Samamkaya Yoga Back Care Scoliosis Collective

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Samamkāya is a therapeutic,worker-owned yoga studio. Making yoga accessible & healing to students of all ages & abilities living with back injuries & pain

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Samamkāya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective is a therapeutic, worker-owned yoga studio in Manhattan. Founded in January 2015 by Deborah Wolk, our aim is to make yoga accessible to students of all ages and abilities who are living with back injuries, chronic/acute pain, differently shaped spines/bodies, scoliosis, and spinal fusions. Prior to founding Samamkaya, Deborah Wolk was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Yoga Union for Backcare and Scoliosis from 2007-2014. All our teachers have been involved in therapeutic practices of their own and have been teaching therapeutic yoga for many years; several of our teachers have been teaching therapeutic yoga for over 20 years. In addition to yoga, some of our teachers work in other healing modalities, including physical, occupational, and massage therapy, personal training, Body-Mind Centering, Macrobiotic counseling, and meditation.