Community Chat January 20, 2021

Avita Yoga® Community Chat with Jeff Bailey | January 20, 2021
  • New Beginnings, recovering from a set back.
  • The art of listening to the gentle healing voice, and not heed as much the louder yapping ego voice.
  • Teaching & Technology, People wanting to come back into the room. The difference of teaching for a streaming class to a camera, vs teaching to a live class with living human beings.
  • Creating an art form that feeds your own personal passion, vs a passion that other people (public) wants.
  • 17:30
  • On the cusp of getting knee surgery, Greg opted not to get a surgery for torn meniscus, with doing Avita yoga, the knee has improved.

Joints Love Pressure.

  • The immense as yet, unseen value on our bodies (joints, tendons) that an Avita practice can have.
  • Marcia speaks about her wrist injury, and how to manage tendonitis in her hand.
  • Cortisone is a longterm painkiller, it does not promote healing. An alternative consideration for getting a cortisone shot: When pain is too intense, a shot makes the pain tolerable so we can investigate the discomfort, which is valuable feedback.

Too much — too fast — is called injury.

  • Virasana for the Hands:
    Live hand work, example shapes to address tendonitis in hands.
    Live hand work, example shapes to address trigger finger stiffness.
  • Jeff talks about gripping the strap, and normal healthy joint development from when we are babies.
  • 47:30
  • Any movement we make is not only about the joints, but about all the muscles and tendons involved.
  • Many neck turns in class.
  • Spine health.
  • We are going for freedom of information flow in the body.
  • The leading cause of pain is the lack blood flow.
  • Turning your head is calming; it stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system.

We are all a case study in healing.

Resolving Sciatic Pain with Avita Yoga

Piriformis Syndrome Avita Yoga The sciatic nerve can be impinged near the lower part of the spine or in the hip’s rotator muscles. Because Avita Yoga is concerned with addressing the problem and not just the symptom (pain), we target not the muscle tightness but its cause. On Demand Yoga

Almost everyone will experience some degree of sciatic pain in their lifetime. While anyone is prone to sciatic pain, it tends to be more predominant in those who sit a lot—drivers and desk workers, for example. The sciatic nerve exits the spinal cord at the lowest part of the spine around the sacrum and just above it and then travels through the hip’s “deep six” rotator muscles. Among these external rotators of the hip is a muscle called Piriformis. The sciatic nerve is often pinched by this muscle which causes, you guessed it, Piriformis Syndrome.

Piriformis Syndrome Avita Yoga The sciatic nerve can be impinged near the lower part of the spine or in the hip’s rotator muscles. Because Avita Yoga is concerned with addressing the problem and not just the symptom (pain), we target not the muscle tightness but its cause. Too much sitting!

Resolving Sciatic Pain

The sciatic nerve can be impinged near the lower part of the spine or in the hip’s rotator muscles. Because Avita Yoga is concerned with addressing the problem and not just the symptom (pain), we target not the muscle tightness but its cause. Many things can cause a muscle to spasm and tighten and, in this case, cause pain or tingling down the leg via the sciatic nerve. Chief among them is hip impingement at the level of the bone or the surrounding connective tissue. Sometimes there is an arthritic or degenerative quality in the hip that can, in turn, cause adjacent muscles to cramp or tighten.

Avita Yoga targets these problems, which have a relieving effect on the muscles.

Stretching the muscle may help resolve pain in the short term but not in the long term, and certainly won’t address the deeper cause. Stretching muscles alone also come with risk, but that’s another story.

Avita Yoga and the specific shapes chosen in the miniseries will also target the problem if the origin of it is closer to the spine and sacrum. The same degenerative issues at the spine, combined with lack of movement in this part of the body, can lead to nerve impingement and radiating pain. Avita Yoga helps you regain all of your body’s motions from tip to tail, and where there is movement, there is health.

Enjoy this SCIATIC MINISERIES and if you find it helpful, consider taking care of the rest of your body in the same manner. (Remember: Members Only! You need to be logged into your account to view.)

A little prevention can go a long way.

Namaste, Jeff

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