In January 2012 I stopped taking classes. A conflict came up with the class I had been attending for years but there are tons of options in this area so I could have managed. I didn't. I procrastinated. I just kept saying "I'll start again, when I feel like it." Now it's a year later. I almost never take pain meds for my neck and I'm back to not remembering that I even have a neck. (Which is nice, because I hate my neck. It's too long and floppy, like Alice in Wonderland when she's eaten a mushroom.)
I miss yoga, and I think it was good for my strength and balance and brain and a bunch of other things. What I should do, since I know the basic moves, is create my own routine, making sure I do only movements that put zero pressure on my neck. That leaves out a lot of moves but it could be done. Even if I did it only once a week it would be something. It's a thought. I'll file it with all the others.
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Honestly, I hated yoga. It wasn't comfortable or fun for me.
I liked yoga but I stopped taking it when I was pregnant. The instructor pushed me into a pose without asking and it irritated me so I quit. I have a routine that I like doing on my own but I never push the poses. Sometimes a body shouldn't bend in certain ways. Didn't you post an article about yoga and sports injuries awhile back?
Maybe it's creepy that I remember that. My memory creeps people out at parties. Like I am some kind of stalker who stalks everyone. lol.
Anyway, I prefer to get injured in more interesting ways.
Yoga is great... until it causes injury. I used to attend vinyassa classes, but they are too fast paced and left me prone to back injury, so now I attend a hatha yoga class. Sometimes modifications or the judicious use of props can help, but in the end you have to listen to your own body.
Agree agree agree on classes. For me, it was useful to take a lot of classes to learn moves, stretches, correct alignment, etc. Now I have my own routine, and not trying to keep up with anyone. I have a friend in Maine who teaches yoga and she says her classes don't even look like classes because everyone is doing something different, at their own pace.
There was a guy interviewed on CNN discussing the dangers of yoga. Here is one article that came out that is interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I too was very into yoga but I kept getting physically sick (to my stomach) after class and every yoga teacher would just toss it off as nothing. I had one teacher that was awesome, he didn't do all kinds of crazy moves, and I never felt sick in his class. For me, it is about the poses and then hearing the interview on CNN and reading some of the articles where different yoga teachers were interviewed about some of the issues, I started to identify where the issues were for me. Maybe some of the info could help you find better poses for you too... that keep your neck from hurting.
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