'Saltwater Buddha' surfing film (doc)

SWB Films, 1/28/22; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Saltwater Buddha: Coming of age surf doc

(SWB Films) Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Buddhist classic Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard.

Now an author and father, he recounts his journey from jungle hippie communes to Zen Buddhist monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York Atlantic shore.

Based on the internationally-acclaimed memoir, Saltwater Buddha is a chronicle of finding focus in the barrel of a wave and truth in the great salty blue.

Director: Lara Popyack. Executive Producer: Urijah Faber. Editor: Jordan Dozzi. Producers Mike Madden, Lara Popyack, and Jaimal Yogis. Director of Photography: Roberto Vezzone. Surfers in order of appearance: Jaimal Yogis, Logan Landry, Holly Beck, Andy Olive, Danny Hess, Jay Nelson.