Re: Joints

["Jan Mutchler" <jmutchler@h2net.net>]

This is a "me, too."  I was off horses for 6 years until I started doing
yoga.  Hip openers are fabulous, also great strengtheners.  When I did start
riding again, I had not one bit of soreness, which I attribute to the yoga.
Props help a great deal (blankets, ropes, bolsters) to enable you to do
poses that you would not normally be able to do.  Find a good instructor.  I
also use calcium/magnesium and some herbals to help with tightness and
spasms.
Good luck
Jan Mutchler
>
>Yoga, a beginner's class, NOT a video.  Some warmup before riding in
>the form of hip openers would be useful to you, too.  Maybe Jim
>Pascucci will get on here and tell you why riding causes tightness in
>the muscles and fascia, yoga will help you counteract this on a
>continuing basis.  Make sure your younger friend tells the instructor
>of the past surgeries--there are props that can be used to eliminate
>harmful stress on joints that have previously been injured.  And
>remember, yoga is not about what others are doing in the class, it's
>about your own work--there will be some things others seem to achieve
>easier than you, but it's not relevant.
>
>Once a week class has been enough for me, with a bit of a routine at
>home, in my case, focusing on the stretching of shoulders and neck,
>but I remember what that ache upon mounting felt like.  Do you do
>other things to keep active?
>
>Lynne
>still riding the unicycle, only other activity besides riding & yoga
>
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