Archive for the ‘Back Pain’ Category
An article from the New York Times from January 5, 2012 has been hotly debated in the yoga community. It’s called “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” by William J. Broad, and it describes injuries from yoga practice to the lower back, shoulders, knees, neck, and ribs, and even hip replacements and strokes believed to [...]
Can practicing yoga help relieve your back pain? An interesting study was published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine (for more information, see http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236902.php#post) It showed that Iyengar style yoga was helpful for chronic lower back pain – more helpful than only conventional medical treatment. The study was done in the UK and [...]
I often get asked, “What is the best kind of chair to sit on at my desk?” Lots of people ask me about sitting on exercise balls while working at their computer. The theory is that back pain is caused by weak muscles and that if we work our back muscles all day long at [...]
Here’s another video to help you get started with relaxed, comfortable standing. Standing is a bit more challenging to learn than sitting, so take it easy and practice for shorter amounts of time, until it feels more natural. It should feel strange at first!
Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them that I teach posture classes to relieve back pain, they say, “Oh, I don’t have back pain.” Actually, I didn’t think I had back pain either! When I first met Jean Couch, author of The Runner’s Yoga Book, and started [...]
Check out this video which will show you how to sit pain-free. This should make some of my previous blog posts more clear. Try it out and let me know how it works for you! © 2011 Dana K. Davis
You’ve seen it before: kids sitting down texting, with their heads slumped way forward, hanging in front of their spines. It’s becoming more and more common due to our typical American “out of Balance” posture combined with the amount of time we spend sitting and looking at some sort of electronic screen. 1 What’s the [...]
When I was in India in 1988 studying yoga and meditation, I took an intensive meditation course one weekend. We had little squares to sit in on the floor – maybe 2 feet by 2 feet. It was hard to stay in the little square all day without squirming. I got more and more uncomfortable, [...]
Yikes! Someone forwarded to me a link to this article on Scholastic’s website (www.scholastic.com) today, entitled “Classroom Organization: The Physical Environment.” I got annoyed at how persistent unhealthy posture is in our culture, and how it’s promoted by adults. So I had to write them a letter. I reprinted it for you below. If you [...]
I’ve been enjoying the hot weather lately (after such a cold, foggy summer!), and I was taking a walk last night down a peaceful country lane. I saw a garden at almost every house, and some of them were really abundant. I’m glad to see so many people growing their own food and contributing to [...]