Yoga Wakes Me Up (in the middle of the night)

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

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yoga wakes me up (in the middle of the night) 😉

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first, it was waking up to find myself in tree pose [1] , supinely if sublimely so 😉

now, it’s a supine spinal twist [2] , only not nearly as sublime –

i woke with a seldom but unwelcomely recurrent pain in my right hip –

re-positioning, the pain eased quickly –

but my yoga studies –

after 10 years of physical home practice in blissful ignorance…

after nearly a year of intense fitness learning from AFAA and SilverSneakers…

after a much more recent yoga teacher immersion plus other yoga workshops dvds books and ongoing online offerings…  [3]

yes, my yoga studies!, have begun to teach me in my sleep! 😉

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so i woke, looked down at my legs under the covers, though not in pants like this picture, of course 😉 and saw what i wouldn’t have seen, hadn’t seen, and didn’t see, even a few weeks ago!

i sleep like this a lot…feels good to me  [4] , and the hip pain has been sparsely spaced in time – so i must only at times have been doing this :

balancing my lower leg so neither the medial edge of my foot, nor the medial side of my knee, rested on support –

ahhh…

…my leg had been suspended [5] , to wobble to waver, to tired in the night, unable to find its spot of rest –

sorta a supine twisted tree 😉 with a leg-branch see-sawing to sound of zzzzz’s

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i’d felt the pain immediately when i woke  [6] , recognized the memory of its location, plus the intermittent times i’d have a lingering pain pop up some mornings…my nagging companion for the day

the solution?

simple as a pillow, as per doctor oz 😉

yes, my fitness interests in alignment etc (or rather sheila’s, she’s as regular to doctor oz as i am to my favorite online sites) provided me my pillow-talk solution –

while my yoga “practice” is refining my awareness for alignment, support, and, oh yes, comfort…

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so, to my favored closing,

namaste – con dios – god be with you

may i add, this one time,

may your leg branch find the forest floor and bring you “sweet sweet dreams” 😉

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have you had something similar happen? tell us, leave a comment! 😉

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footnotes

[1] aka, vrksasana, like tree-bark-asana – best way so far, for me to remember the sanskrit name 😉

[2] supta matsyendrasana, like super sitting on the mat, with a twist laying down

[3] ton! like ray long, paul grilley, magazine of yoga, yoga dork, the yoga lunchbox, more more more –

for suggestions with links for yoga fitness and the arts, please go to my links page

[4] doctor oz, in this video link, says this position is good for the spine, so i had that part right 😉

[5] all three images in this post by my wife sheila and myself

[6] “will doing yoga make me sore?” is a question ann pizer at yoga.about.com asks, providing a short useful answer, plus related links

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