It’s worth 16 minutes of your time, especially to watch Slomo skate at the end. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. I found this documentary short to be utterly captivating and Slomo to be truly inspirational. QUICK NOTE: This is the facebook page for the documentary about Slomo, not the page of Slomo himself. Please verify insurance information directly with your doctor’s office as it may change frequently. Anything where you can get this lateral acceleration feeling, you can use that for meditation, because it puts you in the zone.” Neurology Psychiatry INSURANCE PLANS ACCEPTED. In his own words: “If you keep constant, the feeling of expansion continues to build. Kitchin, or Slomo, as he’s known now, it was in a New York Times article featuring Josh Izenberg documentary short on the neurologist who dropped out of the life he had built to rollerblade in a super-slow glide down the boardwalk as a means of finding bliss. Much like the way skating on the Pacific Beach boardwalk in San Diego does for Dr. Flowing through Surya Namaskar gives the feeling of lateral acceleration. But my favorite benefit of Surya Namaskar is the way it becomes meditation in motion for me, and consequently roots me in the present moment, energized and ready to move forward. when he accompanied his father on a business trip to San Diego. It combines nearly every group of poses (standing, forward fold, backbend, and even a mild inversion with Adho Mukha Svanasana) and combined with Shirsasana (headstand) and Sarvangasana (shoulderstand) and their variations can constitute a complete yoga practice. Filmmaker Joshua Izenberg, who made a documentary about Slomo in 2013, met Slomo, whose real name is John Kitchin, a former neurologist. It strengthens the arms and core, opens the hip flexors and chest, and stimulates the thyroid gland through the continued flexion and extension of the neck. It’s his knowledge, his courage and his Southern charm that makes Slomo such an interesting and admirable man.Yesterday was the first International Yoga Day as well as the Summer Solstice and Father’s Day, and to celebrate all three, I decided to do 108 rounds of classical Surya Namaskar, the oldest known physical practice of yoga. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into SLOMO, trading his lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a taste of divinity. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. Kitchin does creep into the conversation, particularly when Slomo talks about his unique style of skating an how three pieces of cartilage in the middle ear can make the body think that it’s flying. KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. Reinvent myself…I found out all I really wanted to do was the basic things and skate…It was the only spiritual part of my lifeĪt times Dr.

Sounds crazy, but before you write Kitchin off as certifiable, you should consider that his actual certifications are in neurology and psychiatry.

At the beginning it seemed like it was about 90% spiritual and as the years went by it got about 90% financial…and then I had the opportunity to stop…So I was thinking if I’m going blind, losing my vision and it’s affecting my work, and my work is very unsatisfactory to start with…why don’t I just cash it in and start a whole new life. Directed by: Joshua Izenberg How has John Kitchin found a way to connect physically to the center of the world and spiritually to the divine By rollerblading. I remember I would leave the office and I would think to myself how much of today promoted me spiritually and how much did it promote me financially. I was lost in a rational world…I was hardworking, thinking only about material things, a 12-cylinder BMW, a Ferrari, an exotic animal farm.

The words of a chance encounter with an older man many years before and his failing vision, spurned the doctor into reinventing himself to be who he really wanted to be. John Kitchin, a former San Diego neurologist trained in psychology. John Kitchin, who renamed himself “ Slomo“, who decided to quit a successful career as a neurologist in order to do the one thing that made him happy – inline skating along the Pacific Beach boardwalk in San Diego, California. Rollerblading in slow motion with his arms outstretched while blasting classical music, Slomo is the alter ego of Dr. John Kitchin AKA Slomo sat down to talk about the petition that is asking for him to lace up his skates and hit the Mission Beach / Pacific Beach boardwalks. This wonderful film by Josh Izenberg via The New York Times, tells the story of Dr.

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