Wholistic Fitness

STAR AURA

photo by Coach Ilg; 11,200′ Campsite Twilight beneath the Sacred Peak, last summer, Kachina Wilderness.

“Two men stare from behind the same Bars…
One sees the mud.
The other, the stars.”

– Sufi

***

i have spent a thousand nights beneath our natural ceiling of stars…
as a rock climber and passionate lover of mountain air…
i have slept a thousand nights
naked
sometimes twisting
beneath a cosmic drape of stars

stars
which rise and Dance, all too often…
unseen
by an unfeeling parade of “civilized”
modern man.

oh,
modern man
has lights…all spores of them
– hec, i’ve even had my own name, emblazoned upon Ventura Boulevard in Neon Light –
yet,
our modern, neon, hallogenic, vampire lights
are not Lights at all…
they are so full of fear
fear of that which is beautifully,
seductively
dim
quiet
and
Anasazi still.

To Ananda,
who
drives this night – alone –
across the Mohave dark (probably co-Chanting with Krishna Das)
toward Los Angeles;
a glittery fast city where she once Shone in movie star and fast star Ways,

tonight, deeply soaked by WF Chi from living the Temple’s Most Direct Path,
she drives
toward LA
where i will meet her
in the Place of Angels
where we first met…

our Profit Margin
for teaching one yoga class
will be more than triply burnt and spewed
into our Beloved Father Sky…

I Pray:
“I am sorry Father Sky
for polluting your Cosmic Lens
… please help us make our Thanksgiving Day Yoga Class
somehow be Light enough
to help others Shine in Ways that far surpass our burning of fossil fuels to go and Serve.
Of this,
i have no other Desire from our Trip to LA.

Let this then, be my Pilgrimage Prayer.”

***
Ananda,
on THIS night
after Solo Practice…
i stood transfixed beneath
“YabYum” – our two front yard, 200′ Ponderosa Beings –
i stood transfixed stood beneath their awesome, needled bodies…
and LISTENED
TO THE BLAST OF STARS BEFORE MY EYES

and do you know what happened?

on THIS night
for s(om)e reason…
i
could
See a most Beautiful, Sensual Vaporous AURA streaming from
each and every star
linking – in luminous, Sushumna Ways –
all the other stars!

I see Now,
finally,
the Sky
the Father Sky
whose shimmering lights untold
the Great Tale
before our Ancient Ones…
i See now,
Tonight
finally…
how The Ancients
could so Easily
and Fluidly
See the Constellations with all their StoryPlots and
intricate Linkage
which
give
Monument
to the Night Sky…

***

Ananda; from beneath the cold
Sacred Peak,
i whisper, i love you…

you keep my humble Temple as solid as the granite hide upon El Capitan i once climbed
and
you single handedly help me Serve our amazing Sangha,
in the only Way i know how;
Straight
Up.

as the miles unfurl beneath Bala’s rubber,
know that you
through our love,
shall all-Ways have stars
that dance
sway
shimmer
to Sushumna Vortex Rhythms

our touch upon Society
like little Yogi Kisses
within the Medicine Wheel
of our Father Sky Song…

to that Great Mystery
to that Great Medicine Wheel
which churns above me right now
without you
in a great
glittering
Heya! Night Sky!

***

“People have stars, but they aren’t the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they’re nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they’re problems.. For my businessmen, they were gold.
But all those stars are silent ones.
You,
though,
you’ll have stars like nobody else.”

“What do you mean?”

“When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll be living on one of them, since I’ll be laughing on one of them, for you it’ll be as if all the stars are laughing. You’ll have stars that can laugh.”

– The Little Prince speaking to the Pilot in
“THE LITTLE PRINCE” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

read a Chapter (not more!) of THE LITTLE PRINCE
to your Loved One(s)
tonight, with a cup of Calli Night..
be brave!
it will do your long term Health and Wholistic Fitness
a
World of Go(o)d…

i bow to the Night Stars,
dancing

your mountain yogi,
coach ilg