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5 Day Training Omega Institute, NY

Happy Back Yoga 5-day Training – Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY.  Sun Aug 30 |

Discover the Happy Back Yoga Method—a therapeutic, alignment-based approach to healing the spine through yoga therapy.

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“Alignment is not just about your body, it is about living your life with less effort and more ease.”

Rachel Krentzman

Yoga Expert

Happy Back Yoga Method

Discover the Happy Back Yoga Method—a therapeutic, alignment-based approach to healing the spine and the stories it holds. Developed by Rachel Krentzman, PT, C-IAYT, CHT, this 5-day experiential program weaves together physical therapy principles, yoga therapy, and Hakomi mindfulness to address both the structural and emotional causes of back pain.

Explore how intelligent, safe practices for conditions such as lower back pain, sciatica, herniated discs, scoliosis, sacroiliac dysfunction, and neck pain help to restore ease and reconnect you to your body’s innate wisdom.

Through experiential movement, mindful awareness, guided self-inquiry, lecture, group discussion, and alignment-based yoga practices, you learn:

  • Methods for spinal health and injury prevention
  • How to design therapeutic sequences for specific spinal conditions
  • The emotional roots of chronic pain and how yoga can help release them
  • Integration of mindfulness and Hakomi principles for healing

This workshop...

This workshop is appropriate for yoga practitioners with at least one year of experience, yoga teachers, therapists, and healthcare professionals seeking to integrate yoga therapy into their work.

Participants leave with tools for balance, resilience, and a deeper understanding of how healing begins from within.

Testimonials

What Students Are Saying

The Yoga for a Happy Back training has deepened my understanding of back pain and the many reasons we suffer from it; from anatomy through lifestyle, down to the emotional and even biographical causes of our pain. This knowledge was made tangible through the practices themselves, which perfectly exemplified the theory we were given. Taking this course has deepened both my personal practice and my teaching, and the benefits and impacts of what Rachel skilfully and soulfully teaches have created positive change for both me and my students.

Michelle Rochwerger

Jerusalem, Israel | Graduate 2020

Rachel Krentzman

Yoga Expert

Rachel is a teacher’s teacher. As a seasoned physical therapist and healthy back expert, she brings a broad base of knowledge and the confidence that comes from experience, to every injury and interaction. Her gentle way and healing hands have helped me manage my back issues and her full and purposeful life inspire me to live my life mindfully.

Shauna MacKay

BPE, RYT-500 La Jolla, CA

Rachel Krentzman

Yoga Expert

Rachel’s workshops combine sound scientifically-based knowledge with the wisdom of Yoga. Rachel is an eloquent speaker, a natural teacher and a gifted healer. I felt like I learned more than I expected to learn in an experiential way and had a lot of fun doing it.

Christine Carr

MSPT, COMT, RYT Denver, CO

Rachel Krentzman

Yoga Expert

Even with my training as a nurse, 30+ year of yoga practise, teacher training and multiple workshops – I am still learning new things! Rachel has such a wonderful, in depth of knowledge of anatomy and a very clear way for sharing that knowledge verbally, through visuals, and then demonstrating how it works with yoga poses…truly a gift.

JoAnn Webster

Happy Back Yoga Graduate 2020 St Louis, Missouri

Rachel Krentzman

Yoga Expert

Facilitator

Meet Rachel Krentzman

Rachel is a licensed physical therapist and certified yoga therapist. After healing herself from a serious back injury with Yoga, she studied with master teachers Aadil Palkhivala (Purna Yoga), Judith Lasater and Aman Keays (Iyengar Yoga) and created Happy Back Yoga Academy. She is the author of two books, Yoga for a Happy Back: A Teacher’s Guide to Spinal Health through Yoga Therapy and Scoliosis, Yoga Therapy & the Art of Letting Go. In addition, she has authored chapters in Yoga Therapy Foundations, Tools and Practice and the soon-to-be released Yoga Therapy for Children with Complex Needs.
Rachel is the Co-Director of Wisdom-Body Yoga Therapy, an 850 hour professional yoga therapist training program in Israel. She has led workshops and retreats worldwide and has been an advocate for integrating yoga into healthcare for over 20 years.
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