I first discovered yoga when I was 1 6 years old through a school friend’s mother who taught yoga. Since then I’ve always had a keen awareness of my body. This is the story of how I found a way to heal a back injury using yoga as a source of creating awareness and slowing down in order to listen to what it had to say and to feel my way out of pain.
In 2008, I suffered with a very bad back, which caused me significant pain f or over a year. It was all consuming, affecting my job, my relationships and my relationship with alcohol. I found myself in a really scary position at the time where I was drinking for pain relief. Pain killers didn’t give me any relief but the muscle relaxant effect of alcohol did. I became dependent on alcohol for pain relief. I knew this was a bad place to be but I couldn’t fix the problem. I saw every different type of therapist and got ripped off and conned a few times by people promising miracle cures.
Then something just shifted in my mindset one day, when I realised that I had created this problem in my back and I had to fix it. I stopped looking outside of myself for a fix and instead tuned into my body. My relationship with my body was poor at the time as I saw it as the cause of my pain and unhappiness and just wanted to be distracted from it. But with my shift in focus I returned to my yoga mat and started the slow process of reconnecting with my body, listening to it through exploratory movement and practicing yoga to heal as opposed to always wanting to achieve something. Slowly my back got better, I’d still get the occasional setback, but it’d heal much quicker.
Dealing with setbacks
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