remedies: sudden lower back pain

my brother was in disbelief:

you pulled your back in a yoga class? but you're always doing yoga. isn't yoga supposed to counter that kind of thing? 

good question. yeah, he's right, if you're engaged in yogum, more than just the asana class.

so, the whole 9 yards of yogum will get you to be aligned like oaks and pines in the hudson valley. but sitting around hour after hour behind a computer or in the trains and buses, and at friends houses is countering everything you work on during asana practice.

that and proper alignment. getting into an asana involves a great deal of humility, of listening to body, of aligning with the mathematics of the sun, moon, and planets. when off course, you're a comet off the galactic symphony, you are in the frequency of rick ross and meek mills and kid cuddi and ford and porseh, and mitsubishi and g.e. and boeing....you are in a deep pain. 

my pain was along my right thoraco lumbar fascia (this is the area superficially covering the lumbar region around the spine), latismus dorsi, external oblique, and continued to shoot down my gluteus medius and litobial tract. 

so here's the way i got out of this potentially month long out-for-the-count:

1. fought shaitan. satan whispered shivasanas, and i almost laid down for the rest of class. sometimes this is necessary. sometimes, you need a moment to rest. you just have to listen to body, really listen, and not the voice of giving up. 

2. went into restorative back asanas, including: child's pose, cobra, upward and downward dog. 

3. pressed into pressure points while in child's pose, forward fold, and camel. 

4. continued through asana practice that served the healing of my back. 30 minutes.

5. took a steaming shower, did a forward fold and pressed and slid into points of lower back and nerves that fall into my legs. 

6. oiled entire body, with greater application in area of pain.

7. shivasana on yoga mat. 

8. had a friend press and slide down the pressure points, along my external iliac vein and artery and the great saphonous vein, while I was in child's pose. 

9. continued to participate in normal activity. 

10. continued pressure and heat treatment later that day, before going to bed.

11. slept on floor. 

12. did pressure point treatment using roller next day.

13. prayer, mindful movement, posture, positive thinking and people.