Learn safe yoga adapted for you
Yoga modified for Ankylosing spondylitis/ Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpa/ AS)
Welcome to
Yoga for AS
Hello, we are Geoff and Jamie, we both have AS and are qualified yoga teachers.
Yoga for AS
Hello, we are Geoff and Jamie, we both have AS and are qualified yoga teachers.
Music by Joel Havea, a very talented musician who has AS. He is a good friend of ours. Check out his work here
Music by Joel Havea, a very talented musician who has AS.
About Yoga for AS
Through years of experience of both living with AS
and teaching yoga to hundreds of people with AS,
we have created an online service providing live
classes, video tutorials and one to one coaching.
There is yoga here for you.
The yoga is modified for all forms of AS.
Meet the teachers
I see yoga as like an adjustable spanner. I aim to show you how you can harness this tool and modify it to fulfil your needs.
Jamie Boder
Yoga for AS must be safe. No injury, no flares, relieve pain. We stick at what we enjoy, and we with AS must stick at safe regular stretching, so I try to make my yoga for AS classes enjoyable.
Geoff Lindsay
Courses
Try free online tutorials.
Testimonials...
LOUISE- IRELAND
BILLY CROSSLAND- UNITED KINGDOM
What the healthcare professionals say
Dr. Arumugam Moorthy
“Yoga will give you more flexibility that's what we are aiming for, we don't want any patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis or Axial Spondyloarthritis to stiffen up, when you do yoga regularly you won't stiffen up. If you don't stiffen up this means you are burning out your inflammation by doing this exercise in the form of yoga traditionally and religiously”.
Isla Butler
Every axSpA or psoriatic arthritis with back pain patient I speak to, I tell them about Yoga for AS. I've also spread the word to my Leeds colleague, other Rheum Physios from Yorkshire trusts, and our Rheum consultants. I really hope that some patients have looked you up and joined the FB page or taken a look at the YouTube page.
Dr Lettie Bishop
“You don't have to do intense activity to get the anti-inflammatory effects of regular exercise and if you start an activity like yoga, you'll see the benefits to your mental wellbeing as well. So these two things together are just another incentive to move a little bit more”.
Dr Raj Sengupta
“In my 15 years clinical experience as a Rheumatology Consultant, people with AS do really well with an optimised stretching and exercise programme. When adherence to this programme is present, the results seen on BASMI are very favourable. The evidence is still evolving. We don’t have longitudinal studies to show that it would halt or slow the radiographic progression”.
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