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  • dianamite
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    December 19, 2016 at 8:14 pm
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    in reply to: cramping in the compression postures #21614

    The cramping is right up under my ribcage. I am not sure if it’s my diaphragm – deep breaths don’t seem to affect it – but it’s in that location. It stops when I straighten my back.

    It happens in standing separate leg head to knee, after a few seconds with my forehead on my knee. But if I do that pose, and get the cramping, it also happens in rabbit and even sometimes in head to knee stretching. My leg is quite bent in that pose, my hamstrings are not very flexible.

    I think I can avoid it by not trying to straighten the front leg and just letting my head rest a bit lower rather than trying to curve forward so much. That’s not really doing the pose properly, but I think it’s the actual forward compression that isn’t working for me right now.

    I haven’t been doing anything else to stop it from happening.

    dianamite
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    December 19, 2016 at 5:05 am
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    in reply to: cramping in the compression postures #21612

    I’m resurrecting a very old post, but I have the same problem. The cramping is quite painful and for the whole next week, I can’t hunch forward at all without feeling soreness or triggering cramping again. At least my posture improves!

    I have been practicing since 2005 and this just started a couple of months ago. I only do bikram once a week, and of course my instructor just says to come more often.

    As far as I can tell, it’s just staying in a compression for too long that triggers it, but it happens very suddenly.

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