Yoga, Scoliosis, Practice


A New Book by

Rita Lewis-Manos


Rita Lewis-Manos draws on her four decades of study with B.K.S. Iyengar and Dr. Geeta S. Iyengar to create a book that enables willing students to tailor a practice to their specific spinal curvatures. Step-by-step, yoga practitioners can pursue their process of discovery, from understanding their own shapes to developing stability, to learning asymmetric work, to integrating actions toward evenness. The author uses clear instructions so that students may experience and adapt the poses and the sequences for themselves.



 

“Everybody can take up yoga at any stage of life. Yoga doesn’t have an age barrier. One has to understand according to the capacity and age what can be done. Yoga is meant for everyone. It doesn’t differentiate who, or what problem you have or what you are suffering, but according to your need, you do.”

- Dr. Geeta S. Iyengar, Pune, India, 2017


 
 

About Rita

Around the age of 14, I could sense that my spine was growing a bit crookedly. At that time they were not checking students for scoliosis, as they usually do now. I also discovered I was dyslexic. I never spoke up about either of these problems. The ring on my right hand, which I could touch, helped me tell right from left. At 16, I discovered Yoga from a book and did some poses without any real guidance.