I've heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes when we're placed in the fire that is life, we are given refining opportunities to learn and grow. My life path has led me directly to Siddhi Yoga & Body.

.experience ONE
In 1996 my father began experiencing extreme abdominal pain. I considered him to be healthy. He exercised consistently, ate according to the FDA's food pyramid, didn't smoke or drink alcohol, and never did any drugs. Always seemingly stoic, I never saw or heard him complain about anything growing up, but when I saw him buckle over in pain I knew something was wrong. Although he worked right across the street from Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, the highly trained gastrointestinal doctors, specialists as they're called, could not find a single thing wrong with him. Finally, after a year of tests and inexplicably excruciating pain, he was finally diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Too late to treat effectively with chemo- or radiation, he had to undergo immediate surgery to remove the cancerous tissue, which included his pancreas, spleen, and part of his liver. The surgeon gave him clear margins and was confident that they had succeeded in removing all the cancerous cells. They sewed him up and bid him a positive recovery. With his pancreas, spleen, and part of his liver now removed from his physiological system he adapted well and was on course for a complete recovery.

Within a few months however, he noticed a new mass of tissue protruding from below his rib cage in the same exact anatomic location as his pancreas, spleen, and liver. The doctors, although surprised, concurred that it was in fact reoccuring cancer. More astonishing to me, however, was the fact that although the cancerous tissue had previously been removed with the surgery, the new cancer had created new tissue in the same place where no tissue existed. Some how the cancer knew to grow in that specific location versus any other area in his body for some specific reason. While on my honeymoon with my new bride in Canada (1997), we got a phone call that he had passed away. I made it back for his funeral.

.experience TWO
In 1996, after returning from serving an LDS mission in the Russia, I became fascinated with Rock Climbing. I was amazed at the skill, strength, will power, focus, and control that it demanded from me not to mention the adrenaline it created. After climbing for several months I had noticed that my left knee would pop violently when I stood up from a compressed position. Although it didn't hurt, I had heard horror stories about knee problems and did not want to go down that path. After getting my knee checked out, to which everything structurally tested normal, I was offered non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID's) just in case I ever needed them. Not feeling that I needed them and not wanting to take drugs the rest of my life, I sought answers elsewhere. Within 6 months of vitamin supplementation, massage therapy, and yoga my knee returned to normal with no functional abnormalities as it remains so today some 11 years later.

These along with many other personal experiences have led me to seek the fundamental origins of health and disease and create a practice that revolves around creating the environment necessary for absolute health and total balance. This is Siddhi Yoga & Body!