My sisters Deb and Priscilla and our sis-in-law Kate and I all practiced together yesterday in my snug little space. It was the same sequence I'm going to keep doing until the sciatica is gone, but there's something in it for everyone. Kate has high blood pressure, so she knows how to modify poses for… Continue reading Practicing with my sisters
Month: July 2008
Short practice
I always try to remind myself that a short practice is OK, but I rarely do a good one. Today I wasted a lot of time playing web Boggle. (No, I'm not giving the link. It's bad.) The whole time I kept thinking, stop this now and practice yoga! I had an 11:45 appointment. It… Continue reading Short practice
Goodness
A few standing poses every day, some breathing, and boy, I am feeling better in some fundamental way. When my hands hurt (or some other part of me), I have been realizing I'm not breathing, just holding onto the pain. I inhale, exhale a little longer, and my posture shifts and my pain lessens. Practicing… Continue reading Goodness
Lying on the floor, standing on the wall
Yesterday in class we did standing poses lying on the floor. We've done it before. I requested that we do it again, particularly Parvritta Trikonasana (revolved triangle), because I got all bollixed up when I tried it at home. Several people in the class had injuries of one sort or another, which made it a… Continue reading Lying on the floor, standing on the wall
Breathing and moving
One of the great things about Sam Dworkis's Recovery Yoga is the breathing instruction on connecting breath to movement. For example, lying down, completely supported and having relaxed into the position, you inhale and raise your arm at the same time. You make the raising of your arm correspond exactly to the inhalation, so that… Continue reading Breathing and moving
Boring, not boring
I've been doing the same basic sequence for a couple of weeks now. It's the one I wrote about before, a combination of the Iyengar sciatica sequence with Sam Dworkis's Recovery Yoga added in. It's good, and I'm happy to be doing it, and I'm not bored. It just seems boring to write about it… Continue reading Boring, not boring
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