brendaleemarie

Hi Robert, Hi Connie,

Thank you both for your care and understanding. It’s so great to have a forum to exchange info and concerns with people that truly “get it”. I am not understating my love of this activity; just this afternoon, while dropping off one of my children at the local rec centre for an activity, a woman walked by me and said, “hey, its the yoga lady!” I did 119 classes in a row and then had to take a break because the pain was excruciating.

I have given consideration to what you have both posted and at this early point, I am going to go back in tomorrow and talk to the studio owner and teachersto explain my situation, as I understand it. I will abstain from any forward bends completely to start, and work on my core strength and stability as well as precision in each pose that I can do. I hope it is well received as I worry that I may be a distraction for others practising fully….we have a very strong membership with a lot of hard core, dedicated yogis.I will also supplement my yoga with exercises for my problem at home, as I have been doing for the past few weeks.

My PT did give me a lot of exercises to do daily. As for your question Robert, yes, she has been to one Bikram class (at the studio I attend) and did not particularily care for it. She has also done a 2 week trial at a Hot Yoga studio in a nearby community, but it has a variety of classes and is not as hot as what you would expect at a Bikram studio. She did like that studio. I have never been there so can’t really comment on the difference although I expect it has deviations from the Bikram method. I am not prepared to try it either, as the distance is a problem for me plus I have alread paid for an annual membership at my local Bikram studio.

I have scoured over posts for several weeks, and yes Robert, I know you feel my pain, as I had read your posts about your hypermobility issues. I am encouraged by your perseverance and sincerely hope that I can make similar lasting changes to improve my practise! I cannot accept a finality to my practise without making an honest effort to fix my problem first.

I would love to chat with Gabrielle when she is back to go over a few poses that I am unsure about. I should say that I have read all that I can about “opening up the hamstrings with hot yogs”, back, gluteal, SI problems, watched the “flatten your belly and protect your back” (and it looks like I will have to start employing some of this work for my core for sure!) so I think I have done my background work thusfar.

Cheers,

Brenda