Thanks for the suggestion, man! Those are
much too hard for/on my back though. There are some similarities in things that I do but this approach is much too yang for my back. I had many minor injuries throughout my teens and wound up sustaining an impact that ruptured my L5S1...I didnt wind up having any choice on the matter, I *had* to have surgery on it. It slowly got better and was good for many years, but in the last few years my workout schedule faltered (drummin & screwin only keep up your workout level so much
) and that's among the first areas to get undermined. Then this past summer I did a thousand prostrations plugging phones in at work and wound up overstressing the posterior of my back, and then me still trying to hit the golf ball 300+ yards did the rest of it and spread the injury around quite efficiently - I think it was a combination of grinding the vertebra, overstressing the lamellae where the real issues were - so any inflammation regarding those structures is very close to the spinal foramen, which translates to nerve pain.
I cant do things like that waist spiral - I do very small ones but I cant get my L5 too much out of position because the musculature simply will not support it, plus with there being only about ~60% of an L5S1 disc there is a tendency for some grinding to happen if I do motions like that. Also with how he does those bends, its too much - they stretch the anterior and posterior logtitudinal ligaments a little too much and that will also cause a minor sublux of L5 if I do 'em right
When its bad I need to watch out for things like having the upper thoracic and cervicals bent too much because of the ligaments that connect all the way down.
I appreciate the thought, though
With regards to SFQ, it seems fairly different but not necessarily in an incompatible manner. I dont know how deeply you practice k yoga, but if you only do the simple k yogas then SFQ may very well be a great addition to what you're doing - it seems to be more...energetically oriented than the other practices. I just wouldnt necessarily do any but the lightest of k yogas before or after sfq. If you do the yogas and qigongs in the morning or afternoon, sfq at night should work allright.