Stella Weller - The Yoga Back Book: The Natural Solution to Freedom from Pain

Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to this revised version of The Yoga Back Book and I now thank them all.

I am particularly grateful to my husband, Walter, and to Samantha Grant, Assistant Health Editor at Thorsons. I also thank Lara Burgess, Lizzy Gray, Lora Galloway, Gia Bettencourt-Gomes, Diana Harland, Jacqui Caulton and Gideon Reeve.

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