We ask you, what’re the final few days of 2009 without a YD giveaway? Yep, there’s still time to squeeze one in, 2009! As we shimmy our way into the dawn of a new decade, what plans do you have for closing the chapter of ’00s and sallying forth into the wild yonder of millennium teens?
Allow us to assist you with that, you fine specimens. Presenting the final giveaway of 2009! And what a perfect way to end the year and begin anew with Judith Hanson Lasater’s Living Your Yoga.
About the book:
In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as practice. Using the time-honored wisdom of the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita to steer the course, the author serves up off-the-mat practices to guide you in deepening your relationships with yourself, your family and friends, and the world around you.
It’s off the mat and into 2010!
TO ENTER: Since we’re already full of yummy treats, this one is going to be cake. Have a favorite memory or reflection from 2009? Have a plan in the pipeline for 2010? An asana to work on? A goal to live more mindfully? Add your thoughts in the comments! That’s it.
Oh, and there will be TEN copies to giveaway, and you’ll ave until the end of next week to enter. Hooray for free and helpful things! Winners will be chosen at random and announced next week.
Happy New Year! Happy New You 
Huge thanks to Rodmell Press for making this giveaway possible.
Also check out JudithLasater.com
UPDATE: WINNERS!
Thank you all so much for offering your motivational goals and reflections. Cheers for 2010! The 10 winners are listed below (as they were randomly chosen, with comment #’s to help)
7 Andrea
24 Jennifer
33 Lena
5 Jessica
19 Brooke
26 Shannon
45 Nick David Wright
66 Sally King
58 moi
10 blackorice
Please send your mailing addresses to yogadork@gmail.com!
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My goal for 2010 is to finish the Yoga Teacher Training program I’m in and start imparting on my own students the great gift of yoga! I also would like to work on deepening my practice off the mat through greater compassion for myself and others. This book would help me do that!
My goal for 2010 is to simply be here now.
My goal for 2010 is self-care every day: yoga+music.
My goals for 2010 are: (1)I will be positive every. single. day and make at least 3 people smile. (2) I will make yoga an everyday practice.
My most favorite memory for 2009? I was able to spend the holiday season with my family for the first time in 4 years!
I began my yoga practice in 2009, and I would like to continue my practice in 2010. My goal is to dedicate time each day to the mat so I might grow and learn in my practice.
2010 will be a year full of all good things physically, mentally and spiritually….do lots of yoga, eat lots of good things, and take time to enjoy life.
2009 bubbled to a close with the energies of impending change churning below the surface. As those bubbles pop I hope each energetic release calls me to greater awareness and invokes a stronger connection to the trifold path of yoga, writing, and photography I feel before me.
My goal in my yoga is to just be, surrender with no expectations. I think I’m finally learning.
I’m working on:
* breathing
* making full use of my senses
in every moment.
In general, continue to notice how much my asana practice infiltrates my off-the-mat life through breath and body awareness, counterposes, backbending for energy, forwardbending for calm, focus, and intent.
My work on Bakasana is carrying on from ’09 into ’10. I had a breakthrough on the living room floor of my in-law’s house over the Christmas break! Pushing the floor away with your hands and really lifting out of the elbows provides a great lift in the pose! Someday very very soon I’ll be able to hold it for more than a few seconds. I have some less-egotistical goals as well…but I’ll keep those to myself for now
Working on getting off my mat more, when teaching yoga.
Also to stay off the computer!
gaileee
In 2010 I will perfect scorpion and bakasana. I will learn and pronounce all sanskrit terms for asanas and series. Teach more classes and be a better teacher for myself and my students. I will think only postive thoughts about myself and others as well.
Stick with a good home practice as well meditation daily. My headstand will be perfect by end of January so i can pop up anywhere like Cora.
In 2009, I had a week of perfect gratitude. I was able to meet and thank two people whose work has utterly transformed my life. One was a former geneticist who helped formulate the biologic drug that keeps me walking, playing and down dogging; the other was Anusara Yoga founder John Friend, whose insight on the human form and embodying bliss keeps me present in my body, no matter how tricky a place it can be at times.
My goal for 2010 is to move into the new life phase of first-time motherhood with as much patience, grace, and minfulness as I can.
2010. It’s finally here. My life changed drastically (physically, emotionally, and financially) in 2009 and I had to accept the reality in all three areas. Very challenging. My goal for 2010 (and forever) is to try to let more things “roll off my back”; I mean, the things that really aren’t my fault and the things that I shouldn’t take so seriously. This goal demands that I live in the present and appreciate all that I have; to have my “eyes looking forward” while still living in the NOW. I’ve truly realized that we are not in control of many aspects of our lives; a huge lesson for me! Sure, I “want” certain asanas (full wheel, for example), but more than that, I want to learn to be unflappable.
My hope for 2010 is that I learn to patient with myself and all that life hands me.
My 2010 intention is to be polite with my energy and meet my future boyfriend! Namaste to all.
My 2010 intention is to take advantage of the career crossroads I’ve been offered at the completion of my PhD and center my new career path on what I really LOVE doing rather than what I’ve been trained to do!
winners have been announced! if you haven’t checked it could be you
thanks to all!
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