Judith Lasater: Common Yoga Injuries.

LECTURE: for Teachers:

There is now documentation that thousand of people are seeking healthy care for injuries related to yoga. What can we as teachers and students learn about preventing injuries? What are we doing to our wrists, shoulders, hips and knees that is contributing to injuries? What can we do to prevent these injuries? This audio archive addresses these questions.

*** Please disregard any dinging sounds during this audio as it was recorded from a live tele-class produced by Yoga Spirit.

About JUDITH HANSON LASATER:

The practice of yoga is fundamentally an act of kindness toward oneself. This idea is often forgotten, but not by Judith, whose approach is warm, non-judgmental and responsive to individual differences and needs.

Judith Lasater has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. Judith 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 ongoing yoga classes and trains yoga teachers in kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutra in the San Francisco Bay Area. Judith also gives workshops throughout the United States, and has taught in Canada, England, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Russia.

She is the author of seven books: : Anatomy, YogabodyKinesiology and Asana, A Year of Living Your Yoga, Yoga Abs, Yoga for Pregnancy, 30 Essential Yoga Poses, Living Your Yoga and Relax and Renew.

For more information about Judith, visit her websites: www.judithlasater.com and www.restorativeyogateachers.com