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Anna Semlyen BWY Dip, MA PPE (Oxon), MSc Health Econ. Tel: 01904 654355, Email: anna@yogainyork.co.uk

For People with Back Pain

Thursdays 11.15am - 12.15pm at the Friends Meeting House £5 from 9th September 2010

Yoga teaches correct posture and self care. I offer Yoga For Healthy Lower Backs sequences as devised by Alison Trewhela, endorsed by the Iyengar Yoga Assciation (UK) and British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). I can also offer Dr D Dongaonkar's sequence, learnt from Swami Satyaprakash in British Wheel of Yoga In Service Training (IST) and from Maureen McCarthy at an IST.

I am a yoga researcher. I teach on a randomised controlled trial with NHS patients through the University of York's Trials Unit. With funding from the Arthritis Research Campaign I have co written a manual for students and teachers on Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs and recorded a back care relaxation CD.

A recent US randomised controlled trial showed that low back patients allocated to yoga classes had significantly less pain after 14 weeks compared with an exercise control group (Sherman et al Comparing Yoga, Exercise and a Self-Care book for Chronic Low Back Pain, Annals of Internal Medicine 849, 2005). The improvement at 12 weeks was 3.4 points on the Roland and Morris back pain scale, which was more than twice as much as that noted for manipulation in the recent UK BEAM study (of Back Exercise And Manipulation)

Aswell as a class on Thursday at 11.15am from 9th September I offer private lessons and yoga plans at £35 per hour or £150 for 5 hours at my home, 24 Grange St, off Fulford Road
and £40 per hour within York's ring road if I travel to you. Students receive hand outs.

Jean Lavers (BWY DCT) teaches a Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Course at Park Grove School on Tuesdays 6.15-7.30pm. Call 01904 671695.

Please ring 01904 654355 or email Anna to discuss your requirements.

For Yoga Teachers

Alison Trewhela offers 4 day training over two weekends in Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs starting November 2010 - see www.yogatrewhela.co.uk workshops section

My In Service Training (IST) Day of continuing professional development (CPD) for yoga teachers on Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs was first approved in 2007 and reapproved in 2010.
It aims to teach yoga teachers to help students with low back pain within a general class situation and pass on the yoga trial results information. The day includes:
-causes of low back pain
-spinal anatomy/skeletal handouts
-background to the research trial and its results with a handout about this research trial and other research trial results
-Pain-Relieving Poses, in order to show teachers how to put a student into a useful relief pose during the class.
- CORE A sequence, so that yoga teachers can help their own low back health, and teach it in general classes
- Relaxation with Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs CD

Quality, colour, photographic handouts of sheets will be given free. When released in Autumn 2010, there is the option to buy the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs relaxation CD. More details are in Spectrum Summer 07.

Anna Semlyen www.yogainyork.co.uk anna@yogainyork.co.uk 01904 654355