Forty-five year old Daniel Miller was working with an
excavator on his remote property north of Sidney, Australia. The edge of the
dam beneath him gave way, and he and the excavator tumbled into a muddy pond.
The three-ton machine trapped Daniel’s body underwater, but by arching his back
and pushing with his arms, something like a cobra pose, he was able to keep his
nose above the surface. He thought about his wife and their two young children.
“I wasn’t about to give up without a fight,” he said. So he breathed in and
out, counting to sixty, yelled for help, shifted positions and counted to sixty
again – for more than five hours. “I watched a cricket climb a blade of grass,”
he reports. Finally a neighbor about a third of a mile away heard his cries. “I’m
not a yogi, but I guess you could say yoga saved my life; that, and a will to
live.”
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