Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs
Alison Trewhelahas been practicing yoga since 1979 and has taught yoga since 1983. She is dedicated to the Iyengar method of teaching yoga and a teacher member of The Iyengar Yoga Association (UK), IYAUK, and a committee member of SWIYI. Alison holds Intermediate Junior III certificate (IYAUK 1997) and has specialized in developing appropriate yoga short courses for beginners with low back pain leading research into yoga's efficacy as a treatment for low back pain with York Trials Unit at The University of York, funded by Arthritis Research UK. She also leads annual Special Study Units for Medical Students, where they learn about the experience and application of yoga and teaches therapeutic and educative yoga to small groups for conditions such as women s and musculo-skeletal problems. Alison resides in Cornwall, UK.Anna Semlyen, MSc Health Economics (York), British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) Dip, Ayurveda Foundations, Reiki. Anna has taught yoga since 1996 and runs Yoga in York. Anna is Specialist Advisor to the BWY on Yoga and Healthy Backs and Therapeutic Yoga Research. She worked for the NHS 1992-3 and as a Health Economics Research Fellow at The University of York 1993-1998 before becoming a full-time yoga teacher. She has been doing yoga research since 2005. From 2007 she co-authored the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs manuals for students and teachers. She has taught at BWY National Congress and is a BWY in Service Training Tutor on Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs. This is her sixth book. She has published research papers and many articles in yoga magazines.