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Brave heart; Living with cancer, the former model turned photographer then fashion executive Lynn Kohlman realized that she had a choice: to wallow in self-pity or to fight.

Vogue

| August 01, 2005 | Kohlman, Lynn | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Lynn Kohlman

Five months after my breasts were removed in a radical double mastectomy, I went to the Caribbean for a weeklong yoga retreat with my good friend the designer Donna Karan. At the end of a class, I was lying on my back in the resting pose when all of a sudden something terrible started happening to my body. It was as if hot snakes were wriggling through me, intertwining themselves among my vertebrae. I started shaking, sweating, and whimpering with fear. My mouth tasted like metal. The yoga master, Rodney Yee, ran over and looked down at me.

"Lynn," he yelled, "you're having kundalini rising!"

Donna, who had rushed to my ...

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