Carpenter's suggestions can be used as a blueprint for more
difficult backbends, but she's interested in more than getting you into a bigger pose.
Not exact matches
Far from it, she says: For years, it was hard to do them without lower - back pain, so she empathizes with students who find
backbends difficult.
Even then, you focus on
backbending the most
difficult parts of your neck (the bottom two vertebrae, which resemble thoracic vertebrae) before moving up to the more mobile and overworked midneck segments.