"Yoga fixed what medicine could not"
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Many years ago I suffered several personal tragedies, that I haven't shared with you here, & I hit rock bottom. I'd reached my end, when in fact, that was my beginning: the beginning of my yoga journey
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Over the years since, yoga healed and made me a stronger , calmer & a far happier person. Yoga became my life in many ways
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But, as well as emotionally & mentally, Yoga also saved my life physically
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20 years ago I had an accident & shattered my elbow
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The operation failed & paralysed about 80% range of motion in my arm.
After 2 more operations & 3 years of physiotherapy I was down to 45%.
The movement of my wrist was so poor that I was unable to even do up the button on my jeans
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The advice from doctors was to learn to adapt my movements according to my arm & basically just learn to get on with it & live with it
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During all those years I was effectively disabled and prevented from performing many movements and activities
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You have no idea how much being able to support myself on my wrists and arms means to me as I do in my 2nd picture above! That was never supposed to happen according to the experts
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When I started yoga I wasn’t able to bring my hands in prayer position behind my back
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But I never stopped trying.
Here I am today , and if you please have a look at my final photo, I'm half way there & I couldn’t be more proud of myself and of that final picture 💚
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It looks simple but means everything to me! .
Yoga proved the doctors wrong and healed what the medical world couldn't
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That final picture is far from the perfect asana , but for me it’s more than perfect 🙏
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