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