Surfing

[alice wellintown]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/nyregion/banshidhar-medeiros-soul-surfer-dances-with-waves.html?_r=0

After an hour riding head-high waves, he headed back to his minivan
and dumped a large Thermos of hot water over himself to warm up and
rinse off.

At 14, Mr. Medeiros moved with his family from Maui to Puerto Rico,
another prime surfing location. Within several years, the young surfer
had joined a meditation center that Mr. Chinmoy opened in San Juan.

He recalled the first time he meditated with Mr. Chinmoy, in 1970: “It
was like being pulled up by this tremendous force, rising like a
rocket, with the earth getting smaller below.”

“There was just peace and absolute expansion,” he remembered. “I was
just blissed out, and I knew then he was my master.”