Then she decides to break free from rheumatoid arthritis, She is just born to smile. We still don't know why a 13-year-old had rheumatoid arthritis. Yoga is awesome, makes me believe in magic. 
 The idea we were working on was to avoid bone to bone contact, so asanas which open her hip were first introduced, as the hip was more locked when she arrived at yogavanam. Then slowly we approached most of the joints, as a preventive measure. 
So we have to set alignment in every joint to have a maximum range of movements, and the plan was to repeat this process every day. We were waiting for the body to heal, ie fill the space between the joints with the meniscus in case of the knee joint.
Then as we strengthening the muscles so that the ligaments can hold the allignments for a longer period of time, the test results were improving, and in 1 year of practice, no trace of RA was seen.