Healing can happen. 7 months 16 days.

7 months 16 days.

Healing can happen.  I am here as a witness to this.  One of the pieces of health advice given to me this year was to do yoga every day.  At first, I was reticent.  How c ould I do it every day?  Well, I didn’t . Not at first.  But my friend Roxanne at church invited me to hot yoga in January at 6 am on Fridays and I felt like I was walking into Ghana when I first entered that 95 degree humid room.  So I went, and I stayed. 

At first, I only went a couple of days a week.  Then, I joined the studio.  Then I did their 30 day, every day challenge, then I stayed even more.  Now it is a habit and if I don’t make it every day, I feel slighted.  The meditative mode, the heat, the community – it is all healing. 

Since 2011 I have been suffering from pirafmormis syndrome when I broke my tailbone in a sledding accident.  This little muscle extends from an attachment at the tailbone to the outer hip and it passes over the sciatic nerve.  If this muscle gets tight…well, it causes sciatica and piraformis syndrome. 

My injury was definitely causing this and it just would not subside.  In fact, every time I drove long distance in a car.  Every time I sat for too long in a soft chair or really…any chair, it inflamed.  Running inflamed it…that is my passion in sport and it was just killing me to only be able to run a few miles before it hurt like hell.

In yoga, we do a pose every class called pigeon pose where you place your leg at a ninety degree angle under you, extend the opposite leg back and just dig in to bend over the ninety-degree leg to open up the hip.  OUCH.

I have been doing this pose every single day.  Holding it.  Enduring three minutes of hold at least per class and dying dying dying.  Today, for the first time in months, the pain released, and when I say released, I mean a flood of pain left my body and my right hip reached the floor…it opened.  I do not know how.  I do not know why, but it happened.

I am hear to testify that the practice of yoga pays of off, big time!  Do it.  And do not just do it…do it daily.  Let it nourish your soul and body.  I’ll let you know how it progresses as my year of health continues.

All else is well…eating well, drinking well.  Taking care of myself to the hilt.  Loving every minute of it!