Stabilize with Core Strength

Core strength is important for all yoga practitioners and often overlooked. Learn to execute Urdhva Prasarita Padasana and tone your core!

A Pelvic Lift & a Belt to Stabilize…

The pelvic lift or Setu bhanda is at the base of many therapeutic yoga sequences. Try the pose with a block which tones the inner leg or the belt and tone the sacral area.

Good Posture with Yoga – Part 6

Here is the final video in the series, Improve Your Posture with Yoga.

For this one, find a doorway to stand in front of.

If there isn’t a good doorway around, you can use a friends arms.

Improve Your Posture with Yoga – Part 5

Good posture is an important part of  healthy living.

Here is how to use the wall to your advantage with this standing forward bend over the leg. This is a challenging pose lengthening both your hamstring muscles and your outer…

Improve Your Posture with Yoga – Part 4

Here is part 4 in the series, how to create better posture with yoga.

Good posture can be elusive for many Americans as so many of our daily activities have us bending forward or “stooping over” in some fashion.…

Sacroilliac Joint Dysfunction in Yoga

What a pleasure it was sharing the Roger Cole workshop with you last weekend. I so appreciate Roger, his clarity as an anatomist and his equanimity as a scientist, as I imagine you do as well.

How Yoga serves for back pain relief.

Relief from Back Pain with Therapeutic YOGA  by Lillah Schwartz

How did I end up with this pain? Will it ever go away?  What can I do to enhance the healing process?  These are questions more than 50%…

Improve Your Posture with Yoga – Part 3

Pelvic Lift or Setu Bhanda Sarvangasana is an excellent single pose for those of us who spend time sitting…

This pose will help increase the length of your psoas muscle and releive back pain.

When performing this pose ……

Improve your Posture with Yoga – Part 2

Use Belly Turning pose to help relieve tension in your kidneys and spinal muscles.
This will help you release stiffness and gain flexibility in your chest and shoulders. A wonderful warm up for the other poses in this series…

Improve Your Posture – Video Series-Part 1

Part 1 of Six Simple Poses to Improve Posture.

Siting long hours in chairs, driving in cars, stress and tension are some of the reasons there is so much poor posture today.

Lillah gives us 6 poses to stretch, strengthen…