Amanda Eller, a yoga instructor who went missing for 17 days while hiking in Maui's Makawao Forest Reserve, poses for a photo from her hospital bed at Maui Memorial Medical Center in Hawaii

LOS ANGELES: The yoga instructor rescued after 17 days lost in a Hawaii forest reserve recounted on Tuesday (May 28) sleeping in wild boar dens, trudging shoeless through a rocky stream and dining on plants to survive a "spiritual boot camp" that tested her will to live.