Had a chat with C during yesterday’s class. I got a chance to tell her that I wasn’t improving and was getting worse if anything. I should have told her before class that I was backing off practice yet again, but she was busy chatting with other students and I was doing my physio stretches before class and before I knew it, it was time to start chanting. She told me she hadn’t been adjusting me because of my injury and I let her know that I was fine with that, I know she wasn’t neglecting me.

Other than that, practice was a rather uneventful, didn’t do all my vinyasas but I did more than Monday’s practice. I thought my shoulder/chest/back strain was ok so I stupidly went up in urdhva dhanurasana and strained it again, doh! Had a big fall onto my butt in bhujapidasana, it was a severely loud thud this time. I almost, almost, almost had a touchless vinyasa, and I wasn’t even trying for one. It was so close I could taste it.

My hypertonic muscles and trigger points are back, I suppose it’s to be expected and that’s why I’m seeing the physio again tomorrow (Thursday). He calls it the “two steps forward, one step back” process of healing, I finally understand what he means. The SI joint is very tender and tight at the moment, makes me wish for the SI joint manipulation the physio gives me (see the picture).

I ended up buying a massage ball from Australia. It’s an AOK massage ball that, supposedly, can be used for trigger point release. It should arrive today if I’m lucky, otherwise it’ll be tomorrow. If this little ball doesn’t do what it’s suppose to do, I’ll have to bite the bullet and buy that TP massage ball from America.