Needing some help, guidance perhaps, inspiration at the moment

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone, good Saturday afternoon:

I am summoning my courage to write to this group, as I'v been a silent lurker

for a month or so. I began Kundalini Yoga in the afermath of surgery on my

knee, for a torn meniscus and chondro malasia. I had seen an add on Amazon for

a Yoga tape that looked "different" and I thought I might like it. I had

never found myself gravitating to other Yoga systems I had tried on numerous

tapes

--I'm an impatient kind of person and they all seemed rather slow, and did

not capture my interest. Kundalini Yoga was different, from the moment I saw it

on the first tape I used; I more than liked it, I fell in love with it. I

began to do it daily, signed up for a class at our local Kundalini Yoga Center,

took a private lesson. And then after only about a month of this, I fell

thanks to a very weak leg, about ten weeks after my knee surgery, and broke TWO

bones in my ankle. I had emergency surgery, and spent six days in the hospital.

I

was sent home in a cast with a wheel chair, crutches, a walker, and strict

instructions not to do much, i.e. not to put ANY weight whatsoever on that leg.

So I have been working from home, seeing clients (I am a psychologist); doing

research (I am a professor of doctoral students in clinical psychology and a

researcher); and wasting time browsing the Internet. I have been listening to

healing Kundalini mantras on CDs that I purchased, but otherwise I've not done

much of anything except work that I have to do, and that I can do from my

perch on the couch.

 

The surgeon X-rays my ankle every two weeks, and says the healing is going

wonderfully, (he took the staples out at two weeks) but he still will not put me

in a walking boot, as there is now so much hardware in my leg, (I've never

seen anything like it, I was stunned when I saw the first post-surgery X-rays)

and he said I am not "ready" to do anything that calls for even balancing

myself with the bad leg. He shakes his head and said solomly "you had a really

bad

break." Which is not too inspiring somehow, its a little frightening. But I

have faith that I will get through this and walk and maybe even walk better.

 

I am sure that I could do quite a bit from the couch, or the wheel chair,

following some of my tapes. I am hesitant to call anyone for a lesson, as I feel

so flaky about what I've been doing and not doing. But I somehow lost my

momentum, and have been thinking about writing to all of you, as you seem so

very

knowlegeable about so many subjects. And some of you are into healing, and

healing is needed here.

 

I want to get going again, given the limitations at the moment which may be

many, but still I can do what I think made such a difference to me in my few

short weeks of doing Kundalini Yoga. My back pain which has been chronic for

about 30 years, went away in a matter of a week. It was astounding, and I so

much

loved the chanting etc, something I had not expected at all. I walked away

from classes with a smile on my face, especially when the teacher wasn't "too

serious" and took a personal interest in the students in the class.

 

If anyone has suggestions, ideas, recommendations for me, I would be very

very grateful. I want to get motivated to move again, in this unique and quite

magical way. I am older (64) and arthritic, so I was doing everything with some

revisions (and my physical therapist took tapes home to study how to make the

revisions needed, liek she made donuts out of little towels to make it

possible for me to "kneel" though I broke my ankle before I had a chance to

try

this out in class.

 

Now of course I can't even get onto the floor for the moment. But I need to

get back into Kundalini Yoga as fast as I can, I feel it will make a huge

differnence to my process of healing. I thank you so much if you have ideas for

me,

and inspiration. I can't quite say why I love the chanting meditations as I

do, but I do. I can't seem to do them outloud very well on my own, and I feel

slightly lost now about how to resume my path to Kundalini.

 

Thank you everyone here, I have been so impressed by the kind responses that

you provide to everyone's questions, and I appreciate your willingness to

speak to a real novice, who barely got going. I was a little fearful about

writing

to you all, but then I reread some past digests, and thought, you would

probably encourage me to write to you, to ask for help from your vast storehouse

of

information about the body and healing.

 

Lynn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Lynn

The rama da sa sa say so hung really works. It was miraculous in the

healing of my surgical opening and the doctors were amazed at my quick recovery.

I finally bought the CD from Yogatech and still do it every day as part of my

day. The CD is very soothing when you chant with it.

 

Was there any sign of osteoporosis in the bones of the leg? Curious as to

your Calcium, Vit D and magnesium intake.

I will put you in my meditation and chant for you also. I am older also and

have great hopes for

Kundalini helping other problems. It can be magical.

Love from my heart. Don't ever give up.

Teresa