Judith Hanson Lasater

Who is Judith Hanson Lasater?

Judith Hanson Lasater is an innovative American yoga teacher and writer, currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She was an early disciple of B.K.S. Iyengar and helped to popularize both Iyengar and Restorative Yoga.

Lasater holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist, and has taught yoga since 1971.

Lasater is President of The California Yoga Teachers Association, which she cofounded in 1974.

In addition, Lasater is a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco as well as a founder of Yoga Journal magazine, where she continues to serve on the advisory boards. She is a regular presenter at the annual Yoga Journal Conference.

Lasater has been called "One of the nation’s foremost instructors," and a "yoga teaching star," having led workshops in 44 states plus Australia, Bolivia, Canada, China, England, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, and Russia.

She is the mother of three grown children.