Hi Leonard!
The other way around. I see I have not expressed myself very well, I am sorry. I can remember my aura (simple partial seizure), as at this point I am still aware. But I can NOT remember my complex partial seizure as at this moment my awareness gets impaired. I believe I know that I have had a seizure because all my seizures start with an aura and about 95% of them evolve to complex partial seizure. If my seizures would start directly with a complex partial one, I ask myself if I would be able to know I had a seizure??? Additionally, a few times I also get a feeling of seizure risk, some hours before it I have it.
I can not tell you if yoga has decreased or not my seizures, but for sure it has helped me in many ways since I was diagnosed with epilepsy some 3 years ago. I have been practicing hatha yoga and yoga nidra since 2018. It has for sure helped me to calm down and decreased my anxiety, a symptom of my epilepsy. With yoga, I have also learned to listen more to my body and to hear what it is trying to tell me (inhabit your body) as well as to develop more my intuition (right side of my brain that has no sclerosis). Those feelings of a seizure risk I have developed with my yoga practices after learning to better listen to my body. Yoga nidra helps me much to recharge my batteries during the day. As I have already mentioned in other posts, I have sleep problems, getting tired during the day. Therefore, almost on a daily basis, I practice yoga nidra after lunch, feeling reenergized after it. It is said that 30 minutes of yoga nidra can correspond up to 2 hours of deep sleep. Interestingly, I have observed that my chances of having a seizure are higher when I do not practice my yoga nidra (bad or lack of sleep is one of my main triggers). Last not least, yoga philosophy has helped me to better deal with my epilepsy for example, to live more in the present moment rather than the past and/or the future. This has taken much off weight off my shoulders. If we observe, many times our mind is in the future trying to solve problems that do not exist yet or to anticipate problems that have not already happened. Somehow, with this way of thinking, much of my fear of a next seizure has vanished (I have refractory epilepsy with about 5 to 8 seizures a month).
Nowadays, there are many lines of yoga. Hatha and Haja yoga are traditional yoga lines with uncomplicated postures (assanas). Just a curiosity, I have heard that those complicated postures of yoga have been mostly developed in modern yoga, when India was a colony of Britain. This was a way Indian people could show the strength and vigor of their body to the British.
Curiosity, what kind of yoga have you practiced, Leonard? Could you share your experience with us?
Have a nice day!
Santosha