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Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness
Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis Calm My ADD and Find the Key to Happiness Author:Brian Leaf 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... more » 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 center that helps students ? whose ailments he once shared ? manage ADD and overcome test and math phobias.« less