When you engage your back muscles to bend and lift, you're supporting the spinal column. You're also strengthening the back muscles when lifting the front body.

Strengthening the supporting structures of the pelvis will help relieve back pain and/or SI joint pain.

A soothing and effective way to remove tension and to strengthen and stretch your upper back, neck and shoulders

How to sit to engage and strengthen the postural muscles. Video is intentionally blurry.

Learn how to bend from the hips to avoid back pain.

Joanne made this video as part of a series of classes for Rogers TV that aired in 2013.