http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?pagewanted=1&src=recg
This was the situation I found myself in. In my 30s, I had somehow
managed to rupture a disk in my lower back and found I could prevent
bouts of pain with a selection of yoga postures and abdominal exercises.
Then, in 2007, while doing the extended-side-angle pose, a posture
hailed as a cure for many diseases, my back gave way. With it went my
belief, naïve in retrospect, that yoga was a source only of healing and
never harm. If you would like to read more please click here for the New York Times.