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Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times |  | Authors: P.T. Judith Hanson Lasater Ph.D., Judith Lasater
Publisher: Rodmell Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0962713848
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN: 9780962713842
ASIN: 0962713848
Publication Date: August 1995
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Experience the rest of your life with restorative yoga, the supported poses and breathing practices that will help you heal the effects of chronic stress. In Relax and Renew, the first book exclusively devoted to this work, the author offers in-depth guidance in the Basic Relaxation Pose (Savasana), the heart of restorative practice. In addition, this book provides yoga sequences for busy days, including a fifteen-minute practice, yoga at your desk, and the Totally Invisible Relaxation; programs for back pain, headaches, insomnia, jet lag, and breathing problems; a special section for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause; a guide to props; and resources for finding a yoga teacher, recommended books, magazines, newsletters, audio programs, yoga vacations, and more.
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 Excellent Practical Resource May 21, 2010
Natural Abundance (Maryland)
This book gives practical solutions for de-stressing and accomplishing a restorative practice. Easy to follow and great illustrations. Excellent resource for Yoga Teacher Training, which is how I discovered this resource.
Need help letting go of striving? January 25, 2010
Carolyn Grady (Fredonia, NY USA)
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful TimesThis is the classic text on restorative yoga. How I remember when I received my first copy of Relax & Renew: I thought: this is wimpy yoga and I want a more physical practice. I'm not going to hang out in those easy poses!
The book sat, unused, on my bookshelf for several years. Then I finally got it.
I don't know what happened, or when exactly or why, but suddenly the restorative poses made sense. I think it was a natural outcome of several years of regular asana practice. As students travel deeper along on the yogic path, they begin to realize that the reason to attempt "pretzeldom" is to achieve the state of deep relaxation which is conducive to meditative focus.
AS many before me have said: It's not how twisted into pretzeldom you can go, nor is it whether you can perform 108 sun salutations in a row; it is how fast you can drop into the non-thought space. The blissful space of pure being. This is a roundabout way of saying that this is yoga as it should be practiced by all yogis at least once per week. Let go of your striving to achieve armless head balance and enter the blissful state of an extended supported baddhakonasana!
excellent reference August 25, 2009
liacoleman (Toronto, Canada)
This book is wonderful. A+! Excellent use of props and precise directions. A much needed reference for stressed out bodies. Buy one, and then buy one more and give it to someone!
The Definitive Guide to Relaxing with Restorative Yoga March 23, 2009
Martha McKinnon (Phoenix, AZ USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Relax and Renew - Restful Yoga for Stressful Times, is the definitive guide to restorative yoga and restorative yoga postures. Written by Judith Lasater, a physical therapist with a doctorate in east/west psychology who has been teaching yoga since 1971 and authored several yoga books, Relax and Renew is designed to help you de-stress with supported passive yoga poses.
Those who have an active yoga practice will find the poses featured in Relax and Renew a significant departure from what they are used to. In traditional yoga the focus is on active poses followed a brief restorative pose (savasana). If you find that savasana is your favorite part of your yoga class, Relax and Renew may be just what you are looking for since its entire is restorative yoga based poses.
Lasater credits her restorative yoga based poses to BKS Iyengar, a worldwide yoga authority who experimented with props to modify yoga poses so students could experience their benefits without strain. In Relax and Renew, Lasater expands upon this concept to create yoga based poses and pose sequences designed to evoke the relaxation response and heal the effects of chronic stress. She calls restorative yoga "active relaxation."
The first part of Relax and Renew (Chapters 1 through 3) provides background information about stress and and how restorative yoga works to counter its effects. Chapter 2 takes a question and answer approach to providing information on how to get started practicing restorative yoga with details on where to begin, how to begin, what you should wear, what props you will need, etc.
Chapter 3 is devoted to the topic of props - a significant aspect of a restorative yoga practice. She categorizes props as props you lie over, props you place on your body, and props you rest on or against and includes detailed charts for how to fold blankets for various poses.
The remainder of the book focuses on specific restorative poses, a general restorative yoga practice, restorative yoga poses for busy days, restorative yoga poses for the office, and restorative yoga sequences for various conditions such as low back pain, neck pain, insomnia, difficulty breathing, jet lag, women's cycles, pregnancy, and menopause.
Each pose includes instructions for how to set up your props for the pose, getting into the pose, settling into the pose, how to come out of the pose, benefits of the pose, and any cautions. There are also detailed photographs of each of the poses, which are meant to be held for several minutes.
If you are feeling weak, fatigued, and generally stressed out by life, you may want to consider using Relax and Renew to help you begin a restorative yoga practice.
However, if you are used to moving at quantum speed and have difficulty slowing down, you may find this book and the suggestion to rest in supported poses challenging. It may also take some time to learn how to set up the props to support you properly in the various poses. To get the most out of the poses described in Relax and Renew, you will need props including several blankets, pillows, yoga blocks, yoga straps, a yoga bolster, and a chair.
Highly Recommended
to each his own March 5, 2009
Joy L. Bernstein (san antonio, texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a massage therapist, this book is perfect, too easy for few but more than enough for the rest. This day and age our culture of stress and denial of experience, we tend surpress who we really are to accomodate others. This book helps you through all that and physically, emotionally and sprituatlly opens you. This book is perfect enough, I am currently taking her teacher training and let me tell you, I don't feel you have to be a yogi to take this class, everyone should take this class, you will walk away with so much for your own personal good.
People misinterpret headstands as restorative to invigorating...people fear just laying down, without any noise and just be... be still in the moment, this very moment.
I would highly recommend this book because American Yoga is denying what real yoga is about.
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