 Hello, my beautiful internet friends. Welcome to yoga with Joe. This is actually a new series I'm not a yoga teacher, but I am in pain right now My back has been bothering me for days and it's gotten to this point where I can't really focus too well at work So I'm taking a break right now to try some lower back yoga with sunshine here I tried yoga a couple days ago on my own and I was able to do a little bit more than I thought I could I tried some like really basic moves And so we're gonna try this together and see how far I can get I'm trying this from a video called yoga for lower back pain from yoga with Adrienne I actually used to do her yoga a long time ago like every morning I get up and do it with her and so now we're gonna do it with her without a leg and to see how much I can do With sunshine my prosthetic and without I should be able to take it off and on pretty simply and hopefully I'll start feeling a little bit better one of the unexpected consequences of learning to walk again and learning to walk on a prosthesis is The rest of your body isn't used to it Things get pulled out of alignment. My body feels like it's very very off parts of me hurt that didn't hurt before like my lower back And hips so we're gonna try this together today and see if we can fix some of that If you're an amputee or you have all of your meat legs and limbs and hands still feel free to join alone Okay, we're gonna start on our backs. I guess that would make sense. We'll let the knees come in towards the heart So one thing in yoga that I need to be aware of now is that I can't fully bend this knee So you see how I can like totally bend this knee like this leg and be touching this leg They're the same like this part of this leg and be touching this part of this leg. I can't do that here This is as far as we got right here because the back of my socket starts digging into the back of my knee So when I'm doing moves like that first one I have to be conscious of how far I can actually pull my knee into my chest without causing it pain I could always of course just Pop her off. Does that look weird to see someone to like rip their leg off on screen? I'm gonna see when I edit this and this might actually feel better for my lower back So what we're doing is drawing circles with the palms on the knees one way and then the other Yeah, I can I can feel that stretch so much more this way Something that I've learned before in yoga too is like small circles feels just fabulous It feels like it releases a lot of tension on your lower back And it definitely feels like that right now join me in a little rock and roll up So I'm gonna grab the the outer edges of the feet and begin to rock a little. I can't quite do that We have that So I used to go to yoga classes fairly often at a local place And one concern I have is I know there are some poses that I can do With my leg and some that I definitely can't I don't want to be in class like constantly trying to take my Leg off and on but I may have to do that sometimes and that's okay So my question myself is like how quickly can I effectively put my leg off and on? So let's try it right now one two six seven Eight well, let's call it a messy ten seconds I think that that's not horrible like that's not a horrible change time and taking off is like three So I feel like that's acceptable Wow damn it Sit back down. I like slipped because my Foot gets covered in dog hair It like gets coated and we'll slide on that hardwood floor and my knee twisted and I got shoved back the way that really hurts Sorry, I didn't even play for like 30 seconds. I think we're fine. We're fine Cross-legged and bring the palms to the knees here then on an exhale. Chin the chest navel draws back towards the spine that feels And then slowly will rock all the way back up and down to all fours Here's where we really get challenged. Do you want you can sneak in a gentle cat cow here? Cat cow my favorite We're gonna take the right leg and lift it gently all the way up into a lunge now again if the lower back is tight That looks okay. I'm going to heal to heal to my right foot out a little bit. Oh, yeah I'm just gonna toe heal it on out seem a little counterintuitive, but I'm stretching the front of that left hip crease the so as here that wraps literally from here to here which often causes Some crappy crap crap in the lower back. I can see where that would cause some crappy crap crap I just feel like that's probably where level my tension is coming from Send the sit bones back for a little stability as we walk that right heel in and then we're just gonna take it for a Nice little counter pose here right. He'll stays in the earth as we relax the way to the head over Pulling the right hip crease back. This doesn't have to be a deep stretch guys. In fact if we're turning in the lower back We should keep it nice and spacious nice and easy. It's a great ankle stretch for me Terrible jokes for days guys and nice and easy gingerly switch to the other side. All right This is where I gotta be careful because of the whole knee situation take it nice and slow fine integrity Slow right this is like right through here is where there's so much tension I think as an amputee your body's always trying to compensate right because your body's incredible and we adjust So quickly to do things but your body's gonna adjust some ways and aren't super comfortable And so there's a lot of tension that is stored right here for me So this is effective and then we come out nice and easy lifting the sit bones back Walk the left heel in towards the center line Yeah, so that shifting back that she's doing I can't really do that because my knee won't bend that far So I can kind of just play with it out here then I'm gonna take my hands to the belly Draw the belly in just slightly and let the weight of the head hang over gently. Keep it beneath bent. This is probably my all-time favorite stretch Good balance test. Cool cross the ankles nice and easy. We will all walk it back through Yeah, so those kind of things I definitely can't do I can always just come up You know out of camera looks good. Give yourselves a little more space So again rather than drawing the knees all the way up here Z's I'm loving I'm letting myself have a little more spaciousness a little more. It feels good to just take a few minutes like in the middle of the day to connect with my physical self So in all sincerity that actually does feel a little bit better for many years. I've had a really hard time being Hate using the word present because it makes me sound so trendy, but I've had a hard time Physically really being like present in my own body and my own self and yoga's always been one of those things It really helps for me. It helps so much with anxiety It really just calms things down and brings things back to center guy I really sound like a yoga person right now. It just brings things kind of I feel a lot more centered after I've done it for a little while my cats are tearing things up outside my door Sorry for the noise here, but that felt pretty good How do you guys feel about yoga? Have you tried it to hear an amputee or a person with a disability? Do you like it? Have you tried it? Do you find modifications easy or the challenging for you? I think I'm still in the process of discovering that myself. Thanks for doing some yoga with me. Thanks for sitting here with me today I'm gonna definitely try some more of this. There are some other poses and moves I'd really like to try that I used to be able to do that I would love to still be able to do because I'm pretty bendy and pretty flexible naturally And so there was like fun stuff that I could do that I'm not sure if I still could do with little sunshine here But I bet we can find a way so stay tuned for those videos in the future But thanks for chilling with me here today guys I've got to get back to work now because I'm two minutes late But thank you to my patrons who make these videos possible. I couldn't do this without you Thank you for spending a few minutes out of your day watching this video here with me today I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video