We either have envy or a painful feeling when we see someone doing the front to back splits. We may feel inadequate when we are able to only achieve half split. Remember everyone has unique flexibility capabilities because of our genetics and life experiences that have created these amazing bodies. Being able to attain full splits doesn't make you a better yogi or person and it may not even get you out of back pain. When you are going through a flexibility routine without cre

How do the adductors add to back pain? The adductors not only have one job of bringing the leg to the midline. They also aid in hip flexion and extension. Plus, in this variation of the stretch I'm going to help you get to more of the hip rotators that sit high in the groin, hip crease region. Think opposite side of pigeon. The hip rotators are local stabilizers and work with the anterior and posterior pelvic floor muscles. Weak or over facilitated (over working)muscles can c

Why would Heros pose or Virasana will help with lower back pain? You have 11 hip flexors with varying attachments at the hip to the knee or from the vertebrae to the femur. When one or more of the hip flexors begin to become chronically short and tight it will begin to take the pelvis in to an anterior pelvic tilt and this can begin to place pressure on L4L5 L5S1 area of your back. The lumbar erectors and other back muscles then have to over work. Glute max then gets put int