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Los Angeles: Yoga for MS

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Over 10 years ago Los Angeles yoga teacher Hillary Rubin was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. At around the same time she started practicing Anusara yoga. It was a hectic time in her life -- she was living in New York, working at Prada, living a hard-core urban lifestyle and as a result her health began to suffer.

"I was a hard-ass New Yorker," she once told me. "But yoga softened me. It was like a training school and the M.S. was an invitation that was asking me to participate more fully in my life, in my healing and embrace the disease as a teacher."

In 2002, she moved to Los Angeles and became a certified Anusara teacher at City Yoga. For the most part, she's been able to control her disease through yoga, diet, meditation and she says, "paying attention and taking good care of myself."

Now, she's taken her personal experience and developed a practice for those facing the challenge of autoimmune disease. Her first DVD is called Yoga Foundations and you can learn more about it at I Am Not a
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This is an excellent dvd...Hillary is such an experienced teacher and the exercises have a great flow...I use it on the road and at home and recommend it to all levels of practioners.

I absolutely love Hillary! She is an incredible teacher and this DVD is a great resource for beginning Yogis. The best quality about Hillary is her ability to vividly describe how to embody the pose fully. Plus she is a huge inspiration for millions of people who suffer from auto immune disorders.



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