I have been doing Bikram yoga for 22 months now, five days a week. For 16 of those 22 months nothing was ever sore or ever hurt me between classes. In the last 6 months I have had issues with different muscles. Some days my glutes would hurt. Some days my chin, first one leg, then the other, would hurt. Some days my right or left calf would hurt. Lately it's been my lower back – hurt for a day or two, then go away. Now it's my right bicep that aches a bit. This struck me as strange.
Them one day in class the instructor unknowingly cleared it up for me. She said all our old injuries from our whole life never really go away. They just settle in the connective tissue of our muscles – the facia. (I didn't know I had facia). She went on to say that the longer you do Bikram on a daily basis, it will find those old injuries, resurrect them, and heal them. It means I'm going deeper and deeper in my muscles because my practice is so regular.
Here I thought I had it made because I can now breath normally through any class – even through these hot and humid ones this week. I had absolutely no trouble with breath or heart rate. Now I'm working deep in something called my facia. Who knew that, day by day, over the course of 22 months my yoga practice was resurrecting and healing old issues? The lower back one I sure do remember. I felt the pop when I was delivering my second child and suffered for years. I'm glad it's getting dealt with. The bicep one I hurt a long time ago trying to do crossfit at the gym. I'll be glad to get that one taken care of, too.
Day by day, when our noses are to the grindstone and it's hard and scary and uncomfortable and we absolutely cannot see the big picture, something is working mysteriously to heal us and move us to a better place. If your place right now doesn't feel so great, take heart – it's but a small piece in the big picture. It will be dealt with and healed almost without your knowing it.
And so, as another day goes by, yet again the hot room yields wisdom and understanding, and…I have written.
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