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A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life

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I'm admittedly a huge fan of Judith Hanson Lasater's other works, so naturally I was anticipating her latest offering: "A Year Of Living Your Yoga". Borrowing the theme of her other popular publication, "Living Your Yoga", Lasater has created a daily meditation style book that gives bite sized wisdom that you can use daily. Each day, there is a proverb along with a suggestion of how to apply it to your day to day life. For those who want live their yoga and not just "do" yoga, this is a nice little way to do it.

Short and concise meditations, the perfect way to start the day with a positive and uplifting thought. A helpful reminder of what is really important in our (often) hectic lives.

This is a fantastic book to use if you are a yoga teacher. It gives great ideas for class themes, or to use in your own practice. The writings are thought provoking and uplifting. A good read, even if you don't practice yoga.

This small hardback book falls under the category of "calendar book" and is also what I term a "bathroom book."

You don't sit down and read this like a novel - what you get are tiny, thoughtful blurbs, one for each date of they year, about bringing yoga into all areas of your life.

Sometimes the book is a bit too simple with nuggets like: You need a red pair of shoes! Drive the speed limit! Or, chocolate is sacred and you deserve to eat some!

And there are a lot of family-oriented homilies such as reminders to model behavior for your grandchildren. This is a wasted day if you don't have children, much less grandkids! But in the days where something does not apply to me I try to mentally replace the words, as in, "model behavior for your nieces," or just flip around to find a blurb that speaks to me instead of the one slotted for that particular date.

The VAST majority of the daily aphorisms (teachings) are quite thoughtful, providing good spiritual reminders towards bringing your yoga practice into your daily existence. Sometimes I resist these little "daily dose" type books as simplistic and honey, but this one is worthwhile.

For example, September 23 reminds us the nature of the mind is to be agitated. The author gently reminds us in an aphorism about meditation that this is to be expected, and that's it's better to *be* with your mental agitation than to try to control or eliminate it. June 29th just recently reminded me to love people in spite of themselves, in spite of myself (a very useful daily mantra when seeking peace in all kinds of frustrating interactions).

One can use this book also as an adjunct to writing in a personal yoga journal. If I wasn't lazy about journaling, I think I'd find that pretty useful. :)

More uses: this would be a very nice gift book for anyone exploring yoga. It would make a good by the bedside kind of book, for people to meditate on these ideas upon arising or before sleep. Or take the book along on any mass transit commutes, to read and think when traveling.

As for myself, I keep it in the bathroom, so I may mull over my relationship with the teachings as I sit on the throne. :)

Each night when I go to be I read the next days thought. Then through the day I try to action it. It is amazing that each days entry seems to be exactly what you need to think about. An amazing book, will help you build compassion to every moment.

This is an excellent product for a teacher to use for the "goal setting" at the end of each class. It is also wonderful for anyone searching for a "daily goal". I highly recommend it.

Judith - your wisdom just keeps extending. This book has found a home and will be used beyond "a year".

I enjoy picking this book up everyday and reading a passage or too. It is very inspirational and motivating. It gives you something to reflect on and think about throughout the day. Something positive.

This book I purchased to read to my students as we begin our yoga practice. The meditations are short and sweet and start our practice off just right. I highly recommend this.

I got this book at the end of 2008 and deciced to wait until 2009 to start it. Obviously, I have not gone through all of the daily practices yet, but so far, I am loving this book.

There is a daily practice for every day of the week. What I love about this is that each practice is short and to the point, but at the same time delivers a dose of spirituality to my day.

The book is set up by month, and under each date you will find a one or two sentence 'thought' and under it a brief description of the thought. At times, you are asked to feel, at other times you are asked to think or act.

The book size is nice and compact and the overall book is cheerful and wonderful to carry around.

I love it.