Ivan
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Dec 17, 2001, 9:19 PM
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Dear natom
during a recent workshop in Amsterdam, I asked Manouso Manos what I should do with a student of mine who is suffering from MS. The answer he gave was:
a) don't let him/her get exhausted. The student shouldn't start sweating, they shouldn't become tired.
b) as soon as possible, do a lot of inverted poses with the student (if they are able to, i.e. if they have taken classes for a while and have some experience).
c) make it clear from the beginning that yoga will not perform any miracles. That means that yoga will not heal MS, but it can raise the quality of life considerably.
The above are of course just rough guidelines. If you can, you should work with an experienced Iyengar yoga teacher, who can take care of your specific situation.
You might be able to find more information be searching Google for iyengar yoga multiple sclerosis.
The Yoga Research and Education Center has a leaflet with resources on yoga and MS: http://www.iayt.org/multiplesclerosis.pdf (a PDF file).
Ivan
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