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Article: Yoga for gardeners: reverse gardeners back with these backbends from Karen M. Thomson, RYT.
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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As the weather gets warmer and days longer, the outdoors beckon many of us to come outside and plant anything from tomatoes and green beans to impatiens and roses in hopes of harvesting fresh vegetables and beautiful, colorful flowers. Often that much bending and squatting results in hurt backs, and so yoga stretches which complement the continuous bending over by gardeners' digging, planting, and weeding become important to relieve pain and balance the body. Of the thousands of yoga postures, I'd like to recommend three that are good for backs and spines. When I shared with my yoga class last night that I was writing an article on "Yoga for Gardeners," one of my students ...
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