After my back surgery for a long time I was hesitant to do any Yoga poses where it involved intense back stretches. I should have rather done it, but I was very scared. The painful experience before the surgery had played so much on my mind that I got very blocked in my mind. I continued doing Yoga but I was always trying to be in the safe zone, not stressing out myself much. But now it's been 5 years and I am feeling that I am unnecessarily stressing out myself with that experience. I want to get back to my full Yoga practices that I was doing before the surgery. My flexibility and strength level is good, the only part where I need to work upon is my back which includes majorly back and forward bending's.

As such I do not go to any class, I do it myself at home only, but for improving on my back I need help so I have joined the Yoga class near my home. I discussed my problem with the instructor there and he assured me that slowly gradually I will be able to do all the poses. Actually 2 years back also I had this thought and I had started but then I started getting some back pain and I was scared so I stopped it. Now I feel I am ready. It's been 2 weeks that I have been going for the class and there is no back pain, I can feel that my spine is also strengthening.

Actually, this teacher is very good, he knows exactly how to progress step by step and is in no hurry to make me do perfect back bends. He has been working with me very patiently. There has been a lot of improvement since the time I have begun and this makes me feel good and confident also about myself. For a long time this was bothering me, that I was doing such well Yoga and then suddenly with the one incident my whole body dynamics changed. I still did it after the surgery also, but not at that level as before and I wanted to get there again.

He makes me use a lot of props to gradually work on my spine. There are some others like me also in the glass, which is good, because we are all working together to reach the end goal.

Today morning session, towards the end we had some fun time trying out some partner poses. First out instructor was trying to make us do this pose without the support of the ball in a little different variation, but it was not happening, the bend was too much, so then we tried this with the ball, which is a easy one.

Getting there gradually

There is still lot of improvement needed and I am sure this time I will be able to achieve my goal. One good thing is that now I am not feeling scared as the pain part is gone, it's the stiffness that I have to work upon.

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