Comments for kendrahodgson.com http://kendrahodgson.com Kendra Hodgson is a yoga teacher, media educator, and mindfulness educator. Learn about yoga, media education, and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:39:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Discipline & the Desire for Full Play by Helen http://kendrahodgson.com/429/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Helen Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:39:30 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=429#comment-472 I found other words - "absolution" and "clearance" - href="http://www.synonymsfor.com/">synonyms for</a> "freedom". I found other words – “absolution” and “clearance” – href=”http://www.synonymsfor.com/”>synonyms for “freedom”.

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by admin http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-468 admin Fri, 06 May 2011 18:47:22 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-468 Andrea -- Thank you. :) Andrea — Thank you. :)

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by admin http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-467 admin Fri, 06 May 2011 18:47:02 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-467 Cousin Pat! I'm so glad that this is helpful to you. Let me know if you have more questions about what to do. I'll be seeing my parents this weekend for Mother's Day. Love to you and your family! Cousin Pat! I’m so glad that this is helpful to you. Let me know if you have more questions about what to do. I’ll be seeing my parents this weekend for Mother’s Day. Love to you and your family!

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by pat kurz http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-461 pat kurz Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:46:14 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-461 Kendra, This is awesome stuff. I have been having back problems lately. I will surely be trying these things. Thanks Cous! Kendra, This is awesome stuff. I have been having back problems lately. I will surely be trying these things. Thanks Cous!

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by Andrea Thibaudeau http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Andrea Thibaudeau Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:06:43 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-460 Hi Kendra, This is great. I love how you put it into a few simple steps. This makes the prospect of balance seem easier to access. Thanks for your time and your wisdom in offering this! Hi Kendra,
This is great. I love how you put it into a few simple steps. This makes the prospect of balance seem easier to access. Thanks for your time and your wisdom in offering this!

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by admin http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-459 admin Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:19:35 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-459 Hi Noelle - Thank you for your feedback and your question. To best answer your question, I'll want to see you in person to look at what is happening with your alignment when it starts to hurt. I'm also curious what you learned from the doctor about what the actual injury ended up being. What I will say, though, is that the key is usually balanced action. When I first started addressing issues in my own lower back and sacrum, I also found a ton of relief at first with shins in/thighs out because it was making space where there hadn't been any, and then after doing it regularly for a while, I started to get some soreness around my sacrioilliac joints because I was widening my thighs more than I was hugging my shins in and I also wasn't doing enough puffing in my back body. I needed to do major shins in/thighs out (and still do!), and I needed to really balance it with a fullness in my back body (using pelvic and kidney loop, as well as inner body bright). Once I started doing a lot more shins in and a lot more puffing the soreness completely went away, and my lower back feels really good now. What I have learned is that our biggest guide with all of the principles (and with all of our healing) is that we need to move slowly and really use pain as our guide. We always want to work with a real sensitivity to ourselves and to work below the threshold of pain, which I think is sometimes easier said than done. . . This is super related to your other question about finding the balance between effort and ease (or effort and flowing with grace). We need to effort to hug our shins in and widen our thighs, and we also need to move into a very soft place as we lengthen the tailbone (and then the further refinement in this that I didn't go into in this post or in the video is to fill up with kidney loop -- really taking the side waistline back). In a desire to heal, I think we can sometimes think, "shins in/thighs out is good stuff, so I'm just going to put more effort into it and do it more" and like all good things, it works best in moderation. Does that make sense? Next time I see you, I will look and see if there is something more unique happening for you. I am glad that you are questioning the principles of alignment -- that is a super important part of the journey of yoga and the process of healing. It's important that you don't just accept any of this -- the alignment or the philosophy -- because your teachers tell you. It's important that you really try out the principles in your own body and see what works (and doesn't work) for you. I am glad that you are starting to heal, even though it is such a process. Hi Noelle -
Thank you for your feedback and your question. To best answer your question, I’ll want to see you in person to look at what is happening with your alignment when it starts to hurt. I’m also curious what you learned from the doctor about what the actual injury ended up being. What I will say, though, is that the key is usually balanced action. When I first started addressing issues in my own lower back and sacrum, I also found a ton of relief at first with shins in/thighs out because it was making space where there hadn’t been any, and then after doing it regularly for a while, I started to get some soreness around my sacrioilliac joints because I was widening my thighs more than I was hugging my shins in and I also wasn’t doing enough puffing in my back body. I needed to do major shins in/thighs out (and still do!), and I needed to really balance it with a fullness in my back body (using pelvic and kidney loop, as well as inner body bright). Once I started doing a lot more shins in and a lot more puffing the soreness completely went away, and my lower back feels really good now. What I have learned is that our biggest guide with all of the principles (and with all of our healing) is that we need to move slowly and really use pain as our guide. We always want to work with a real sensitivity to ourselves and to work below the threshold of pain, which I think is sometimes easier said than done. . . This is super related to your other question about finding the balance between effort and ease (or effort and flowing with grace). We need to effort to hug our shins in and widen our thighs, and we also need to move into a very soft place as we lengthen the tailbone (and then the further refinement in this that I didn’t go into in this post or in the video is to fill up with kidney loop — really taking the side waistline back). In a desire to heal, I think we can sometimes think, “shins in/thighs out is good stuff, so I’m just going to put more effort into it and do it more” and like all good things, it works best in moderation. Does that make sense? Next time I see you, I will look and see if there is something more unique happening for you. I am glad that you are questioning the principles of alignment — that is a super important part of the journey of yoga and the process of healing. It’s important that you don’t just accept any of this — the alignment or the philosophy — because your teachers tell you. It’s important that you really try out the principles in your own body and see what works (and doesn’t work) for you. I am glad that you are starting to heal, even though it is such a process.

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by Noelle http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Noelle Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:46:19 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-458 Thank you for presenting all this great information in such a clear way, Kendra. It's so easy to forget how hard our bodies work for us in our daily lives and it's so important to remember to be concious of keeping our various parts, and thus our whole selves, safe. I am perplexed by something pertaining to your advice for keeping our backs healthy and I wonder if you can shed some light on it for me. Imediately after I fell on the ice in February I did lots of shins in thighs out and this action really seemed to help my lower back to feel much better. Then, a few weeks after I fell, something shifted dramatically, and allowing even the slightest arch to come into my lower back became painful in such a way that I instinctively knew it was a very bad idea. This feeling persisted over the following weeks and is still present to some extent, though it feels very much like it is healing more and more everyday. I believe that the universal principles of alignment work, but I am feeling a little at odds with them right now, and I hope you can help me see more clearly what is happening in my body. Thank you for presenting all this great information in such a clear way, Kendra. It’s so easy to forget how hard our bodies work for us in our daily lives and it’s so important to remember to be concious of keeping our various parts, and thus our whole selves, safe.

I am perplexed by something pertaining to your advice for keeping our backs healthy and I wonder if you can shed some light on it for me. Imediately after I fell on the ice in February I did lots of shins in thighs out and this action really seemed to help my lower back to feel much better. Then, a few weeks after I fell, something shifted dramatically, and allowing even the slightest arch to come into my lower back became painful in such a way that I instinctively knew it was a very bad idea. This feeling persisted over the following weeks and is still present to some extent, though it feels very much like it is healing more and more everyday. I believe that the universal principles of alignment work, but I am feeling a little at odds with them right now, and I hope you can help me see more clearly what is happening in my body.

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by admin http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-457 admin Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:53:24 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-457 Thank you, Ellie! Thank you, Ellie!

]]> Comment on 7 Steps to a Healthy Back by Ellie Cook http://kendrahodgson.com/924/comment-page-1/#comment-456 Ellie Cook Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:21:33 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=924#comment-456 Such a good demonstration! It's great for people to have access to this. Such a good demonstration! It’s great for people to have access to this.

]]> Comment on Healing Pain & Reclaiming Our Wholeness by admin http://kendrahodgson.com/888/comment-page-1/#comment-454 admin Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:56:58 +0000 http://kendrahodgson.com/?p=888#comment-454 Thank you Andrea! Thank you Andrea!

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