There is a bit of a mini-session for shoulder for this chat.

• Re: someone with hip replacement issues (2 surgeries)
  – what shapes or what approach is advisable?
• Gentling-down yoga ~ older bodies who cannot do yoga poses from 15 years ago,
• How important is symmetry in our Avita shapes? (Answer: there is no symmetry in the body, each joint has it’s own story)
• There is no sense of accomplishment. Neutralize the idea that we can get ‘better’ … let the shapes become informational.
• How often do we get into these shapes and sustain them long enough to bring about a healing and regenerative process?
• If a shape is too easy, Jeff would say “we are not getting enough feedback”
• Healing sensation = a meditation.
• It’s not just about regaining mobility, It’s not just doing the shape, it’s about the physiology along the way.
• Avita Yoga can be like a warm heating pad, gentle. Your body will be grateful.
• In the Avita practice, we are like Johnny Appleseeds, planting seeds of awareness throughout our body.
• Bringing new mobility into an active life.
• Practicing before or after exercise.
• re: The Physiology Workshop – Can bone-spurs diminish with an Avita practice?
• Talk about the AC joint in the shoulder.
• Avita asks that you be kindly determined to heal your body.

• AVITA and Osteoporosis. How bones benefit from pressure.
• Breathing, sleep apnea, and how breathing is incorporated into the Avita Yoga practice. Nose breathing vs mouth breathing.
• Integration of the Avita practice into your daily life.
  ~ walking ~ squatting ~
• Integration and the aging body.
• Sitting for long periods
• Welcome, Paula!
• Integration of Avita when you’ve had hip surgery (bi-lateral hip replacement surgery.)
• Hips are the biggest and most central joint in the body.
• Trauma sends percussive waves throughout your structure. Hips and other joints receive all those waves. An Avita practice facilitates undoing those percussive waves the body receives in a trauma.
• Yoga, and connecting a spiritual practice with the physical practice.

• There are 2 lordotic curves of the spine: in the neck and small of the back. Jeff offers shape-approach options to deal with pain in upper neck while doing sukhasana.
• We are like archeologists searching for mobility and freedom. Doing these shapes reveal the restrictions to full mobility.
• Flexibility / shapes we use everyday vs shapes we use less frequently. (as we age) Which body flexibilities will we lose first?

Avita has helped me with biking, and running.

• Avita, seeks to remove the barriers to mobility

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• There is healing all along the way, what is the physiology f Avita® that makes this true?
• After sometime in this practice, I can no longer find my cramp!
• Neuroskeletal-muscular feedback.We are getting smooch feedback in these shapes.
• Do the cramp dance – befriend the cramp – the cramp becomes the yoga.
• Moving through cramps is a beneficial way to supple muscles.

• Pain from the shape lying on your stomach/belly.
• Struggles with overdoing your practice…or not! Keeping a good pace of practice.

What Is Healing Sensation?

• Integrating a strength training and/or aerobic workout practice, with the slower pace of Avita Yoga.
• Sandbags: when to use them and when not to?
• Sleeping better is one of the more popular positive benefits of Avita Yoga.
• Christina and her amazing story.
• The practice of surrender, to experience what our body is doing when in the more challenging shapes
• Talking about osteoporosis, and accompanying medications.

• RE: his recent injury, Jeff talks about tearing his tendon, and the way muscles and ligaments work.
• 7:14 The Avita Online series has a gradual progression in three ways: Pressure, Time, Complexity.
• Having the legs up the wall for long periods of time, how to manage that and care for your knees.
• 10:45 (Roxanne) A Taste of Success: Shoulder issue, for the first time ever; could feel the back of my arm against the floor, but the next time it did not reach the floor. What gives?

Healing is not a linear process.

• Using sandbags for shoulder support
• 15:45 (Julia) When I put my hips on the bolster my lumbar spine does not relax.

Tiny bits of movement stimulate the physiology.

• 24:00 Marcia, intense pain that appears, then disappears, talking about Virasana shape, and knee mobility, and toes work.
• 31:30 —upcoming workshop on feet—
• 34 Sitting bolster, one leg straight out, the other in virasana, deep internal hip rotation, sandbag support – Jeff talks
• 40:00 Feet issues, and feet pain, flexing and ‘fisting’ shape of the foot seems to help.
• We’ve removed ourselves from nature, we’re terrified of pain, and we have all these ways to protect ourselves. Protecting ourselves not an option. Give the pain some space.
• When we injure something, we limp. Then the limp becomes a pattern. We would teach our patients to walk through the limp, don’t let the limp take over.

If we can maintain the health and movement that we have today, for the rest of our lives, that is a home run.

The Knees-Ankles-Feet issues episode 

It’s almost a teacher training of variations on Virasana!

The Knee-ankle-feet issues episode or: Variations on Virasana

• • Diagnosed with mild osteoarthritis in knees
  • Diagnosed with patella femoral syndrome
  • Affecting my regular exercise routine.
  • Who needs knee work?
  • Q: What movements bring the sensation of the osteoarthritis to the surface to be noticed by you? A: Biking, when I press down to go uphill; hiking, going uphill, up and down steps, swimming, doesn’t like it when I kick.
  • SHAPE 1: Sitting in and exploring the Virasana shape
    Q: So the feet need to be going straight back?
    A: We want theft to be able to go in ll kinds of directions in this shape.
  • Q: I don’t know if my feet can do that!
    J: Ok, then there’s your yoga. Support Yourself
  • Ankle restriction could be causing restriction in the knees.
  • Ok, now, you are in the shape 3-4 minutes, you are just about to the time where it’s going to start helping you (Kiki specific).
  • What’s going on with the knees? (when you have a flexible constitution)
  • The more flexible you are, the joints have too much space between them, not enough pressure. Joints love totally even pressure.
  • Sitting in Virasana pushes the synovial fluid out into the vascular system, getting absorbed and getting cleansed. Pressure pushes the toxins out. The body pushes new fresh fluid back in.
  • Get out of the shape slowly.
  • Addressing arthritis is one of the things this work does best.
  • Words on the Sukhasana shape, and pain in different parts of the knee.
  • SHAPE 2: Sitting in and exploring the Virasana shape
    Variations on the shape: start on all fours, then sit back on heels.
  • These shapes bring rigidity up to the surface where you can play with it.
  • Your foot really starts up by your knee.
  • Sensations when in Sukasana. Let the sensation help unwind the source.
  • Tile workers and carpet layers (sitting hours at a time with legs folded under, bent knees) have great flexion, but not as good at extension.
  • SHAPE 3: Sitting legs straight out in front, one leg bent back.
    Exploring sensations in this shape.

• 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.

Creating Community in these days of Covid.

• Meditation:How Do I create community inside of me.
• Considerations on an injury. Ask yourself, “What is this for?”
• Joe talks about his yoga practice, some Avita, some pranayama…
• Jo talks about her practice, she uses Avita Online
• Difference between Avita Yoga and Physical Therapy
• “Avita brought attention to the bigger muscles I didn’t know were driving my walk.”
• The spiritual practice element of Avita Yoga, What would the goal of spiritual help be?
• When shoulders have different rage of motion, arm position and bolster…
• Using a steroid injection properly…to your advantage
• Putting my head back causes nausea, TMJ
• “Anytime you are doing shoulder work, you are doing neck work” Jeff Bailey

Being greedy for love is a proper use of greed. There is no selfishness in healing.

• Equipment: I have everything except the bolster. Should I get the large one or the small one?
• Arm and shoulder support when on the floor, arms over your head, behind you touching the floor.
• Clarify what you mean by ‘the shoulders’? Discussing form for shoulder work.
• Questions for very flexible knees, recommended position when lying on the floor. “When lying flat on the floor, I’m keeping my knees active to not hyper-extend them.”
• Rectangular bolsters vs round bolsters.
• Wondering about my shoulder, one arm is more painful than the other.
• Why does some healing lag ?
• Can Avita cause some injuries to resurface?
• Dealing with the disorganization of scar tissue. We all have work to do.
• Introducing this practice to family members, or tips on coaching friends and family.
• Virasana for the fingers. Questions about a broken hand injury from 5 years ago, how to deal with that pain.

 

We all have scar tissue to heal.

Progress not perfection