30 Essential Yoga Poses For Beginning Students and Their Teachers

Provides thirty yoga poses and variations, breathing exercises, and guidanceor practicing at home.

Judith Lasater has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. She 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 yoga classes and trains yoga teachers in kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutra in the San Francisco Bay Area. She 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. Her best-selling Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times (Rodmell Press, 1995) is the first book devoted exclusively to the supported yoga poses and breathing techniques that make up restorative yoga. Her second book is entitled Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life (Rodmell Press, 2000). 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 Judith Lasater lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.