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As ilg heaved, huffed, and puffed my fatigued hip flexors through the deep, sacred snows i actually arrived at such a point whereupon i felt i was literally fucking the snow with each uphill hip-flexor driven stab into the expansive, soft, and all-too accommodating virgin powder…the universal symbolism upon my sweating, heaving, driving body/mind/spirit not being lost to the rather obvious analogy; at times, the intensity of cardio work spurns sexual passion which of course is but an often sub-conscious, samskaric longing for an end to duality and a return to wholeness.

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The Wisdom of Active Recovery:  Engaged, Focused Fun!

Take a conventionally-trained runner, for instance. As a typical coach, I would monitor his or her ‘hard days’ with either ‘easy’ or ‘off’ days. Trouble with this predictable, boring approach is two-fold; 1) the runner feels guilty when not training hard or worse, if there is a prescribed ‘off day’ which is enough to send the usually compulsive if not obsessive into conniptions and 2) as my friend and fellow Durangatang, Ned Overend (maybe you’ve heard of him!) taught me many years ago,

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of which we are all One….

Published on Feb 07, 2012 by in Native Americana, Teachings

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Grandmother Moon (yin), in complementary opposite to Grandfather Sun (yang)….bordered by sister trees, sister river, brother cloud, and ripples of which we are all One….

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ilg admits; it’s been the steepest headwall i’ve ever attempted to climb
yet, thanks to my Practice begotten from my Teachers…your Teachers..our Teachers…of this
amazing Precious Path of WF?
my Essential Nature of Mind is only intensifying through the difficulty…not diminishing…
how doth the saying go?
“The interruptions ARE the Practice!”

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Most Precious Sangha, what’s more important than learning the dimensional breath? be at YogaDurango (Florida Road studio) tomorrow at 11 am to 1 pm for a fantastic workshop with Joy and myself head bowed, coach steve ilg, cpt/uscf/ryt 500 founder: www.WholisticFitness.com www.highperformanceyoga.com

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…once again,  Warrior Elder ilg produces back to back wins on historic Start Lines…

Durango, Colorado –
Legendary and seemingly ageless outdoor athlete/mountain yogi steve ilg increased his stock as the “world’s fittest human” by winning back to back races in rando (ski mountaineering) and nordic ski racing this weekend…

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We don’t if Krishna initiated the Warrior Arjuna with a Mantra before the Big K counseled Arjuna to “Look to your duty; do not tremble before it; nothing is better for a warrior than a battle of sacred duty…”… what we DO know is that your feeble coach has steadfastly counseled all of you in the use of Mantra for Cardio and of course, in HP PROP Workouts. Today, Yogi B writes to me about just how the Mantra protected him from his ego during his recent run;

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(all access) HP Yogi bRad to toe the Start Line of Tsidool!  will finish all three WF Sacred Sweat Pilgrimages if he finishes!

who else is out there closing in on their own WF Sacred Sweat Trifecta?! I know…

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