about. Here is a clear and friendly book that will help anyone embody the wisdom of yoga by consciously bringing it into daily life. The exercises are fun. They can help you learn how to do yoga all the timenow and now and nowwhen you are in the yoga room and when you are not. Take this book to heart.

Erich Schiffmann
Author, Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness

In this easy-to-read, inspiring book, Judith Lasater generously shares delightfully funny and poignant stories from her very American life, to show how we all can use the simple problems of daily living as a springboard for spiritual practice. Reading Living Your Yoga is like moving in with Lasater and her family for awhile. I enjoyed my visit immensely. She reminds us that yoga practice is primarily about mindfulness and is a twenty- four-hour-a-day activity. Take this book to bed, every night for a couple of months. Open it anywhere. Read a few pages. Reflect. Relax. Breathe. Smile. And have a good nights sleep.

Beryl Bender Birch
Author, Power Yoga

In this delightful and practical book on yoga philosophy, Judith Lasater presents timeless wisdom with clarity and insight. She is a well-seasoned yogini, who writes from personal experience on how to use the events of daily life as yoga poses for the mind and the heart.

Patricia Walden
Featured in Yoga Journals Yoga Practice for Beginners

Judith Lasater explains how her practice has helped her to sort through lifes tangles, clarify her values, and renew her commitment to her ideals. She bares her soul so that we can see our own.

Suza Francina, from the Foreword
Author, The New Yoga for People Over 50

In her heartfelt and gently humorous manner, Judith Lasater shares her profound understanding of ancient yoga teachings, and translates the Yoga Sutra and Bhagavad Gita into a simple prescription for daily living. Whether youre a yoga student, yoga teacher, or yoga scholar, youll be informed and inspired by Living Your Yoga. Kathryn Arnold

Editor in chief, Yoga Journal

By Judith Lasater, Ph.D., P.T.
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times (1995)
Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life (2000)
30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers (2003)
Yoga for Pregnancy: What Every Mom-to-Be Needs to Know (2004)
Yoga Abs: Moving from Your Core (2005)

For Rhoda, with love

Acknowledgments

This book reflects a personal journey that began decades ago. I have had important helpers along the way. I thank each of you for your support.

First, I thank my family, specifically my husband, Ike, and our three children, Miles, Kam, and Elizabeth. Their insights about life, as well as their sometimes pungent comments on how I am missing the essential truth of any given moment, have been invaluable and fill this book.

Next, I acknowledge and thank my yoga students, especially those who have stuck with me for many years. Having the responsibility of teaching has inspired me to practice and to continue to learn.

Finally, I thank Linda Cogozzo and Donald Moyer of Rodmell Press, who have consistently supported me during the dark times and celebrated with me during the happy ones.

Foreword

In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater provides an elegant yet sturdy bridge between yoga on the mat and the yoga of daily life. When we leave the sanctuary of a yoga studio, roll up our sleeves, and set to work in the world, we must be careful not to add to the confusion and violence that already exist. This book of essays and guided practices, based on selected verses from the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita, can assist us in this endeavor.

The author shares her understanding of yogas ancient teachings and shows us how to apply them to our contemporary lives. Especially insightful is the warm and personal way in which she addresses the division many of us feel when the peace we experience in our yoga practice is disrupted by everyday reality. Judith Lasater explains how her practice has helped her to sort through lifes tangles, clarify her values, and renew her commitment to her ideals. She bares her soul so that we can see our own.

Now that yoga has entered the mainstream, it is more important than ever for yoga teachers to communicate how postures, breathing techniques, and meditation are rooted in moral principles. Yoga addresses the ethical life through a whole range of practices that encourages us to live in harmony with nature, making our actions conducive to both personal and planetary health. The great yoga teachers urge us to consider all aspects of our lives, to revere all living things, and to take no more than we need. Surely, a complete yoga practice must encompass a way of life that addresses the harm we inflict on ourselves and other living things, as well as doing our part to reduce pollution and to share the limited resources of our planet fairly with all other beings. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater shows herself to be a part of this teaching lineage.

I am thankful every day for the great gift of yoga. The precious time I spend practicing yogas healing postures provides me with a much-needed physical and psychological cleansing. Yoga gives me a sense of peace and expansion; equally important, it gives me the inner strength and resiliency needed to face the complexities of life in the twenty-first century.

Judith Lasater has helped me to understand more of yogas universal truths and to use them conscientiously in my life. Her helpful, accessible book will introduce many more people to yogas timeless wisdom. Yoga teachers and students everywhere will be inspired to deepen their understanding of yoga philosophy. Living Your Yoga is a book I will recommend wholeheartedly to my students in the years to come.

Suza Francina
Author, The New Yoga for People Over 50
Ojai, California
September 1999

Preface

The complex five-thousand-year-old tradition of yoga is about a very simple thing: happiness (ananda). Yoga tells us that in order to realize lasting happiness, we must discover our true, spiritual nature. This requires that we commit ourselves to nothing less than self-transformation and self-transcendence. For although our true nature, or spiritual Self, is always the same, it tends to be obscured by our conventional thoughts, emotions, and patterns of behavior. The yoga tradition compares this circumstance to the brightly shining sun, which is ever radiant but periodically hidden from our view by drifting dark clouds.

Yoga helps us to remove all obstructing (mental) clouds, so that we may come to enjoy the sunshine within. It is an extensive program of reeducation through which we learn, step by step, to live in the light of our true nature. Only when we have truly found ourselves will we be able to live in peace, harmony, and happiness in the world. This is what is sometimes called the sacred life.

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