"Happiness is not only to be healthy"

Sasha Vasiliev is 18 years old. For three years he has been doing yoga. The results of regular training with the instructor are difficult to overestimate: the young man born with cerebral palsy began to walk on special crutches, although he could not even stand before. Taiga.info continues to tell how disabled people live in Novosibirsk.

Sasha asks us to warn earlier when we drive to the house. He says a lot of time to approach the door and meet us. Sasha lives with parents on the second floor of a five -story building, and there is no elevator in it. “We would have lived on the third floor - maybe it would be even better. I do not think that you need to make your life easier, ”says Sasha’s mother Yana Vasilieva. “When the sanatoriums are offered the third floor, we do not refuse.”

According to her mother, Sasha rises and descends the stairs, holding onto the railing: "When I was small, I raised it in my arms, and then slowly, I got it." We do not see how Sasha overcomes the steps, but we can observe his training on yoga, for which we arrived. On the floor in his room, recking the tremor, Sasha Vasiliev performs exercises under the program, which instructor Alexander Legostaev painted in his notebook.

“To become a coach, you need to walk, and I will do it, this is a simple question. Some say, they say, “you will never stand up”, and just knock down the brain, but life does not end there ”

“In the studio where I worked, they called and said that there is a boy with cerebral palsy, who wants to do. And since childhood, I remember that they are very clean, some bright, ”recalls their acquaintance Legostaev. “I doubted, but agreed to try, since he wants so much.” Soon, the instructor realized that the student “steer a situation” well and does not need pity. “First, I took the most neutral techniques. We breathed with him either through the left, then through the right nostril, tried to rotate with our eyes, take the pose of the “cats”, and make inclinations and simple movements. I felt that I have a strong resonance and the mood with it. ”

Sasha Vasiliev says that before Yoga it was difficult for him to unbend and stand. A year and a half after the start of classes, he began to walk with the help of a special crutch. Yana’s mother clarifies that the success of her son is massage, and physiotherapy and physiotherapy, that is, the whole complex of rehabilitation. However, only about yoga Sasha is ready to talk for hours: “I wrote an article about yoga and took first place at the competition competition at school. For me, the first and second places are winning, and I do not count the third and fourth. ”

He dreams of working as an instructor himself, “to help people with cerebral palsy or with diseases is even worse”, to earn money and live separately from his parents: “To become a coach, you need to walk, and I will do it, this is a simple question. Some say, they say, “you will never stand up”, and just knock down the brain, but life does not end there. ” Sasha also wants to find a bride and start a family, but while he is studying at a boarding school No. 152, and it is too early to think about marriage to him. “There are 100-120 people there,” says Sasha’s mother. - Some are accompanied by school employees, but they mainly cope themselves. Slowly, but they go. We just need a railing to catch on. ”

Yana Vasilieva assures that the disability of her son did not locked them in the apartment: “We can go to the cinema, to the cafe, to all the shops - we take the stroller and go. Well, yes, there are steps, but someone will always help. The ramps are not everywhere, but there is. Social protection gives trips to the sanatorium. What can - gives, which is missing - we buy ourselves. We understand that we do not live in an ideal world. ” Sasha once managed to help on a social network with the search for a donor for a girl who needed blood components. For the sake of this, he did not have to leave the house, and he would like, on occasion, to continue to help.

“The body will remain crooked, to a state, so that as a normal person you go, you will not bring it. But I accept myself as I am "

Although recently on routes in Novosibirsk

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68 low-floor buses, the city remains inconvenient for a wheelchair user. Sasha wants for herself a stroller risk

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Novosibirsk engineers: “It is impossible to climb somewhere in a regular stroller. Yes, I will walk, but I can’t at distant distances. Cerebral ceremony can be defeated, but the body will remain crooked, to the state, so that as a normal person walks, you will not bring. But I accept myself as I am. "

The coach also accepts him “as it is”: “I have such an attitude towards Sasha - he has everything in order, just a bodily drawing of another. But he can make some movements in this figure. ” When Sasha Vasiliev was strengthened physically, Alexander Legostaev gave him “crabs” - crutches with three support points. “I insured him, he periodically walked around the room, and each time we measured the“ records ”. He passed two meters, three, four, unfolded and walked the other way, and he had a real excitement in his eyes. ”

“On the one hand, it seems that no one needs disabled people. But, in fact, a lot of people are engaged in children with cerebral palsy and want to help, ”says Yana Vasilieva. - If a person by himself

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, wants to learn something, chat, he will find ways. Happiness is not only to be healthy. A person will want to be happy - it will be. ”

Text: Margarita Loginova Video: Natalia Gredina (music by Kirill Perfilieva)