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under then-director Sylvia Zukin. "She
was the heart and soul of the Women's
Health Club and one of my mentors:'
Ran says.
Ran met her husband of 30 years,
Yigal, a computer programmer from
Israel, when he came to sign up for a
JCC karate class. "It was love at first
sight:' says Ran.
They moved to Israel for two years
where she created the first aerobic
instructor training and certificate
at Zinman College of the Wingate
Institute, Israel's National Center for
Physical Education and Sport.
They have three children, Tamar, 27,
a yoga student in California, Yonatan,
23, who is studying film editing, and
Talia, 21, a pre-law and philosophy
major at Michigan State University.

Coming Home
But after starting a family, Ran wanted
her parents, Dr. Victor and Helen Moss
of Farmington Hills, to be part of their
life. "I felt bad about my children not
being raised in their midst.
"I went to Israel for him (Yigal). He
came back for me:' Ran says.
Both ended up at Compuware, he as
a programmer and she as a personal
trainer at its wellness center. For eight
years, she taught hours of kickboxing,
step and spinning classes and trained
instructors.
Teaching 11 hours of step classes
each week "threw me into illness:'
Ran says. "I had every (itis' including
aseptic meningitis and was diagnosed
with multiple sclerosis. And that's how
I found yoga."

Enter Yoga
After training with local yoga guru
Johnny Kest at his Center for Yoga, she
re-channeled the energy she had put
into aerobics classes into practicing
and teaching yoga.
"People in the West think of yoga

as postures:' she says. "The posture
is only one of the eight limbs in
Ashtanga yoga. The rest has to do
with ethical discipline, self-restraint,
breathing techniques, being able to
separate yourself from your senses,
concentration, meditation and bliss.
"I found my way back to health
through yoga and Ayurveda (the sci-
ence of life) that is the sister science
to yoga."
She is a follower of Dr. Deepak
Chopra, who Time magazine describes
as "the poet-prophet of alternative
medicine."
Ran says that approach teaches, "If
your life is balanced, just because you
have a tendency (toward a certain ill-
ness) you don't have to express it."
For herself, she has been able to
overcome injuries sustained from too
many aerobics classes and has had no
progression of multiple sclerosis.
"I have either the mildest case on
record or what I'm doing is helping:'
Ran says.

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A Stricter Balance
Now she is going ever deeper, becom-
ing certified as a yoga therapist after
weeks of training in Santa Monica,
Calif. That means applying the
Ayurveda program in a very specific
way to individuals with conditions
such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, anxi-
ety and pregnancy, she says.
She's committed to the guiding
principle of Ayurveda:
"The mind exacts the deepest influ-
ence on the body and freedom from
sickness depends upon contacting our
own awareness, bringing it into bal-
ance and then extending that balance
to the body"

For more information, go to:
www.yogatherapy-om.coin.
E-mail Suzy Ran at:
suzanna@yogatherapy-om.com

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Federation

of Metropolitan Detroit

November 8 • 2007

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