Yoga Myths
What You Need to Learn and Unlearn for a Safe and Healthy Yoga Practice
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"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.
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Release date
August 25, 2020 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780834843004
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780834843004
- File size: 65509 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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June 15, 2020
Yoga teacher Lasater (Restore and Rebalance) tackles a number of “yoga myths” in this lucid and instructive guide. Whether discussing standing poses, twists, forward bends, backbends, or inversions, Lasater focuses on anatomy (which can be dense reading for newbies) and observes that “alignment and ease are always more important in asana practice than an ambitious, increased, and forced range of movement.” In the first chapter, “It’s All About the Curves,” Lasater warns against the familiar prompt to “tuck the tailbone.” Likewise, in “Saving Your Neck” she asks if she can “respectfully suggest” that students discard neck rolls, which serve no discernible purpose and may cause harm. In general, she writes, “we always suffer when we go against our body’s intelligence,” adding, “Your hip joint is smarter than you.” Lasater also addresses practicing yoga safely during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause, and emphasizes the calming and essential role of the concluding Deep Relaxation Pose. This wise and detailed guidebook (accompanied by black-and-white photos) will help students and teachers alike to remember to listen to their bodies and practice yoga with awareness.
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