whenever i get feeling like i want to blow off difficulty; be it holding a yoga pose, holding a wheel in front of me during cycling, holding my tongue during a difficult relationship moment, holding the choice between entertainment and inner-attainment? you know what what i force myself to consider?
Women will be allowed to compete in (even writing that sounds weirdly wrong!) in Nordic Ski Jumping at the 2014 Winter Olmpics in Russia…go(o)d thing Dewachen is already in training! Now, it’s time to…
Dharma sign, downtown Durango, this morning.
ilg was able to manage 21 Cardio Commutes last month between walking, jogging, or cycling some of my errands. How ’bout you? Live like a tree, not like a fire.
Overly tight(I mean tight!) hamstrings are among my most significant area of weakness. They are a limit switch for many postures and some strength training exercises.
Is there a recommended practice or sequence I should emphasize to improve more rapidly or is repeated effort and tincture of time the prescription?
– A Fan Since the 80’s, Andy Shelton
friday was the last day i could ski at Purg on my weekday-only season pass…
What better way to end my formal ski season than to take a Last Dance upon those shimmering slopes with my precious daughter, our Rinpoche Dewachen? so, we did…just Daddy and Daughter…cranking the last few turns of a Heaven of a season…here are a few Heart Hits, both photographically and in verse of what felt to me to be a space and a time far suspended above the the comings and goings of the outer world…enjoy…
one day, you’ll probably giggle at this story;
because your Amma and Abba chose not to vaccinate you, we came up with a different term for what people call, “colds” or “illness”…we call them, IDEO’s. it stands for:
In our third 2011 Kiva Talk for WF Members, we explored the third Noble Fitness Discipline of WF: HP Yoga! You may want to listen to this recording multiple times, as there are some powerful lessons here …
We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear…
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