I don't think Yoga is going to work for me. With all of these also spiritual health practices I tend to have serious trouble with the framing (what you call woo I guess). And sometimes also with the people they attract at least around here.
Like, I once did a qi-gong course some years back, and the movement was okay and helped with my then milder lower back pain too, but the talk of the instructor was so idiotic. Not even the talk about qi, I expected that about "energies" signing up for something based on Chinese traditional medicine, but he said all kind of nonsense, like how aids was occurring because of the "modern lifestyle" (not primarily in a homophobic sense as if was a gay disease, he meant because we weren't active enough anymore), totally ignoring how it is most prevalent in poor areas in sub-Saharan Africa and caused by a virus. And yeah, one example, but not a singular one, so I'd need to have the conventional movement approaches fail before I switched my framing like that, because otherwise the potential aggravation for me is not worth it.
Also I don't really want to learn a new practice, one that seems to take quite a lot of dedication if you want to do it properly, and research about what type you want to practice etc. when actually the straightforward PT exercises helped make my back pain go away too, and I already learned those.
I can tolerate weight talk much better than the spiritual stuff, so that's not an absolute. The You Are Your Own Gym one is actually one of the books I looked at in the library, and I found all the "I was special forces and the military does this" weird and somewhat off-putting (it's the kind of thing I meant with power fantasies in my post), but if you say the exercise progressions are good, I might just look at those again.
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Like, I once did a qi-gong course some years back, and the movement was okay and helped with my then milder lower back pain too, but the talk of the instructor was so idiotic. Not even the talk about qi, I expected that about "energies" signing up for something based on Chinese traditional medicine, but he said all kind of nonsense, like how aids was occurring because of the "modern lifestyle" (not primarily in a homophobic sense as if was a gay disease, he meant because we weren't active enough anymore), totally ignoring how it is most prevalent in poor areas in sub-Saharan Africa and caused by a virus. And yeah, one example, but not a singular one, so I'd need to have the conventional movement approaches fail before I switched my framing like that, because otherwise the potential aggravation for me is not worth it.
Also I don't really want to learn a new practice, one that seems to take quite a lot of dedication if you want to do it properly, and research about what type you want to practice etc. when actually the straightforward PT exercises helped make my back pain go away too, and I already learned those.
I can tolerate weight talk much better than the spiritual stuff, so that's not an absolute. The You Are Your Own Gym one is actually one of the books I looked at in the library, and I found all the "I was special forces and the military does this" weird and somewhat off-putting (it's the kind of thing I meant with power fantasies in my post), but if you say the exercise progressions are good, I might just look at those again.