Lovely article from Judith Hanson Lasater on home practice...
"I don't have a rigid view of
what my practice is going to be. My practice needs to listen to my life.
We're trying to make our life listen to our practice. So let your
practice conform to your life. Don't make it something outside the
boundaries of where you are and what you're feeling and what you're
needing. "
-- Judith Hanson Lasater
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Showing posts with label Judith Lasater. Show all posts
Saturday, 2 November 2013
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Judith Hanson Lasater
Just listened to this interview with Eva Norlyk Smith of YogaUOnline.com
and Judith Hanson Lasater (find via yogadork) and Judith had some very interesting points. I recommend having a look/listen. She talks about why yoga is not so much about poses as it’s about
exploration and experience, and some of the challenges yoga teachers
face.
One of my favourite bits...
"...People don’t have to touch their palms on the floor, they don’t have to get their knees down to the floor in Baddha Konasana.
As yoga practitioners, that’s not what we need to aim for, and as teachers, it’s not our job to make them do these things! Our job to create a space in which they can explore being present, a space that allows them to evoke the best parts of themselves. And as teachers, that is reflected and expressed through our words and our touch and our demeanor, and the spirit and context that we create within the class.
When I, as a teacher, can create an environment in which people are choosing, out of their own power and volition, to move in the direction of wholeness and health, then I’ve succeeded. When we help students choose to move in the direction of health, that is a victory.
We’re all here to make mistakes—to screw things up and to figure it out. We make mistakes on all kinds of levels, and then we try to clean up the mess, try to learn from it. We’re here to explore the things we can’t do, as well as the things we can—with love and attention. And that’s practice, that’s yoga."
--Judith Hanson Lasater
One of my favourite bits...
"...People don’t have to touch their palms on the floor, they don’t have to get their knees down to the floor in Baddha Konasana.
As yoga practitioners, that’s not what we need to aim for, and as teachers, it’s not our job to make them do these things! Our job to create a space in which they can explore being present, a space that allows them to evoke the best parts of themselves. And as teachers, that is reflected and expressed through our words and our touch and our demeanor, and the spirit and context that we create within the class.
When I, as a teacher, can create an environment in which people are choosing, out of their own power and volition, to move in the direction of wholeness and health, then I’ve succeeded. When we help students choose to move in the direction of health, that is a victory.
We’re all here to make mistakes—to screw things up and to figure it out. We make mistakes on all kinds of levels, and then we try to clean up the mess, try to learn from it. We’re here to explore the things we can’t do, as well as the things we can—with love and attention. And that’s practice, that’s yoga."
--Judith Hanson Lasater
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Recommended Read
Judith Lasater's Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times Is a great place to start if you are interested in incorporating restoratives into your yoga practice in a balanced way. Reading this you might be inspired to include just one or two restorative postures in your daily practice. Or you may choose to devote one entire practice each week to restoratives...i certainly do!
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