Documentary About My Journey

Without a clear understanding of why I had been suffering from hip osteoarthritis since a young age, I decided to embrace yoga as a tool to not lose joint mobility. In December 2013, I flew from Los Angeles to Brazil to see my family. Sitting for hours caused my hips to have a flare up that put me in bed. From that point on the instability of the joints and pain took over my life. I decided before the surgery to do a documentary about how my practice of yoga could impact the healing before and after hip replacement. I learned that there has not yet been a study about hip replacement and yoga. So, I began to study my condition and was shocked to know that after even though I was continuously practicing yoga, my body, muscles and joints could not work like they used to. Prior to the surgery I filmed my condition and exercises that I believed would help me to deal with the post surgery recovery. I also filmed my post surgery recovery.