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