Through the ten weeks of this yoga course I have found myself developing a greater appreciation for the cultural history behind yoga and how it has transformed throughout the years. I feel as though I have adopted the newer forms of yoga as a healing and therapeutic practice in recent week. Last week I received a diagnosis that I have two bulging discs and a herniated disc and my lumbar and sacral crest. As a result of this diagnosis, I am forced to monitor and manipulate my training regimen for fighting to accommodate my struggling back.
I have essentially decided that I will be using yoga no longer as just a method of warming up or cooling down from a hard training session. I am going to increase my commitment to viniyoga and developing my core muscles around my injured back in order to strengthen my body as a whole. This idea has been supported by various medical professionals that I have spoken with in the past week including chiropractors, physical therapists, and pain management specialists. All of them support holistic, alternative healing methods such as yoga.
Through a more consistent practice, I aim to increase the strength, stability, and flexibility of the muscles surrounding my injured lumbar and sacrum. Doing so will allow me to return to a more normal fight-training regimen in the near future. Currently, I have begun training again but the process is slow and I am training very light as I ease my way back into my schedule. I feel that this injury has made me more aware of how I should take care of my body in the future as I have come to realize that I am not invincible and that I need to start slowing myself down when I feel pain and agony. This diagnosis has also motivated me to further explore other forms of alternative healing such as yoga as it is both a healing option and an exercise option for both my mind and body to associate with a form of training when I am too injured to train at my normal pace.
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