Former American wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, has successfully made the transition from breaking people in half to miraculously healing them.

When I say he heals them, I don’t mean he places his hands on them and suddenly they feel better. I mean he provides them with his unique knowledge, advice and encouragement. What’s his method? Yoga!

It may sound like a bit of a joke but the proof exists in the person of Arthur Boorman, a former U.S. Army paratrooper who, following some serious injuries and bad surgery, hadn’t walked unaided for 15 years and who after just 10 months of Diamond Dallas’ yoga regime is walking and running without any kind of assistance. What’s more, Arthur lost a staggering 140 lbs in the process, giving him a healthier look than he’s ever had before.

Prior to his spectacular recovery, Arthur Boorman could only walk with the aid of two knee braces, a back brace and two walking sticks. The doctors had been quite firm in their diagnosis: he would never be able to move about in any other fashion. It’s a little hard to gage what exactly Arthur’s fitness programme involved in detail, but it would appear that it included several exercises to improve his basic balance and agility. In the beginning he fell quite a lot, but he would just pick himself up each time and soldier on. As time wore on the exercises got more challenging and very soon it became clear to Arthur that the blood, sweat and tears were not in vain and that finally, after more than a decade, he was on the mend.

Arthur is one of several apparent success stories that the larger-than-life Diamond Dallas Page boasts of on his website. He also goes into a little more depth regarding DDP Yoga (official name for it), describing it as a mixture of yoga, traditional fitness, dynamic resistance and sports therapy. Obviously you also have to manage more or less what you eat, but DDP yoga evidently can be taken up by virtually anyone and only really requires a commitment on the part of the user. So why not give it a go? There’s at least one of us here at bespoken who’s giving it a shot, and who knows, the therapeutic benefits might just astonish you.

Check out DDP's webiste here.