This One Little Tool You Can Find at a Hardware Store Can Help Heal Your Back Pain
Try these eight ways to practice with a dowel and watch it quickly become your new favorite yoga prop for back pain.
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Yoga for Back Health: How to Walk with More Ease (Because a Slight Rotation Is Probably Missing from Your Stride)
Liberate your steps with two simple moves from yoga therapist Alison West.
Yoga for Back Health: 8 Poses You Can Do at Your Desk to Improve Posture
Deskbound at the office or at home? Starting to slouch? These strengthening and lengthening poses will help you sit with support and ease.
Yoga for Back Health: How to Protect Your Spine While Picking Up (& Putting Down) Props
Want to avoid aggravating injuries or even causing one? Alison West shares a method for carefully dealing with your props.
Yoga for Back Health: Got Tight Hip Flexors? 3 Poses for Instant Relief
These simple moves will powerfully balance your legs, pelvis, and spine whether you're at your desk, out and about, or on the mat.
Yoga for Back Health: 3 Simple Poses to Traction the Spine
Nourish the tissues of your back body by sneaking in a little stretch now and then.
Yoga for Back Health: 3 Ways to Modify Trikonasana for Any Back Condition
Whether you have chronic low back pain, herniation, osteoporosis, or trouble with your SI joints, these supported variations will help you enjoy the benefits of Triangle Pose with ease.
Yoga for Back Health: 3 Variations of Plank Pose to Strengthen Your Core
Strengthening the lower abdomen offers a disgruntled lower back the support it needs to feel good again.
Yoga for Back Health: 3 Ways to Improve Posture with Your Breath
Your spine is a few inhales away from freedom! Create space in the tissues with simple exercises you can do in a chair.
Yoga for Back Health: Got Computer Neck? 3 Poses for Pain Relief
The move with the dowels will feel like an amazing deep tissue massage.
3 Ways to Modify Dandasana
Modify Dandasana if necessary to find safe alignment in your body.
Challenge Pose: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana
Experience a surge of energy as you move step by step into Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, or Upward-Facing Dog.
4 Ways to Prep for Urdhva Mukha Svanasana
Strengthen your arms and core in these prep poses for Urdhva Mukha Svanasana.
Master Dandasana In 6 Steps
Find lift and expansion by strengthening your back, hip flexors, and quadriceps.
Decoding Sutra 3.30: How Concentrating on the Navel Encourages Body Awareness
In this sutra, the power or practice Patanjali describes is “samyama on the navel.” This concentrated meditation on your midsection opens the door to a vital understanding of your body’s constituent parts and subtle-energy channels (nadis).