Back Care

For all types of back problems, pain and postural problems including scoliosis. Come lengthen your spine and move out of the habitual behaviors that are making your back hurt! All levels welcome including those new to yoga and beginners.

Back Care Basics
For all types of back problems, pain and postural problems including scoliosis. This class moves a bit slower, and step by step in comparison to the Back Care Classes.

Back Care Beginners Series
For Brand New Beginners to yoga or to alignment based yoga.  These classes cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Back Care & Back Care Basics classes in a progressive manner.  You will be taking classes with other new beginners at Samamkaya Yoga and learn many basic actions and prop adjustments appropriate to your back problem or your scoliosis.

Intermediate Back Care / Intermediate Yoga & Scoliosis
For students with mature yoga practice or who have been taking the Yoga & Scoliosis or Back Care class on a regular basis for a minimum of 1 year.  All poses will be modified with props and awareness techniques so each student can move along with his/her practice. There will also be some focus on inversions. The Intermediate class is not for new beginners.

Yoga & Scoliosis
For students with a lateral/rotational curvature(s) of the spine. The focus is on extension and working with issues affecting people with scoliosis such as balance, proprioception, strength and reducing compensatory patterns. All levels welcome including those new to yoga.

Spinal Fusions
Because of the contraindications with Harrington Rods and other instrumentation, being in a general class—even one focused on scoliosis or back problems—can be frustrating. This class covers all the principles and poses of the Yoga & Scoliosis classes but without twists, convex forward bending, backbending. The practice will help strengthen muscles around the fusion in an aligned manner, bring stability to hypermobile joints or open up very stiff areas—without destabilizing the body or the instrumentation itself.