WHY PRACTICE ALIGNMENT YOGA WITH MELORA?

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“Reflection:

After struggling with restricted range of motion and pain due to osteoarthritis, my work with Melora has offered me a new found freedom in my body. She is a “body genius.”

While sports medicine and physical therapy have helped to address the functioning of the specific joints that are compromised, after treatment, my body was still struggling to work effectively with these newly compromised joints. I was worried that I would be resigned to living with movement that felt limited and awkward.

Through my work with Melora, during her classes of Iyengar yoga as well as Yamuna Body Rolling, I have been able to recalibrate my entire body— allowing me to move with a lightness and a fluidity that I did not imagine would be possible.

Case in point: Recently, given the advanced stage of the osteoarthritis in my shoulder that was captured by the x-ray, the sports medicine physician was startled by the extent of my range of motion. He said, “Although your x-ray might indicate that you would be a candidate for a shoulder replacement, after seeing your range of motion, no surgeon would consider you for this procedure, because there is no way a shoulder replacement would be able to match the range of motion you currently have.” And I thought to myself that this is a testament to my work with Melora.”

Alex