Hello,
Since October I have had two seizures with no known cause.
Introduced to yoga eleven years ago, my practice began in earnest three years ago and I teach very small classes. After experiencing the second seizure, I stopped my classes and doing asana–sticking mainly with meditation. However, my body is yearning for asana.
Any suggestions about what would be appropriate/inappropriate would be appreciated!
I feel for your situation. I have a brother who began having seizures 16-17 years ago and a cause has never been determined. He’s now on medication for what I assume will be the rest of his life. Its a very frustrating, helpless feeling to go through them at any time.
Did either of yours occur while doing Yoga?
Thank you for your kind words.
The seizures have occurred only in the middle of the night–thankfully not during the waking hours so my children have been spared seeing me look “pretty scary” (my husband would rather never see me look that way again!).
As well as asana suggestions, I am open to mantra suggestions.
~C
What is needed is not asana but method of working with your body. I have a new book coming Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy (AYT) due this summer. The essence is that any asana can be done to balance the subtler energies of the body by not what you do but how you do it. Seizures are a vata imbalance so pranayama and meditation are the best practices for you to do - of course under guidance of a teacher who is authorized by their teacher to give them.
Vinyasa style that is gently done (not as taught vigorously) with mild effort sequences of poses especially standing and supine on back all done with rhythm of breath. they are most effective when done with effort to slow down the motions and slow down the breath. ideally would be given by someone trained in Viniyoga or one of my teachers trained in this method of AYT. namasteYour guidance is sincerely appreciated…I look forward to reading your AYT book. I’m certain it will be filled with as much valuable information & wisdom as your SYT book.
~C