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I got my yoga butt from doing a cartwheel without warming up first. It took me 20 years to heal it because it took me that long to get serious about it. It was just a bothersome ache at my butt bone that was worse with sitting. Lots of people get yoga butt from doing hamstring stretches (forward bends) without building strength or warming up first. You'd think that the muscle would be more fragile than the tendon but there's a weak spot where the tendon attaches to the bone--this is usually where the injury is. Once it get injured, people tend to keep re-injuring it. Especially yogis who are ever so slightly prideful about their ability to bend.
Tendons get strong from being tensioned, but you have to start gradually. Work out your hamstrings to make your hamstring attachment tendons stronger. This is part of the treatment for yoga butt. The thing is yoga doesn't have a lot of poses that strengthen the hamstrings, but it does have a lot of poses that require you to be able to touch your toes, or fake it. And faking it teaches you all kinds of bad habits that leave you imbalanced, strong in places and weak in others, and prone to injury.
Lots of thoughts about this but I must go.
Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation
--Crazy Horse
Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the commodification, secularization and denuding of that tradition by the West. Such lamentation belies the fact that modern postural yoga is a creature of fabrication and reinvention.
--Farah Godrej
for leaders;
do it alone,
person to person."
--Mother Teresa
Your feeling of disconnection is not neurotic, it is intelligent. It has something to show you that oneness could never reveal. If you will practice the yoga of non-abandonment and provide safe passage – it will disclose an unmet doorway.
Your loneliness, your shakiness, and your fear are not mistakes. They are not obstacles on your path. They *are* the path. The freedom you are longing for will never be found in the eradication of the unwanted, but only in the core of the love and information it carries.
There are surges of somatic activity that contain very important information for your journey. If you will offer safe passage for the unknown aliveness, you will meet the messengers of illumination. Nothing is missing, nothing is out of place, and nothing need be sent away.
Yes, you may burn until you are translucent, but it is by way of this burning that your wholeness will be revealed.
~ Matt Licata
1. Recognize that the other person is you.
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos shall clear the path.
--Yogi Bhajan
We are earth people
on a spiritual journey to the stars.
Our quest, our earth walk,
is to look within,
to know who we are,
to see that we are connected to all things,
that there is no separation,
only in the mind.
~ Lakota Saying
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.
~ Alice Miller
OHSU Psychiatry grand rounds 10.18.16
Her interest: Trauma and substance abuse
Conventional and alternative treatment is merging-->integrative health
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