IAM2,
I certainly won't argue with what a Master of the art would say.
My assumption about his practice was that his movements were aggravating his condition. When I do something like this (playing around with forms of exercise/meditation) and I get crampage or what not, I examine the pain and think about it. What hurt when? What hurts now? What was I doing? Did I feel strain at any point that was significantly greater than another during the exercise?
I'll shift, for a while, to a more passive approach (like very subtle movements or even simply imagining I am doing the movements), and wait for the pain to pass, then more gradually and consciously make the movements in the future.
I totally see your point about not knowing *how* this person is practicing. Less information = less accurate diagnosis.
It was just my fear that the talk about pain might have been the wrong information at the wrong time.
