Seated Forward BendWhen you hear the term forward bend,“I’m not good at it because I’m stiff,” “I can’t straighten my knees,” ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the November-December 1984 issue of Yoga ...

When your lower back hurts, many people think, 'My body is stiff, so I'll just do a forward bend to stretch it out,' ...

This is a cooling and quieting pose that gives an intense and deliberate stretch to the spine.