Namaste Noble Warriors!
�The beginning athlete uses muscle strength. The maturing athlete starts using breath strength. The true spiritual athlete, however, cultivates the pran.�
– steve ilg
multi World Championship outdoor athlete
some of you have expressed interest in my actual Journal Recordings, saying they help inspire your own Practice. here is yesterday�s. may it somehow benefit your own Practice:
�early a.m. Pranayama/Meditation goes stupendous again. � overwhelmed by office work, my attempts to catch up goes absolutely nowhere, so i hook up for a ride with Steve M and drag him around Fruit Loop {the name i give to a 38 mile rolling bicycle route through Mullholland Highway and Malibu Canyon}. there is rain when we begin, but yogis don�t care if it is raining or not if you gotta ride anyway. soon enough, the rain clears after a few miles and i am just fucking motoring on the Softride, feeling like i am 21 again. that bike is so fast that SM could only barely keep my draft and i�m only at low Z3! inside of me, i am just going nowhere. no effort, just pran flowing within and without. � back at home i screw on Zen Mind to do laundry, sage the house, and clean. doing domestic duties a sacred opportunity to offer my actions to Brahma and appreciate the Sharpening of the Knife…one must work from a clean, clear center..be it ones home, or body. � run errands on Galileo {my motorcycle}. as i weave through and around the cagers {people addicted to cars} along Ventura Boulevard i am gifted by a most AMAZING sunset; explosions of chakra colors like the sky reached orgasm and was not ashamed in her expression of it. � i take this natural High with me into my beautiful yoga studio whereupon i and three students merge into a most graceful and deep Slow Flow. Love radiates from my studio and the Presence of devoted spiritual athletes seems overpowering for being open only 7 weeks and without so much as a Press Release to market ourselves! Brahma told me; build it and they will come. they are. � at home, i�m tired. i attempt to watch a video of the Lakers game. couldn’t hang but FF to see them win. tomorrow the Colorado Avs play. i set the recorder in what i begin to see as one of my final attachments to staying interested in outer worldly things. Hockey comes closer than anything, i reckon. probably because of the lower chakra nature of its grace? too tired to follow that line of thought… in bed, i flirt with Mula Bandha and think about how to torture my morning HP Prop Workout class as i fall into susupti {dreamless sleep}. i am helping others. i am Blessed.”
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