YOGA

carola

Hello my Friends.

Hope you all managed some sleep last night and feeling fighting fit today?

Tomorrow I am starting one on one yoga. I am very lucky as my friend is a yoga teacher from South India and will also be helping me with tackling my PolyArthritis and SLE (a form of Lupus) with nutrition and a handful of hippy-dippy treatments.

Just wondering if anyone on here does yoga and how you coped as obviously we have very limited movement and lots of pain to contend with.

I don't know what type of yoga I will be doing - all I know is that it is not the usual popular types favoured here in UK.
Carol

julie47

Lucky you send your friend here when you have had your lesson. Sounds great especially if she has designed a programme just for you.

Wish you luck,

JuliePF x

dorcas

This sounds really interesting Carola :!:

please let us know how you get on with the yoga and the 'hippy dippy' nutritional advice. (fascinating!)

I've never considered yoga but hope it really helps you. can't hurt to try can it.

Iris xxx

tillytop

Hi Carol

I've not had success with yoga for the reasons you describe, but never had proper tuition (I've just tried "diy" home yoga videos in the past which probably wasn't sensible).

I will be really interested to know how you get on and what your friend suggests re nutrition (hippy dippy or otherwise).

Please do post with an update when you have had your first session. Hope it goes well for you and you enjoy it.

Love Tilly xx

caprica

hi there, that sounds like a great plan, especially since your friend will be able to suit everything to your needs.

one of the principles of yoga is that it's not a competition, it's not even about how well you can do the poses. i know my teacher runs classes for cancer patients who sometimes can't even get out of bed but they still do breathing and 'visualisation' exercises and meditation.

i've been doing yoga since march and find it very therapeutic especially after a long day at the office sitting in a chair and stressing out. the breathing techniques and relaxation are quite challenging and actually more difficult to master than the poses. my teacher knows i have arthritis so if there is a particular pose during a class that i don't want to do, that's totally fine and she'll help me adapt it to something easier on the said joint.

i dont know if i've had any specific benefit to my RA from yoga as luckily i've been doing quite well anyway but i really enjoy it and it can't be doing my general health any harm anyway. good luck with it!! it's really important to find a good teacher who will work at the right pace for you and understand your condition, but it sounds like you've got that anyway.

nanasue

I used to do yoga for over fifties and it was more geared to gentle satretching and relaxation, it was very good and helped to keep me quite supple, but I must admit I've not been just lately what with one thing and another, Ireally must get back to it.

Sue x

frogmorton

Yoga is good for you - I used to do the classes quite a bit - but got a bit put off by the oldies telling me they had had 'such and such' and I should be able to get up off the floor (not via the window sill!)

So i do have a dvd at home which I do a bit of with my youngest. We also have a meditation cd which we both love.

Go for it and please do let us know if it's helping.

Love

Toni xx

carola

Hello my Friends.

Thank you so much for your replies - they are really encouraging and for those of you that don't do it anymore, hopefully it encourages you to take it up again.

If anything, I think doing something just for ourselves is an absolute must as we are always just trying to plod along day to day trying not to impact too much on those around us.

We need to concentrate on ourselves too.

First yoga session is at 3pm today and cannae wait!

Will let you know how I get on.
Keep smiling, Carol

tillytop

Hi Carol

So your first yoga session is probably over by now so hopefully you are feeling really chilled (and very bendy?!!!!!).

Seriously tho, hope you enjoyed it and looking forward to hearing how it went.

Love Tilly xxx

speedalong

Hi Carol, I have done yoga in the past - with arther in various states. Teacher made adaptions as necessary. I loved the visualisations and relaxation at the end especially!

Hope you enjoyed your lesson. Look for gradual and little improvements in the ease you do the exercises and the range of movement - and you will see progress over the weeks.

Speedy

julie47

Hi carola

Hope the yoga hasn't made you too stiff today.

How did it go?

Juliepf x

ironic

Hi Carola,
I loved my yoga class I found it very relaxing. Work made it difficult to get to classes and to be honest I did not fancy going in the evening. Did it go well yesterday? Do hope you enjoyed it.

Lv, Ix

carola

Good Morning my Friends

Hope you all managed a restful sleep last night?

My yoga session was fab. To begin with it isn't yoga as such that I will be doing. For the first 5 or 6 sessions I am being given Yoga Therapy which is really my friend stretching me and limbering me up as I have had no exercise and no walking for months. So need to awaken my limbs, muscles and joints.

For the first time in months I actually lay down on the floor AND managed to get up again - woo hoo! Was so chilled out I didn't even want to lounge in from of TV and watch The Apprentice (will watch it now!). Just went to bed with a book and slept all the way through the night - double woo hoo!!

Also had some Touch Therapy (a chinese thing) that I had never heard of before. Am a bit sore in places but feels a good sore.

Felt so good concentrating upon myself so will definately keep this up. Appreciate your messages and thoroughly recommend us all doing something and anything that is for ourselves.
Have a good day today - the sun is shining bright here inEdinburgh 8)
Keep smiling, Carol

julie47

Wow well done :!:

Glad the session went well

I hope this helps you.

Juliepf x

rileytra

hi everyone sorry if i am messing this up i am a newbie and never posted on a forum -don't know about yoga but pilates is fab and a really big help a good teacher won't make you do anything that will cause you pain and i have done so much hippy-dippy stuff i'm back in the 60's- 2 knackered knees to osteo and wear and tear in other joints and no pain killers until a few months ago so something must be working trace

carola wrote:

Hello my Friends.

Hope you all managed some sleep last night and feeling fighting fit today?

Tomorrow I am starting one on one yoga. I am very lucky as my friend is a yoga teacher from South India and will also be helping me with tackling my PolyArthritis and SLE (a form of Lupus) with nutrition and a handful of hippy-dippy treatments.

Just wondering if anyone on here does yoga and how you coped as obviously we have very limited movement and lots of pain to contend with.

I don't know what type of yoga I will be doing - all I know is that it is not the usual popular types favoured here in UK.
Carol

Hi

carola

Hi Trace

Welcome to the forum.

Yep, I've heard pilates good too so omce I have limbered up somewhat planning on that too.

Have a good weekend and keep smiling, Carol

speedalong

Wow Carol, that sounds SO positive.

Speedy

tillytop

Hi Carol - and welcome to the forum Trace!

Carol, your yoga stuff sounds absolutely brilliant and I am so pleased it was good!


Love Tilly xxx