pandemic: life upended, language transformed 2020 has been, well, a lot. At Dictionary.com, the task of choosing a single word to sum up 2020—a year roiled by a public health crisis, an economic downturn, racial injustice, climate disaster, political division, and rampant disinformation—was a challenging and humbling one. But at the same time, our choice […]
ilgVlog85: My Bodyhealth® Supplement Routine+Purg Opening Day/Horsing Around! Video link 10+ minutes; begins with straight up no-nonsense direct line feed about the organic, high potency supplements fr(om) BodyHealth that ilg relies upon everyday to still feel and perform several decades younger! Vlog then dovetails into pre-OPENING DAY AT PURGATORY SKI RESORT with me before closing […]
ilgVlog84: Skimo and…the Mechanics of Meditation! Vlog premieres on Monday, November 23 at 730a MST: MAKE SURE you are SUBSCRIBED and CLICK the Gray Notification Bell! https://youtu.be/UhXnzSn1DwE round it off to 20-minutes: Gotta say? Perhaps ilg’s best Vlog EVER!!! Why? Cuz? This Vlog epitomizes the wholistic diversity of ilg’s lifework… Juxtaposes SkiMo with […]
One of feeble ilg’s most precious English words: Resilience. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Today, ilg ran up Smelter fr(om) RiverPad (my h(om)e near the Skate Park). Felt solid up the mountain, then, coming back through the Dog Park, was starting to dismantle. This broken back yogi’s right hip (4 career road […]
pic: coach ilg in, uh…hold on, lemme TAF about This; Ardha Salabha Pincha Maurasana …. did feeble yogi ilg miss s(om)ething? let ilg know in the c(om)ments below…. Dear Coach Ilg, You are the only one I feel can reach out to… my Dad who was a Student of yours in the late eighties […]
pic by ilg: ilg’s DREAM TIME! L-R: Bryn, Dewa, and Iyumi captured 3rd, 4th, and 6th respectively at Saturday’s Colorado State Middle School XC Championships in Denver, Colorado. it’s been an INCREDIBLE HONOR to coach these Ladies through a season that we had to piecemeal together with a few other dedicated parents from the Western […]
Remember: A method is only a means, not the meditation itself. It is through practicing the method skillfully that you reach the perfection of that pure state of total presence, which is the real meditation. There is a revealing Tibetan saying: “Gompa ma yin, kompa yin,” which means literally: “ Meditation is not; getting used to is.” It means that meditation is nothing […]
15-minutes. Opens with crazy beautiful GoPro footage of my Inline Skate workout with local Mountain Yogi extraordinaire Adam “The Brit” Gaubert as we skate the famous Animas River Trail then into the steep hills. It’s there where your feeble ilg nearly lost control on a 18% downhill! OUR TEMPLE HAS AND WILL BE […]
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