Restore and Rebalance: Yoga for Deep Relaxation [Paperback]

Restorative yoga teacher Judith Hanson Lasater offers a program of yoga poses to help rebalance your mind and body and counteract the effects of chronic stress.

Restorative yoga offers the body a chance to rest deeply and revitalize. Whether you are feeling weak, fatigued, stressed from daily activities, or simply need to slow down and tune into your body, this wonderfully adaptive practice is essential for well being. Many of the practices are simple and accessible for people of all ages and in all states of health, using props that are readily available—like pillows and chairs. These deeply relaxing poses help you

• rebalance your mind and body
•  create feelings of wellbeing, and counteract the effects of chronic stress
• recover from injury or illness
• lower blood pressure, and elevate and stabilize your mood

Discover how just a few minutes a day of active, supported rest can improve your mood, your energy, and your sense of physical comfort and ease.“As we increase the speed of our communications and interactions, Restorative Yoga becomes more indispensable to our practice and our lives. I’m grateful for master teacher Judith Hanson Lasater, who continues to elevate the conversation with this new compilation of detailed, advanced Restorative postures, highlighting a universal truth of self-care in practice—slowing down is just another way of waking up.”—Elena Brower, author ofArt of AttentionandPractice You

“With insight, playfulness, precision and big heart, Judith Hanson Lasater gives us the radical teaching that being relaxed and being present go together, and then lights the way with twenty restorative poses, eleven sequences and immeasurable inspiration. This new resource is as essential to yogis as a yoga mat.”—Cyndi Lee, author ofYoga Body, Buddha Mind