Summer full moon, mmm... was yesterday.
Having a stable home and life is paying off, I have been doing these exercises and I feel great. The twitching that I was having during days 1 - 4 is slowing down, the soreness is residing. Still there is soreness in the lower right side, just inside and above my hip. This place has been contracted and small and in an awkward position for a long while -- there wasn't enough room for my large intestines! Since I my muscles are feeling somewhat worked, moving in ways that they haven't, I have been slowing down on how deeply I go with my breath and my movements, really focusing on relaxing while releasing and slowly moving the muscles, feeling every fiber.
I notice that the right side of my back "the hump" takes most of the movement onto its muscles. I am feeling the right back of my rib cage begin to be more aware to its ability to move - very nice.
Already, my spine is straighter, I can lower my right side of my rib cage to the ground, it does it naturally now. I have more movement ability in all of my spine. Yoga is easier too.
Yoga has always helped, but somatics feels that it goes to the core. It teaches my muscles how to move, the ones that have been in the "void" stage of movement for so long, and no matter how much I stretched.
This blog follows the healing of a 37 year old female's scoliotic spine. Scoliosis was detected at age 14 and grew to an S-curve with a 30+ degree left concave upper thoracic lower cervical curve and a 40+ degree right concave lower thoracic curve. 23 years of discomfort is being alleviated at last.
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About Me
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- Among a wonderful life, I have a scoliosis with an S-Curve. Top angle is 35 degrees, bottom angle is 45. Since I last measured 19 years ago, I have had several injuries to my back that make movement harder and adds some pain. I have been working toward finding a quiet place, a good schedule, and support in healing my spine. Now is the time or never, my vertebrae feel like they are fusing and I don't want that!! When I was 15 and they told me that I could lose 10 years or so of my life because of this, it didn't matter to me then, now at 37, it does. When they told me that it'd get worse when I have a baby or get fat, I didn't care, but now I wonder how I can hold a little one in my body, and I look forward to such a beautiful time in my life still....
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