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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. 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.
About the Author
Liz Owen is co-author of Yoga for a Healthy Lower Back, and she is a an inspired and passionate yoga teacher. She has conducted classes and workshops focusing on healthy back care and healing back pain through yoga to over 100 participants each week over the past 10 years. She has published numerous articles on Beliefnet.com, the National Magazine Award-winning faith and inspiration website, and she is co-author of an NIH-funded study at Boston University School of Medicine studying yoga as a healing modality for depression. Her newest article, Yoga: Highway Out of the Lower Back Danger Zone, co-authored with Holly Lebowitz Rossi, can be found on Elephant Journal.In her teaching life, Liz is awed again and again by the healing, nurturing, and support that people receive from yoga practice. She has joyfully watched many students improve their back health and their lives through yoga. Find out more at www.lizowenyoga.com.
