| Since writing my two books, Beautiful On Raw: | | | | I had to take private yoga lessons that |
| UnCooked Creations and Your Right to Be | | | | worked with my limitations but I have |
| Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and | | | | improved tremendously and would not give it |
| Meet the Most Beautiful You, about my | | | | up anymore than I would go back to eating |
| exploration and acceptance of the raw food | | | | cooked food.Yoga and the raw food diet offer |
| lifestyle, I have added another important | | | | many similarities in the ways they benefit |
| dimension to my health regimen. Hatha Yoga. | | | | the body. Yoga books describe the same |
| I firmly believe that Hatha yoga practice has | | | | euphoric experiences I have found in the raw |
| to be an integrated part of the raw food | | | | food diet. Both purify and heal the body. |
| lifestyle.I discovered and converted to the | | | | Both offer powerful therapeutic effects in |
| raw lifestyle in an effort to gain the peak | | | | dealing with physical and psychological |
| of health, endurance and healing that I | | | | problems. Both promote radiant health.Yoga is |
| needed to ensure that I would be able to | | | | a systematic program whose sole purpose is |
| maximize the results of my upcoming surgical | | | | spiritual. However the unhealthy condition of |
| ordeal.I was born in Russia with congenital | | | | the average human body is a major obstacle to |
| hip problems that could not be corrected. For | | | | spiritual practices such as meditation, |
| 45 years, I lived with one leg shorter than | | | | prayer and self-realization.Running, swimming |
| the other. I looked and felt like the | | | | and weight lifting are great for muscle |
| Leaning Tower of Pisa. After immigrating to | | | | building but do little for connective tissue. |
| the United States, I prepared for the surgery | | | | It is the flexibility of the joints and of |
| that would ultimately replace my hips and | | | | the connective tissues that gives us the |
| allow me to walk without a limp. I was so | | | | feeling of ease and lightness in the |
| accustomed to my tilt that when I was at last | | | | body.Think about that thin film running under |
| straight, I felt as though I were going to | | | | the skin when you peel back chicken skin. It |
| topple over at anytime.I was thrilled with | | | | is called fascia. Humans have it, too. It |
| the results of the surgery and felt that much | | | | runs under the skin throughout the body and |
| of my ability to heal from such massive | | | | even envelopes each individual cell. |
| trauma was from being on the raw food diet. | | | | |