Book Review by Heidi Allen

Living Your Yoga Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life By Judith Lasater, PH.D., P.T., R.Y.T. Support Plano Yoga Connection and buy this book at Amazon.com

Sometimes is seems difficult to transfer what we learn in the studio to our everyday life. "Living Your Yoga", as the title suggests, is a times quite hard to do. Many times we seek some realistic ideas to help do just that.

This book is filled with examples of personal, daily life events experienced by Dr. Lasater and how she, as a yoga teacher, uses "off-the-mat" techniques to deal with them. She has a husband, children, friends, students and she weaves her yoga through these relationships and observes how it leads her to a better, more centered way to live. Dr. Lasater quotes the wisdom of the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita to help wade through daily life trials. Each chapter ends with "Mantras for Daily Living" and other helpful daily practices.

Dr. Lasater writes that the strength of her yoga is not tested in her poses or breathing but in her relationships. Bringing an awareness of yoga into daily life with family or anyone we meet can change the way we relate to them and/or the situation- always for the better. It reminds us to stay connected with our true selves.