Hi!
I have practiced yoga (yang - most ashtanga, hatha and chakra yoga) for almost 8 years, and has now started to do yin yoga at home.
I really love yin yoga and how it affects my mind and body!
I am over flexible in several joints, so I take it gently. (I dont really now what you call this in english, but in swedish the word for it is "överrörlig", the joints move a little bit too far).
A yoga teacher said to med once that I should not do yin becuase of my joints, but it feels good, and not all of my joints are over flexible (its the upper body mostly)...
The last few weeks I alternated between yang yoga and yin yoga.
I have never had a problem with yin yoga before, but after a workout the day before yesterday, I got really sore afterwards.
I got pain in the groin - about which the appendix is located, and after a while the pain went back to the right buttock. There were sore, and it felt like lactic acid. It was so painful that I could not sit or stand for the rest of the day.
It feels better after two days. But I wonder why this happened?
I suspect that I may have pushed the "seal" a little bit to far, I stretched my arms and held longer than I usually do. I have a straightened lordosis in the lumbar region, maybe I pushed too hard?
But why did I got the pain in the groin in the front? It was a razor-sharp stabbing pain, and still today, two days later, I feel the pain...
Thanks in advance!
/Ina