"The Pelvis is Everything" with Judith Hanson Lasater
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
If you've practiced yoga for awhile, it's likely that you've heard a sweeping generalization about alignment in a pose. Often these generalizations get passed around until they become cemented as absolute truths -- when in fact, they're really just true under certain conditions at certain times. Or they're simply myths.
My guest today is Judith Hanson Lasater, who addresses all of this in her newest book, "Yoga Myths: What You Need to Learn and Unlearn for a Safe and Healthy Yoga Practice."
Here are a few highlights from our conversation:
* We talk about how she is handling shelter-in-place and how it's affected her teaching
* Her thoughts on “right and wrong” in yoga and how she frames that conversation instead
* 3 common cues you might hear in yoga class that she says are based on myths about the body
* When it’s appropriate to question something that you’ve learned from your yoga teacher
* Why she says the pelvis is everything!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 2006 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.5 | Today my guest is the always insightful, warm, and funny Judith Hansen Laster. |
| 0:14.9 | Judith let me know on this episode that she is celebrating 50 years of teaching |
| 0:19.9 | yoga next year. So it's always just amazing and wonderful to talk to her. In case you have |
| 0:27.6 | been hiding under a yoga rock and you're not familiar with Judith, she's been teaching since |
| 0:31.7 | 1971, she is also a trained physical therapist and has a doctorate in |
| 0:36.7 | East West psychology. She's one of the founders of Yoga Journal. And she is a pioneer in restorative yoga. |
| 0:44.8 | She's authored more than 10 books on yoga, |
| 0:47.9 | and one of her most popular books is Relax and Renew, |
| 0:50.2 | Restore and Rebalance. |
| 0:52.2 | She has a new book coming out August 25th. It's called |
| 0:55.1 | Yoga Myth's What You Need to Learn and Un Learn for a safe and healthy yoga |
| 1:00.0 | practice and I will put a link on the show notes page to her website Judith |
| 1:04.7 | Hansen Lasseter.com where you can pre-order her book and get 30% off if you order |
| 1:09.7 | before August 25th. So good timing for this podcast. So we talked about her book today and these |
| 1:17.0 | yoga myths are things that you have likely come across in your own practice or teaching, things like you have to tuck your tailbone to protect your |
| 1:25.0 | lower back or pull your abdominals back in toward your backbone. |
| 1:31.1 | And you know with Judith's combined many years of teaching and her physical therapy |
| 1:35.9 | training, she pieces together really in a really thorough digestible way, the pitfalls of just falling into a trap of believing |
| 1:46.9 | that this one instruction is the way that you have to do do things. I was also |
| 1:52.0 | really happy that I had a chance to ask Judith how she's |
| 1:54.9 | doing with shelter in place. We're still pretty sheltered in lockdown here in |
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