question about injuries, II

[Guest guest]

Presently, I suffer from pain in my right wrist.

It started after a workshop with Gerald Disse about

six weeks ago. Since then I have pain doing postures

with weight on the hand (jump back, up- and down

dog,...). But I'm quite sure, that the pain comes from bad

alignement of my right side as I've already been told that

and given exercices for 15 years ago, what I ingnored

then.<br>Probably for the same reason, since some days I have pain

in my right ankle, where I've had a surgery of a

torn ligament 12 years ago.<br><br>Why don't I stop

the practise?<br>Because I know, that if I give up

now, I will suffer physically and mentally in the

future even more.<br><br>For me, it was the somehow

competitive or better challenging character of Ashtanga Yoga

that gave me the stimulation to see pain, at least

some kind of, as an accompaniement of change and

therefore accept it. But still it's the achievement of

change not of postures I'm longing

for.<br><br>Namaste,<br>Dirk

[Guest guest]

Scar tissue is a significant factor in limiting

mobility in the body but it can be healed but streching

scar tissue is very painful. One major reason for so

much pain ashtanga beginners experience.<br><br>L

[Guest guest]

"...Ashtanga Yoga that gave me the stimulation to

see pain ... as an ompaniement of change and

therefore accept it"<br>Hi Dirk, nice to hear you again!

And now to something really serios... Is it really

so, that "change" is only possible while you feel

pain? I can't believe it. In bodywork there is for

example Rolfing, what is (or could be) a painful

treatment, but/and there is also Ostepathy/Ortho-Bionomy, a

treatment that relax your body with absolutely NO pain! So

in Ashtanga we working (my opinion) with the breath

which helps us to release the tension in our body. If

you practice with Ego too much and you feel pain, the

body just has made a backlash (?), a re-reaction and

will hold on, not release. There you are working not

at the asanas, but at the pain, against strained

muscels. <br>And for me the work is quite on the

edge/crossover, where the pain begins and comes - just at really

that point the breath can release the tightness in the

body's structure. - - - - - Or not? Lu<br>PS Some German

folks there to the october-workshop with Lino in

Copenhagen?