Hip pain

[OakLeaf]

Things were kind of hitting a plateau - way better than it had been, but far from 100%.

Meanwhile, my classes had been kind of suffering. I like to bring them lots of balance and stabilization work - it's been great because I know they need it even more than I do, and as long as I give modifications and progressions, I can get my own workout too. But the last few weeks have made it hard to even demonstrate a lot of moves without feeling like I'm aggravating the hip.

On Thursday I thought I'd try a progression that winds up in half-moon pose. I did one at home, standing on the bad leg, to see if I could do it. Wow, that felt pretty good, opened up the hip without pain or excessive pulling. So I did it with them in class, too, once on each side. Even better.

Just that day made a huge improvement. So I'm now doing those once or twice a day, along with the extensions every couple of hours.

The weird thing is that it was ardha chandrasana that worked out the problem I was having with my obdurator in the other hip over the winter. And I'd been pretty much neglecting all my yoga before it got bad this time...

[KnottedYet]

Makes perfect sense!

Good job, Oak!