Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness

by Leaf, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781608681365
• ISBN10: 160868136X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-09
• Publisher: New World Library

Summary

When he was a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, author Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally "cry, hug, or do yoga". But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing had. As these rollicking and wise chapters show, Leaf went on to visit yoga studios around the country, have a spiritual experience at a Grateful Dead concert, and consult Ayurvedic physicians, swamis, and even (accidentally) a prostitute. Twenty-one years later, he teaches yoga and meditation, practices multi-faceted healing, and is the beloved founder of a holistic tutoring centre that helps students - whose ailments he once shared - manage ADD and overcome test and exam phobias.

Author Biography

Brian Leaf is the owner and director of The New Leaf Learning Center. He has long taught yoga and meditation and has worked with all the major yoga and holistic health centers in the United States. He lives in Northampton, MA.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Rolling Incident	p. xiii
Turning on
Moooola Bannnda	p. 3
Six-Packs	p. 9
Chicken Sandwiches	p. 15
Belly Down	p. 19
O'Malley's Mushroom Caps	p. 31
Kripalu Yoga	p. 37
Touring
Tea with Oskar	p. 45
Fearless, Honest, Relaxed	p. 49
Ruby's	p. 53
Jerry Garcia	p. 63
Flatulence	p. 71
The Yamas and Niyamas	p. 75
Jemez	p. 81
White Sands	p. 87
Sedona, Arizona	p. 99
Belting Out the Bhagavad Gita	p. 103
San Francisco	p. 111
Ayurveda Revisited	p. 117
Training
Cotton Swabs	p. 123
5:25 AM	p. 133
Catharsis	p. 137
Mom and Dad's	p. 143
What Would Joshua Do?	p. 147
ADD	p. 153
Shaktipat	p. 163
Urine Therapy Virgin	p. 167
Silence	p. 177
My Anger Mattress	p. 181
SLP	p. 191
Becoming Most Real	p. 201
What Now?	p. 211
Epilogue: Most Real	p. 215
Author's Note	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 221
Sample Yoga Practice	p. 223
Sun Salutation	p. 227
Meditation	p. 229
Colistening	p. 233
Guided Relaxation	p. 235
Ayurvedic Constitutional Survey	p. 237
Ayurvedic Recommendations	p. 241
About the Author	p. 243
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