Hi Kelli,
I'm admiring your can-do spirit, but don't hurt yourself! It isn't correct to feel such pain when you do the crossing legs and you don't need to be stressing out your scoliosis like that! To be able to do the low criss-cross takes the strength and bility to realy pull the lower back down to the floor behind the navel. If you want to work on building up, do modifications. Try it with a bolster under your hips, or even your hands to see what works (criss-crossing hands at a later date). A different effect would be to try the criss-crossing of arms and leg with the legs perpendicular to the floor- that should be more doable for you. Ravi and Ana do leg criss-crosses at that height in their Navel Power DVD, and they are terrific (that goes for Ravi and Ana, and the criss-crosses!
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> Sat Nam! and thank you. This helps some. The book doesn't have me doing cobra from child's pose, but from just flat on the stomach, but I understand what you are saying and it seems to be evolving that way for me.
> Criss-Cross has really been a challenge for me. I have noticed a fearful feeling before doing it, and the entire time I feel like I only have "so long" before I will have to give up and I don't want to give up. In order to apply mulbandh (though the directions doesn't say to do so), I have to bring my legs up to about 60 degrees. The picture has the legs about 2 inches from the floor. Is it normal to feel so much pain in this exercise. The other ab exercises in this series causes no pain and I can feel myself progressing in ability and speed. After doing the criss-cross (though I cannot do it for the full 2 minutes straight... I have to start and stop) I am shaking all over and my hips and lower back feel tight. Another thing is I have a real hard time straightening my legs in these poses, and most of the time keep them slightly bent. I really want to rid myself of this fear in this kriya. It makes me sad. I wonder about my scoliosis. It is serious and affects the 5th lumbar for the most part. I wonder if that is my problem here.
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> Kelli
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