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On today’s podcast, Amy talks with Rachel Krentzman. Rachel was the founder of Embody Physical Therapy & Yoga in San Diego, CA, and is now the Co-Director of Wisdom-Body Yoga Therapy Professional Training in Israel. Rachel has extensive training in Purna Yoga and Iyengar Yoga, and over twenty years of experience in the field of physical therapy and rehabilitation. Rachel shares a deeper perspective on the mind-body-spirit connection in the realm of back pain management. She tells her own stories of how back pain was not just a physical issue and how yoga therapy has a different approach than physical therapy.

Amy and Rachel discuss Yoga therapy and Rachel’s yoga therapy work in Israel, Rachel’s books on Low Back Pain and Scoliosis, Rachel’s personal experience with low backpain and scoliosis, and the memoir she is writing about her life.

They talk about the following:

·        Yoga & Yoga Therapy in Israel and the most recent developments as yoga therapy moves into major hospitals, and the different yoga organizations come together to agree that yoga therapy is important and the direction it needs to move going forward

·        Rachel’s books on Low Back Pain and Scoliosis

·        Rachel’s personal experience with backpain and scoliosis and how she came to understand that it was not a physical problem, rather a mental-emotional stressor

·        Why sometimes Yoga Therapy can help with cases that were not successfully treated by Physical Therapy (from the perspective of a PT)

·        Rachels new video series on Scoliosis for Teens

·        Body Sensitivity or insensitivity in teens

·        How Rachel works with her clients on many different layers of their human systems to help them have more self-awareness on the yoga mat and in life

·        Rachel’s upcoming memoir and the process of writing it, letting go of the outcome

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Books mentioned in the podcast

Yoga For A Happy Back’ A Teacher’s Guide To Spinal Health Through Yoga Therapy: https://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Happy-Back-Teachers

SCOLIOSIS, YOGA THERAPY & THE ART OF LETTING GO: https://www.amazon.com/Scoliosis-Yoga-Therapy-Art-Letting/dp/184819272X