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GROW A NEW BODY YOGA:

A Natural
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Pathway To

Godhood

My body was a road map of the jungles and mountains Ma Yoga Shakti is a beloved teacher with ashrams in India and US,
where I had worked as an anthropologist, picking up the instrumental in the spread of Yoga in the US. Yogashakti Mission,
lethal critters that had taken up residence inside me. 3895 Hield Rd NW Palm Bay FL 32907 www.yogashakti.org 321-725-
The jungle is a living biology laboratory, and if you spend 4024 and email yogashaktipalmbay@gmail.com Yoga is a spiritual
approach concerned with the fundamental mental aspect of every
enough time there, you become part of the experiment. I human life. The word Yoga is derived from the sanskrit word “Yuj”
knew anthropologists who had died of the parasites I now to unite. It means union, The union of the Individual Soul the
harbored. Supreme Soul is known as Yoga.

The spiritual medicine I received from the shamans when NEW LEVELS BRING NEW DEVILS
I was in the Amazon was powerful, but I had to comple-
ment it with Western science. The doctors put me on a Every time your world changes and you reach a new lev-
worm medication— the same type I give my dogs—and on el, it presents you with new “devils” to contend with.
antibiotics to kill other parasites. My brain was on fire with But whenever you’re presented with new challenges, you
inflammatory agents produced by the medications and the are also in the same moment presented with guidance to
dead and dying parasites. I would have to detox my brain overcome them. So consider that whenever you’re ob-
to avoid going completely mad.
serving what you think is a “devil,” is simply an angel
taking you to a new level.
My brain fog and confusion were glaringly evident when I
tried to play Scrabble with Marcela. That game became
the barometer of my mental health. I could not access
words. And then I started losing my sense of self. I pan-
icked: What if I forget who I am? What if I lose my aware-
ness of self? Madness stared at me from the horizon—I saw YOGA SHAKTI
it, felt it, breathed it. It sent naked fear into every part of
my being. MISSION
Ironically, it was fear of losing myself that saved me: over
the next three months, I simply observed the madness I
was experiencing. The Buddhists have a powerful practice YOGA
of self-inquiry that starts with asking, Who am I? Then, First Saturday CLASSES
after a while, you begin to inquire, Who is it who is ask-
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by the flight of my soul. I began to understand who I had
been since the beginning of time and who I would be after Sunshine Lectures
I died. The gnawing fear was matched by divine love and a Sundays 9 - 10am
dawning experience of Oneness I had never felt before. Talks on Spiritual T opics

I called my friend David Perlmutter, a neurologist who was
the co-author of my book Power Up Your Brain. Together YOGA SHAKTI MISSION
we crafted a strategy using potent antioxidants and ex- 3895 Hield Rd NW Palm Bay 32907
treme ketosis (where the body uses fats instead of sugars yogashaktipalmbay@gmail.com
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repair my brain. 321-725-4024
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