This instructional guide provides training for yoga teachers and physical therapists on how to use yoga therapy to relieve back pain and improve spinal health. Fully illustrated with photographs and line drawings, it also includes essential information on how to design effective classes and individual sessions.

Learn how to heal back and spinal problems through yoga therapy with this unique framework. Combining detailed instruction on evaluation of conditions and treatment techniques with personal narrative and case studies, Yoga for a Happy Back bridges the gap between practicing yoga for better physical health and understanding the role of the mind-body connection in back pain. Utilizing her vast experience as a physical therapist and yoga therapist, and the latest advances in the field of yoga therapy, Rachel Krentzman advises how to design therapeutic yoga classes for individuals with back pain of all forms. She includes information on creating class themes, and never before published sequences from the Purna yoga tradition for alignment-based treatment of specific spinal conditions. With over 300 photos and illustrations, teachers can access the benefits of yoga therapy for the treatment of orthopedic conditions and to promote general spinal health.