About the Yoga For A Healthy Lower Back (Paperback)

Eliminate lower back pain with gentle yoga exercises developed by a respected yoga teacher who has spent years specializing in that problem area.
The sacrum, or lower back, is an incredibly powerful part of the human anatomy. It's what enables you to stand upright and tall, it unites your upper and lower body, it roots you to the earth--and it is one of the most common areas where people experience chronic pain and discomfort. Yoga for a Healthy Lower Back helps readers understand lower back pain and heal it through gentle yoga exercises that can be done even by those with no previous yoga experience.
Liz Owen, a yoga instructor with many years of experience helping students alleviate back pain, describes the anatomy of the sacrum and the region around it, including the hips and lumbar spine, and illuminates both the Western and Eastern approaches to understanding back pain. She then provides simple, easy-to-learn sequences of yoga poses for general sacrum health and then for specific problems. The last section looks at strategies related specifically to pregnancy and to fibromyalgia or arthritis. The book includes over 70 photos and anatomical illustrations.