Certified Yoga Therapy expert Lillah Schwartz clearly explains movement principles, basic anatomy, breath awareness, and the central elements of alignment-based yoga to help you uncover your own healing potential and move toward back pain relief.
Step-by-step instructions with 27 pose sequences, 285 color photos, explanations, hints, and cautions take the guesswork out of yoga so you can practice simple and powerful poses aimed at healing your back.
Whether you are a seasoned yoga teacher or a first-time yoga practitioner, Healing Our Backs With Yoga offers the keys to unlock the natural healing capabilities of the body.
The book includes clear instructions along with hints and cautions to guide the reader on his or her healing journey, and is written with all levels of yoga practitioners in mind. The average person and beginning yoga student will find the background information on physiology helpful in starting a practice to help heal back pain. Other levels of experience will learn to think of their practices in a new light. And, yoga teachers will find new ways to help students along with a new way to think of their own practices.