Headstands improve more than just endocrine and exocrine health, skeletal alignment, and discharge of kaphic tendencies…they also improve the MOST IMPORTANT ARROW in a spiritual athlete’s quiver: HUMOR!!!! above photo: Abba and Dewa in Practice. by www.jamesqmartin.com *** Why should you always invite two Baptists to go fishing? If you invite only one, he’ll drink […]
click on pics for a greater chi hit Doko Oosliid, taken from my cell phone yesterday evening from near my front porch…the mountain bike ride described in today’s entry below, wiggles it’s way up the sexy left shoulder of the Sacred Peak toward the unseen Ski Area. i got this shot yesterday as well, from […]
Hey Steve! Got your book on Amazon! Great stuff. Been doing gym, running swimming, and some yoga before I read your book so it felt like this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Started week 1 and I am just about to go out for the first interval session. I am certainly looking forward […]
click on photos to deepen the Chi Hit… “Doubt is a weakness in wholistic understanding and a lack of spiritual education. However, Doubt is required for the maturation of faith and self reliance. It is when we face doubts and difficulties that we determine whether our faith is an intellectual and conceptual one, or whether […]
click on pics to enlarge the Chi Hit! above photo: “Give me Wholism or give me death…NEVER Specialize!!!”ilg rounds Corner #2 at last weekends Downtown Criterium in Durango, Colorado…”i want my podiums in cycling to reflect the versatility of my fitness – from mountain bikes to ultras to 60-minute criteriums, fortunately, i’ve been able to […]
click on pics to enlarge “You must open your eyes to the definite second,You must be the momentIn all your ferocity and faith, For that miraculous second will never comeBack ever again. Be aware, be aware: Sometimes the invitation to your new life comesAt the most least likely time.”– Mirabal ilg on the attack during […]
dang…ilg considers it an inner victory if i can manage to keep my heels down on the earth in a yogi squat after a run… this was sent to WF Headquarters from our ineffable Ron Jones with the following lead in from him: “Ilgbro;Next time someone tells us we should be sitting on a gym […]
some hours go by in what feels like 10 or 15 minutes.other ones, linger.what’s a yogi to do save for cultivating Santosha* from each? some clouds race over the Sacred Peak as if sprinting each other for thearid dry skies over Hopi land…rushing to their death.other ones, linger. whirls of white grease in the blue, […]
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