Five Yoga Exercises to Prevent Lower Back Pain

If you suffer from low back pain, you are probably looking for anything you can do to relieve it. Did you know practicing Yoga could help? Yoga helps the body align itself through a series of poses that focus on a neutral spine and strengthening the core to help support the back. Here are five easy yoga poses to try to help ease your lower back pain. Hyperlinks are provided to give you a tutorial on how to execute the pose.

Mountain Pose

Mountain pose is a great way to become aware of your posture and the alignment of your spine. Sometime low back pain can be caused simply by not standing correctly. By being present and rooting your feet into the ground and using your upper legs and core to hold and straighten you spine, feel out it relieves pressure out of your lower back.

Triangle Pose

Stretching muscle groups also provides relief. The Triangle pose lengthens and strengthens your obliques in order to give your back some support to take the stress out of your lower back muscles. The stretch also simply feels good and helps relieve pain.

Butterfly Pose

Sometimes back pain isn't stemming from the back itself, but in the legs. The butterfly pose helps to stretch the hips and inner thighs while taking pressure off the lower back buy rooting yourself into the floor from the hips. By doing this, you increase flexibility in an area that is typically tight, and thus stresses the lower back.

Cobra Pose

Simply the best stretch for the lower back, Cobra pose helps contract, lengthen, and stretch an area that's hard to work. Not only does this pose stretch those muscles, but it also helps strengthen them for support.

Camel Pose

The Camel pose is challenging, but no other pose helps to give flexibility to the lower back. By pushing through your hips and using your legs to root into the floor, you can stretch your lower back into it's full range of motion to open it up and relieve pressure and pain.

So if you suffer from lower back pain, these exercises will help relieve and strengthen your back area and the supporting muscles. Yoga is a great low impact solution to this problem. As always if pain worsens or persists, please stop exercising until a medical professional can check you our, because chances are, this is more serious than mild back pain.