NOTE: Traditional yoga poses are integrated into a greater whole - i.e. with nutrition and strength training - and thus are not pictured here; you’ve seen them everywhere else. I have chosen to show the unfamiliar and what is additionally necessary for more complete regeneration and healing.

Therapeutic Yoga:

Back Pain Management / Strengthening / Functional Anatomy

The most common areas to feel sore, stiff, or experience degenerative pain are in the low back, hips, and hamstrings and the neck, traps, and shoulder girdle. Therefore a more beneficial and integrated approach to heal and strengthen your body utilizes only specific strength exercises, yoga poses, and stretches in combination with spinal decompression techniques - shown in these videos. Traditional yoga poses are incorprorated into a great whole but are not pictured here. You see them everywhere else; I have chosen to show the unfamiliar and what is additionaly necessary. Superfluous yoga poses and exercises are weeded out. Hurrying to keep up with an instructor and feeling pressure to stay in unison with other classmates are also weeded out. Learning to relax a muscle, learning about the fallacy of stretching muscles, getting educated on anatomy and biomechanics, and knowing how the nervous system works is in.

Education:

Anatomy - Strength Exercises - Soft Tissue Care

This stretch decompresses my vertebral column because I am pushing my feet firmly into a solid floor while I try to extend and ‘push’ my lower back and buttocks away in the opposite direction from the pole’s equal and opposite pull - as indicated by the arrows. FIRMLY GRASP a pole, ledge, or doorknob, flatten your back, and push hard through your feet. Slightly drop your head and relax it. Another example of applying Newton’s 3rd law in the everyday practical world!