This class is led by Dr Rob Lamport, DC, and draws on the knowledge he has built over nearly thirty years of working with the human body and with yoga.
With a strong interest in helping yoga teachers better understand the benefits of the practice they teach, this class places particular emphasis on the low back — exploring the structure and function of the vertebrae and discs, along with their relationship to the nervous system — bringing together information that every yoga teacher should know.
What you’ll learn:
The function of the low back and how it’s designed to move
The function of the vertebrae and discs
How the nervous system relates to the low back
How common asana influence the low back, including forward bends, backbends and twists
Practical ways to adapt asana for someone experiencing low back issues
How to recognise when it is appropriate to seek further professional help
Class Details
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Yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and yoga practitioners
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Friday, 28 August 2026
5pm UK / 6pm CET / 9.30pm IST / 12am EDT / 9am PDT
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Live via Zoom
The link will be shared upon registration
Class Details
Low back pain can be complicated. There isn’t always a simple relationship between what we see on an image, how someone moves and what they feel.
Rather than focusing on a list of poses to avoid, Dr Rob will look at the anatomy and function of the low back and how this can inform our approach to movement and yoga practice.
For yoga teachers, this provides useful information to take into your teaching. For practitioners, it offers a better understanding of your own body and the way your practice can affect the low back.
This class is educational and is not intended to diagnose or treat an individual condition.
About Dr Rob
Dr Rob Lamport is a Doctor of Chiropractic and the founder of More Than Anatomy, a yoga anatomy education platform built specifically for yoga teachers and therapists who want to understand the body more deeply. His journey began on the golf course as a teenage scratch player, when back problems cut short his ambitions of turning professional. A long search for answers through doctors, physiotherapists, osteopaths, and chiropractors eventually led him to yoga — the first practice that helped him truly understand the relationship among how he moved, how he lived, and how he felt.
That discovery took him to India in 1999 for his first yoga teacher training, then to Australia to study remedial massage and sports injury therapy, and back to India again to deepen his practice and work clinically. Alongside his own chiropractic training, he has spent nearly three decades studying and practising yoga, including years of study under Shri O.P. Tiwariji of the Kaivalyadhama tradition.
Through More Than Anatomy, Rob translates that clinical understanding into practical, accessible anatomy teaching for yoga teachers — helping them understand how the body actually moves, how different postures affect the spine and joints, and how to recognise when something needs extra care or adapting. His belief is simple: every yoga teacher should understand the body deeply enough to, at the very minimum, do no harm and, ideally, make a genuine, positive difference to every student they teach.
Rob’s teaching bridges Western clinical anatomy with an Eastern understanding of yoga as a complete system — giving teachers not just facts about the body, but a working, applicable understanding they can bring straight into their classes. Yoga anatomy, in his view, isn’t the whole yogic journey, but the foundation from which everything else yoga offers can be taught safely and with real confidence.