Fully agreed. Especially that you often need to do it yourself, none of my docs or pharmacists are in the know about specialized things like in my case my seizures (that applies more to meds than supps).you need to research supplements as deeply as you would research any prescribed meds
Yoga is not "stretching exercises" at all.What I just remembered is that what we call yoga actually has very little to do with traditional yoga.
(Not sure, but @sunkacola, I think you'd agree on that?)
Even less so Yoga Nidra:
It's actually an excellent combination of various modern Western relaxation techniques.
So Yoga we could call "stretching exercises", and Yoga Nidra: "Non-sleep deep rest relaxation exercises".
Same here. I guess when people use words they easily like to misuse them, sometimes abuse them.But this kind of thing happens to words all the time, or at least I have seen it happen to English words in the US many times in my lifetime. We can not like it, but it happens anyway.
Your fibro body cannot do many of the Hatha yoga poses, no doubt. (I am being picky here and making sure to call it Hatha because that is the form of yoga that utilizes the body. There are many other forms of yoga.) But not all Hatha poses involve pretzling your body. There is one (Tadasana or Mountain Pose) that is simply standing with your whole body very carefully in alignment. And there are others that almost anyone could do as long as they can move.Same here. I guess when people use words they easily like to misuse them, sometimes abuse them.
I remember as a kid perusing a big 30yo black & white pamphlet with a real Hindu yogi showing things like Neti.
So I know what I see all around me and do myself is not yoga in the real sense at all.
To me it seems that my fibro body & mind aren't able to do real yoga, not longer than a few minutes....
I was hoping for your ideas. Long/slow poses/movements is the main problem for me, aside from the extreme.There is one (Tadasana or Mountain Pose) that is simply standing with your whole body very carefully in alignment. And there are others that almost anyone could do as long as they can move.
If a pose causes a person ... discomfort, they ... should ... do only what is comfortable, even if that is only 1".
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