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Help - choosing yoga or whatever...
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| I had a realy bad hand injury and I'm not able to play sports
for another 6-7 months.
Could you please recommend some sort of yoga, tai-chi or something like
that which will kepp me in shape, improve my muscles and flexibility,
and relax?
Power yoga maybe?
Thank you.
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....reminded by the songs that will never disappear...
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| The Elf 2005-05-04, 5:56 pm |
| * manic * wrote...
>I had a realy bad hand injury and I'm not able to play sports
> for another 6-7 months.
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> Could you please recommend some sort of yoga, tai-chi or something
> like that which will kepp me in shape, improve my muscles and
> flexibility, and relax?
I don't know Tai-Chi but i think Kundalini Yoga with a good teacher (but
first you have to tell him/her everything about your health) can be good
for you.
> Power yoga maybe?
Don't do it to yourself!!! ;-)
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Andrea
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| Ole Kvaal 2005-05-04, 5:56 pm |
| The Elf wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> * manic * wrote...
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My advice, partly from personal experience, would be qi gong, if you are
able to find a qualified teacher, that is.
Good luck!
ole k
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| On 2005-05-04 10:57:24 -0700, manic <u_cant@mail.me> said:
> I had a realy bad hand injury and I'm not able to play sports
> for another 6-7 months.
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> Could you please recommend some sort of yoga, tai-chi or something like
> that which will kepp me in shape, improve my muscles and flexibility,
> and relax?
In order to keep in shape one should do some aerobic exercise daily.
Running, swimming, jazzercise, power yoga. Name your poison they are
all good. Get your heart rate up for about 40 minutes a day.
As for improving your muscles, that depends on what you mean by
"improving". Traditional weight training builds muscles by damaging
the muscle cells that causes more tissue to grow over the damaged
cells. However very slow weight training done with mindfulness is
excellent muscle therapy. The idea here is to make to improve
endurance, performance, and strength. Not to make big muscles at the
cost of flexibility.
Flexibility is best pursued by a disciplined yoga approach. I would
suggest contacting a certified Iyengar instructor. They are trained
specifically in treating pathologies to help your injury heal.
http://www.iyengar-yoga.com/
If you are looking for a yogic practice to help relax and relieve
stress, I suggest pursuing a meditation teacher.
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> Power yoga maybe?
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> Thank you.
Power yoga is really a form of aerobics. I am guessing you saw it
taught locally. Why don't you take a class and see how you like it.
Make sure you tell the teacher about your hand, so that they can
monitor what they are teaching and modify the routine for your problem.
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~Stu
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| NBennett 2005-05-05, 8:58 am |
| I broke my hand last year. I continued to go to my regular hatha yoga class
each week, and after the first few painful weeks, I also continued my daily
home practice. Most teachers will ask at the beginning of a class if anyone
has any injuries or specific concerns, then teach to or around those issues.
If they don't, tell them before the class begins. They need to know. My
teachers tried to find alternate versions of positions for me that required
no involvement of that hand, or occasionally would tell me to skip certain
positions. At all times, I was the final judge of whether or not I should do
certain positions, and felt quite comfortable choosing to sit out a move or
position.
I found my broken hand affected me in one way I didn't expect. With so much
of communication, friendships as well as my work depending on typing into
computers, I felt quite limited and isolated. According to my hand doctor,
for those of us who are used to typing with two hands, the brain isn't wired
to have thoughts flow as well to one hand. It felt like I was spelling all
day rather than typing/chatting/working. Mentally it was very tiring.
Good luck for a speedy recovery.
Nancy
"manic" <u_cant@mail.me> wrote in message
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>I had a realy bad hand injury and I'm not able to play sports
> for another 6-7 months.
>
> Could you please recommend some sort of yoga, tai-chi or something like
> that which will kepp me in shape, improve my muscles and flexibility,
> and relax?
>
> Power yoga maybe?
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> Thank you.
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> ...reminded by the songs that will never disappear...
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| On 2005-05-05 03:53:50 -0700, "NBennett" <nancy178@sympatico.ca> said:
> Most teachers will ask at the beginning of a class if anyone has any
> injuries or specific concerns, then teach to or around those issues. If
> they don't, tell them before the class begins.
If they don't you should suspect that they are not good teachers. There
us a high probability that once you tell them your concerns they were
not trained to deal with medical issues.
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~Stu
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