Yoga for thyroid - just learned this!
#106119 - 09/15/04 08:17 PM
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Heather
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Tonight in class we were doing shoulder stand, and I thought of you, Ruchie and Kandee!  Our instructor was talking about how this pose is really beneficial for regulating the thyroid - and two women in class mentioned that they had actually stopped taking thryoid medications after they started doing regular shoulder stands. I never knew this - the pose sure can't hurt, and it sounds like it could really help! There's a picture of shoulder stand right here - just scroll down the page to the "s" section.
- Heather
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I just learned this pose last week at class too  ... she did not mention thyroid, but only not to do it very long if you have high BP.
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That's most interesting. I have my doubts about it being so good one could stop their meds completely unless they were on a very low dose to begin with, but you never know.
I used to do this pose just because it felt good...long before I ever took a yoga class or knew it was a yoga pose. It made you feel like you were upside down without actually being so. Besides, it was how we used to do an exercise popular years ago where you got into that position then pretended like you were peddling a bicycle. The one I liked in the last class I took was called, I think, wall walking, scooting your posterior up to the wall as far as you can then slowly swinging the legs up parallel to the wall. I think it's a relaxation pose.
I haven't done any yoga classes now for over 6 months due to being told not to for this medical reason or that so I'm anxious to get back into it. I KNOW it helps the IBS!!!
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they're always talking about other aspects of shoulder stand, but in three years of yoga this was the first thyroid mention. That's one of the things I really love about yoga - there seems to be an endless amount of new things to learn, so it's never just the same-old same-old...
-H
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Hi Heather--I also doubt that the two gals were taken off thyroid meds due to Yoga--I don't doubt Yoga has major benefits but thyroid disease can only be managed with thyroid hormones taken daily--I hope these ladies are under a doctors care and that no one stops their thyroid meds on their own!
carol
Edited by ibsfla (09/17/04 06:07 PM)
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it was just off-the-cuff comments in a yoga class that I thought were interesting. No one in the class was suggesting that people with thyroid problems stop taking their meds because they've started doing shoulder stands, and I'm sure not recommending that. It just seemed like something that could possibly benefit, couldn't possibly hurt, and I wanted to pass it on...
- H
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