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reestablish the regular yoga practice I had enjoyed before having children but let slide after they were born.
Yoga’s effectiveness for me was underscored this past October, when I experienced a similar back attack after bending over and picking up my now 3year-old daughter.
This time, instead of calling 9-1-1,1 successfully resolved the pain with just 30 minutes of yoga exercises, without having to resort to muscle relaxants or pain medication.
Mary Pullig Schatz, a medical doctor and author of the yoga instructional manual "Back Care Basics," states that women's backs are at unique risk in ways that men’s backs are not. Pregnancy, nursing, lactation, premenstrual syndrome, menstruation, postmenopausal osteoporosis, and wearing high-heeled shoes all strain women's backs by encouraging rounded shoulders, forward head-carrying, and rounding of the back in ways that
See YOGA, Page 8
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