I enjoy receiving your questions and answers so much. Thanks for letting me find you in my life. These are four different students looking for help, (thank goodness its not one person with all these things. Yikes!) I feel comfortable dealing with the issues, but since your expertise is so insightful, I would love your opinion:
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This woman has a slightly rotated cervical vertebra, possibly from incorrect alignment while doing headstands (5 mins). She also does headstand drop-overs to Viparita Dandasana twice a week for a series of backbend variations, which I believe only exacerbates the compression and misalignment of the vertebrae. What do you suggest for a practice to re-align, should headstands, Shoulderstand, backbends be avoided, or modified?
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When a flare up of genital herpes arises, what is the constitution saying? What diet is suggested, any herbs or oils you might know of?
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A woman has spinal stenosis (the narrowing of the central spinal canal where nerve roots exit (neuro foramina)). She is resisting her doctor’s pressure to have surgery on the area to relieve pressure on the nerve that creates pain from the lower lumbar all the way down the right leg. She is definitely overweight, but seeking to begin a better diet and is very willing to look into changing her life. Obviously, prefers to pass on the surgery. What type of practice is safe in this instance (she is fine in uttanasana, sitting positions, standing poses) but movement of the legs forward as in lunges or walking towards uttanasana from down dog creates pain.
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(Two) students have damaged their rotator cuff muscles (infraspinatus, surpraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis). They want to re-begin practice but don’t know how to (nor do I without trial and error and creating pain for them). We need a practice that is safe, strengthening, and also encourage healing and not over-doing.