She told ABC she's doing physical therapy, yoga, and speech therapy, and working with a service dog.

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She is a self-taught vegetarian cook, practices yoga, and is passionate about physical movement, creativity, and self-care.

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In the case of Yoga, a recent pilot study at Indiana University showed some positive results in using yoga as a follow-up to physical rehabilitation therapy for elderly stroke victims.

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Those with a sustained practice cannot avoid the message that is repeated by nearly every teacher from every school of yoga and incorporated into so many of the physical postures: Open Your Heart.

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She suggests that yoga should ultimately be thought of as a matrix spanning physical to mental, lofty to ordinary, and everything in between.

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Getting a satellite signal out of Perth, for instance, can involve lying prostrate on the ground in the public park next to the CBD with a receiver dish in one hand and a microphone in the other, a bodily feat that requires the kind of physical contortions that might test a Byron Bay yoga instructor.

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Dice Iida-Klein and his wife, Briohny Smyth, are awesome physical specimens and definitely seemed pretty cool and nice when I met them in a yoga inversions workshop.

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