Judith Lasater coming to Salt Lake City

Do you want to become a restorative yoga teacher and need training? Do you live in or near the Salt Lake City area, or are willing to travel from a neighboring state? Here’s your chance to train with renowned restorative yoga guru Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, P.T.

On February 6-10, 2010, Judith will be in Salt Lake City offering her Relax and Renew Learning to Teach Restorative Yoga Teacher’s Training at the Black Box Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Cost is $600 if paid by December 1, 2010. A deposit of $300 is required to reserve your space, so don’t hesitate! Make an investment in your teaching career and add restorative yoga to your valuable experience.

Judith Hanson Lasater

Judith Lasater, the author of Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times, is an internationally-known yoga teacher and has taught since 1971. She is a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco as well as Yoga Journal magazine. Judith is the author of several books including A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life (2006), and writes frequently on yoga and health for several nationally recognized magazines.

In Salt Lake City, Judith will team up with Charlotte Bell, a Salt Lake City yoga teacher and author of Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life: A Guide for Everyday Practice, to conduct the training.  Charlotte has been practicing yoga since 1982 and began teaching in 1986. In 1989 Charlotte became certified in the Iyengar style of yoga, and received her 500-hour certification from the Yoga Alliance in 2000. She currently teaches a restorative yoga class at Avenues Yoga in Salt Lake City.

If you would like to register for the Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga Teacher Training in Salt Lake City, email Charlotte Bell at charlottebell@earthlink.net.

Live your yoga every day of the year

I bought A Year of Living Your Yoga, a little jewel of a book written by Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., P.T.  at the Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park, Colorado, last year after I had the pleasure of going to one of her restorative yoga workshops. Okay, I was a little starstruck. Judith Lasater is one of my favorite teachers, and I’m a big fan of restorative yoga if you haven’t noticed already from my other posts. I can’t say enough about how restorative yoga has changed and shaped my life, and I’m planning to become a certified Rest & Relax Restorative Yoga Teacher next February when Judith visits Salt Lake City and teams up with Charlotte Bell for a 20-hour teacher training. I can’t count the days on my calendar fast enough.

A Year of Living Your Yoga is a precious compilation of daily practices and quotes that will inspire and shape your life. This little book graces my yoga room and I read a passage every day before I start my practice. For example, today’s passage renews us with the value of wonder: 

If you want to understand wonder, look at the face of a child closely examining a bug. Living your yoga: Losing touch with your wonder is sad. Wonder perfectly combines curiosity, gratitude, and presence. Today find something to observe in wonder: a flower, the sky, a tree, and notice how this reconnects you with life (A Year of Living Your Yoga, August 16, 2009)

Every day graces us with a lesson on how to live life through the practice of yoga, on and off the mat. Consider adding this little gem to your yoga library and become inspired by Judith’s wisdom. Buy your copy now by clicking here.

Book Review: A Woman’s Book of Yoga & Health

A Woman’s Book of Yoga & Health is an important reference that should be part of every woman’s library.  I keep it in my yoga room and, because I take it out pretty frequently, it’s pages are becoming dog-eared, but that’s okay, it’s worth it.

Written by Linda Sparrow, with yoga sequences by Patricia Walden, and a foreword by well-known restorative yoga guru Judith Hansen Lasater, Ph.D., A Woman’s Book of Yoga & Health (Copyright 2002, Shambhala Publications, Inc.) is an inspirational and practical guide to life-long wellness crafted especially for women as they experience the many cycles of life.  This well-written and thoroughly researched book is complete with pose sequences (and exceptional photos!) for menstruation, menopause, post-menopause, pregnancy, depression, digestion, immunity, back pain, and headaches.  There’s also comprehensive chapters covering restorative yoga poses, and yoga poses for strengthening your heart and how yoga can help those suffering from osteoporosis.

“Today more than ever, it’s crucial that we include practices in our daily lives that promote health and spiritual growth.  The state of the environment, the stresses created by the world’s ever-increasing population’s demand on dwindling resources, and political unrest are signposts of the critical state we face.  If we want a world worth living in, and worth leaving to future generations, we need to take responsibility by creating well-being in our lives and by supporting others as they choose healthier lives. In other words, to transform the world, we first have to transform ourselves.” (Excerpted from Foreword written by Judith Hansen Lasater, Ph.D., P.T. in A Woman’s Book of Yoga & Health, a Lifelong Guide to Wellness.

If you only buy one book this year to inspire your yoga journey, this should be the one! To order your copy, click below!