Two4One
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Re: How much is too much?
« Reply #42 on: January 28, 2012, 09:34:50 AM »
QuoteYoga is also tremendously good for my holistic health. I don't want people to think I have gone rogue and am doing all sorts of crazy things. - Aerial
Did you ever know that you're my hero? For reals. I'm thrilled your now able to get back to the mat, and when I see my surgeon next on April 4th, I am showing him your post above how you resumed yoga safely one on one with a skilled yogini!!!!!
Namaste, Aerial!
2fer
P.S. Is it OK if I post your yoga experience with your teacher in the Yoga Section?
Bilateral BHR Dr. Schmitt 12.20.11
"Grateful for my successful outcome and planning for my healthy, active life."
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QuoteAerial
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Re: How much is too much?
« on: Yesterday at 04:22:48 PM »
Quote from: Two4One on January 28, 2012, 09:34:50 AM
Yoga is also tremendously good for my holistic health. I don't want people to think I have gone rogue and am doing all sorts of crazy things.
Did you ever know that you're my hero? For reals. I'm thrilled your now able to get back to the mat, and when I see my surgeon next on April 4th, I am showing him your post above how you resumed yoga safely one on one with a skilled yogini!!!!!
Namaste, Aerial!
2fer
P.S. Is it OK if I post your yoga experience with your teacher in the Yoga Section?
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I think with yoga it is so important to choose teachers and studios carefully.
I think with yoga it is so important to choose teachers and studios carefully. Good instruction that is progressively based and focuses on principles of alignment = safe practice. I really love Anusara yoga which focuses on 5 principles of alignment. For me, inner spiral is the key right now which widens the lower back and psoas out and away from the spine. Some great poses for the hip and pelvic area that were given to me in my private include those listed below (note these poses work the hip in all ranges (flexion, extension, abduction and adduction) and are not advanced but don't do them without instruction. Good alignment is the key to maximizing the benefit of yoga and minimizing getting hurt!). If you are experienced, don't sink into the poses, breathe into the back, widen the pelvis (inner spiral) and create room for expansion! I am by no means perfect in these poses at this point post-surgery but I can see how they work my hip through the ROM it needs. You don't see pigeon pose on here and should not be attempted in the early post surgery as it is a seriously weight loaded hip opener in the direction of the dislocation during surgery! I think if I tried that right now on my operated side I would be like a Barbie doll whose leg snaps out of the socket......key is slow immersion back into yoga like all other activites.
Tadasana with block between the shins to encourage shins "in" and hips "wide"
Child's pose (stack fists and rest head on fists if pose causes too much hip flexion)
L pose at the wall
Bhujangasana
Knee to chest laying on back
Windshield wiper pose
Eka Pada Bhekasana
Supra Virasana (with rolled towel down spine if needed, tailbone should never "float"
Setubanda and Urdva Dahanurasana with block to encourage shins "in" and hips "wide"
« Last Edit: Yesterday at 07:35:45 PM by Aerial »
Right hip resurfacing with Dr. Gross on 12/5/11!
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Two4One
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Re: How much is too much?
« Reply #47 on: Yesterday at 08:27:06 PM »
Thank you so much, Aerial.
I'm not cleared to twist or do the wall, but with modifications I can do child's pose and bridges and some of these others. My practice was more Vinyasa, slow flowing poses melting into the next. Also, I practiced Yin yoga, which helped me quiet my mind, and it complemented the more active or 'yang' practice.
Peace,
2fer
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Bilateral BHR Dr. Schmitt 12.20.11
"Grateful for my successful outcome and planning for my healthy, active life."
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Aerial
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Re: How much is too much?
« Reply #48 on: Today at 06:48:37 AM »
Keeping in mind I just started back to yoga last week, I think you will find initially vinyasa will be challenging. I have done some simple sun salutations but more complex flows are difficult because my recovering hip does not allow for "balanced" flow. I also really like vinyasa but I feel I need to wait a bit on that and concentrate on simple poses with longer holds and done with good alignment (developed rom and strength first). . My athletic side loves vinyasa especially when it moves into and out of inversions!
« Last Edit: Today at 08:19:28 AM by Aerial »
Right hip resurfacing with Dr. Gross on 12/5/11!
Hey Skip!
Well, as you can see from the above posts Aerial is indeed living up to her moniker and is happily doing yoga on the regular! As for me, I just had a yoga epiphany quite recently:
QuoteQuoteSo good to see your progress and how positive you are staying. Keep up the good work and do a yoga pose or two for me once in a while. - Luanna
Lol! All Dr. Shmitt has 'officially' cleared me to do so far is tree pose, bhujangasana (cobra pose), bridge pose, Tadasana (mountain pose), Utkatasana (Chair Pose), (Warrior I Pose) - walking lunges in the pool, Marjaryasana (Cat Pose ), Plank Pose, a modified Chaturanga Dandasana (Four-Limbed Staff Pose), and savasana.
Holy Crap! Writing all that down, you helped me realize I can build a practice from that! Wow whee!
Thanks, Luanna.
2fer
P.S. I'm really not a pendantic 'Frasier' type with all that Sanskrit; I do really like languages and jargon though - it's pretty!
Skip, I'm bringing in some basic yoga DVDs to my PT, who has kindly agreed to review any questionable moves in the practices depicted. I'm a major Rainbeau Mars and Mimi Solaire 'Yin Yoga' fan! I do hope starting with the 'Beginner' series will be cleared by my sundry medical advisors. Will you please give me an "intention" that I'm able to safely and quickly resume more of a flowing practice rather than the static poses I've listed that I can actually do right now?
Thank you for your inquiry! I love visualizing all my yoga hippy fellow travelers takin' it to the mat.
Truly,
One