Mukunda,
CP, a student of mine who you saw in sept in NYC with multiple myloma is complaining of pain in her low back, but not from the stenosis we had corresponded about earlier. this is a perceptable knot of tissue that I could feel below SI joint on right side, she said it bothers her on left too, but right side pain wakes her up at night. This site is slightly inferior and medial to the site of bone marrow extractions she has been receiving over the past couple of years for her treatments. When her pain was more in the low back, you suggested she work with vyana prana encouraging it to move down, streaming hands over body and staying in childs pose with knees and ankles hip width apart. at this point she is in remission and is feeling the best she has felt in about 2 years, however now her back is really bothering her. she and I both feel this pain may be from the trauma of the punctures from the needles and all that is tied up with that. we have only worked on practices to restore prana and ease stress, I ve never done ROM or MT on her, so I dont know if she and I should begin again there. I had given her a thai body massage once and she felt that was very healing. any guidance you can give as to whether we should be working structurally in working below site of pain in kopha mode or stay in the direction of relaxing and releasing mode is appreciated. Your advice to her in her private was to increase ojas and get in touch with her angels.