Oak Park Yoga Community Rallies to Raise Funds for Beloved Teacher

Beloved Oak Parker and yoga teacher Christine Cipra is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a stroke in November last year. Friends and students of Cipra will come together in January to raise funds to help out as she recovers.

Members of Oak Park's close-knit yoga community are rallying this week to raise funds for a yoga instructor who recently suffered a stroke. Christine Cipra, a teacher at Ahimsa Yoga and a longtime Oak Park resident, said she was sitting at home on the Tuesday evening before Thanksgiving when she felt a headache come on that was unlike any she had experienced before. "I'd had some increased headaches over the last year," Cipra said looking back. "But this was different. It felt like a mushroom cloud in my head. I could feel it burst." Cipra and her husband quickly drove over to Rush Oak Park Hospital, where doctors determined she'd suffered a stroke and quickly sent her to surgery. "It was scary, but I feel very lucky that we were able to …

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