Healing Our Backs With Yoga

You can help heal your body. Lillah's intent is to put you in charge of your back health. By sharing with you the important principles of movement, alignment, and pain management that will help you discover your own healing potential with yoga. Enjoy a safe practice adjusted to meet your needs. Learn to think differently about your body and yoga.

"To many of his patients [Dr. Fishman] is a miracle worker." —Jane E. Brody, New York Times “Stunningly innovative. . . . This is the first book in which the different causes of back pain are identified and assigned appropriate yoga poses. Individuals of any age, even those unfamiliar with yoga, will be able to follow Dr. Fishman’s simple instructions.” —Joan White, Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States Let internationally renowned rehabilitation specialist Loren Fishman, MD, be your personal instructor for a healthier back! With down-to-earth techniques and instruction for all levels, Cure Back Pain with Yoga helps you: • distinguish between the nine major causes of backache; • target your source of pain through diagnosis-specific yoga poses; • manage, reduce, and ultimately end your pain. Depending on the severity and chronicity of your pain, the postures in this guide, described in detail and illustrated by photographs, will help you determine how to start your own yoga practice or alter your existing practice in order to achieve lasting comfort and strength.

Back Care Basics offers the low-cost solution for back care in the new millennium: therapeutic yoga. Dr. Schatz’s approach to back rehabilitation is gentle, effective, and doesn't resort to drugs or surgery. Her program encourages both positive health practices and a positive outlook; the important tools needed for prevention and healing. Dr. Schatz has designed this program to help those with pain from chronic musculoskeletal back and neck strain, spinal arthritis, osteoporosis, premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, and scoliosis. Simple and practical ways to heal the back, restructure the body, and cope with stress are taught so that one becomes more sensitive to early warning signs of an impending "back attack" and what to do to ward it off.

According to Consumer Reports, 80% of all adults suffer from back pain. For those millions, The Yoga Back Book offers a complete guide to back care with guided yoga stretches, exercises, and other relaxation techniques. Stella Weller’s sensible approach offers a gentle yet effective way to spinal health without drugs or surgery. The exercises in The Yoga Back Book have been carefully selected to help heal problem backs. By following this easy course, readers will effect a gradual stretching, strengthening, and relaxing of the back, which can ease away the causes of back pain. The Yoga Back Book features:Tips for basic back care—including nutrition for a healthy spineTechniques easily incorporated into daily lifeSimple lessons on how to sit, stand, bend, get up, and lie down without causing pain or undue stress on your backHow the back works and what can go wrong120 black and white photos illustrating each yoga pose For anyone with back pain, The Yoga Back Book offers a complete course in managing back problems in one easy to-use volume.

This book guide you on how to do yoga with the general lower back with neck, shoulders, and hip focus offers simple, back pain-relieving poses and sequences. These promote pain relief and free, unrestricted movement. They are suitable for all levels and can be done anywhere, anytime. This book gives tools to safeguard back health, for everyday living, for sporting activities, and beyond. The author is a yoga therapist with spine specialization. She is a senior yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance Professionals) and BWY (British Wheel of Yoga), accredited by the BCYT (British Council for Yoga Therapy) and CNHC registered. In this book, she gives a modern approach to ancient, healing wisdom to help you get a better life.

Relieve stress, aches, and pains with healing yoga sequences Whether you want to address a specific injury, alleviate general soreness and stiffness, or simply take good care of your body and mind, this guide offers 10 easy and approachable sequences for relieving pain and stress so you can get back to feeling and functioning your best. Tailor your yoga healing practice to your needs with poses and sequences that focus on specific areas of your body, like your neck, back, hips, and legs. You'll find practical pose modifications based on injury, health condition, and flexibility level, plus helpful pointers for avoiding injury and getting the most out of each pose. This exploration of yoga therapy includes: A simple introduction—Explore an easy-to-understand guide that includes the most common forms, why it's used for healing, the role of yogic breathing, and much more. Tips for success—Get suggestions for successfully establishing a practice, like regularly changing your selection of poses and sequences to focus on both upper- and lower-body strength and flexibility. Guides to pinpoint your pain—Anatomical images help you better customize your practice to target your personal aches and pains. Heal yourself holistically with 10 simple sequences designed to ease your mind and body.

This unique book offers a framework for using yoga therapeutically to heal back and spinal problems. Combining detailed instruction on evaluation and treatment techniques with personal narrative and case studies, Yoga for a Happy Back bridges the gap between practicing yoga for better physical health and understanding the role of the mind-body connection in back pain. Utilising her vast experience as a physical therapist and yoga therapist, and the latest advances in the field, Krentzman advises on how to design therapeutic yoga classes for individuals with back pain. She includes information on creating class themes, and never before published sequences from the Purna yoga tradition for alignment based treatment of specific spinal conditions. With over 300 photos and illustrations, this book enables practitioners to access the benefits of yoga therapy for the treatment of orthopaedic dysfunctions and to promote general spinal health.