Yoga and Pilates for Low Back Pain : How to Use Yoga and Pilates Poses to Liberate Your Low Back.

If you've been meaning to try yoga for back pain, or Pilates to strengthen core muscles that affect the low back, combining yoga and Pilates together is an even more powerful approach to relieving low back pain. In this book we'll explore the three movement essentials for a healthy low back-- strengthening, lengthening, and releasing --along with specific poses to put each of these concepts into action. Every person's low back pain is unique, but a comprehensive approach that blends these two modalities with principles of myofascial release and spinal decompression will give you a well-rounded toolkit to better understand your body and find relief. Yoga and Pilates are a powerful combination to relieve low back pain. In this book you'll learn about the 3 movement essentials for a healthy low back- -strengthening, lengthening, and releasing. Then you'll try specific yoga, Pilates, and myofascial release exercises that implement these movement essentials for a comprehensive low back care program. Free Classes About The Author Introduction Chapter 1: Movement Principle #1--Strengthen Chapter 2: Strengthening Poses Chapter 3: Movement Principle #2--Lengthen Chapter 4: Lengthening Poses Chapter 5: Movement Principle #3—Release Chapter 6: Myofascial Release Techniques Chapter 7: Other Considerations and Next Steps Sources