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Yoga Practitioners with Injuries

An intelligent yoga practice can address a host of physical, emotional, and spiritual concerns. Ancient yoga philosophy states that each of us is made of five koshas (sheaths): physicality, energy (breath or life force), mind (intellect), perception (intuition, wisdom), and spirit (innate joy, peace, and harmony). My yoga practice has proved to me that these layers are connected much as the anklebone is connected to the hip bone. Although the two bones may not be directly connected, if one is affected the other may likely be as well. Since yoga therapists are not doctors, treating any chronic condition with certainty can be risky; however, yogic principles and therapies that have proved successful can be applied wisely using a basic tried-and-true balanced approach, including most or all of the following:

• Relaxation

• Traction (if there is compression)

• Mobilization

• Stabilization and strengthening

For decades I have used this simple approach with yoga students to help them manage and recover from injuries. It doesn’t mean that students with severe issues can avoid necessary surgery. However, I have prescribed many combinations of these yoga therapies using this approach, which can include both DOING and BEING poses or one or the other, all practiced with yoga prop support, to prepare students for presurgery and to speed up the recovery time postsurgery. Again, I can’t stress enough how important it is to link all “layers” for holistic healing and productive injury management.