Leslie Kaminoff educates yoga teachers in New York City about breathing, anatomy and movement. His class offerings can be found at the Breathing Project. Often times, injured students will seek his expertise in rehabilitating back to health and to learn how to move more mindfully. This week's clinic featured two yoga students injured during practice. One injury was from a deep back bend (Urdhva Dhanarusana) and the other from plough pose (Halasana). To prevent injury, Kaminoff described that one needs "a little bit of movement from a lot of areas in the body." We are looking to distribute movement evenly throughout the length of the spine rather than yanking or hinging backwards from the lumbar-thoracic joint which is more fluid than other parts of the spine.
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