Dan Nevins served in Iraq 11 years ago. That's when everything changed. An IED exploded under his Army vehicle and the blast destroyed both of his legs.
"I just remember having this revelation that I'm alive, I'm alive! That I better do something to keep it that way," Dan says.
After spending 18 months at Walter Reed Medical Center, Dan learned to climb mountains and play golf through the Wounded Warrior Project.
However, after undergoing another surgery two years ago, Dan became bedridden for weeks and the depression creeped back in.
"Those thoughts of the not-so-great experiences from combat just kept coming back. I didn't get to the point of suicide, but I finally understood in those 8 weeks at home and I knew that I needed help," he said.
That's when a friend suggested Dan take a yoga class. Dan was not too excited about that, to put it lightly.
"I was like 'No. One, I'm a guy; Two, I'm an Army guy; Three, I don't own any spandex, and no,'" he told CBS. He took the class anyway and like it did for veteran Arthur Boorman, it changed his life.
"I got into this Warrior One pose. I rooted down and I felt this real surge of energy from the earth up into my body like into my soul and I shot up like 'Oh my God, I get it' like the earth was saying 'where have you been the last ten years.'"
Today Dan teaches yoga, and his unique approach and experience has attracted hundreds of people to his class.
"I felt if he can do it without legs, what's my excuse," said one of his students. See more of this veteran's story below.
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