Starting Over, Again.

I love the idea of a journal or blogging, I just seem to go in spurts.

I just finished about 50 minutes of yoga. The last two weeks, I practiced yoga 4 times a week and hope to do the same this week. Before that, it had been a few months since practicing regularly. The past year and a half to two years, it seems I have been plagued with injury, nothing life threatening, but still rather annoying for an active person.

I had a broken pinky toe, which sounds like nothing, but can hinder one's yoga practice a great deal - who knew little toes were so vital? After that, I injured my back lifting boxes when we moved into our house and have had back pain on a daily basis since. My husband is skeptical of chiropractors and massage therapists, or maybe he is just skeptical of spending money, so I have been putting off getting help in the hopes the pain will just go away on its own. The last few months I have been when I get up from sitting and cannot lay on my stomach. On top of that, I developed a stress fracture in my ankle that went undiagnosed for about 6 months. Ugh...Wearing a walking boot for weeks really takes a toll on the hips and back.

Today I discovered I can still come up with a flat spine while doing sun salutations, but can avoid some back pain by bending my knees. I am avoiding any tyoe of back bend right now. I am not sure if it would help to stretch my back or cause it to hurt worse, but we will see how I feel tomorrow after bending my knees when coming up flat today and avoiding back bends.

On a positive note, I am noticing that I am regaining some strength. I was amazed at how quickly strength and flexibility are lost. We spent over 3 weeks in Europe in July, during which time I did not do any yoga. I could hardly touch my toes during my first yoga workout and had a hard time with doing a push up into down dog! I am avoiding up dog right now as it is a backbend position, but am happy those push ups are getting easier again. One day at a time.