Do you have back pain? Most of us do...I know I did for 8 years and I was given drugs, and physical therapy, and none of it helped for more than a few days! I was diagnosed with L4, L5 bulging disks and told that they would only get worse!
When I was pregnant with my little girl I started acupunture and that definately helped but after she was born I started doing Yoga and after a year I realized one day I had absolutely no pain! After 8 years of chronic pain, so bad it would keep me on the couch for weeks at a time, and I'm a bit of an athlete and for me to be on the couch was torture!
Why did Yoga help my back? Well, at first I didn't really understand it but now that I have been practicing and teaching yoga for over 5 years I get it! In our society of doing and getting those to do list's finished we live in the future, we don't listen to our bodies! We tend to move from our shoulders, locking our knees and bending at our bellies instead of our hips! In yoga we learn how to move with our largest joints in mind, shoulders, hips and knees and hinge from our hips! Of course there is so much more to it but I do believe that it is the awareness that yoga gives us that begins to heal and strengthen our bodies, and by lengthening our muscles it release's tention!
It's not just the Yoga class that begins to heal your body/back pain it's the awarenss of moving in a way that honor's our bodies and of course learning how to breathe is extremely helpful to reducing stress! Yoga is something I look forward to each day, it's all I do to keep strong and flexible! My back has been pain free for 5 + years and I am a true believer that we can all be pain free, and that Yoga is truly for everyone!! For more info. check out my website @ myuniqueperfections.com
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