One of my yoga heroines is Vanda Scaravelli. She started her practice of yoga in her 40s and became a very wise practitioner.

She wrote a beautiful book called Awakening the Spine.

There are lots of parallels between her approach and the goals of Structural Integration bodywork. Here is a thought that resonated with me because low back issues are so common.

This lumbar area (waist vertebrae) suffers most when standing wrongly. … We have to recreate the proper space between the vertebrae so that the nerves can be released and health re-established.