Healthy Forward Bending: Is Rolling Up from Forward Bends Safe? - YogaUOnline

Recently I’ve watched a video on by a popular yoga teacher and couldn’t help but wince every time she instructed her students to “roll up to stand one notch at a time”. Why was I wincing? Because every time I heard that I was imaging what was happening to the student’s lumbar spine and … Continued

Yoga for back pain? NO deep forward bends. Please.

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