8 Yoga Poses to Ease Lower Back Pain
Is your lower back out of whack? Yoga can help you find relief.
Yoga For Back Health
The Best Back Stretchers
Release tension quickly with a back stretcher.
6 Yoga Poses to Support a Healthy Spine
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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.
Best Lower Back Braces
Back pain can make even everyday tasks burdensome and painful. Things like bending over to feed your pet or lifting a gallon of milk become difficult if your back is bothering you. Fortunately, lower back braces can help. Lower back braces provide support by compressing the lower back and abdominal area, which can decrease pressure and strain. These types of braces often help with herniated disks, sciatica, or general low back pain. When searching for a lower back brace, look for features such as removable or adjustable lumbar support and breathable materials so you stay comfortable. Choose a size that gives you the proper fit, too. Here are our favorite lower back braces. We hope one works for you!
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.
Live Be Yoga: 5 Simple Poses to Relieve Back Pain
Alison West is blending ancient yoga traditions with modern kinesiology to create a therapeutic program for a healthy spine. Here, the Live Be Yoga team talks to her about the future and gets a taste.
10-Minute Sequence to Ease Back Pain
Yoga teacher Andrea Ferretti offers a short 10-minute sequence of yoga poses to help ease tension in your back and find better posture.
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 Back Pain, Part 2
If you suffer from low-back pain, your posture may provide clues as to why. In his continuing exploration of yoga for back pain, Baxter Bell explains how.
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.