139: Scoliosis & Yoga
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Do you have an irregular spinal curve? This week, Lucas Rockwood and Deborah Wolk talk about holistic healing and yoga. Deborah Wolk has been teaching students with scoliosis and other back conditions since 2000. She was the co-founder and co-director of the successful Yoga Union Center for Backcare and Scoliosis, and is founding member and manager of Samamkāya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective in New York City.
In this Show, You'll learn:
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To what extent yoga can help with back pain
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Which poses are helpful or harmful if you suffer from scoliosis
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How much yoga you should be committing to on a daily basis to see results
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More about Deborah’s work and her success stories
http://YogaBody.com
https://www.facebook.com/Yogabody.Naturals
http://instagram.com/yogabodyfitness
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yoga students, if you want to deepen your practice, discover optimal health, |
| 0:04.4 | and learn practical tools that will improve your life, |
| 0:07.2 | then you have come to the right place, my friend. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 0:15.8 | So hello and welcome everyone this is Lucas Rockwood here welcome to the yoga talk show. Thanks for tuning in. We have a special class this week |
| 0:20.5 | we're talking about scoliosis and yoga, finding your practice. |
| 0:25.0 | Scoliosis is a very, very common issue and I'm getting questions very often from |
| 0:31.2 | listeners and from students and I never have great answers. |
| 0:35.0 | It's a common spinal condition that students come to yoga to treat and the reality is a lot of us |
| 0:41.0 | yoga teachers don't really know how to handle it. |
| 0:43.8 | So I'm really pleased today to be joined by Deborah Wolk, who has been teaching students |
| 0:48.5 | with scoliosis and other back conditions since 2000. She was the co-founder and co-director of the |
| 0:54.8 | successful Yoga Union Center for Back Care and Scoliosis and is a founding |
| 0:59.9 | member and manager of Samam Kaya Yoga Back Care and Scoliosus Collection, excuse me, |
| 1:06.0 | collective, which is also in New York City. So Deborah, thanks so much for |
| 1:09.8 | joining us. Oh, you're welcome. I'm happy to be here. You know, before we jump into things, maybe you can start off by sharing with people listening about your personal story with Sculliosis and your story of finding yoga as a way of handling it? |
| 1:25.8 | So unlike a lot of my students I didn't have severe sculliosus as a teenager. I started having neck trouble when I was about eight years old and I was in a collar for a month and then I have big memories of my mother discussing scoliosis with my pediatrician. |
| 1:47.0 | I wasn't braced. The scoliosis was mild and I was just given exercises to do as pre-teens. |
| 1:55.0 | And the exercises were walking with my feet straight on the floorboards and carrying a book on my head. |
| 2:00.8 | And I didn't do them for very long. I was constantly told to stand up straight. I also had |
| 2:07.1 | chyphosis which is when the spine moves back in space and the front of the chest the front of the body drops and I didn't know how to stand up |
| 2:17.4 | straight and I couldn't so it became a point of rebellion and I always had balance issues. |
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