8 Yoga Poses to Ease Lower Back Pain
Is your lower back out of whack? Yoga can help you find relief.
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Hurty Hips or a Cranky Low Back? Try This Sacroiliac Joint-Inspired Sequence
A wonky SIJ is a "yoga problem" and also can crop up postpartum. Try this sequence to stabilize, stretch, and strengthen the tissues supporting this vital joint.
Anatomy 201: The Roll-Down Forward Bend That Yogis with Hypermobile Hamstrings Need
Find postural ease and balance with with an exercise that helps lengthen the lumbar extensors.
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: 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.
Try This Yoga Trick to Realign Your SI Joint & Relieve Lower Back Pain
Sage Rountree shows you how to use a yoga block in Bridge Pose to realign the SI joint while stretching the front of your body.
Got Lower Back Pain? Relieve SI Joint Discomfort with Tree Frog Pose
Sage Rountree talks you through a relaxing pose to give the muscles that control the relationship of your pelvis and spine a time out.
Ease Lower Back + Shoulder Tension with Fascial Work
Release tension and pain by working with your tissue. Bo Forbes shows you how to target hotspots in the shoulders and lower back.
Ask the Expert: Which Yoga Poses Prevent Lower-Back Pain?
Although standing orients your spine into proper posture, standing for too long can cause back pain. Incorporating a yoga routine can help relieve pain.
Yoga for Back Pain, Part 3
In this post, Baxter Bell, MD continues his discussion on low back pain, offering ways to create traction with a friend or on your own.
Yoga for Low Back Pain
In the first of a series on back pain, Baxter Bell dives more deeply into a recent study that explored yoga for chronic low-back pain.
Pain in the Butt (or Back or Leg …)
Baxter Bell explains what "sciatica" actually is, and suggest some strategies and poses that may help.
A Twist on Twisting
A prone twist stretches hips, spine, and chest and helps you maintain fluid range of motion. And it feels so good.