Yoga for Lower Back Pain: Strengthen, Stretch and Relax Your Back I
David has spent much of his adult life understanding how to heal his lower back pain. In this class, David takes you through a beginner level yoga class that shows you how to strengthen your core to protect your lower back (including the transverse abdominis), how to use yoga stretches, or poses, to heal the lower back and how to use relaxation to speed up the healing process. The lower back stretches alone can cause great relief and the three approaches together will ensure that it lasts. This is the first of a 2-class series. The second class is Yoga for Lower Back Pain: Strengthen, Stretch and Relax Your Back II.
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The rolled-up hand towel was infinitely better than my previous experiences with blocks and bolsters under my back! However, stretching my hamstrings with the strap was excruciating: I couldn't get my straightened legs (one or both) more than about 30 degrees off the floor, and even there the stretch became too intense to hold for as long as you asked. For me, the best stretch of the class was pressing down on my knee with ankle on the opposite thigh.
Thank you for this class and for opening the subscription content up to those who aren't able to support you financially during this time.
I found this class very relaxing. A lot of physical, and with it, emotional release. On a hot Easter Sunday in North London, with my windows wide open, I could hear children playing in the garden next door, birds, loudly chirping away and then the piano music at the end, gently washing over me, which I wasn't sure if it was from my housemate or the computer.
I hope you are keeping well. Thanks for sharing this much needed mediation. Namaste
What a release on dropping those knees to the side...my lower back popped better than at the chiropractor. Thank you for such wonderful therapeutic sequences!
when you say lower back, where specifically do you mean? Sacral or lumber?
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Generally lumbar, but this class is an effective way to relieve tension and pain in the lumbar and sacral area.