This series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union Center, instructor Lou Asselin will teach you many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain...or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

Lou Asselin discovered Yoga in 1999 at Studio Yoga in Madison-NJ with Theresa Rowland  with whom she completed her teacher training in 2005. Since 2002 she has been teaching general classes as well as specialty classes for those with special needs, back care and for depression.  Her training allowed her to study with many of the great, senior Iyengar teachers from all over the world. In addition she studied Yoga for Scoliosis in many workshops with Bobbie Fultz.  But it was when she met Elise Browning Miller that her understanding of her own misalignments and a new awareness of her back took her yoga practice and her teaching to a new level.  Since moving to New York in 2008 she studies with Genny Kapuler.  She has also been studying with Deborah Wolk on a weekly basis and regularly assisting her in her Back Care and Yoga for Scoliosis classes and workshops.  Lou’s positive personality, patience and upbeat energy will have you sailing through her safe, yet challenging classes.