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Got Back Pain? Yoga Can Help: 3 Tips + 2 How-to Videos

Sadie Nardini by Sadie Nardini | September 15th, 2009 | Comments (2)
topic: Fitness, Health & Wellness, Healthy Aging, Yoga | tags: alignment, back, back tension, chair exercises, core, discs, Fitness, healing, health, pain, release stretch, Sadie Nardini, sciatica, spine, strength, strengthen, stretching, Yoga, yoga for back pain

back-painNothing can stop a perfectly good yoga practice (or day, for that matter) in its tracks like a hurting back. And sometimes, the poses you might think would help your aching body could actually be making it worse.

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Injury as Opportunity: Overcome Yoga Roadblocks, Part 1

Jill Miller by Jill Miller | February 4th, 2009 | Comments (2)
topic: Yoga | tags: hamstring, healing, injuries

Natarajasana, accomplished while healing a hamstring injury.
Natarajasana, accomplished while healing a hamstring injury

We all know that yoga practice is not always bliss. Sometimes it seems to turn on us, triggering issues that cause us to approach our practice with reticence. Over the years of teaching Yoga Tune Up®, I’ve heard many concerns that get in the way of one’s practice, but there are three that tend to be biggest. Below is Part 1 in a 3-part series suggesting a few strategies to use when these roadblocks arise.

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Healing Through Movement

Tanja Djelevic by Tanja Djelevic | August 14th, 2008 | Comments (6)
topic: Fitness, Health & Wellness, Personal Growth | tags: healing, movement

Our body heals through movement. It is a bold statement to print without backing it with references to studies, which would rather be my style and desire, but then there is something to say about the innate intuition of something that feels right (and of course there are tons of studies done).

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