Judith Hanson Lasater

Lasater gained her bachelor's degree in physical therapy, and a doctorate in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.

[3] She taught her yoga classes in the 1970s in a simple rented room, hanging a photograph of Iyengar on the wall.

[13] She helped to make the journal accurate, technical, and with a strong emphasis on yoga's therapeutic value, continuing a tradition started by Indra Devi.

[16] She continues to serve on Yoga Journal's advisory boards,[10] and is a regular presenter at its annual conference.

[17] Lasater has been called "One of the nation's [i.e. the USA's] foremost [yoga] instructors",[1] and a "yoga teaching star",[2] having led workshops in 44 American states as well as in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, China, England, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, and Russia.