“What goes up, must come down.”
– common
“It is best not to be overly excited or too depressed about the ups and downs of life.”
– The Dalai Lama upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
“The yogi, trained in equanimity, attempts to reside in the space between the Highs and Lows of life circumstances and keeps his or her mind filled with thoughts of go(o)d.”
– steve ilg; HP Yoga Teacher Training Manual
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The pendulum has swung the other way. As the Race Day hormones recede, as the Kachina Spirits voices become muted, as Tsidool Herself fades into a mystic memory i find myself today losing all momentum to attempt to recapture the spontaneous Healing and High Performance that i experienced on Saturday.
i so wanted to scribe for you an inspirational Race Report, yet my faithful Muses which are indoctrinated by my Racing endocrine system, have receded. in their ebb, i am experiencing a tremendous Santosha…an inner contentment far higher than any podium could possibly lift me.
the Auspicious Signs…the Om So Ti…ring through my cells with logic-defying rapidity. of these, i can relate a few to you without causing you confusion:
* Laghuva:
my body feels light as air and has been shining with a peculiar radiance…* Pavritti Yuga (reverse aging)
eye and face wrinkles, normally etched upon my well-weathered face, have disappeared.* absolutely zero D.O.M.S (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness).
my flexibility and joint suppleness seems MORE open than before my ultra-endurance performance! this is utterly new terrain for me. most of my competitors – as well as the steve ilg of old – are still limping around today with muscle soreness and achy joints. i feel like i am 12 years old…i had to force myself to take an off day yesterday and today am stoked to go skiing.* Pranic Empowerment
i don’t have the intellectual capacity to describe to you how my pranayama and meditations have thus been empowered since Saturday…it’s a miracle inside of me exploding…as if sushumna herself is climaxing…*no blisters
last night, Ananda commented on my toes/feet. she knows what my toes and feet look like even after racing a 10k, let alone 42 miles! my toes and feet are completely unblistered after 16 miles of locomotive multisport running…in fact, Ananda thought that i had gotten a pedicure!* Sakshi (Witnessing Mind)
an undeniable and exquisite sense of enhanced Sakshi has expanded the distance between Itself and the circumstances of my Outer Worldly life. this is happening without voluntary effort. according to Scripture this an Om So Ti of Rudra Granthi untying herself within the Psychic Chakra
there is more; attempt do i to record some of this empowerment cascade into my Meditation Journals which i will Trust to my daughter, Dewachen after i take my vacation from this Blessed and Difficult Incarnation. perhaps for future generations of Wholistic Fitness Warriors…
this is all i can write in this mood…this has been hard to even relate and i Trust in you, my faithful Sangha, to understand my go(o)d intent to help leave more footprints in my ever humble, ever slow trekking up the Steep and Direct Path toward Enlightenment through wisely structured and steadfastly performed personal fitness…
perhaps tomorrow ilg will touch down on a more common Plane and be able to be more effectively relate to you my tale of sweat and spirt upon a Sacred Mountain that surely Blessed me…
head bowed,
the mountain yogi 
“The greater the refinement of the human vehicle, the greater the response of the nervous system to the pairs of opposites, pain and pleasure. As a man progresses and rises on the ladder of evolution in the human family it becomes apparent that his capacity to appreciate sorrow or joy is greatly increased. This becomes terribly true in the the case of an aspirant and of a disciple. His sense of values becomes so acute and his physical vehicle so sensitized that he suffers more than the average man. This serves to drive him forward with increasing activity in his search. His response to outer contacts is ever more rapid and his capacity for pain, physical and emotional, becomes greatly increased.”
– the channel of Alice A. Bailey
photo 1: Dharma Banners ring in the Tibetan New Year at Two Tree Manor, by ilg
photo 2: “Shakyi” this week, by ilg
photo 3: Daddio and Dewachen, taken last week, by Ananda
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