Wholistic Fitness

TIRED WARRIOR

Savasana; Wholistic Fitness Style…you want a quality Savasana?
get out and hammer your heart rate solid for five hours…

well, i made it.
a miraculous ride, this, “Inner Basin Loop”!
4 hours and 48 minutes in the saddle, baby, without the heart rate ever dropping below
high Zone 2 and peaking at high Zone 4.
dat’s sustained meditation on the breath, baby; Mountain Yoga Style!
i really dialed in my Awareness to my pranic, not physical, body.
at times, i got so high that i, my breath, and my bike merged into One Unflappable Bliss
concentrated by the wholesome crush of a gorgeous alpine autumn day…
my Conscious Breath became a Chakra Blender to my emotional, mental, and spiritual sheaths
until…my high, enduring effort produced what the Taoists know as, “wu wei” or ‘effortless effort’…
time and again, through the long uphill, headwind miles i thought of you,
i breathed into you,
i chanted the WF Tribal Mantra within you…
we were One yesterday…
one Sangha united within a living, breathing, omnipotent Consciousness fueled by
sweat and iccha shakti (power of determination)…

moments before Ananda took this shot
of me after my ride, i hammered down an ILG SUPREME…it tasted to me like Blood must taste to a
vampire; every cell in my body was screaming for the regenerative CHI of the “secret herbs”!
me and Gunther (my mountain bike) hammered the “Inner Basin Loop”:
dropped the locals on the three consecutive climbs to 10,000′ over the course
of 54 miles,
with 6,800′ of climbing
through an oceanic swelling crescendo of aspen colors splashing the high peaks!
i have only three words for my day in the mountains yesterday;
“Thank
you
God!”

I must have chanted the WF Tribal Mantra ten thousand times ten thousand
on the final 5.5 mile ascent into the Inner Basin yesterday…the final 1.5 miles was steep, loose,
technical singletrack…i zen ascended it, dabbed only twice, and had to wait for 15 minutes for
my riding partner catch up as i yogi squatted next to a crystal clear mountain creek wandering
through a symphonic crash of kaleidoscope aspen colors.

Many people live their entire lives without ever, once, knowing the profound sense of inner
mysticism mixed into the stunning elixir of a high mountain aspen autumn;
i am BLESSED
to be Here Now,
Wholistically Fit,
and
spiritually open to receive the Grace of developing all components of a Human Existence.

this tired and happy Warrior will today rely, once again, on the SUNRIDER Herbs and HP Yoga to wring the fatigue acids from
my body tissues and restore some semblance of fluid movement into my bike-molded neuro-muscular system
from yesterday’s effort.

Stay tuned this week to DL, cuz i got ALL SORTS of fantastic WF TRIBAL CHI targeting (Y)OUR trajectory toward
Enlightenment in this precious lifetime…we end the coming week with Ananda and i racing in the
“Gaspin’ in the Aspen” Mountain Duathlon…

I get out and do,
I test my training programs and principles
out in the field of human physiology – across the spectrum of spirit and body –
so I can better Serve you…

unless a Teacher
walks his or her talk,
and i mean WALK IT with sweat and blood,
their shit just ain’t go(o)d…it’s just intellectual, regurgitated crap!
well,
in this Humble, Powerful Temple of WF,
we may not be glitzy,
yet we be consistently sincere in the Sweat behind our Scripture!
as Shakespeare wrote,
“Though he be little,
he is FIERCE!”
since 1982…
we do,
because of our devotion to YOU!

May your Practice today be gifted with
fearless joy,
supplication to the Supreme,
and may the Dance of your
Conscious Breath and Posture
(WF Lifestyle Principle #1 for go(o)d reason!)
edge you ever closer to the Sanctity of your Inner Self…

i bow to you,

om mani padme hung

coach ilg
‘the mountain yogi’