Wednesday, last week, was a great practice. But after it, I had some soreness in the right shoulder, way over at the top of the end of the collarbone (I forget the technical name of that bone right now; directly under it is the shoulder bursa and the rotator cuff musculature).
It's still there. Thursday's practice had to be modified, and I haven't practiced since. But with time, as with all injuries, one learns which movements are impinged. It hurts to move the elbow backwards, "behind" my rib cage; that's the major not-to-do movement. Overhead is OK if I'm careful, out to the side is OK, although rotating "forward" when the arm is out to the side, is also a little dicey.
This makes fingers-to-tailbone (my regular Ustrasana approach) hard to do. It also makes vinyasa challenging, in that I need to do them with REALLY close attention (particularly chaturanga alignment; this is, I imagine, the same injury that people who dip below 90 degrees, often get). But on Thursday I did pull vinyasa (with jumps back and through) all the way into the Marichyasanas.
I'll probably begin building practice this week again, but I want to maintain backbends, so the new program might be "Primary til I can't, and then Intermediate to Kapo." Not ideal, but so be it. There might also be some Simha Krama, which is lighter on the vinyasa than proper ashtanga is.
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J said yesterday that we should just "wait until she's in the mood." Hahahahaha! That'll be what, 2013????? I love how she can just say stuff like that, with absolutely no regard for how demon-haunted I am about all of this. I freakin' LOVE that.
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If you can put down any feelings of anger & contempt & ask her what would help her feel like it, there
might be some useful info there.
Karen, you are (once again) spot on! The first bit is the hard one now; the second one is easier provided that I can achieve the first.
Did you ever have rotator cuff business, in your climbing/yoga history?
The first part is the crux, and a 5.12 at least. ;)
Yes, rotator cuff tear on left side. During a fall, I managed to catch myself with one hand & the force of the catch made the tear. I should have let the rope catch me. There's tons of online info about diagnosing & rehabbing rotator cuff issues. The usual RICE stuff, then strength-building exercises. I did yoga as you've outlined (just do until you can't do). That, combined with the strength exercises, did the trick.
I have some scar stuff inside on the left side now. Due, one day, to be the site of a dramatic opening, I imagine. Likely in kapo. I look forward to it with eagerness & dread...
The key things (I know already) are these:
1. Kid must sleep through the night (not happening yet and so far as I can see, not in our control, really, either).
2. Work must let up. This mixed academic-and-administrative position is 9-5 intense stress M-F. Not conducive. Makes summers look possibly potential.
3. Free time (exercise, introvert re-energizing, etc) must appear. With the first two, comes this. Again, maybe summers look potential.
Yep to the crux...J has excellent "vibrational pickup" and she can tell from the other side of the house if I'm bitter/ticked off about something.
That's why this injury is so dramatic; I used to just crank all my emotional stuff into my asana practice, really use it as a channel, just blow the circuits, and now I have to chill for a while to recoup, which means I actually have to muster EMOTIONAL DISCIPLINE, which is, yeah, precisely, a 5.12 crux.
Ow to that injury story, btw.
I'm much less worried about the physical injury than I am about the emotional work it makes necessary :)
Yeah, the emotional stuff is a bitch. I'm kinda stuck on that around the clavicles these days. The whole "candy cane" of kapo is a huge locked emotional space. Gah!
Patrick, check out "Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems" by Richard Ferber. There's controversy about this sleep stiff, but this is what I used when I was in grad school and on the brink of insanity because Anna didn't sleep through the night. Solved it in two days. And to solve for any psychic scars, I brought her up with a respect for psychoanalysis & overt, repeated permission to use shrinks to heal any mistakes I might have made.
Stiff = stuff
patrick, holy cow. can't begin to explain my comments, probably not for public consumption. your student, dawn
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