Customer Reviews

Yoga Abs: Moving from Your Core

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I found this book to be inspiring. It gave me permission to have a soft feminine tummy, and still be strong. I love the exercises that are geared toward strength while giving care for the back. Judith knows alot about the human body and she explains that it is OK to have a round soft tummy. Its not natural for us to have be flat or have abs of steel. After doing the exercises I can feel my core getting stronger. I love this book!

Judith is always so good at being very clear with descriptions. I am a huge a fan of hers. This book is very good for beginners. If you are looking for a really good workout for your abs this is not the book.

Good, but not great -- and from experience, I know it is easy to cheat abdominal work during yoga. This is a nice, soothing explanation of core work. However, I would want a bit more explanation. Yoga abdominal work is only half of the issue. You need a mid-body, front and back, work out in yoga to balance the musculature and create that lovely flat tummy. I didn't see much of that here. However, Ms. Lasater definitely knows her stuff and definitely knows her audience. Good book overall.

i think it is really basic and might be useful for yoga beginners. It is just not something I am looking for.

I have been teaching yoga for a while now an love reading any books by Ms. Lasater. I always get something new from them to take to my classes.

As a Pro Trainer and Self Transformed 'Fat Kid', I don't totally agree that 'flat abs, etc. is not natural'.

Having lived through my personal transformation, I know first hand how natural it can be.

That being said, this book gives a great perspective on a subject that many people struggle with. Any exerciser will be able to get something out of this book, as this subject area still needs more experts to educate the general public.

Add it to your fitness library.

Joey Atlas - The Wizard of Fitness
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You can count on it being a good item when it is put out by Judith Hanson Lasater

I usually enjoy Lasater's books. My teacher training required us to have one of them, and I found it useful, this book to me was a waste of a perfectly good amazon gift certificate.
There was no new information, it reitterated all of the information I already knew, and I found it did not actually hold that many asanas, ie: stand tall and raise your leg out in front of you to strengthen the psoas - kind of like padangusthasana, but honestly - I already knew this - and several other modifications of poses. I guess I just had high hopes of more complex series. This is a book best for the layperson with little knowledge of anatomy and yoga who needs help to figure some things out.

I'm a big fan of yoga for all-over body fitness - mind, body, and spirit. This book presents great yoga poses for strengthening the body's core. A companion book to this one is Mary El-Baz's "Transform Your Core 6-Week Workbook."