Ah, Stretching!
Apr. 15th, 2011 11:17 pmOne more name change throughout LiveJournal, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail. Feels great.
To try and alleviate the insane muscle spasms and hypertonus that wound through the fibromyalgia like terrible snakes, I started with basic yoga. It didn't help and made the fibromylagia worse, although the mental and meditative aspect helped me relax somewhat. I switched to basic Pilates. It helped in several ways, so I stuck with it for a while. The tension, spasms, and pain reduced enough that I could carry on with my day. I think it would be best for me to do yoga for mental strength and Pilates for physical strength.
(I will still ignore the creepier yoga fanatics who insist that if I only did this pose and that pose I would be cured. That's not how yoga works, and you are not the yogiest yogi to ever yoga in America.)
Tomorrow will involve working on the enovel, reading another book in my pile of To Be Read books, and stretching with both yoga and Pilates techniques.
To try and alleviate the insane muscle spasms and hypertonus that wound through the fibromyalgia like terrible snakes, I started with basic yoga. It didn't help and made the fibromylagia worse, although the mental and meditative aspect helped me relax somewhat. I switched to basic Pilates. It helped in several ways, so I stuck with it for a while. The tension, spasms, and pain reduced enough that I could carry on with my day. I think it would be best for me to do yoga for mental strength and Pilates for physical strength.
(I will still ignore the creepier yoga fanatics who insist that if I only did this pose and that pose I would be cured. That's not how yoga works, and you are not the yogiest yogi to ever yoga in America.)
Tomorrow will involve working on the enovel, reading another book in my pile of To Be Read books, and stretching with both yoga and Pilates techniques.