AgeDEFY Yoga — Bridge Pose
Online Yoga Class for Hip Pain and Low Back Pain
Bridge pose is one of the many traditional yoga poses to avoid after having a hip replacement. This pose, amongst many others, is why I decided to quit yoga six years ago after finding out I needed both of my hips replaced after teaching yoga for over 15 years of my life.
I was in love with yoga when I found about my hips but, at the time, there wasn’t any yoga teachers talking about hip arthritis and hip replacements in their classes. I felt like a total yoga teacher failure and this is why I quit.
My doctor suggested a new career, but my soul is a teacher’s soul. There isn’t another job in this world that I would rather do than be a movement coach. I decided to quit yoga but I did not quit teaching and coaching.
What I decided to do was to make a career-pivot. I started to work with clients and students who were experiencing pain and stiffness caused by injury or aging and it made me very happy. It was the pivot I needed in the moment to keep teaching and now, looking back, I am so glad I was able to keep going in the career I love so much while experiencing so much pain in my life.
I found my way through my pain by helping others with their pain. I loved teaching yoga in my 20s and 30s but now, at the age of 46, I am more passionate than ever to be teaching movement as medicine for pain and stiffness.
If I had to do it all over again, I would not have quit yoga. I had to drop the yoga teacher title because my yoga students, at the time, were confused why I couldn’t keep teaching the yoga they loved. I couldn’t keep teaching something that was hurting me. I had to find a new way to keep moving my broken body and I could not stay on my yoga mat.
Truth be told, I was angry at yoga. I blamed yoga for my hips. But no one really knows why my hips ended up the way they did. I wish I had someone to turn to in the yoga world six years ago when I found out my hips. I feel bad I gave up yoga the way I did but this is also why I am coming back with a new yoga program — AgeDEFY Yoga for People with Hip and Low Back Pain.
I am teaching AgeDEFY Yoga once a month on Facebook live. The monthly AgeDEFY Yoga class will be offered on the second Tuesday of every month on the AgeDEFY Movement Therapy Facebook page.
AgeDEFY Yoga is for anyone suffering from chronic hip and/or low back pain. It’s designed for people with hip arthritis, bulging disc, herniated disc, hip labral tears, and low back muscular strains and pulls.
Learn how to do the traditional yoga poses such as Eagle, Warrior 1, Warrior 2, Triangle, Bridge pose, forward bends and back bends with hip and low back pain. Keep doing the yoga you love with AgeDEFY Yoga! Don’t give yoga up like I did just because you have pain. Let me help. I am the yoga teacher I needed six years ago when I found out about my hips and now, I want to be there for you.
The first AgeDEFY yoga class is December 8, 2020 at 6pm MST. Sign up for the class on the AgeDEFY Movement Therapy Facebook page.