My Aching Back: How Spinal Fusion Changed My Life

40 years later, I’m still learning how to manage my scoliosis.

Rose Bak
6 min readMay 28, 2022

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X-ray images of spine pre- and post-scoliosis surgery

Early on in my Yoga Teacher Training program, we were talking about our path to yoga and our decision to enroll in Teacher Training. Although I started doing yoga in the mid-1990s, the genesis of my yoga practice goes much farther back, to some time around 1980.

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Rose Bak

Rose Bak is a freelance writer and yoga teacher who lives in Oregon. Find her at https://linktr.ee/rosebak or follow @authorrosebak on social media.