Dailuaine

Thanks for the advice both. I've been practicing the "How to Sit for Meditation" series daily for the last week. It has certainly helped with ease during an extended sit. I think it has also help me identify my primary problem area - the inner thigh, particularly the top part towards the origin of the muscles. Most of the stretches in the series seem like they will be valuable to me, but the one I'm particularly restricted in is the tailor pose - both in terms of pelvic tilt and being able to get the knees down. It's also the position I feel like I've made least progress in (most of these stretches I've been working on in some capacity for the last couple of years). Kit - you mention in the video that the primary culprit in being unable to tilt the pelvis forward into an appropriate position while sitting is the piriformis. I'd heard you say this before and just assumed that this was also the case for me. Upon more careful observation of what's going on in my body during this series I feel like it might be the inner thigh/groin area preventing me from rolling my pelvis forward. Is it possible that being particularly restricted in that area could also affect that "rolling the pelvis forward" movement? In terms of improving the tailor pose I feel like I may need something a bit stronger for that area. Could something with more resistance be good to try here? Maybe daily horse stance work, or an "active" tailor pose with weights on the knees?

Hello all, I'm looking for some advice on opening up my hips and sitting in a relaxed position on the floor. I'm a tight-hipped westerner currently living and studying in Nepal and have no chairs in sight. I'm sure developing a comfortable habit of sitting without chairs will be good for me if I can avoid ruining my body in the process. My issue is that at my current level of flexibility sitting on the floor with a good pelvic position puts just a bit too much strain on my right hip, I end up irritating the anterior of the joint and losing a bit of ROM in that side for a few days till the inflammation goes down. Relaxing the position slightly results in my lower back being in a bad position and I end up with back pain. So currently, being forced to sit on the floor for a few hours every day, despite sitting on a various heights of cushions and changing positions regularly, I'm juggling pain between those two places and feeling like it's counter-productive rather than helping my mobility. I realise there's no quick fix for these things, but I'd really like to put all training efforts into gaining some ROM and relaxation around the hips. Can anyone offer any advice on how to approach this?

I'm looking for some advice on recurring shoulder pain that's been bothering me for years. If anyone has any thoughts it would be much appreciated, I've explored various avenues with no results so far. In the past it's caused problems in all sorts of movement but I've largely managed sort out the issue for anything other than exercises where my humerus is brought far behind the line of my body. These positions seem to cause it to flare up very quickly. I'd really like to develop the ability to do dips, german hangs, skin the cats etc. but right now these movement cause my shoulder to flare up very quickly. I've been taking a very slow and conservative approach to developing strength and mobility in my shoulder girdle, using a lot of gymnastic bodies foundation programming for mobility and strength, and Kit's master shoulder flexibilty. This has worked extremely well for everything else, but it doesn't seem to be helping those shoulder extension positions at all. Having avoided those positions for months (other than Yuri's band stretches, which don't bother it), my shoulder's been great recently. Then I tried some very short duration, very light foot-supported german hangs yesterday and it's already flared up today. Even a few weeks of doing regular reverse planks last year messed me up so much that I had to take several weeks off all pressing work. If anyone has any ideas I'd hugely appreciate it!