Leonard was a co-founder of the Aikido of Tamalpais dojo in
Corte Madera, California. He also developed the Leonard Energy Training (LET) practice for centering the mind, body, and spirit.
[2] Leonard died at his home in
Mill Valley, California on January 6, 2010 after a long illness and was survived by his wife and three daughters. He was 86 years old.
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Books
The World Health Organization has recognized stress as a worldwide epidemic.
Stress is at the root of much of our physical disease as well as our emotional dis-ease.
Unmanaged stress can influence the onset of heart attacks and strokes, gastro-intestinal
problems, diabetes, insomnia, headaches, and depression, to name a few. Studies show
that four out of five doctor visits in the U.S. are stress related, and U.S. industries spend
over 300 billion dollars a year on stress related costs.
We have become so busy that we have multi-tasked our way right out of the present
moment – and out of our own health and happiness.
While the medical world continues to create and mass-market expensive and risky
pharmaceuticals, and while people search aimlessly – and often unsuccessfully – to
find their own life-plan to counteract the devastating effects of stress, master teacher
Thomas Crum has reached the simplicity on the other side of complexity. The result is
Three Deep Breaths, a deceptively simple and extraordinarily effective technique to
combat stress and emerge as our most powerful and vital selves.
How better to teach this technique than in an entertaining story that can be read in a
short sitting? Thomas Crum uses the popular parable format to tell the tale of Angus,
a harried worker struggling to achieve that ever-elusive work/life balance and to break
through the negative habits that lead to anger, exhaustion, and poor performance. We
follow Angus as he learns to use Three Deep Breaths to turn conflict into opportunity,
pressure into peak performance, and mundane moments into a magical ones.
