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Community Chat 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.