bi-polar and yoga/ayurveda

feeds@yuku.com (sethie108) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:42:57 GMT

Hi all-

I can find lots of information about depression and yoga, but have found next to none on yoga/ayurveda and depression.

Any resources, links, articles, knowledge?

thanks,

Seth

Transplant Surgery Question

feeds@yuku.com (martineom) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:05:46 GMT

Hi all,
I have a one to one with a guy who has had kidney and pancreas transplants about 3 months ago. I am wondering if anyone has experience with asana after transplant.
I have been doing massage, cranial sacral and a few basic stretches up to now, just wondering if there are any contraindications that I may not be aware of as we start to do more yoga and if there are any known beneficial poses....

Benefits of Prenatal Yoga

feeds@yuku.com (HowAboutYou11) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:37:13 GMT

Benefits of Prenatal Yoga

Did you try any yoga DVD when you find you are pregnant?
I'm 35 weeks pregnant and I've been doing this awesome pregnancy yoga DVD in the article.This DVD has a prenatal workout as well as a postnatal workout for after you have your baby. I really love doing the yoga as I have not swollen one bit and I have not experienced ANY leg cramps. It also has moves that you do...

yoga swing

feeds@yuku.com (beckyn) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:57:36 GMT

i have sever degeneration between L4 and L5, and now i've developed a bone spur. i'm thinking that regularly hanging upside down might help maintain length and space and in the spine. i'm thinking of getting a yoga "swing" so i can use it for inversions. i rent and i'm not very adept at putting things together - so i want something easy (but safe). does anyone have a swing at home that they would recommend? or any suggestions on other inversion devices?

can someone help identify this problem? hip area

feeds@yuku.com (KimTX) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:34:40 GMT

Hi there,

I have pain in my right hip area that is progressively getting worse. I teach 2x's per week, a vinyasa style that challenges most folks. I am known for doing lots of hip openers and I consider myself fairly flexible. I've been told by some that I'm abnormally flexible. If I could pin-point the pain, I would say it's dead center in the middle...

arsenic poisoning and yoga...

feeds@yuku.com (gaileee) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:11:04 GMT

Hi,
If someone has arsenic poisoning into the bone (which I have no idea what that means), and they want their children to take yoga to build up their bones, how should a yoga teacher proceed? Their doctor recommended yoga to help them build their bones back up.

What do you think?

thank you! Gaileee

Protruding disc and yoga?

feeds@yuku.com (Yoga Spirit) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:21:08 GMT

Hi all,
Since February 2008 and despite the (may be unfortunate) manipulations of my osteopah/chiropractor and dozen of massages and anti-inflammatory prescritpions, I have been suffering from a kind of stiff neck, accompanied with acute, kind of nevralgic pains in my right shoulder/trapezius muscle. Should you want to read about the causes that lead to tis situation, I described it all here: http://movingintostillness.yuku.com/topic/6053/t/Yoga-Remedy-for-Stiff-Neck.html

On...

After a Stroke, a Scientist Studies Herself

feeds@yuku.com (noswrite) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:00:29 GMT

After a Stroke, a Scientist Studies Herself

This is a good interview.

Jill Taylor describes the effects of her stroke: loss of identity, experiencing the world through perception devoid of memory (and thought), being forced into "being" in the present, and the bliss of silence when her internal dialogue stopped as a...

The Itch

feeds@yuku.com (noswrite) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:15:11 GMT

Here's an interesting, current article concerning "perception," from a medical point of view.

The New Yorker
The Itch
by Atul Gawande

(some quotes)

- "A new scientific understanding of perception has emerged in the past few decades, and it has overturned classical, centuries-long beliefs about how our...

Ball of the foot - wierd

feeds@yuku.com (jayzdreams) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:03:37 GMT

This line has been so helpful to me that I am going to the well again for yet more advice.

Last time I got super help for my wife's hand problem and it is resolved yea!

This time I have this really unexplainable pain on the ball of my left foot. I don't know where it came from. But, it started two nights ago and it hurt progressively more and more such that I could not sleep. It actually woke me up. I...

When things don't get better....

feeds@yuku.com (beachlover) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:10:53 GMT

Greetings -
I'm struggling with an ongoing orthopedic issue. I've had two surgeries, months of physical therapy, more than a half dozen cortizone shots, acupuncture, have modified my yoga practice to eliminate any challenging pose and still I have ongoing pain. Yoga seems to be the remaining activity in my life (I've stopped the others) that produces pain but I just don't want to stop practicing. Rest does not alleviate the pain as it returns as soon...

My Yoga Space....

feeds@yuku.com (Jesse) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:01:39 GMT

I am new to this board as this is my second post. I thought maybe you guys could offer me some suggestions on a certain topic. I mainly practice yoga at home in my room in the mornings. My current living situation has recently been having an impact on my yoga practice. The factors affecting my practice include the noise level, being interrupted, the people I'm living with not really understanding yoga or why I'm doing it, etc. This has lead me to consider moving so that I can enjoy a...

Congestion in the nose - help!

feeds@yuku.com (sjanderson) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:45:24 GMT

Last weekend I caught a small cold that lasted for about a day. The other symptoms went away (aches, fever, etc.), but I am still sometimes dealing with congestion in my nasal passages. This is off and on, because I have been able to complete my practice every day after rounds of asana and blowing my nose regularly. The main problem is breathing through the nose is now a little noisy and gross and when I am at the studio for class I don't want to bum out anyone next to me with noise...

Weird Health Issue

feeds@yuku.com (Speakfreely) — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:49:30 GMT

Around the last week of April, I was at work when I experienced something that felt like nothing so much as a heart attack is supposed to feel. Chest pain, cold sweats, icy hands, chest tightness, twinges of pain in both arms, increased heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP). I went to the ER, where they determined no heart attack. I spent about a week unable to do very much, missed work. During that time, the episodes of chest pain, etc. continued, about 3x/day. I had no appetite and lost...

Hand Injury Advice ?

feeds@yuku.com (jayzdreams) — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:34:43 GMT

Hi All,

I am trying to find some good advice for my wife who is experiencing pain in her hand as a result of about a month of detailed precision carving on her gourds. Some of you may have seen her artwork in my album.

Anyway, the work involves carving wood like surfaces with an Exacto knife, using the dremmel tool and sanding etc.

She never complains so I know it hurts a lot since she is not using the hand at all now for anything.

Any suggestions?...

Sweating

feeds@yuku.com (Sleeping Turtle) — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:20:20 GMT

I went to the sauna at my gym this afternoon, and was wondering about what people know about therapeutic use, and its effects on the muscles/tendons. And stuff like that.

Thanks

Sweating Turtle

yoga and ayurveda detox

feeds@yuku.com (babs) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:49:11 GMT

Seems worthwhile to start a new thread here--

Yoga and ayurveda detox, which is actually pancha karma.

What I am doing is a mini-pancha karma, in that we all remain householders during this time, not in residence, so the effects and experience differ. If I feel this miraculous from this version, WOW to the whole she-bang!

My question, does anyone have any favorite practices for stoking agni?
That will be the focus of the practices this week, myself and one...

Yoga for grieving

feeds@yuku.com (KenBax) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:34:58 GMT

I used to be on this board a lot but haven't posted in quite a long time. I find myself in need of advice and am hoping I can find relief in my yoga practice. My wife and best pal of 35 years recently died unexpectedly and I'm feeling devastated. We had just finished our retirement home on the south coast of Oregon and had been in it less than a year. I know theoretically a great deal about grief and obviously people do get through it and recover to lead full lives. Theoretically....

Yoga and Heart Disease

feeds@yuku.com (tilaka108) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:41:47 GMT

I did an interview last week with Deke Cripe. He had five heart attacks (the first at 42), a quadruple bypass, and was essentially given up on by cardiologists. He checked out Dean Ornish's Reversing Heart Disease Program and began doing yoga, meditation, deep relaxation, switched to a vegetarian diet, went and studied the relationship between the body and mind with some swamis. He was healed in less than a year. It's a very powerful and inspiring story. Check it out!

Chronic fatigue syndrome

feeds@yuku.com (carvahall) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:49:35 GMT

I'm struggling a little at the moment finding a happy medium and flow for my yoga. I'm having to tone down my sessions as I have to carefully manage the amount of energy (be it mental, physical or emotional) that I use during the day because of this stupid CFS. I'm doing an MA in advertising and sitting about thinking up concepts completely wipes me out.

So far the only safe poses are backbends. They are energizing to an extent but it's such a slow process finding...

Health and Yoga