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I have found great vitality from 8 months practice. I was at a peak yet from last week a host of issues have come up at the same time and I feel a very blocked. Hips are releasing, causing some pain in the process, so is the right shoulder, causing me a lot of tightness on the right hand side of the neck, an old sciatica problem on the left side is causing pain on the ball of my left foot. My shoulders and neck bones keep popping. I have tried to let go and reduce the effort in all postures, letting the body relax. Do I rest for a while or continue to try to deblock gently? I practise at home in medium heat with the Hot Yoga Class app…
For all who practise at home, self help is best.
A little patience, a lot of perseverance, and some rest to let your body tell you where to go next so it can deblock itself gently is working for me.
Namaste.
Hello racoll53
Did you just answer your own question? 😉
With regards to your question and your other post, it depends on what is causing the tightness in the first place. Just doing yoga doesn’t mean that the techniques of body movement are correct. There could be some fundamental issues in the way you habitually move and in the way you are actually doing the poses that can be causing the tightness and the asymmetry in the body. We can never assume anything from the written word! Can you tell me what it means to you when you write “do I … try to deblock gently?” And please answer this question too: What exactly causes your shoulders and neck bones to pop continually?
Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂Hello Gabrielle,
I did answer my own question as I seem to have found the solution.
By deblocking gently I meant simply to try to push through the pain with gentle effort, with less strength applied if you wish.As to what causes my shoulders and neck to pop continually I can only assume it is my body realigning and refinding its own (old/new?) symmetry through the postures.
Namaste
Hello again racoll53
There are a few things I can add! First, ‘pushing through pain with gentle effort’ is what you offered. I offer that you must not push through pain, you are welcome to push through discomfort. It could be simply a matter of definition. But there are people who push through things when their bodies are telling them to not do a pose. So to go by the written word I need to be really clear about what I am answering. Perhaps we’re saying the same thing!
For most people most of the time the problems are associated with doing poses incorrectly. With you I am certainly intrigued by the interesting list of body issues. Some of these could be related. For example, you say you are having hip issues, left sciatica, left foot pain and then right side tightness and pain in upper parts.
Can you firstly tell me how your body is coping OUTSIDE of class? Do you find you are walking differently because of the pain in your foot, or hips or both? This could give me some clues.
I have had the experience where my back was realigning and rediscovering better posture after having scoliosis. There were definitely some feelings of pain and discomfort associated. I can give you some things to be aware of.
The next thing to ask is if you ever use the app to zero in on a single pose? For example, Standing Separate Leg Intense Stretching pose is one of those that can cause sciatica if done the typical way that purports to follow the Bikram dialog. But 99.99% sure it won’t if you start with bent legs and focus on a straight back. May I ask you if you are making sure your back is straight before straightening your legs?
And that’s enough for this instalment! (*PS apologies, I had started this post and Firefox spontaneously shut down on me, installed an update and I lost my response.)
Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂Hello Gabrielle,
Thank you for your reply.
Pushing through disconfort is what I meant.
I am walking differently as my left foot seems to be realigning.
The pain in the ball of this foot I interpret as being an old ruptured disk related sciatica problem resolving itself.
The hips also seem to be realigning. The left hip is difficult to align correctly in Locust, whereas the right hip reveals an important weakness in Hands to Feet pose.
The right shoulder is a lot stiffer than the left and is the area which pops often.
Perhaps releasing and realigning.
My left ankle will wrap around in Cobra, while my right is only very slowly approaching a possible wraparound…
All in all, I am advancing, however, all these issues appearing at once drove me to write my first Help! message.
Outside of class, my body seems to be coping well although sometimes I have a right hand side stiff neck. I am resting a day after every two days of practice to give my body a chance.
Is that the right thing to do?
Namaste.
Ricardo
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