[Leica] Sciatica

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

There's a million Yoga instructors in Manhattan but all of them seem to stay
clear from older people. Which I am one of. I may have to learn off a video.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:13:23 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sciatica
> 
> I;m afraid that the Yoga practice in US is quite different from that in
> India :-(
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
> <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I do Yoga daily and my advice is to please choose your Yoga instructor 
>> with
>> more care than you choose your doctor - it can be extremely harmful and
>> totally counterproductive if done incorrectly. Yoga's basic theory of 
>> doing
>> anything only as long as it feels comfortable, allied with proper 
>> breathing
>> techniques,  should suit you in your present condition though - as should
>> Tai Chi. It is not a cure all, though, more of a mental stabilization
>> package, and you will have to continue other forms of exercise like 
>> walking
>> to draw the maximum benefit out of it.
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sciatica
>>> I've just had the most painful three  of weeks of my life.
>>> But went to bed last night with my sweatshirt on and the AC down to 75.
>>> Instead of tee shirt and 72.
>>> And woke up not wracked in pain in my legs for the first time in 3 weeks
>>> and
>>> I got 8 hours of sleep not 5 or 4. I start Physical therapy Tuesday. I
>> had
>>> to cancel my Spring Lug Gallery gallery as normally I'd spend the morning
>>> working on it and I've not been able to sit down for more than a minute
>>> till
>>> the sun went down. My last entry was May 24th.
>>> Its from lifting boxes in my storage cubical in Portland May 10th -
>> 16th. I
>>> got a glimpse of my body of work in the large boxes in the back and my
>> pots
>>> and my books. My CD' are ready to go; to be sent over here. I'll have
>> them
>>> here soon though not my negs still they were in the back of the room and
>> I
>>> didn't make it to there.
>>> The lesson is - when you hit middle age or older:
>>> Don't loose your inner core strength.
>>> Do exercises in the morning like Ted has his whole life.
>>> I'm getting a folding mat. And taking up Yoga and anything else which
>>> resembles it. Then I'll make up my own.  Publish it and be asked to
>>> demonstrate it on a radio show.
>>> You never know how many cameras you may have to carry and what they'd all
>>> weigh. The Leica lenses don't just cost more they also get heavier every
>>> year.
>>> 
>>> Summer is in ten days and I'll start and finish a Summer gallery.
>> Picture a
>>> day. From whatever year.
>>> 
>>> - - from my iRabs.
>>> Mark Rabiner
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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