Wholistic Fitness

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Dear Coach

it was several years ago that i wrote in a summation that ‘riding my bike

more would open up my wf practice to new heights of awareness and ultimately to a

more clear understanding of my role in conservation and environmental

mentorship’ but i was a geologist at the time and thought that this was not really

that important it is really a great theory however and some OTHER day i will

pursue this, i was not ready…on my first wf intensive i bought a bike in

Durango and she was with me until i came to Vancouver were it was swiftly stolen and

passed onto to someone else…so i was bikeless for a while…then i got a

bike from the insurance and well i did not ride very much, commuting? isn’t

that something you do in suburbs? i am from Vancouver now, it is a big city, no

– commuting must be someone else’s idea of fun…i was not ready yet…

yesterday rhonda and i went for a bikeride around Stanley Park with our new

bikes we left early to miss the crowds. it was great, a light breeze off the

ocean, the sun shining, the early morning joggers and roller bladers were going

about their business. we went all along the seawall, the ride was about 2

hours in total. on the way home we ended up in the downtown core in a parkway

area along which the last bit of green space is preserved…i remembered coming

to this very space during one of my lunch breaks when i worked in a downtown

skyscraper with an international mining firm, i was in for the week from

Uzbekistan. i remember it because at that time i was about 40 lbs overweight,

drank alot of booze, ate everything that moved, i was having heart palpations,

restless sleep, depressed, angry, agitated, neurotic and i was studying wf …as

i was sitting on my bike waiting for rhonda i could not help but smile and

laugh, what a beautiful thing this is…i feel Being right here doing this work

is the most amazing thing, riding a bike, being outside, teaching yoga, eating

as if it was sacred, sitting in meditation, using all circumstances of life

including my wanderings into geology as tools to move Higher…it is all such a

Grand Journey…i have lived into living WF, all along Being on my Spiritual

Journey, never in any moment actually not being on this Quest, it was all apart

of my Medicine as a Teacher and my Understanding as a Student and it all

seems so simple…

as i mentioned before, my bikes name is bali bali (which is farsi for yes,

yes) so bali bali to WF Studies, bali bali to following your wandering path

wherever it may wander…

The Wandering Yogi

Vancouver, BC