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Learn to understand lower back pain and heal it through gentle yoga exercises. Liz Owen, a yoga instructor who specializes in alleviating back pain, describes the anatomy of the sacrum and the region around it, including the hips and lumbar spine. Learn to understand lower back pain and heal it through gentle yoga exercises. Liz Owen, a yoga instructor who specializes in alleviating back pain, describes the anatomy of the sacrum and the region around it, including the hips and lumbar spine. She discusses both the Western and Eastern approaches to understanding back pain-particularly the Eastern medical notion of energy flow and how that relates specifically to the sacrum and the many related muscles and joints, and the chakras, or energetic points, that relate to the 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, it is the foundation from which you reach upward-and it is one of the most common areas where people experience chronic pain and discomfort. It's probably the number one body part that keeps massage therapists, chiropractors, and acupuncturists in business. Owen 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 for sacProduct Identifiers
PublisherShambhala Publications INC International Concepts
ISBN-139781611800494
eBay Product ID (ePID)170000292
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Book TitleYoga for a Healthy Lower Back: a Practical Guide to Developing Strength and Relieving Pain
AuthorHolly Lebowitz Rossi, Liz Owen
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHealth, Coping with Illness
Publication Year2013
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width178mm
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Title_AuthorLiz Owen, Holly Lebowitz Rossi
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States