Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 113 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I hope you are doing well.

I am about two weeks post-hop from my ACL reconstruction and it's going pretty good.

Learning to work with my newly constructed ACL, they built it out of my hamstring on the same leg.

So it's been a interesting journey.

I am in very little to no pain.

For the most part, I'm able to move around.

I am now independent of crutches, which feels great.

I still keep the brace on.

I can't do much without the brace.

Physical therapy has started.

I have a really, really good physical therapist who understands the demands of yoga and dance and he's slowly rehabbing me. My knee doesn't bend anywhere close to what it used to, but I'm learning to be patient on this journey. Overall, I don't really have anything to complain about other than the fact that I'm not able to walk, munch and

dance and do a bunch of those outdoorsy things that I used to do.

But I'm back at the gym.

I'm slowly resuming very little yoga, like when I say yoga asana.

And I'm trying to, I'm doing a lot of PT.

I'm sure my PT will say I should be doing more.

And just my whole life right now is centered around trying to bend the knee. Okay. And it doesn't look like it's bending much. But I know it's a gradual process. One of the things with an ACL reconstruction is just the ACL takes a long time to rehab. So that's kind of the phase I'm in, but fully functional again, and I can't wait to get back to teaching and doing my practice and stuff like that.

But I'm sure you did not come on this podcast today to hear about my ACL rehab.

I'm actually going to talk about something that I'm deeply passionate about.

And that is the topic is women's health.

And because it's international women's, I mean, it was International Women's Day a couple

of days ago, but I'm calling it International Women's Month.

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