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  • rubee
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    Thank you Gabrielle , I appreciate your forum. I feel a little more confident. I love your approach and practicality. I will soon add you great looking book to my collection as I think practice at home in front of the fireplace could be good as well as class! I finally feel ready to develope a practice. Meanwhile at the top of my pose I always express gratitude that I can be doing at all. (I had some fears I never would again)

    rubee
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    I was in super shape when I injured but have not been able to maintain a program in a the whole year and a half. I am well trained and conscious how I use my core but had hoped Bikram would do it all. Since injured I have not been able to work much consecutivly either so I don’t have funds for pilates privates although I could seee the benefit if I found a good teacher to work with. I did it for years and have some tapes but I know the ab series I have actually triggers this spot as well. Basically I am using Bikrams for the heat and sweat detox while challenging myself with the postures and what I think I am learning has most of all to do with ego because , I was so fit and strong that now I have to keep backing up to what the is the very beginner-ist place to start and not keep trying to jump to where I used to be… does that makes sense? I really need to learn how to lock that knee, it takes all my concentration and I used to use my other hyper flexible spots to get around my not so flexible ones which who knows maybe is why this spot in my back became vulnerable.

    rubee
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    Thank you this was helpful and I had the same response in class from the teachers. The thing is I am very tall and long and have no problem raising my leg and interlocking around my foot but my hamstrings will not let me anywhere near a kick out straight and when I just hold it bent or kick out as much as I can the fulcrum seems to be right in my lower back where the injury was and hurts. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt until later tho and i have caught the energy in class and pushed past what I think might be true for me now. I feel good about holding the knee and focusing on locking my knee as the left leg arch fell from the accident and needs rehab and balance work. Will the teacher feel usurped if I won’t do what they say? Esp if they believe I am hurting myself. What would a good reply be? Maybe I should tell them before class I need to modify some poses ….

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