Yoga Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy

As Yoga Therapists, we will often be approached by clients who report that they have received little help from western medicine.

Or we may see clients with conditions for which medicine has few answers.

Some conditions severely limit or make it impossible to practice asana, even chair asana as we know it.

Should we be intimidated by the idea of working with these people?

In this video, Brandt discusses working with muscular dystrophy, a particularly debilitating and challenging condition.

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