Yoga Asanas can be very helpful in reducing your back pain. Let me show you basic yoga poses and positions that will stabilize your back.
I started practicing Yoga Asanas when I was a young child. I learned early in life that the purpose of any basic yoga poses is to bring balance to the body and mind. All positions, asanas, poses fall into basically 6 categories:
YOGA BASIC POSITIONS:
1. Forward Flexion
2. Backward Extension
3. Lateral Side-Bending
4. Rotation
5. Inversion
6. Balance
I soon realized that some yoga asana positions were very easy for me to do while other basic yoga poses were such a pain, and very difficult to practice. Some actually triggered pain in my back and I started developing a list of potential yoga asanas that were safe and others that were downright dangerous.
After experimenting with hundreds of postures, I have found one yoga asana that I consider to be universally safe for most people, especially if you have back pain. Finding an asana in yoga, basic position, that offers the combination of balance and stability which is safe for healing and preventing back pain was a challenge.
So what is this magical yoga asana? This is one of the standing yoga poses called Tad Asana, or Tree Pose, which I describe as “standing as still and stationary as a tree on one leg”. What this posture does is strengthen and place the body in a “pain free”, neutral mechanical position.
Watch my video tutorial as I demonstrate several variations of:
“Tree Pose – Standing on One Leg”, stabilizing the entire body.
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