If you’re interested in improving your yoga wheel pose but feel like low back pain is holding you back, then this video is for you!

If you ever feel a sore low back or can’t do wheel pose because of low back pain, then this video will teach you how to improve mobility in your upper back, or thoracic spine, in order to decrease back pain and improve your wheel pose.

A lot of people end up developing back pain or shoulder injuries when they try wheel pose – or bridge pose as I learned from gymnastics –  and in today’s post, I am going to teach you some opening extensions that help you to properly open up and stop experiencing pain in these poses.

What I often see happen is most people only focus on what’s happening in their back, and then they think they need to just dig deeper into the back of the muscles and try to open up the spine when they’ve forgotten to pay attention to what’s happening in the front.

Think about it: if I go into back extension, those muscles are actually getting shorter, so they need to be active, not released. And what actually needs to be able to open up is the front of the body. So that’s what we’re going to focus on today, opening up the front of the body to alleviate back pain in your yoga wheel pose!