Yoga for Spinal Pain

We recommend a guided yoga practice by one of our professional yoga teachers to assist students with relief from personal injury or disease. Please contact us to discuss any issues you may have so that we can guide you in what your body requires organically. All poses in group classes are modified to suit each student’s personal needs. Please advise the teacher at the beginning of each class if you have any issues at all. We are here to guide you safely through each practice and on your yoga journey.

Those with occasional soreness or chronic aches may greatly benefit from certain postures that can help lengthen your spine, stretch and strengthen your muscles, and return your back to its proper alignment. A very gentle Hatha yoga routine will extend the spine to alleviate some of the pain cause by a disc herniation. A herniated disc is cause by repetitive spinal flexion, and in gentle guided yoga classes, there are many poses where the spine comes into that motion of flexion (folding forward)

Because of this attention to detail and the modification of poses, Iyengar yoga is often a good form of yoga for people with back pain or neck pain, as they are likely to benefit from modification to the poses.

When done properly, twists have the potential to help your low back feel great. Twisting can activate the muscles around the lumbar spine and abdominal core, increasing stability as well as blood flow and oxygenation to the area.