Friday and Saturday AM & PM Back Care workshops will address different back issues and injuries resulting in poor posture, lower back pain, chronic neck and shoulder pain, scoliosis, lordosis, kyphosis and other back conditions.

Elise will address how to adapt certain yoga poses for a wide variety of back conditions and give a series of therapeutic yoga poses for a variety of back conditions. Appropriate for those dealing with their own back-related issues as well as yoga teachers and those who treat these conditions in others.

Sunday’s workshop Intermediate Asana is designed for continuing students who have a good base in the beginning yoga postures and wish to continue their practice to explore new horizons. Focus will be on more advanced standing poses, backbends, sitting forward bends and inversions.

Elise Browning Miller, M.A. in Therapeutic Recreation from UNC-CH, is a Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), and is certified by International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT). Elise has been teaching yoga throughout the US and internationally for over 30 years.

A founding director of California Yoga Center in Mountain View, CA, Elise has successfully used yoga to minimize the effects of her own scoliosis. Her joyous personality and ease of communication endear her to students with a teaching style that is down-to-earth, precise and nurturing.