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A unique vocabulary exists that ascribes a variety of emotions to the belly: my guts are in a knot, I knew it in my gut, gut-wrenching, and no guts, no glory. Yet too often, more emphasis is placed on the way the abdomen looks than how it feels and functions - a sterling six-pack can mask true abdominal trouble. Yoga Abs outlines a series of exercises, yoga poses (asana), and breathing practices designed to achieve optimal health for this crucial area, which houses the organs of both digestion and procreation. Drawing on her experience as a yoga. Read more...
Abstract: A unique vocabulary exists that ascribes a variety of emotions to the belly: my guts are in a knot, I knew it in my gut, gut-wrenching, and no guts, no glory. Yet too often, more emphasis is placed on the way the abdomen looks than how it feels and functions - a sterling six-pack can mask true abdominal trouble. Yoga Abs outlines a series of exercises, yoga poses (asana), and breathing practices designed to achieve optimal health for this crucial area, which houses the organs of both digestion and procreation. Drawing on her experience as a yoga
Abstract: A unique vocabulary exists that ascribes a variety of emotions to the belly: my guts are in a knot, I knew it in my gut, gut-wrenching, and no guts, no glory. Yet too often, more emphasis is placed on the way the abdomen looks than how it feels and functions - a sterling six-pack can mask true abdominal trouble. Yoga Abs outlines a series of exercises, yoga poses (asana), and breathing practices designed to achieve optimal health for this crucial area, which houses the organs of both digestion and procreation. Drawing on her experience as a yoga
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Praise forYoga Abs
In Yoga Abs, Judith Hanson Lasater provides a much-needed and fresh look at the
abdominal muscles. Bypassing the usual curls and crunches, she examines their
lesser-knownbut more importantfunction as spine and torso stabilizers.
The exercises integrate abdominal awareness into yoga poses, and range from
very gentle, which are appropriate for postpartum mothers, to challenging
enough for advanced yoga practitioners. She even includes a section about how
to use the abdominals in daily activities. Yoga Abs will appeal to a wide audience.
abdominal muscles. Bypassing the usual curls and crunches, she examines their
lesser-knownbut more importantfunction as spine and torso stabilizers.
The exercises integrate abdominal awareness into yoga poses, and range from
very gentle, which are appropriate for postpartum mothers, to challenging
enough for advanced yoga practitioners. She even includes a section about how
to use the abdominals in daily activities. Yoga Abs will appeal to a wide audience.
Julie Gudmestad, P.T., director, Gudmestad Yoga Studio, Portland, Oregon; author of Yoga Journals Anatomy of a Yogi column
Well beyond cosmetic concerns, the lack of strength and flexibility in the abdominal muscles contributes to everything from back pain to falls in the elderly. In Yoga Abs, Judith Hanson Lasater shows how to tell if these muscles are weak and provides a step-by-step plan to remedy the situation. If you still think that stomach crunches are the best way to firm up your belly, do yourself a favor and buy this book.
Timothy McCall, M.D., medical editor of Yoga Journal; author of Yoga as Medicine
Judith Hanson Lasaters expert yoga guidance will introduce you to muscles that you never knew you had and to new ways of using them! Both practical and compassionate, Yoga Abs is a vote for intuition and self-reliance.
Julie Lawrence, director, Julie Lawrence Yoga Center, Portland, Oregon
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)
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)
Also by Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., P.T. and published by Rodmell Press
To Ike Kampmann Lasater, whose clarity and love enrich my life every day
Acknowledgments
My sincere thanks to all who made this book a reality.
My family is a constant support and inspiration: Ike, Miles, Kam, and Elizabeth.
My deep namaste to B. K. S. Iyengar, for his willingness to share his knowledge of yoga with me.
I am grateful to Julie Gudmestad, P.T., Julie Lawrence, and Timothy McCall, M.D., not only for their endorsements, but also for their friendship.
My enthusiastic appreciation goes to the photography crew: photographer David Martinez, model Diane Sherman, hair and makeup artist France Dushane, studio manager Aneata Hagy, photographers assistant Hudson Cuneo, and caterer Jeff Mason, who contributed to the visual presentation of this book. I enjoyed so much the spirit of teamwork that prevailed.
I appreciate Hugger-Mugger Yoga Products, who generously provided their props for the photographs.
I extend my gratitude to the editorial and design team at Rodmell Press for their expertise and vision: editor and photo producer Linda Cogozzo, copy editor Kathryn L. Kaiser, indexer Ty Koontz, and designers Gopa and Veetam, at Gopa & Ted2, Inc.
I especially thank my publishers, Donald Moyer and Linda Cogozzo, for their immeasurable help and encouragement in shaping this book.
Finally, I acknowledge my yoga students, for their commitment to yoga practice and their enthusiasm for learning new things.
Part One
A Gut Feeling
ALTHOUGH THE ABDOMEN, or belly, is at the center of the body, you probably seldom notice it unless you experience pain or dysfunction there. In asana practice, you are likely to pay more attention to the alignment of the vertebral column (spine), and to the actions of the arms and legs. But it is this center that holds the focus of the body, so to speak. The trunk not only houses the bulk of the organs, but also provides a muscular fulcrum around which movement occurs. Simply put, the belly is our core.
To understand the relationship of your core to the practice of asana (yoga poses), a few definitions are in order. For the purposes of this book, the stomach is an organ that is lodged below the front of the lower left ribs, and is the secondary site of digestion after the mouth. The abdomen is a specific anatomical area bounded posteriorly by the lumbar spine and sacrum, laterally by the ilia of the pelvis and ribs, and anteriorly by the sternum and pubis. The abdomen is the soft body of organs and muscles that begins below the respiratory diaphragm, and ends at the pelvic floor. The abdomen houses the organs of digestion, assimilation, elimination, and procreation. The heart and lungs are the only organs located above it.
Finally, I use the word abdomen to refer to the anatomical aspects of this area, and the word belly to describe the metaphysical or philosophical aspects of the abdomen.
The Western Belly
I remember clearly my first conscious experience of what we commonly call a gut feeling. I was seven years old, and we were watching Richard Nixon on television. I experienced a strange sensation in my belly, and told my father, in my childish language, that Nixon was a bad man. I was chastised for being disrespectful to the vice president of the United States, but years later the Water-gate scandal would bear out my gut feeling that Nixon was less than honest.
Every day, we are aware of things around us that we do not always consciously understand. And we even have the language to describe it. We say such things as, My guts are in a knot; I knew it in my gut; The experience was gut-wrenching; and No guts, no glory. We use language to ascribe a variety of emotions to the belly.
It turns out that science agrees. In The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine, author Michael Gershon, M.D., offers proof of this amazing concept. He explains that scattered throughout the abdomen and chest are neurological sites that respond to neurotransmitters in the same way that the brain does. It seems that when you feel that you know something in your gut, you do. Gershon designates these sites the second brain. This second brain has a primitive knowing that has kept the human race alive throughout millennia by alerting us to danger from predators, both human and animal. I call these functioning structures the belly brain.
This knowing is often ignored or discounted in our postmodern world. In fact, there seems to be a sharp contrast between the philosophical view of the abdomen and belly in the West and in the East. Western culture generally has a simpler view, a physiological view, of this area. Although we do recognize the intrinsic subtle power of the abdomen or belly to some extent, we are not as concerned with the energy. Instead, we care about how it looks.
We are aware that the abdominal center contains the solar plexus. Physiologically, the solar plexus is located behind the stomach and is the site of two large ganglia, or masses of nerve tissue. We understand that a well-placed punch in the solar plexus affects us adversely. We may even have a vague sense that this area holds some sort of power.
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