Judith Hanson Lasater Quotes

• Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Stress, Relax, Essentials

  Judith Hanson Lasater (2016). “Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times”, Shambhala Publications

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• You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Thinking, Compassion, Space

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• I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Kindness, Believe, Yoga

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• Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover our own pose in the moment, it's not practice - it's mimicry. Rest deeply in Savasana every day. Always enter that pratyahara (withdrawn state) every day. And just enjoy yourself. For many years I mistook discipline as ambition. Now I believe it to be more about consistency. Do get on the mat. Practice and life are not that different.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Inspiring, Teacher, Believe

  Interview with Kelle Walsh, www.yogajournal.com. November 11, 2008.

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• I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Yoga, Thinking, Soul

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• Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Yoga

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• Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Dancing, Joy, Spinning

  Judith Hanson Lasater (2016). “Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life”, p.125, Shambhala Publications

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• What you want to get as a teacher is not an email or a Facebook post that says, 'I learned so much about headstands in your class'. What you want to get is 'I learned so much about myself and my life in your class'.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Teacher, Class, Email

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• Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Giving, Joy, Looks

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• The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Past, Offering, Community

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• As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Swimming, Ceilings, Titles

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• Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Strong, Compassion, People

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• Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Balance, Arms, Changed

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• I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Nice, Believe, Great Things

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• Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Dancing, Electrons

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• Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Attitude, Communication, Compassion

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• We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Extraordinary Beauty, Realization, Difficulty

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• We are deep into the year of the dragon and all around the intensity of the collective pushes forward to a new age. The pieces and parts, the far-flung shades of life that make our hearts beat faster are starting to coalesce directly to the source.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Heart, Dragons, Years

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• I believe we are capable of great things.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Believe, I Believe, Great Things

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• Compassion is the litmus test.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Compassion, Tests

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• I believe myself capable of great things.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Believe, I Believe, Great Things

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