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Five months doing yoga and still almost the same.

Quoting Mrs Dhamma Chameleon because she is a yoga teacher, so she must have open hips.
Dhamma Chameleon wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:34 am 🦐


I have been doing the asanas in this book:

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They are here too: http://zenmontpellier.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html


Please send help. My hips are killing my meditation.
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
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See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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Look up Kit Laughlin, a flexibility teacher and meditator. He has also put out some excellent free videos on limbering up for meditation and flexibility exercises.
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Caodemarte wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:04 pm Look up Kit Laughlin, a flexibility teacher and meditator. He has also put out some excellent free videos on limbering up for meditation and flexibility exercises.
Thanks
So, only this exercise will open my hips? Isn't it a panacea?

Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:33 pm I have been doing the asanas in this book:

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They are here too: http://zenmontpellier.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html


Please send help. My hips are killing my meditation.
Those look like the right asanas. How long do you hold them for? Do you do any other asanas? Might be good to add a series of sun salutations.
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Dhamma Chameleon wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:17 pm
rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:33 pm I have been doing the asanas in this book:

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They are here too: http://zenmontpellier.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html


Please send help. My hips are killing my meditation.
Those look like the right asanas. How long do you hold them for? Do you do any other asanas? Might be good to add a series of sun salutations.
2, 3 or 4 minutes at most. It hurts if I do more than that. 🥺
Yes, only those.
I tried to do surya namaskar some time ago but I gave up since I was not able to memorize the chant. :lol:
What is their use?
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:33 pmPlease send help. My hips are killing my meditation.
Sit on the base of a chair.
rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:33 pm Five months doing yoga and still almost the same.
The Buddha did not instruct yoga. Yoga can harm the body & breathing and hinder right samadhi.
Glenn Black, a yoga teacher of nearly four decades, whose devoted clientele includes a number of celebrities and prominent gurus..... Many of his regular clients came to him for bodywork or rehabilitation following yoga injuries.

When yoga teachers come to him for bodywork after suffering major traumas, Black tells them, “Don’t do yoga.”

“They look at me like I’m crazy,” he goes on to say. “And I know if they continue, they won’t be able to take it.”

I asked him about the worst injuries he’d seen. He spoke of well-known yoga teachers doing such basic poses as downward-facing dog, in which the body forms an inverted V, so strenuously that they tore Achilles tendons. “It’s ego,” he said. “The whole point of yoga is to get rid of ego.” He said he had seen some “pretty gruesome hips.” “One of the biggest teachers in America had zero movement in her hip joints,” Black told me. “The sockets had become so degenerated that she had to have hip replacements.” I asked if she still taught. “Oh, yeah,” Black replied. “There are other yoga teachers that have such bad backs they have to lie down to teach. I’d be so embarrassed.”

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Hello DooDoot
I intend to dwell in forests in the future. I need to be ready to meditate on the floor. :meditate:

Also, I don't do pranayama anymore. Always found it a bit boring.

I talk about yoga but I only mean the asanas. All the theory behind them doesn't interest me.
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:22 pm I intend to dwell in forests in the future. I need to be ready to meditate on the floor.
If the mind & body have samadhi, the inherent relaxation can assist sitting posture. This said, forest dwellers can sit on rocks and logs.
rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:22 pmI talk about yoga but I only mean the asanas.
Asana are dangerous. Hip flexor muscles are directly connected to & influence the diaphragm. Mess up those muscles and say goodbye to any real samadhi via breathing.

https://bodygears.com/diaphragmatic-breathing-hip-pain/
http://tigersports.eu/urbanhealthconcep ... breathing/
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Indeed. The jhanic bliss masks the pain but after some time it gets unbearable and disrupts my concentration. :toilet:
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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By mere coincidence, i sustained a serious knee injury three weeks before i was due to travel and three months before i discovered meditation. When i discovered meditation, i sat intensively for four months on the floor. Then I did some trekking with my sister in the Himalaya, where my knee collapsed a few times. When i returned for another six months of intense meditation, my leg/knee started to lock up after a long sit, so i started sitting on a chair and doing lots of standing meditation. There was no difference whatsover between sitting on the floor & sitting on a chair or sitting on a pile of cement blocks. Also, meditation can be greatly developed in standing meditation.

After that, returning home to do some study, a certain mercenary monk (now mercenary ex-monk) advised me to attend a certain yoga school to help my leg. I won't go into details about the results but the yoga is a very deceptive thing.

Best wishes. Take care with sīlabbata-parāmāsa. :smile:
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DooDoot wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:43 pm By mere coincidence, i sustained a serious knee injury three weeks before i was due to travel and three months before i discovered meditation. When i discovered meditation, i sat intensively for four months on the floor. Then I did some trekking with my sister in the Himalaya, where my knee collapsed a few times. When i returned for another six months of intense meditation, my leg/knee started to lock up after a long sit, so i started sitting on a chair and doing lots of standing meditation. There was no difference whatsover between sitting on the floor & sitting on a chair or sitting on a pile of cement blocks. Also, meditation can be greatly developed in standing meditation.

After that, returning home to do some study, a certain mercenary monk (now mercenary ex-monk) advised me to attend a certain yoga school to help my leg. I won't go into details about the results but the yoga is a very deceptive thing.

Best wishes. Take care with sīlabbata-parāmāsa. :smile:
Thanks for sharing your story with us. :hug:
Saṃsāra always beats us all at some moment in life to remember us of our destructibility. I have tinnitus in my left ear and it was very hard to deal with it in the beginning. I now hear this friendly buzzing equanimously. What would be the fate of my ear other than destruction?
If there is this chance, I hope you get better. If not, I hope you can deal with it equanimously too. :buddha2:
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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Coming late to the conversation, with a few general comments -
rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:33 pm Five months doing yoga and still almost the same.
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Five months isn't very long to change rigidity which has been building up ever since you were about 5 years old.

Also, working on just one part of the body will put strains on other parts and may mess you up. Much better to work on a balanced set of asanas, although giving a bit of extra attention to the hips is okay. Yin Yoga, which has deep stretching of connective tissue as its focus, might be particularly good for your purposes.

The sun salute is primarily a balanced set of exercises which is a good preparation for longer poses or for meditation.

:namaste:
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Kim OHara wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:52 pm Coming late to the conversation, with a few general comments -
rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:33 pm Five months doing yoga and still almost the same.
...
Five months isn't very long to change rigidity which has been building up ever since you were about 5 years old.

Also, working on just one part of the body will put strains on other parts and may mess you up. Much better to work on a balanced set of asanas, although giving a bit of extra attention to the hips is okay. Yin Yoga, which has deep stretching of connective tissue as its focus, might be particularly good for your purposes.

The sun salute is primarily a balanced set of exercises which is a good preparation for longer poses or for meditation.

:namaste:
Kim
Thank you, Kim!
I just downloaded a book by Mr. Bernie Clark to understand about this Yin Yoga. I hope it helps me. I will include sun salute in my daily exercises, too. :anjali:
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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No magic.

Unless there are injuries that have damaged, changed significantly the muscular skeletal structure, the reasons for 'locked' hips, joints, are found by persistent, continuous, correct, practice of meditation. The release as a result of bhanga nana makes the taking of full lotus position immediately easy without any practice of yoga or stretching exercise.
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rhinoceroshorn wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:07 pm
Caodemarte wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:04 pm Look up Kit Laughlin, a flexibility teacher and meditator. He has also put out some excellent free videos on limbering up for meditation and flexibility exercises.
Thanks
So, only this exercise will open my hips? Isn't it a panacea?
No, it is one exercise that may or may not help. Kit teaches many, many exercises. I am sure there are many, many more. I have found Kit helpful; you may or may not. Try

and https://stretchtherapy.net/
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