Jaimal Yogis - How to Master Meditation and Mindfulness

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jaimal Yogis is an outdoorsman, award-winning writer, and frequent teacher. He is the author of Saltwater Buddha, a humorous coming-of-age memoir about running away to Hawaii at sixteen to surf, nearly becoming a Zen monk, and eventually winding up at Columbia Journalism School. The book was named a Best Summer Read by E! and turned into a feature documentary film. Jaimal’s follow up to that book, All Our Waves Are Water, comes out this July from Harper Collins and Publisher’s Weekly gives it a starred review, calling it “captivating” and “beautiful” and CNN’s Reza Aslan calls it “insightful, contemplative, and eloquently written… leaves us to realize that life isn’t about that elusive end goal understanding of humanity; it’s about the risks we’re willing to take in our journey to get there.” Jaimal’s writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Men’s Health, ESPN Magazine, The Surfers Journal, The Daily Beast, and many others. His journalism has won a Maggie Award for Best Feature and he is also the author of The Fear Project, a journalistic and scientific romp about why humans fear and how we can live more fully and courageously. One of Jaimal’s stories stories for AFAR Magazine about the first female Muslim surf star in Bangladesh inspired the documentary, The Most Fearless, which Jaimal is co-producing with award-winning director, Heather Kessinger. When Jaimal’s not writing, out to sea, or with his wife Amy and their three sons, he teaches meditation, mindfulness, and creative writing at places like Spirit Rock, The Writing Pad, Kripalu, and 1440 Multiversity. For full show notes visit: http://mantalks.com/jaimal-yogis/ For more information about ManTalks or to join a ManTalks Mastermind: Click Here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Stitcher Radio | Android For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast?If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community! Thank You to the Team:Editing & Mixing by: Aaron Johnson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome guys and gals to the MANT Talks podcast. I'm Connor Bieden, the host and founder of
0:15.0	Man Talks. This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and extraordinary individuals to help teach and mentor you on how to be a top performer in life, love, and business.
0:28.3	This week, I have an incredible guest joining me by the name of Jamal Yogi.
0:33.6	He's a writer, a teacher, an outdoorsman with a special love of surfing.
0:38.2	His most recent book, All Our Waves Are Water, is the Harper-Collins memoir that the BBC called
0:45.0	The Best Beach Read of 2017 and has just got some incredible reviews alongside.
0:51.6	He's also written Saltwater Buddha, a coming of age memoir about running away
0:56.0	to Hawaii at the age of 16 and eventually winding up at Columbia Journalism School.
1:02.3	So he's done some incredible things throughout his career. He's got something called the
1:06.5	Fear Project, which we touch on briefly. Now we're going to talk a little bit about the lessons that surfing has to provide.
1:13.9	But really, this whole podcast is actually about mindfulness.
1:17.8	It's about meditation.
1:19.4	It's about deepening our awareness to the present moment.
1:23.2	And it's about being able to tune in and tap into our everyday experiences to actually deepen our
1:31.0	awareness and help our ability to grow and develop ourselves.
1:35.3	And not necessarily through a necessarily like a spiritual awakening, but more so an understanding
1:40.5	that every moment is a moment that we can meditate.
1:43.8	And so Jamal has a very unique
1:45.9	perspective. We talk about athletics. So for all the athletes out there, I'm sure that you can relate
1:51.6	to having those moments of flow, regardless of the sport that you're playing. And so we're going to get
1:57.4	into some of that. But just before I bring Jamal on, I just want to send a quick
2:02.0	reminder out to everybody to, for all the guys to go out and join the Facebook group. We've got
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