Archive for the ‘Injuries’ Category
Sitting post-yoga with ice on my left ankle, knee & hip flexor. Ahhhhh. Mostly preventive to help recovery, partly to address those recurring little owies. Good news is that it takes longer for the weak links to ache & they recover alot faster these days. I’ll be spry again by tomorrow am!!
I’ve of course been working on [...]
There is a new blogger sending thoughts into the world these days. My friend Tara is working on the 21-5-800 project (5 days a week, 800 words, 21 days) and I really love her writing.
http://tarainlimbo.blogspot.com/
In other blogger world connections, I have named my little trouble tweaky spots in emulation of Kai over at Reluctant Ashtangi and [...]
Okay, fascinating article in the NY Times Well blog today. Beloved Husband has had some bizarre muscle cramps recently, and HEAB’s blog yesterday mentioned loving pickle juice way back when! http://heathereatsalmondbutter.com/2010/06/08/the-iron-results/
Back to the bitchin’ yoga schedule — will discuss that tomorrow! Pickles today!
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-juice-stop-muscle-cramps/
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
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Recently, 10 healthy male college students filed into an exercise [...]
I’m spending some time each morning right now working through Andrew Biel’s Trail Guide to the Body. If you haven’t encountered it yet, well, it ROCKS. Totally. I heard about this book for a few years from massage therapists, Pilates peeps & physical therapy students, and yes, it is as good as all that. Wow.
The [...]
Last month a friend pointed out something I’ve frequently kinda thought, but never quite put into words. Namely, that each yoga style has characteristic injuries.
It makes sense. There are particular things emphasized in the different styles, common cues, often common personalities attracted to the style.
But I can’t definitely make a statement on that because of course [...]
Not Dungeons & Dragons, though there’s nuthin wrong with that.
Dizziness & Downloads.
Very separate topics, but two short bits I wanted to share before getting on the road again (this weekend, Burlington, VT!).
Dizziness is one side effect I have from the medications I’m on.
(See
http://autumnlotusyoga.omblogger.com/2010/02/07/medication-update/
and http://autumnlotusyoga.omblogger.com/2010/01/14/outing-myself/)
The meds are amazing in many many ways. Predominantly, they quiet [...]
First, a disclaimer. That is not my back. I am waaaaaay too chicken to get a tattoo.
During my visit to New Haven, mentoress Heidi offered some really good advice to help with my continuing back rehab. I’m at the stage now where I’m painfree most of the time, but there is some sensation [...]
The pose continuum is much like the spacetime continuum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime_continuum
I am such a geek.
Actually, it’s a concept born in my head in response to some yoga cliches I keep hearing & can no longer agree with or support. Yes, the ever popular “There is no such thing as a perfect pose” and “There is [...]
I am posting about this subject half in hopes that by doing so, it will resolve.
(It’s the strangest thing — frequently, shortly after I write about a topic, it will change/shift/resolve/mutate. Seems like a signal to the universe that when I am ready to write it out, I’m ready to let it go. Weird.)
Okay, first, gotta [...]
I started doing yoga in the privacy of my own home, keeping company with Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga videos. (Amazingly, these are still available in classic VHS format! But new stuff is also available as downloadable MP3 files. See http://www.poweryoga.com/)
I’d been aware of yoga for a very long time before that. Back in the late 70s my mom would [...]