Sciatic Pain Session 4
Sciatic Pain Session 3
Sciatic Pain Session 2
Sciatic Pain Session 1
Intro to Sciatic Sequence
Resolving Sciatic Pain with Avita 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.
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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2021 A New Beginning
The New Year holds excitement for many reasons. It’s a symbol of hope for one basic reason: We survived the previous year, and the upcoming year must be better than the last one, a new beginning. Then we dance and party, albeit a little more privately this year. Oh, and we make a resolution that usually amounts to some form of behavior modification. We set “deep intentions” and then sit back and…watch it all fall apart. It’s become such a pattern that we have come to expect to not really work.
REMEMBER (EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO) HOW GOOD 2020 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE?
Now, I’m sure it’s different for you, but most get caught in time loops where we avoid the inner work and move from one thing to the next expecting the new form of it to be better than the last. Whether it’s a new relationship, new job, new clothes, new house, new location, or new year, we fall into the trap and renew the outer (which includes the body) without doing the yoga of renewing the inner. Gandhi said it best, we can’t look for the change we want to see in our bodies or the world. We must “be the change.”
HERE’S HOW TO MAKE THIS YEAR DIFFERENT AND “BREAK OUT” OF THE TIME LOOP. THINK GROUNDHOG DAY (WITH BILL MURRAY)
- Knowing that adversity is the catalyst for a better way, look back on 2020 and see how it worked perfectly to bring you to this present moment where you are ready. For 2021 to be better, we must see how well 2020 worked. We don’t get to go back. Life is not a board game where you get to start over. Or do you?
There is a way to start over, but the idea is that you start over and over, and over again. Not in form, but in heart and mind. The stars are aligned. It’s time. Here’s how… - It comes with many names, that you’ve heard before. Beginners mind. The power of now. Presence. They are all phrases or ideas that bring a new beginning! Problem is, we write them off because they’re too woo-woo and it so much easier to go back to sleep and “live the dream.” But now you’re ready! So how do we tap into the newness that only comes with nowness? First, we catch ourselves expecting, if not demanding change to occur in our favor. Is it not insane to be watching a movie that has a pre-written script and wanting it to change and end the way you want it to? Life is no different but we believe that it is. Instead of accepting what is, we manipulate it (and others) to fit our needs and desires according to a predetermined set of values. And 7 billion others are doing the same thing! It’s organized chaos at best.
But what if just one, decides to accept it as it is? What if just one decides to try something different, and make it all the same? What if just one decides to stop criticizing, blaming, defending and attacking? What if just one decides to withdraw their projections and accept what is? What if just one decides to heal from the past and gently let it slip away? What if just one decides against the fear of the future and lets love show them the way?
What if that one, was you? If not, then who?
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How to share the gift of yoga
Release, share and move.
The holidays can be stressful, but they need not be. It’s been a different year, so why not make the holidays different this year? To help make them enjoyable and downright healing, give they gift of yoga to yourself and your loved ones. A regular yoga practice can rejuvenate your mind and body. The yoga calls, all we have to do is listen.
Gifting a friend is a simple way to impact their lives for a long time. Share what you love, healing movement. Practice together wherever you may be.
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Community Chat December 2020
1. Swelling on cheek, OK to allow pressure on it?”
2. Universe is telling me to slow down, I’m new to Avita, will this have an impact?”
3. Nurturing a groin pull – go to place of “what can I do better”?”
4. What would you say is an active or passive position?”
5. Cramps, you say work with it – how?
6. Arthritis in knees – both from use.
“I just love this practice because it gives me the opportunity to honor what my body is telling me.” R.R.
Community Chat November 2020
Questions:
[toggle title=”Maren … Why are cramps so good for you to try to work through?”]Jeff … Peacefully doing the cramp dance, leads to re-organization of the nervous system. They’re a sign of the body going into new territory.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Joe… Sometimes when he has legs against the wall, especially when spreading them apart, he gets uncontrollable shakes in his hips and legs. Is it good to work through them just as with cramps?”]Jeff… Flexible people like Joe can often go deep in a shape but shouldn’t, always. If he is able to pull back and work in that shaking space, then re-organizing the nervous system is again going on and in six months maybe he won’t shake!
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[toggle title=”Lisa … When we do legs up the wall and then you cue us to pull knee into hip, you don’t always say “keep your heel in line with the knee”, but I try to do that all the time, is this right?”]Jeff… I don’t want to make it a rule, there are no rules in Avita! But if Lisa feels that doing that alignment helps work the hip, then that is the target of the shape.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Julia… I work with brains, and they like ‘regulation’, deregulation is an unhealthy state. So what do you mean when you describe the body as being ‘disorganized’?”]Jeff… Athletic, flexible people like dancers and gymnasts and yogis have disorganized bodies that need new integration which Avita, by working with the joints and unifying the mind and body, can help alleviate or rectify.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Maren… She has the tendency to flex her feet when in legs up the wall because it activates her knees and helps in keeping her legs straight. Is this correct?”]Jeff … We don’t always cue those things to allow YOU into the practice. If it’s a habit you learned from vinyasa or ashtanga then it works for you as a reference. What would you want to be, more supple or more flexible? I like supple better it suggests a freedom to do all the everyday things we need to do, not going overboard to try to be as flexible as possible.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”Mark… What is the situation with COVID, will we still be able to go into the studio?”]Jeff … There is a new level of lockdown coming on Friday but it looks like we will still be able to have the studio open.[/toggle]