About 8 months ago, I was barely able to walk–a shuffle of few steps brought halting pain from a first-time bout of sciatica.
After 3 weeks on a cane hunched over and many osteopathic and acupuncture treatments, I began eight months of rehabilitation.
Physical therapy, a steroid injection, cranial-sacral treatments, and massage. all became part of the “cure.”
I began a concerted yoga regimen, light at first with yin and restorative yoga and an occasional down-dog.
My goal was to strengthen my core to support the spine, hips, and torso better, to increase my range of motion, and to decrease pain.
But now I’m back to full yoga classes, and have been for the last four months. I am stronger than ever. I still have some pain, but its seems over time to be lessening in intensity and frequency. Healing is slower at 60, more of a meander and is requiring a lot of patience and perseverance.
Yoga certainly is no panacea, but it continues to strengthen and support me in ways I cannot put into words.
Yoga literally saved my butt!
And for this I am wholeheartedly grateful!
*Along with the help of many talented health and wellness professionals!
The Every Day Yogi 