yoga after ankle surgery

I fantasize about yoga. I dream about it at night and I watch yoga videos during the day (shout out to Tara!), trying to imagine what it would be like to do a sun salutation again, or even just a downward dog.

The first time I got on the yoga mat post-surgery felt pointless. I rolled around on my back a little like a dying bug. I tried to sit up and extend my legs out in front of me, but my right leg was misbehaving and wouldn't straighten along the floor - the muscles in my ankle, calf and thigh were too rigid and my heel was too tender. I couldn't turn around and get on hands and knees, because the top of my foot wasn't flexible enough to rest flat on the ground. So I nixed the idea - considering myself doomed to spend a full 8 weeks on my back in bed - day...after day...after day.

UNTIL NOW. Watch my video - it's about my entrance back into post-op yoga. Though very small, I can feel that these steps are wonderful ones. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope that in the vast YouTube universe, other people in my situation will as well. (Also, please forgive my hair - I was scheduled for a cut/color the day AFTER my fall and obviously had to cancel. So now I'm like 5 weeks overdue and it shows. Sorry. Please love me anyway.).