Dry wind whips, kisses, and caresses sandstone pillars here in the Southwest, the Rock Beings are sculpted and molded into awe-inspiring shapes and textures. So too, do are our characters molded by friction of the WF Path; the asana, the meditation, the strength training, the long hours of cardio training are designed to round off our rough, egoic edges….
“People made mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little…”
– James Hilton – Lost Horizon
My Tibetan spiritual teachers first taught me about “beyuls”…spiritual vortices which exist on Mother Earth but “can’t be found on maps.”… Beyuls, you see, are not just imaginary lofty realms; they are earth chakras which reveal themselves to be a type of Shangra-La to those yogis whose Vibrational Fitness allows them to slip beneath the “Velvet Ropes” to access a secret, hidden land which ‘vibes’ at various Levels according to the meditative fitness of the yogi exploring them. Well, today, this feeble mountain yogi known as ilg discovered another level of Beyul within my Sacred Chi-ldhood h(om)e peaks of the La Plata during a 3-mile uphill skate ski and a rather dangerous descent….c’mon, i’ve got some great pics and teachings to share…
feeble ilg sez; “let the body speak…let the ‘summit’ leaders sweat together before they intellectualize the future of human-kind…” Good Lord..can we just begin at First Base in all that we pursue? can we just command our own bodies as Temples, as Offerings to our Divine Connection before ranting on and on and on about Gods, Religions, Taxes, Immigration, et. al!?!??! put the Human SweatLodge first, then, as Sweat-based brothers and sisters, begin to climb the mountain toward collective Enlightenment on this Plane(t) as we know it….that’s all…hey, how ’bout we start as instituting WF as the National Fitness Path…that might just cure it All..Tvat Tvam Asi…
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you’re absolutely right Most Precious Yogini B!
your feeble teacher dropped the ball on the November full moon which is still quite resplendent, if not quite full, in her lofty, cold dance above our incarnational drama…so, here you go: the Full Beaver Moon – November
S(om)etimes, Vishnu just works His beauty through feeble ilg’s camera in Ways that i just GOTTA share it with my Precious Sangha…got this shot at last night’s CycleCross race in Durango, about a stone’s throw away from my casa…
still walking the talk…you can tell it’s ilg’s season! i just get fired up in Autumn and my training stats and sadhana reflects it! NOTE: DO NOT ATTEMPT to replicate my physical training stats and low caloric intake…
note: do not attempt to accomplish the techniques below without guidance; this is written to an advanced yogini…a yoga teacher who leads many retreats…if, for you, my counsel seems lofty, it is no different than say, racing Imogene Pass as hard as you can, yet, you look up the mountain and there are runners miles ahead of you…i have many students. each on various Levels. not better, just different. the important point is to keep moving Higher and Inward. – may this Teaching help you and do not forward. – ec
sure…
ilg may have done what it took to uphill ski 2,250′ in 60 minutes only to descend in 15 minutes this morning upon the Brahmanically Graced snows this morning…yet dat ain’t the ‘Thing”…here is the REAL…the WHOLISTIC thing…
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