Wholistic Fitness

even when her entire Navajo Nation did not return her plea’s for help in bringing her Message of support for Navajo obesity and diabetes  awareness and assistance?  YOU DID!   only you, the WF Sangha provided a huge ripple in what we plan to be a big Wave of Change for all Navajo and Native Americans,  so THANK YOU!!!! beyond words,  Dawagahti and i,  THANK YOU!!!  stay tuned for more and enjoy the below…

Follow Up On Durango’s Native American Snowshoe Racer Turned Obesity/Diabetes Ambassador Sandra “Dawaghati” Lee…

“Oh my God!” exclaimed Durango’s Sandra Lee,  Colorado’s only Western Slope and World Representative for female Navajo/Native Americans at the 2013 USSSA Snowshoe Nationals, in Bend, Oregon March 16th.  “I had no idea how FAST and FIT these girls are!”   “Welcome to the Big League!” confirmed her coach and mentor, Durango native  and 2x World Mountain Snowshoe competitor and local yoga teacher, Steve Ilg.   As a follow up to our story, ‘Going The Extra Mile,’ (Durango Telegraph, March 7, 2013),  Sandra Lee, a Native American  born into the Red Running Into Water Clan and born for the Towering House clan in the Navajo town of Beclabito near the Carrizo Mountatins. (Beclabito in Navajo means: water running beneath)  absolutely served notice by crushing a super demanding 10k course in “unimaginably tough snow conditions,” according to her coach, in a time of 1:45 to become the first ever female Native American to qualify for and complete a USSSA National Championships,  “I did so for the sake of my Navajo Tribe and to inspire them toward more healthy ways of living…to inspire them to return to our Warrior Lineage!”   Sandra, who used her snowshoe racing prowess as a platform to bring awareness and change to Navajo and Native American obesity and diabetes which is now pandemic throughout those Nations, was interviewed by print, online, TV and “spoke so movingly before a huge audience at the historic Tower Theatre in downtown Bend, OR during the Awards Ceremony,”  according to Coach Ilg, that she became the “Media Darling” of the Championships and “attained a big spiritual/health coup for her Navajo and Native Tribes!”