Why does Back Bending hurt with scoliosis?
Many years ago when I was an early yoga teacher, not yet a therapist, one of my colleagues mentioned that back bending made her unhappy. This woman had scoliosis. I was immediately curious, and my untrained mind was trying to figure out the source, but I didn’t know anything about …
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Back off! Yoga therapy and scoliosis: Part 2
During a class I was teaching on scoliosis, one of the students—a vital, stylish woman in her 80s—mentioned that her friend was constantly pestering her about her posture. “Tell her to back off!” I said. Let me explain. This woman was in possession of an S-shaped scoliotic curve. This means …
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Back off! Yoga therapy and posture: Part 1
Whenever I tell someone I am a yoga therapist I usually get one of several responses. “What is that?” “I need to do more yoga/get back to my yoga practice.” Or, often, “I need to fix my posture!” Although the true purpose of yoga (to calm the whirling of the …
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