Thank You for Printing This Off to Read and Refer to in the Future

Thank you for joining the Yogaforbacks Community – Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs www.yogaforbacks.co.uk.

Thank you for printing this off to read and refer to in the future.

We’re building a community of people interested in raising awareness of our research and our 'Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs' programme used successfully in The University of York / Arthritis Research UK clinical trial. This can help to positively raise awareness of yoga's therapeutic application potential in general, as this yoga programme is unique with its robust evidence-base, its specificity and its availability.

We are extremely busy, but like to aim to send out 3 newsletters per annum. Thank you for your patience, while we compile the next one for you.

We would be grateful if you could help us with our aim of allowing more people to benefit from our research and social enterprise post-research development project. This is particularly relevant to:-

- those with chronic, episodic or recurring low back pain;

- those wishing to look after the health of their lower back for the long term;

- healthcare practitioners wishing to have knowledge of innovative evidence-based treatments to help inform their referral and care pathways;

- community and social care workers seeking ways to integrate health and social care in the community, whilst promoting a healthy lifestyle;

- yoga students / practitioners wanting to be motivated to help themselves with an appropriate home practice that will keep their lower back healthy;

- those who do not feel fit or healthy enough to exercise, but for whom this gentle yoga programme would give a 'step up' to becoming more active;

- yoga teachers who want to refer beginner students with low back problems to our qualified teachers;

- high quality yoga teachers wishing to increase their knowledge of how to teach those with low back pain according to a 'best practice' evidence-based course;

- workplace health and wellbeing initiatives; - HR and OH Departments.

As 80% of the population will have back pain at some point, it is likely that you have or know someone with back problems, meaning that this project will be relevant to virtually everyone.

We would therefore be really grateful if you could let your friends and others know about:

- our 12-week Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs evidence-based, gentle and simple yoga courses, for those wishing to look after the health of their lower back for the long-term;

- our research and associated published papers;

- our Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Teacher Training courses for already-qualified and experienced yoga teachers offered by The Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Institute;

- our educational resources - the video / CD / book / App;

- our Trifold Information leaflet found on our Promotions Page;

- our Workplace Health & Wellbeing Information leaflet (available on request via the website);

- our website www.yogaforbacks.co.uk.

We do not have a marketing budget. Raising awareness of our project relies on the passion of our yoga teachers, the enthusiasm of the 1000s of people who have been touched and positively influenced by our 12-week yoga course, and the excitement of those who have been inspired by reading about our ground-breaking research.

Thank you for helping  us to help  more people to help  themselves to better health.

We really appreciate your ongoing interest and support. Many thanks. Our web designer ([email protected]) told us to write this wee technical bit – so, here goes and we hope this techno gobbledigook makes sense. If you have a facebook account, please click on one of the pages linked below, and on that page, there is a facebook button that says “send” and “recommend“. Please use those blue buttons on the pages you would like to promote, and it will help build the community. The facebook send button is rather fun to play with, so give it a whirl if you haven’t seen it before… Alternatively, just send the links by email. Click here to promote the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Relaxations CD: http://www.yogaforbacks.co.uk/yoga-relaxation-cd/ Click here to promote the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs book: http://www.yogaforbacks.co.uk/yoga-for-healthy-lower-backs-book/ Click here to promote the videos explaining the research: http://www.yogaforbacks.co.uk/yoga-for-back-pain-videos/ Click here to promote the research text page: http://www.yogaforbacks.co.uk/research-findings/