Wholistic Fitness

ON ANY GIVEN SATURDAY; Peletons,Limestone, Wapiti, and Summer Snow!

Front yard Lavender…i gather the precious perfumed leaves from these gorgeous Lavender plants in our front yard
to soothe directly aching muscles from living a WF Lifestyle.

A Gift From Ananda and i to our Beloved Sangha…
a few shots and thoughts from our day…
After morning Practices, i did the Saturday Club Training Ride; 43 miles alongside a string of the most beautiful
alpine lakes you could possibly imagine…though i was in a decompression week from my podium placing
from last weekend, i managed a 5th place before meeting Ananda to spin with
her for an hour.
In keeping with the multisport roots of Wholistic Fitness, on the way back home, we stopped off
at “Priest Draw”, a world-class limestone bouldering area to crank a few routes before the afternoon rainstorm…



when i climb, i seek the creative solution from inside. bouldering is music;
dissolution then wholeness, tension and then release, power then surrender to the sweeping, natural lines of ascent. i try to move from the center of my power, i dissolve into the rock. my mind becomes a reflection of the rock’s emptiness. As the Buddhists say, “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” this route, on Triangle Rock, is rated V4…and if you don’t know the ratings of bouldering, you better be asking yourself why the hell not. far better to know the ratings of rock climbs than the ratings of car or IRA statistics. Life is short; go climb a rock like you did when you were a kid. why not? “Never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden.
(John if you are reading; eat one of those “VIPS” pancakes in Tarzana for me, bro!)

The WF Temple H(om)e lies on the eon old habitat of wapiti, some of the largest, most magnificent creatures on Turtle Island. Here is a 8-point buck we saw about 1/4 mile from h(om)e.
“Love animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals, they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you.”
– Dostoyevsky

A Pranic sky (this photo is digitally untouched),The Sacred Peak, a field of sunflowers.

once a Buffalo lover, always a buffalo lover.

it was just such a priceless day…ice melted from the highest of heavens and fell in luminous curtains of yin, then yang,
then yin again…my body seemed to respond to the turbulent Dance from Father Sky in the most vulnerable of ways. Wind blew most of the day between sky splintering cracks of thunder. By the early afternoon, we returned to our h(om)e Temple…Brahman had scattered snow for us upon the Sacred Peak hanging overhead. Summer snow lay like tendrils, white shoe laces extended onto green alpine meadows…is not nature’s Gifts too much to behold? i wish not to comment upon the beauty around me…i wish to let it just be a part of me.

may your sweat from today,
bask in the Light of who you are…

lead your life from within
receive the Joy from without…

namaste,
the mountain yogi