Chronic Pain
Both yoga and Somatics can be used as therapeutic tools to alleviate chronic pain. I teach Somatic Yoga, Somatics and trauma releasing practices on a 1:1 basis face to face and online. I also teach the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Programme (see below).
Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs (YHLB) is a Social Enterprise which seeks to promote better back care throughout the UK. It is supported by Versus Arthritis, NHS England, Public Health England, and an ever-increasing number of GPs, Spinal Consultants, Physiotherapists and Pain Clinics. I was drawn to YHLB because of the robustness of its research; it is based on the largest ever randomised controlled trial of yoga in the UK and uniquely addresses the multi-faceted biopsychosocial nature of chronic low back pain.
The YHLB programme is a specialised, mind-body programme that offers long term empowering self-management to people with recurring/episodic/chronic low back pain. It provides participants with a toolkit to improve their comfort, health and well-being themselves for the rest of their lives
YHLB transforms lives for those suffering with chronic back pain. It is a one-off programme for long-term benefits, it gets people out of pain, back to work and back to doing the things they love!
Here are a few reflections from YHLB course participants…
“I didn’t know I could help myself like this – thought I had to rely on others to fix me, but that didn’t work and this does”
“After years of chronic lower back pain resulting in surgery and constant painkillers, I have eventually found something that works to take the pain away….this yoga is very gentle but very effective.”
“It feels I now have my pain under control – it no longer controls me! My outlook feels much more positive after years of worry”
“After 30 years of back pain, I felt, with this last bout of months of pain and time off work, that I’d come to a point where I’d just have to accept the limitations of movement and daily use of medications, and adapt to a much less active life. How wrong I was! This yoga course has given me back my life.”
“It’s been life-changing. There’s nothing I want to do now that I can’t do!”
“This has fixed me and I have tools to help myself. No surgery now for back or knee and feel I can happily continue with my job.
Amazing. It’s seems miraculous to me!”
For more information please visit the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs website at:
https://www.yogaforbacks.co.uk
PLEASE NOTE:- I no longer run YHLB Group classes but do see people suffering with chronic lower back pain in 1:1 sessions using the YHLB practices – please contact me for more details.
YHLB Testimonials
‘The Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs is singularly the best thing I have done for myself in the last 10 years, it has helped me to completely eradicate my back pain’
Anna O’Brien, South Glos
‘I joined Caroline’s specialist ‘Yoga for Backs’ course and can honestly say that I was blown away by the results and improvement.’
Caroline Gill, South Glos