Don't take your aching, tight back lying down! Fight back with the gentle yet effective power of yoga. Relief could be as simple as increasing flexibility in your spine, and this yoga sequence will help to stretch and elongate the muscles in the torso. Becoming more bendy not only eases pain, but it also improves your posture, making your tummy look trimmer. Complete these 14 poses once on the right side and then on the left.
This easy version of Downward Facing Dog allows you to target the back more than the hamstrings.
This variation of Three-Legged Dog involves bending the knee of your top leg, increasing the flexibility in your hip flexors, spine, and hamstrings.
Strong and poised like a ballerina, this pose is an advanced version of Extended Tabletop.
Continue working the same muscles as you flip around and flow into Wild Thing on the other side.
Open hip flexors are a must for spinal flexibility, so here's a pose that will target the front of the hips as well as offer a nice stretch for the front of the body.
This pose will continue to open the hips as well as offer a deep spinal twist.
A classic backbend, Camel also helps open tight shoulders.
This pose is similar to Cobra, but bending the knees will help to deepen the stretch.
This hip-opening squat variation offers a nice lower back release as well as a deep stretch for the chest and shoulders.
Another classic backbend, this is a prep for Full Wheel Pose that'll open the shoulders as well as the muscles in the front of the body.
Here's an advanced backbend that targets the upper spine.
Here's a more challenging variation of Two-Legged Inverted Staff Pose that'll help to strengthen the upper legs.
The most basic backbend, this challenging pose not only increases flexibility in the spine, it also strengthens the upper body.
Here's a relaxing way to increase side-to-side spinal flexibility.