Yoga for hip operated “hipsters”

For less than two years I had two serious hip operations (bilateral Ganz Periacetabular osteotomy) and I have never dreamed about being able to do yoga or anything like that after those two operations.

But miracles do come through and this summer I begain practicing yoga at home. I am, I have never been and I will never be any yoga-champion, but I do all right and I love it and it makes me feel so good inside and outside and it keeps me fit (I think;)).

Even though it is home yoga, it gives me a good exercise routine, strong muscles and flexibility and on top of it all it makes me feel relaxed. After every session it leaves me with the best feeling mentally and internally from top to bottom.

They say: “Yoga is like a voyage that takes us out of our every day existence to our very essence, bringing us in touch with our true, genuine desires. Of all yoga’s many virtues arguably the most important is its transformational power, which helps us recapture our inner harmony and boosts our personal and physic development”. …and guess what, that’s kind of true, or at least for me it is 🙂

I have downloaded some good yoga Apps from my App.store on my computer and then I have a few yoga video instructors from Youtube.com that I like to train with, my three favorite instructors are Tara Stiles, Adriene and Jillian Michaels.

As mentioned above I am no yoga-champion and I am all natural and not very flexible but I can do yoga on a beginner/intermediate level and if I can do yoga then everybody can.

Because of my hip-history there is a few positions that I can’t do to perfection, I always pay attention to my body’s signals and if my body says stop “Av Av”  then I stop and just do the yoga position as good as I can.

I started with home exercise yoga because I wanted to know the different yoga positions and to be sure that I was able of doing the different positions before I faced a Spanish speaking yoga instructor (my Spanish is still quite incomplete).

I feel that I am almost ready to go out and join a yoga class and I think I am going to join YOGA BODY Barcelona.

YOGA BODY Barcelona is a newly opened and lightfull yoga studio. They offer freestyle classes that are beginner-friendly classes designed by individual teachers. And they have following list of things they don´t offer, a list that speaks well to me, such as:

No chanting
No “gurus”
No egos
No crazy pretzel poses

YOGA BODY is located on my way home from the office, so no excuse for skipping the practice and I have already planned that when we come home from Australia I will start to yoga there.

www.yogabody.es

Namaste 🙂