Saturday, June 26, 2004
Inspiring story
Paraplegic becomes an unlikely expert on yoga: "Talk to students such as 43-year-old Chuck Ankeny of Deephaven, and it's clear that he's a revered teacher. 'You know how you have teachers once in a lifetime who really make a difference?' Ankeny said. 'He's [Matt Sanford] one of those.'" I am sure that a lot of yoga people are going to be pointing to this story. Matt Sanford has been active in yoga for the past 13 years, starting his own Minnesota nonprofit to spread the word and practices of yoga's benefits. This article as picked up by Associated Press. If you want to see Sanford's company, check out Mind-Body Solutions. if you check out the Press Box, you'll see that Matt's had several articles written about him.
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I had cancer when I was 6 months old, and as a result of that, my right ankle is partly paralyzed. I started practicing yoga in last September, twice a week since last October, and I can see the amazing results in my ankle. Yoga did in less than a year what years of physiotherapy never did. I am now able to move my ankle more than ever. Of course, the nerves that were cut during surgery, causing the paralysis, will always be cut. But yoga allows me to work other muscles to compensate for that... It really is amazing that this guy can do yoga considering he's paraplegic, but at the same time, I don't have a hard time believing it, seeing the effects of yoga on my own body and after such a short time.
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