By addressing the underlying causes of musculoskeletal dysfunction you will not only move better but eliminate reoccurring aches and pains.

1 in 4 people are now suffering from neck and shoulder pain (Leijon, 2009).  If you are that 1 in 4 then you will know how much this affects your ability to perform simple everyday activites, let alone more athletic sports or dynamic movements you need to enjoy yoga.

Most people with neck and shoulder pain look first to chiropractors, physiotherapists and other medical professionals to alleviate their pain. But as you are probably already aware, once your have received help, got the symptoms are under control and head back to your favourite activity or the gym, the pain in your neck and shoulder often returns.

As the shoulder joint is the most mobile joint in the body, inbalanced use of the muscles and tendons is often the cause of many neck issues.  You are also more likely to have problems with your shoulder as you grow older.  This is especially common after age 60 as the soft tissue surrounding the shoulder tend to degenerate with age.

The remedial focus of this great new workshop will be to get you to recognise the pain symptoms as a reflection on how your body works and then see if you can relearn how to engage the right muscle groups for all activities.   By practicing corrective remedial yoga exercises in this safe supervised 2 hour workshop you will be able to establish what you need and how to make a change then get some easy take-away exercises to carry on the good work.

“Even if I cant make it to classes on a regular basis, I never miss a workshop.  They improve my yoga and I get some real changes in my body, ones that last.” Hannah M.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Let’s agree on a few things

• Back pain is common.
• Some people will develop back pain that is persistent (lasts more than three months).
• Back pain can be expensive and frustrating, leaving you feeling down and stressed
• Learning about how your back works will be a big help

Here at The Yoga House we know that the first step to lasting back pain relief is core stability.  Core stability refers to your ability to control your core muscle groups in any position or movement.  Remedial Yoga Therapy is the perfect way to strengthen and balance your core muscles because it utilises one of your own body functions to help make real change – breathing!

Breathing, especially when you learn to use your diaphragm correctly, can significantly influence the way your core muscles move and their alignment in relation to the structures around them – especially your back!  By working with your breath, Remedial Yoga Therapy movements and postures and help you restore core stability and start repairing any damage that has been caused by weakness in this area

This is a stand alone workshop that has been designed therapeutically within a three part series this March targeting Back Pain Relief.

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$60 per session or book in for all 3 workshops this March for only $150.  Prepaid bookings essential – get your pass online or call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

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Are you one of the thousands of people that are experiencing lower back pain?  Whilst you are problably already taking steps to adjust your posture, visiting a chiro and massaging into the area this is not a long-term solution.

Could you have tight hip flexors?

The hip flexors are a group of muscles that connect the your legs (femur) to your body (pelvis).  Unfortunatley, we only really become aware of how important they are when they begin to tighten and cause pain.

Sedentary lifestyles and too much sitting means that your hip flexors are constantly flexed.  Over time, this constant state of contraction will result in these muscles shortening.

Hip flexors and back pain

The health of your lumbar spine (the lower spine) is directly affected by the action of the hip flexors and hamstrings (the back of your thigh). When the hamstrings are too tight they can prevent the pelvis from tilting forwards correctly.  As a result you will probably be bending from the back rather than the hips to compensate for the lack of flexibility.

The hip flexors consist of the iliopsoas, rectus femoris, sartorius, tensor fasciae latae, pectineus, gracilis, adductors and gluteal muscles. It is the iliopsoas muscle which has the strongest pull on our spine. A tight psoas can pull on the spine and compress the discs and vertebral joints in that area. If the psoas is always tight it increases the amount of compression and pain in the back and a focal muscle in this workshop for back pain relief.

The psoas major is not really a hip flexor but as it is the only muscle that attaches the spine and the leg, it plays a major roll in hip stability.  In you we use this muscle to help raise our legs.  If this is too tight, there is a pull on the lumbar vertebrae that can result in discomfort due to an over-arched lower back. This becomes more obvious when laying down on the yoga mat – see how the lower back is arched off the floor when the hip flexors and psoas are tight?

This Remedial Yoga Workshop has your Hip Flexors and Pelvic Floor in mind with yoga to relax the stress in this area to reduce lower back pain.  This is a stand alone workshop that has been designed therapeutically within a three part series this March targeting Back Pain Relief.

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$60 per session or book in for all 3 workshops this March for only $150.  Prepaid bookings essential – get your pass online or call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

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Research has shown that by strengthening core muscles and balancing the hips we can help protect our lower back and reduce inflammation and pain in the lumbar area.  But the stability of the back also depends on strong lumbar muscles as the lumbar spine as primarily responsible for your posture and support, especially when exercising or playing sport.

Lower back (lumbar) pains and sprains are the most common causes of low back pain. The back structure is prone to this strain because of our upright postural functionality that is also weight-bearing function and involves in moving, twisting and bending.  A strain is when muscle fibres are abnormally stretched or torn.  Sprains in the lumbar areas are often caused when the ligament (the tought little bands that hold bones together) are torn from their attachments.  Sprains and strains can be a result from a sudden injury or from gradual overuse and imbalance and can be very debilitating.

This Remedial Yoga Workshop is your passport to healthy musculature of the back and a pain-free 2019.  A stand alone workshop that has been designed therapeutically within a three part series this March targeting Back Pain Relief.

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$60 per session or book in for all 3 workshops this March for only $150.  Prepaid bookings essential – get your pass online or call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

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Mental clutter gets in the way of being able to think clearly and to focus on what really matters.  Without a way to clear this inner ‘congestion’ things start to build up, we see things around us unrealistically, where even the smallest of tasks can seem insurmountable.

Autumn is the perfect time to take stock of what you have, decide what you need to keep and leave what you don’t want in the past.

In Remedial Yoga, our de-cluttering process starts with your body, with movements and postures that focus on balancing the upper body’s vital meridians with the strength and endurance of the lower body.  With this balance comes a calm clarity of the mind that allows us to see what our body needs and what it does not.

So if you are looking to make a change in your life, improve lifestyle choices or just want to clear and clean up your body before Winter then this two hour therapeutic workshop may be you first step towards making the best decisions of your life.

3pm to 5pm on Saturday the 4th May 2019

$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package & Silver Member’s discounts.

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Want more?  What about our Declutter the Mind & Body 3 day Detox Program?  

Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Health = A good relationship between the mind and the body.

Nothing declutters the mind like a quick detox so we thought if you were interested in decluttering your life you might also want to add a short-half fast detox program to your detox that will include:

• our Declutter the Mind workshop
• some helpful ways to s to help you process the everyday
• a half-fast detox (simple not scary)
• one or two yoga classes per day

So if you are serious about cleaning up a few of those unhealthy habits in your life, why not sign up for our Autumn 3 Day detox and start that smart lifestyle decision making today.

What you will get

• A head’s up overview on what you will need before your start
• Menus and meal plans for the 3 days
• Access to healthy Autumn recipes
• 6am class on Thursday the 2nd May 2019
• 6pm yoga class on Thursday the 2nd May 2019
• 7.15am yoga class on Friday the 3rd May 2019
• 7am yoga class on Saturday the 4th May 2019
• Complete your ‘Declutter the Mind’ Program with a 2 hour Remedial Yoga Therapy Workshop

Valued at $258                               Price $175                        Silver Members $89

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Prepaid bookings by the 28th April 2019 or until limited places are booked.  You can pay online or call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Knee pain is common in our older age, often caused by the wearing away of knee cartilage which is often the result of inbalances in our stance and by the way we walk.  Remedial Yoga Therapists look to postpone knee problems or even prevent them entirely, and it is because of this that this workshop is one of our most popular all year.

Come along and find out how to boost muscle strength to help stabilise your knees and training your muscles to absorb the stress you normally place on your knees. Strengthening should start with the quadriceps and hamstrings in the thighs, but it shouldn’t end there.

Discover where you imbalances really stem from and get some ideas on how you can use Remedial Yoga in your everyday movements to fool Father Time and keep your knees healthier, longer.

So point your knees to the mat at 3pm on Saturday the 1st June 2019 for Future Proof Knees.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Trying to fall pregnant?  

Sick of missed periods, bad pain and moods?

There are many factors which lower your ability to conceive but yoga is here to the rescue (isn’t it always) with postures, breathing and movements to improve your health and chances of falling pregnant naturally.

Work with teachers and therapist that understand what you are going through and help youself and your body stay fertile longer.  Balancing postures that will help with painful and irregular menstrual issues too.  Our therapeutic workshop will show you how to :

• enhances blood circulation and quality
• stimulates reproductive organs
• strengthens and lengthens the lower back
• improve hip flexibility (great for conception and birth)
• recover faster for productive rest
• improve thyroid function (everything your need to see the two blue stripes on that tester stick).

If you didn’t know that balance of the mind and body is the best fertility drug that you can take, then you will after this great, fun workshop for all women, of all ages.

See you on the mat from 3pm to 5pm on Saturday the 3rd August 2019 so we can see your baby on our baby board soon.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Teenager? 

It’s not an easy time with pimples, parties and conflicting feelings that seem to take over your life.  But then I don’t have to tell you this – it’s your life right?

Your teenage hormones are the chemicals that help you grow and develop sexually through these (happy, mad, sad, confusing) years to adulthood.   As these substances (hormones right) take hold of your body and mind things will start to change in your body, emotions, moods and sexual feelings.

This workshop is not about telling you what you are feeling or how to fix it, it is simply about finding out more about you and your body, giving back control to the only person that really understands what you are going through – you!

Share just two hours of your weekend with us and we will show you the movements, postures and breathing exercises that help you take control of your life and start living it the way you want to do.

Learn yoga and stress releif skills now that will keep you balanced and healthy till you are 30 and over…  Come on your own, bring friends, family it doesn’t matter, because this yoga is all about You and how You are Feeling.

Hope to see you on the mat from 3pm to 5pm on Saturday the 3rd August 2019.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Everyone knows how to relax – right?  Wrong!

If you are constantly stressed, a workaholics, or have certain health issues you may not even know where your “off” switch is.  We understand that relaxation does not always come naturally.  For many it is something that has to be learnt, practised and developed, much like any worthwhile life skill.  Learning to relax is important to help you enjoy a long, happy healthy life and Remedial Yoga may be the best way for you to find your relaxation button, especially of meditation is not really your gig.

This workshop has been designed to bring relaxation novices together for an afternoon of learning to relax your body on the mat, so that you can relax your mind off the mat and enjoy what’s going on around you.

Relax, it’s as easy as booking here

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

We had a great turn-up for this workshop on the 19th January 2019 where all who attended received their own personalised Remedial Yoga Prescription for healthy, pain-free wrists and elbows. 

The use of computers has increased and so have complaints of sore wrists and elbows, especially among adolescents.  But there is growing evidence that these symptoms can be reduced through a mindful ergonomic approach and musculoskeletal strength and flexibility.

The purpose of this workshops is to help reduce the effects of computer-associated health complaints, starting at the other end of your working hands.   Remedial yoga therapists successfully treat these modern ailments without the need for painful injections and pain medication.

If you suffer from sore and tight wrists, carpal tunnel or tennis elbow then this workshop will show you how to protect and strengthen these overworked joints to keep you texting and typing pain-free in 2019.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

We get up and sit down to have a coffee and breakfast then out to the car/bus or train to sit down on the way to work.

We get to work and most of us sit down at a desk where we will stay most of the morning until we get up to have lunch.

We also know it is better to sit when you are eating lunch, and then sit all afternoon until we sit back in the car or train to get home.

Exhausted after a long day we sit down to eat our evening meal and then sit back on the comfy lounge to watch our favourite TV show.

That’s a lot of sitting.

Now if we look at it from an anatomical standpoint these hours of sitting will shorten the hamstring and the illiopsoas muscles putting strain on the strain on the lower back.

Most of us do not engage our core muscles when sitting so this also reflects a weakness into the back.

But I’m an Athlete, and My Back Still Hurts

Many of us do not complete these sitting marathons every day, we play sport and workout, so why the lower back pain? Most weight-bearing sport or exercise that involves running, jumping, or rapid dynamic movements produces tension on the lower back. When these activities are repeated over time without balanced core strength and the stretching and releasing these tight muscles, overuse injuries are common.

This Remedial Yoga Therapy workshop will have a positive effect on athletes and couch potatoes alike.  Learn how to stretch properly without over straining and how to build core muscles strength that will aid the stability of your spine and hips – for work, rest and play.

For a Strong & Healthy Lower Back

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Somewhere along the line you may have decided that yoga is not for you. You have heard how great it is for stress management, but hey, you can barely touch your toes.

And meditate?  Last time you tried it you got the giggles cause someone had fallen asleep and was snoring.  Not really the Zen thing to do, but more common that you think.

Remedial Yoga Therapy is not about how well you can stand on your head or twist your body into a human pretzel.  It is about working out what your body can actually do.  If you are focused on moving, breathing and getting the right feeling then there is no time to think about the deadline at work or how you are going to juggle the kids sport pickups.

Through specialised movements and controlled breathing exercises, remedial yoga will help reduce stress and tension, increase strength, balance and flexibility, stability blood pressure and reduced cortisol levels.

Cortisol is often referred to as the stress hormone.  Scientists have known for years that elevated cortisol levels: interfere with learning and memory, lower immune function and bone density, increase weight gain, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease.

So why wait – Stress relief is not a myth.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops. Book and pay online  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Always one of our most popular workshops, especially after our much loved but hectic festive season.

The ‘Tight & Tired’ workshop will hit your reset button for renewed energy.

Muscle tension and fatigue is often the result of the body not working correctly and efficiently.  It can also be the cause and effect of

• High stress & anxiety levels
• Incorrect functioning of body organs
• Sleeplessness
• Incorrect recovery from injury
• Low energy levels

Enjoy the yoga while we work to isolate the source of your muscle tension then redirect that excess energy to other areas of the body.  Decreasing stress in overworked muscles has the added bonus of reducing lethargy and increasing vital energy levels.

Find renewed energy & muscle relief in this January workshop, the first of our Remedial Yoga Therapy Workshops in 2018.

It’s never too early (or late) for Healthy Hips!

The hip joint is a strong joint that is designed for repeated motion, bearing weight and a fair amount of wear and tear.  It is the largest ball-and-socket joint in the body and allows for fluid movement and standing.

Whether you are getting up out of a chair or going for a jog, whenever you use the hip a cushion of cartilage helps prevent friction as the hip bone moves in its socket.

Despite its size and relative durability, the hip joint isn’t indestructible. With age and use, the cartilage can wear down or become damaged.  The muscles and tendons in the hip can get overused, or become imbalanced, all of which can lead to aches and often sharp pain in the hip.

If you would like to improve the health of your hips this Remedial Yoga Therapy workshop will give you the yoga tools you need to achieve hip pain relief.

For your healthy hip yoga toolkit

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$50 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Japanese Yoga and Remedial Yoga Therapy is based in the seasons, tapping into the energy in and around us.

To help us achieve this our yoga is based on the 5 Elements and the qi merdians.

Come along and find out how this can help you with your health and generally well-being.  We will be looking at Summer Yoga with moves that will get your through the silly season, keeping you well in the mind, body and spirit.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

Yoga may not be the first thing that comes to mind when your are sinking into an afternoon slump or waking up bleary-eyed after a late night.

But movement and deep breathing might whilst doing an invigorating Sun Salutation or Standing Postures could be just what you need to help fight fatigue.

Active poses that stimulate the blood flow through the body can help combat fatigue and boost feelings of vitality, and might also help to counter some of the effects of long periods of sitting.

The sixth in a series of ten workshops in 2018 for all yoga lovers, this one is all about gaining greater control of your pelvic floor.

The pelvic floor muscles are located between the tailbone (coccyx) and the pubic bone within the pelvis, and support the bowel and bladder along with the uterus and vagina (in females).

Muscular bands (sphincters) encircle the urethra, vagina and anus as they pass through the pelvic floor. When the pelvic floor muscles are contracted, the internal organs are lifted and the sphincters tighten the openings of the vagina, anus and urethra. Relaxing the pelvic floor allows passage of urine and faeces.

If the muscles are weakened, the internal organs are no longer fully supported and you may not be able to control your urine, faeces or wind.

Common causes of a weakened pelvic floor include pregnancy, childbirth, prostate cancer treatment in males, obesity and the associated straining of chronic constipation.

Pelvic floor exercises are designed to improve muscle tone and prevent the need for corrective surgery.

Let us guide you through 2 hours of Remedial Yoga Therapy to help you build core strength, reduce back aches and perfect your pelvic floor.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

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If you are reading this then you probably have been experiencing rounding through the shoulders for some time now and looking for a permanent way to resolve the problem.

Rounded through the shoulders is unnatural to our posture that exaggerates the curvature of the upper back, often causing a forward positioning of the head. Over time this will also cause the muscles in the front of the chest often causing pain all over the upper portion of the body including headaches and neck pain.

We can blame our rounded shoulders on our digital lifestyle always on the phone, tablet or computer but that is not necessarily true.  As with most problems in the body, it is our lack of understanding of our own bodies and how they should work that allow problems like these to build up in the first place.

Bottom line is that round shoulders develop from bad posture, an unnatural posture that affects optimal biomechanics in all your movements.

This workshop will help you work towards better posture and optimal movement in all your daily and sporting activities.  Our Remdial Yoga Therapist will show you how to safely stretch the muscles that are tight and to strengthen those that are weak for true balance and straighty 180 posture.

Sit up and book your mat at this great workshop at 3pm Saturday the 3rd August 2019.

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$60 per session or see our workshop posting for package discounts.  Prepaid bookings are a must for these popular workshops.  Call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

This 2 hour remedial workshop with Lisa Masters will work your body through the essential lead up moves so that you feel more comfortable when you are upside down.

In Japanese Remedial Yoga Inversion Postures are the key to staying young. They positively affect your endocrine and nervous system through spinal correction and even improve your metabolism.

Go on, bring a friend and enjoy an afternoon of yoga that will build your confidence in what many people find daunting postures in a yoga class.

Can you touch your toes?

StretchIT, Forward & Backbends workshop is designed to help reduce the stresses put on the body through the work, sport, sleep patterns and the eating habits of our busy lifestyles.

To balance these areas we look to the forward bends and back bends.  Remedial yoga therapy will target areas of stress to relieve symptoms and build strength in areas not working to optimum levels.

Back Bends are exhilarating moves that teach us to be kind to our bodies.

• improve the overall functionality of the body
• reduce tightness in the chest and front of thighs
• loosen hips and tight inner thighs
• Join Lisa Masters in this 2 hours workshop on

Forward Bends prove to be some of the hardest postures in yoga practise as they include the use of all the biggest muscles groupings, so if one is overworked, the others muscles groups will reflect this.   Tightness in these areas means that our body’s have to work harder to perform the most basic of tasks and this is tiring and sometimes even painful.  Getting your forward bends right will help

• open hips
• reduce stress on pelvis
• relax your nervous system
• allows for calmness

3-5pm Saturday the 27th February 2016

Remedial Yoga is one of the few health classes that include hip strength and flexibility into EVERY CLASS and with healthy, balanced hips we do everything better.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the hips are just a simple ball and socket joint because they are so much more.  In Remedial Yoga Therapy and Chinese Medicine the hips are treat with much more respect.

Start to think of your hips as a networking hub of power for the body as they are one of the primary force-producing joints, involved in virtually every lower-body movement from standing, walking, squatting and jumping – even lifting! As the hinging centre of your body (where you are supposed to bend in a forward bend) they also assist in maintaining your balance throughout most movements.

So for optimal hip health we need to know how to move and hold our hips correctly and that is what this workshop is all about.

This Remedial Yoga Workshop includes take-away lifestyle ideas and exercises so that you will reap the rewards of this 2 Hours for years to come.

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$60 per session or book in for all 3 workshops this March for only $150.  Prepaid bookings essential – get your pass online or call 9817 0078 and have your credit card handy (1.5% surcharge applicable).

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• Tingling fingers
• Numbness
• Heavy arms
• Muscle pain
• Headaches
• Reduced range of motion

These common symptoms are often a result of the incorrect neck alignment.

But more often we here that this is corrected by neck adjustment therapies but then returns, sometimes within days.

This workshop will help you use yoga postures and movements to discover why this keeps on happening and how to stop the cycle of pain and discomfort.

12 people discovered how Japanese Remedial Yoga can be your pathway to a Healthier Neck