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By: The best posts are written in my head…. « LI Ashtangini

The best posts are written in my head…. « LI Ashtangini — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:39:45 +0000

[...] a fascinating phrase in her latest post: Interestingly, we use the practice to *generate* despair, too. The real question is, why does [...]

By: LI Ashtangini

LI Ashtangini — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:12:03 +0000

Aaaaaw, poor Tyler allergic to flax seed! Yummy dirt!

I like ‘Interestingly, we use the practice to *generate* despair, too.’ May use that for a launching pad for a blog post about my practice issues!

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:49:41 +0000

I’m able to get through everything relatively well, but baddha konasana is still killing me. I’ll know I’m fully healed once it comes back…

By: V

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:28:47 +0000

I can totally see how that is an adjustment that a teacher would do – I guess they tend to look for alignment and parallel feet would seem like the “right” thing to do. But my experience was that parallel feet (and legs in general) seemed to compress the sacrum area a bit. I know that I have an unusual femur/hip socket angle, though, so maybe my teacher was trying to counteract it.

At the very worst of my pain, he made me do a standing forward bend with serious pigeon toes and then dug an elbow into my bum. It hurt like hell and then there was a release of something and from there on, I was on the mend (took a while but now I’m at the point where I can happily do Baddha Konasana all the way down with no problem. Keeping the moola bandha engaged all the way throughout also makes a difference0.

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:50:15 +0000

I’ll try it, V! Actually, now that I think of it: I was adjusted to *not *rotate my toes in in up dog around the time I started having problems… Hmmmm. It was a big deal, too, to switch up how I placed my feet… I’m always amazed how tiny shifts cause chains of reaction throughout the whole body.

So pigeon-toes in up- and down dog it is!

By: V

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:25:12 +0000

Piriformis pain: what helped me was to rotate my legs inwardly both in updog and downdog. So in both these poses, my feet weren’t completely parallel to each other but the toes were slightly pointed in and the heels sticking slightly out. I still, to this day, don’t understand the anatomical science to it (it was my teacher’s recommendation) but it worked.

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:36:30 +0000

Yup, at least one culprit…

I’m happy it’s not the apples he’s allergic to, Arturo. He *loves* apples.

By: (0v0)

(0v0) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:58:41 +0000

Yes!

Glad you found the culprit.

By: arturo

arturo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:50:36 +0000

hi Karen
since we know the details, then hearing TheCop being concerned that you’re eating the dog’s food doesn’t sound so alarming. my dinner tonight is also dog food – Tyler’s rice and beans. i thought that maybe his rashes came from the digestion of fruit, which causes some humans problems, but it appears you’re finding which things cause problems, such as flax.
hugs,
Arturo

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:39:24 +0000

Got it.

Yeah, that was the funny thing. He has a little mound of dirt and it’s like he’s got a big, secret prize.

The dirt level in the planter is much lower. Largely because he knocked a good deal of it onto the patio a few days ago.

I was surprised about the flax, too. And guilty! I’d been dosing him with it to try to help soothe his itchy skin. Duh!