Martha Carter's Blog

In this serial blog, Martha’s Healing Journey, Martha Carter talks about her personal journey, beginning with her diagnosis of scoliosis at age 13, all the way through her Harrington rod removal, along with sharing her past and ongoing in-depth explorations and discoveries with many different healing modalities and health practitioners.

We encourage you to start with Part 1.

Posts tagged Yoga

Becoming a Yoga for Scoliosis Teacher

Part 13 of Martha’s Healing Journey

One of the hardest things about scoliosis is that it is difficult to know what to do to make it better. People ask me questions like these all the time:

How do you cure scoliosis?
How can I make my back straight again?
How can I stop the curve from getting worse?
What can I do to get rid of the pain?

Though extremely understandable questions to ask, they are very difficult questions to answer, because every person and every curve is different. There is one thing that is for sure though: it is NOT possible to CURE a structural scoliosis.

STORIES & SUCCESSESMartha CarterApril 3, 2018Yoga, Learning, Back Care, Supportive Care, Scoliosis

A 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Adventure of Discovery on Salt Spring Island, BC.

Part 12 of Martha’s Healing Journey

Through attending Yoga For Scoliosis with Elise Browning Miller, I came to clearly understand that Yoga could really help me, but it also opened me up to the realization that I didn't know anything about Yoga — in the wider sense. When I first started studying Yoga, I was completely distracted by my own body fears and discomforts.

STORIES & SUCCESSESMartha CarterMarch 5, 2018Yoga, Learning, Back Care, Supportive Care