Dear yoga, Please become easier...
 

Yoga is an important part of mine and my husbands life. A day that begins with Yoga is often a day well spent and what follows is motivation and self discipline. But the woah of lack of self control is real and the pain its creating in my mind AND body is begining to lessen my faith in myself.


Has any one here struggled with the whole, "i dont wannnnnnaaaaa" thing and if so, how did you over come it....

Some support could really help,
thanks so much.

> Has any one here struggled with the whole, "i dont wannnnnnaaaaa" thing
Yes was struggling right now.

> and if so, how did you over come it....
By getting motivated by reading your post. We're in this together. Let's bear the pain together. Focus and center yourself.

Quite often here in the past yes, more so when I felt like I wouldn't get through, couldn't meet the space more readily. It took a great deal of self healing and work to build to being more open in myself and not just through yoga.

I find with yoga for myself, I am mainly dealing with the physical aspects of my body that are more "loose" of other factors. So for me yoga is a natural discipline space where I actually enjoy the challenges of moving deeper into my body, without resistance.

Perhaps working on the pain body in another way might loosen things up for you aside from yoga? So then, entering into the yoga space your not facing a wall of resistance..that might feel insurmountable, but less contained to move more freely.

Yoga should feel good, period! Otherwise you are doing something wrong in your practice, and need to back out of the way you are approaching it. What I think you might be bumping against is your self imposed limited of how much goodness you will allow yourself to feel, and some kinds of yoga will not solve this for you, because they are as rigid as your self imposed limit :wink: haha. First principle you might work on is softness:

Have you tried Strala yoga?

I think exercise can cause pain if it's not being done regularly.

I attend a few yoga classes with a few different teachers, its interesting to me how I notice the differences in "how to move yourself into and with the move" can be amongst them. I notice the one who is slower and more aware of each person, conscious of their posture, corrects more freely. I really relate to her way. I find it slower, but a more clear and deeper strengthening.

Doing variants of all-fours for awhile could be a great place to start, taking the time to feel into your whole body, and how the breath moves it.

Yoga can also feel bad if you aren't consistent, regular and your body is in really a bad place.

I've had a bad back for decades. My yoga practise which I began about 10 years ago, has been irregular and in the last year even more so. And the sore back persisted throughout.

But about two months ago I started being totally consistent on three times per week and with Eccentrics stretching on the days in between and the change has been incredible.

Where it was only in the last five or so minutes of my yoga workout that the eternal kink got worked out and I felt 'good', it has now gotten to where the kink is hardly there right in my warm up and it just gets better from there.

So consistency and regularity is essential, and especially as you get older. It's amazing how quickly a 62 year old can tighten up (and not in a good way!)

Yoga can only feel bad if you are doing it wrong. My practice for personal reasons are quite irregular, yet throughout my last two practices I consistently get better throughout the practice no matter how bad I felt at the start, I get more energized, I feel better and so on... not worn out as I did with my "old" practice. If your body is in a bad place you should start out more gentle, and move from there. Maybe Tai Chi is a better place to start. Maybe doing more all-fours if the (lower) back is sore and so on. It feels bad because we are impatient with where we are, and pushes too hard to get to a place where it feels better, but that never works... it only make the journey to feeling good take longer.

I'm enjoy reading your convsations I just want to clear one thing up "yoga" is not causing me pain! Its my lack of self disipline which causes pain in my life, and by ain I mean mental and emotional not physical..

please continue writing though..