Suffering from lower back pain? Yoga can help!

As a yoga therapist, I often work with people experiencing back pain—sometimes acute, sometimes chronic. One of the first things I share is that yoga therapy isn’t about “fixing” the problem or promising a cure. Rather, it’s about learning to live with more ease in the body you have right now.

Back pain can be deeply disruptive, affecting everything from sleep to mood to your ability to move with confidence. Yoga therapy offers a gentle, supportive way to manage pain by addressing not just the physical body, but also the nervous system and breath—key players in how we experience and respond to discomfort.

Through personalised movement, breath awareness, and relaxation practices, we can improve mobility, reduce tension, and begin to shift our relationship with pain. With consistent practice, movement can help increase range of motion and reduce inflammation that may be contributing to discomfort.

Over time, students often notice not only a reduction in symptoms, but an increased sense of agency—an understanding of what helps, what aggravates, and how to listen to their body more wisely.

Yoga won’t always take the pain away, but it can offer tools to manage it better, regulate the nervous system, and bring more comfort, calm, and confidence into daily life. That’s powerful medicine.