tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post3864501942710170084..comments2024-03-21T00:30:14.738-07:00Comments on Yoga in the Dragon's Den: Healing chronic injuries that occur in yoga; call for guest posts about practicing with and healing from injury Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-58436155668826227682012-11-04T14:50:28.886-08:002012-11-04T14:50:28.886-08:00Will do :-) Am sending you an email now. Will do :-) Am sending you an email now. Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-13437064693773142592012-10-30T23:13:15.857-07:002012-10-30T23:13:15.857-07:00Cool! Send me an email: lagitane [at] mac [dot] co...Cool! Send me an email: lagitane [at] mac [dot] com and I'll have your address to send it on when it's ready. :)Yogini Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787351711548823249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-83257523736108359072012-10-29T08:19:55.407-07:002012-10-29T08:19:55.407-07:00Hello La Gitane,
that sounds gre...Hello La Gitane, <br /> that sounds great! Yes, I (as well as the readers of this blog, I'm sure) would love to read about your healing experience :-)Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-80130618802066170642012-10-27T21:25:54.395-07:002012-10-27T21:25:54.395-07:00Hey Nobel - would you like a post on wrist injurie...Hey Nobel - would you like a post on wrist injuries? I am just recovering from a nasty one and would be happy to share. :)Yogini Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787351711548823249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-86809832818402071892012-09-21T19:51:25.582-07:002012-09-21T19:51:25.582-07:00Very true, Suzanne. I think there is a lot of trut...Very true, Suzanne. I think there is a lot of truth in what you say about letting go of seeing the injury as a problem to be overcome, accepting it as what it is, and then seeing what opens up as a result. <br /><br />I'm not sure about bodywork, as I don't have much experience with it. I'm just guessing here, but it could be that perhaps bodywork doesn't succeed in reproducing the same patterns or mind/body vibrations as Ashtanga practice does, and therefore fails to recreate the conditions that need to arise in order for healing to be possible. To use a rather left-field analogy, it's like when you bring your car to a mechanic, and the mechanic always tries to reproduce the same funny sounds that your car is making when he tries to diagnose the problem. And maybe Ashtanga is the only thing that can reproduce the problematic patterns that were produced in the course of Ashtanga practice in the first place. As somebody used to tell me, "The only cure for yoga is... more yoga." Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-17162557262925968742012-09-21T19:26:21.281-07:002012-09-21T19:26:21.281-07:00hi nobel, great post!
i really like the part abou...hi nobel, great post! <br />i really like the part about how injury healing is more than just physical. In my own case, when injuries start to really heal seems to happen right after a shift in my thinking. that the "injury" no longer becomes a liability, even if my practice is still modified, and perhaps not that much different than it was the day before. I think I let go of the injury as a problem. I used to have similar experiences making art..letting something be a failure-letting go of expectation, and then something good would often come out of that process. <br /><br />the other thing that has been a mystery to me about ashtanga is that bodywork does not seem to help much with injuries, it seems to make the issues worse somehow (and this is in contrast to when i went to vinyasa classes). Is it the intensity of the practice? modifying practice or just practicing with a lot of attention to the area that is injured tends to be the best for me.<br /><br />maybe i will try to expand this into a post...suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06443107664597025043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-42794324733315722582012-09-20T19:27:14.717-07:002012-09-20T19:27:14.717-07:00Thanks Erica for posting this on FB! May your heal...Thanks Erica for posting this on FB! May your healing proceed smoothly :-)Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-2113725689419664852012-09-20T17:53:34.115-07:002012-09-20T17:53:34.115-07:00This is a wonderful idea, Nobel. I don't feel...This is a wonderful idea, Nobel. I don't feel quite healed enough to share my experience in this context, but I will post it on my Facebook page!ExuberantBodhisattvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789210840512529095noreply@blogger.com