Yoga and Pilates for Low Back Pain

By Mariah Secrest-Comer

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. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mariah Secrest-Comer
• Release date: Nov 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201110161

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mariah Secrest-Comer is a certified yoga, Pilates, and barre instructor and educator within the fitness industry. Additionally, she is certified as a meditation instructor and Ayurvedic lifestyle instructor and has served as a Whole Health retreat host and presenter for Deepak Chopra.

Having experienced low back pain herself, culminating in a painful ER visit with a diagnosis of SI Joint Dysfunction, she made it her mission while healing herself through yoga and Pilates to better understand the anatomy and root causes associated with back pain.

Since then she has helped over 30,000 students improve their low back health through her online yoga and Pilates classes for low back pain.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the first step of using Yoga and Pilates inspired movement to liberate your low back. Like you, I’ve experienced the ways in which low back pain slows you down and makes you feel older than you need to. But thankfully, as a yoga and Pilates instructor, I’ve had some tools to help me along the way. Since then I’ve become devoted to using movement principles based on yoga, Pilates, and mysofascial release to uncover holding patterns in the low back.

Here’s what you can expect from this book.

We’ll weave both educational concepts as well as the practical application of poses that you can try immediately for your low back tension, as a tool for identifying what helps you the most. You’ll even get access to some class videos so we can practice together!

Because low back pain originates from a myriad of causes, it’s important for you to