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Hi Gabrielle~

Wow, you are really so helpful!! I feel very lucky yo have found you and your site. You are really on a mission to help hot yogis and yoginis. Customer service does not get much better.

I don’t have your book and I know I should. It is great that you have it on amazon now. It is on my wish list. Even at that amazing price, I am afraid it is out of my budget range range now. I may be able to swing it next week or the week after as my hair business looks pretty good for the next couple weeks. As you know being a business owner, you must budget accordingly!

I did get the ball to do the ab exercise on and have started that. Yeah! My abs seem fairly strong and able to do them without too much effort, but I am sure I am getting more strengthening from them. I will watch the video again. I think you showed how to make it more challenging in it.

I will check out the hamstring thing too.
Normally I do lots of hamstring stretching, but I am always interested in your knowledge about the body.

As far as I know my neck is bad from 2 whiplashes and my low back started with falling off a horse barrel racing in 5 th grade. I landed on my left buttock. Years later at thirty after worrking on a cement floor in a very disorganized and maddening hair salon, pain shot down my left buttock into my calf. My

Now my fatherhood has spinal stenosis, I wonder if it is hereditary. In any case, I do believe in yoga and the bodies ability to heal. As long as I show up and gently get back into it. I know I can improve and be strong and fit.

Thank you for helping me get there, you are my Yoga Angel!

🙂

Thank you Kristin. I so appreciate your understanding! 🙂

I too have a neck injury and I cannot bend It backward at all. I modify too.

I have a plan to keep going to class and do what I can. You are so right, people get injuries and it is a part of life. I unfortunately have been ill with some sickness or injury most of my life and it has really affected my ability to create an adequate income doing what I do ( hairdresser) or participate in relationships fully.

Alas, I keep trying to get better and I will never give up trying or having hope for better health.

This really is a mental practice first and foremost for me!

Thanks Gabrielle. Do they come already blown up? If so, how do you let some of the air out so it is usable lie the way you describe in your video? Is is easy to do?
Thank you~
: )

Thank you so much Gabrielle.
It is weird because I tired what you,say and I am still,getting pain. Just tilting my head up at all hurts the back of my neck. It is worse with hands behind my neck supporting it. Somehow the hands add some pressure to my neck when I lift up even a little bit.
I think there is a flare up of something right now. I will let it relax for a bit and try again.

Hi Gabrielle,
I think I found some stuff on the forum for pranayama. I tried it , not in class but just at home. Still it hurt. It felt like it forced my neck forward from the middle and strained it that way if that makes sense. I will keep playing with it.

The standing back bend and camel are an issue too. I will look for modifications for those as well.

I wonder if my neck muscles were stronger that it would not go out of joint/atlas?

I am not giving up yet!

Thanks for your good work and your help!
Paula

Hi Gabriel!
She did not give me anything specific just to be careful. But I think I need more detailed guidance. So far I have not found anything on the forum with tips on this. I will keep searching.

Thank you~
: )
Paula