Face of Light

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#1

I am having scoliosis at my lumbar spine (cobb?s angle 28 deg; concavity to the right) and scoliosis at thoracic spine (cobb?s angle29 deg, concavity to the left). I found the difficulty in folding my right leg over the top of my left leg compare to the other side when practice “Face of Light” in page 238. Is this caused by the scoliosis? How can I improve this to have more flexibility.

Thank you.

#2

In summary you have a left thoracolumbar curve and right upper thoracic curve. Right leg over left will increase the lower curve. It is ideal to avoid this pose for now and work on more fundamental points. Please do a search on scoliosis on this website for much more details. Soon the papers that graduates of my certificatin course generate will be posted on my website www.yogatherapycenter.org

      In general i would suggest you start with doing half locust with your legs offset off the mat to the left side.  This can balance the tone of your erector spinae muscles on either side of the deep spinal column.  Also do cat with left knee forward 6-12".  These can help.  namaste mukunda
#3

Dear Mukunda,

Thank you for the reply. I tried with your suggestion and would like to confirm are the both postures “half locust” and “cat” only for the left side? Or should I still practice with both side?

Regards,

WL

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#4

they are only to be done one sided to correct spinal muscular imbalances. after 4 months of practice then they can be done evenly on both sides. namaste mukunda