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Wide Leg Forward Fold: Lengthen Your Spine to Release Pain, Stress and Compression
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If there was only one yoga pose you could do anytime, anywhere to release pain, stress and compression in your spine, I would recommend this variation of wide leg forward fold.
So let me tell you a funny story.
About 10 years ago I went to the doctor for my annual physical.
I was the first patient of the morning.
Sitting in the doctor’s examining room decked out in that paper shirt they give you to wear, I noticed the nurse as she walked into the room.
From decades of experience teaching yoga I could tell she was in horrible pain.
“Does your back hurt?” said I, the patient, to the nurse.
“Yes, it’s been killing me for several days now,” she replied.
“I’m a yoga teacher,” I said to the nurse.
“May I help you?”
She was in so much pain she admitted she could barely walk.
I instructed her to put her hands on the examining table and do this variation of wide leg forward fold.
