I realize how precious my knees are, every single time I get hurt. My left knee hurts so bad that I cannot do any ’serious’ yoga. I mean the typical western vinyasa flow with tons of warrior poses. Western vinyasa flow is what I normally practice, if my knees were any good. Now I am practicing ‘mild’ yoga to heal my knee. It is so ironic that my knee got hurt while practicing yoga. I should correct it, I got hurt while doing yoga mindlessly. Led by a famous teacher in an ashram in India along with 250 people. It happened 10 months ago and it still hounds me. It took a long time to heal while I was in India and I reached a stage where I could actually practice Mysore style astanga. I was doing good for a while, I had forgotten all about the knee pain or that I was injured so recently. The knee injury resurfaced back in the last few days, when I was in a hurry to get back to my daily practice. Now, all I think of is my knee. I know it hurts every single millisecond.
This happened 10 months ago. Sivananda ashram in Kerala is notorious for its factory style boot camp yoga teacher training classes, it is absolutely ridiculous. I have been practicing yoga for many years now that I know what I can do or cannot do. I usually will not push myself to get into any contortion my body is not ready to do. But in this class I did not even realize when I was getting hurt. The teacher is simply yelling into the mike to go into the poses deeper and deeper. The blocks are only in the mind and not in the body. All I remember is after the session I limped back and cannot remember walking correctly ever again or sit without pain even in a simple sukhasana.
The next day I spoke to the teacher about it and he tells me these injuries are mostly in the mind. Huh! I did not know that a block in my mind can hurt my knee so bad. I thought what a ridiculous explanation for my injury. I left the ashram after that and will not step back into it. This is not my first injury in all the years of my yoga practice. I have been injured before and I know injuries are great teachers to stop and make you think. It never made me question my choice of teachers or the course. I was the one always at fault. But not this injury. This should not have happened. Anyway, I have to deal with my knee injury and the wrong yoga choices I had made. Sivananda ashram is probably the only event in my life that I regret getting myself into.
I have complete faith in Yoga that it can heal my knee back. If I do the right kind of Yoga, as in KYM style of therapy yoga or at least mindful yoga. I do like this Indian saying a lot- do not give a garland to a monkey.
any ’serious’ yoga. I mean the typical western vinyasa flow with tons of warrior poses. Western vinyasa flow is
what I normally practice, if my knees were any good. Now I am practicing mild yoga to heal my knee. It is so
ironic that my knee got hurt so bad while practicing yoga. I should correct it, I got hurt while doing yoga
mindlessly. Led by a famous teacher in an ashram in India along with 250 people. It happened 10 months ago and
I have not recovered from it. It took a long time to heal while I was in India and I reached a stage where I
could actually practice Mysore style astanga. I was doing good for a while, I had forgotten all about the knee
pain or that I was injured so recently. The knee injury resurfaced back in the last few days, when I was in a
hurry to get back to my daily practice. Now all I think of is my knee. I know it hurts every single
millisecond.
This happened 10 months ago. Sivananda ashram in Kerala is notorious for its factory style boot camp yoga
teacher training classes, it is absolutely ridiculous. I have been practicing yoga for many years now that I
know what I can do or cannot do. I usually will not push myself to get into any contortion my body is not ready
to do. But in this class I did not even realize when I was getting hurt. The teacher is simply yelling into the
mike to go into the poses deeper and deeper. The blocks are only in the mind and not in the body. All I
remember is after the session I limped back and cannot remember walking correctly ever again or sit without
pain even in a simple sukhasana.
The next day I spoke to the teacher about it and he tells me these injuries are mostly in the mind. Huh! I did
not know that a block in my mind can hurt my knee so bad. I thought what a ridiculous explanation for my
injury. I left the ashram after that and will not step back into it. This is not my first injury in all the
years of my yoga practice. I have been injured before and I know injuries are great teachers to stop and make
you think. But not this injury. This should not have happened. Anyway, I have to deal with my knee injury and
the wrong yoga choices I had made. Sivananda ashram is probably the only event in my life that I regret getting
myself into.
I have complete faith in Yoga that it can heal my knee back. If I do the right kind of Yoga, as in KYM style of
therapy yoga or atleast mindful yoga. I do like this Indian saying a lot- do not give a garland to a monkey.
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