Coach Ilg, For many years I was a personal trainer for a chain in San Diego and used your books for enrichment in my life as well as those of my clients. I always found that your knowledge was like a fortune cookie and that I could crack your books at any page and find […]
click on pics to enlargen the chi hit… my Practice of Dewa Sadhana includes taking advantage of these luscious high country monsoons to soften the Fear of the crackling Thunder for Dewa…“That’s Father Sky just telling us that He is trying to bring a drink for Mother Earth…it’s okay, Little Tree,” i tell her as […]
Noble Sangha,click to enlarge the above “WF Word Cloud” – though it looks more like a monsoon squall to me! (visit www.wordle.net to make your own cool word clouds). I’d like all of you who took your time and loving attention to answer my recent WF.com poll that Master Student “MahaManas” Singer and i have […]
RE: mimic everything a toddler does in iDL 7*19*09 Ah, Reverend Ilg ~ They nap – sleep a lot. Do you do that, too? They come well padded and cushioned ..and wear diapers for when they {go sliding on their bike} fall on their butts. Take care, Brother,–erl btw: the Rev thing. Took me a […]
Imagine that you had gone all your life without ever washing, and then one day you decide to take a shower. You start scrubbing away, but then watch in horror as the dirt begins to ooze out of the pores of your skin and stream down your body. Something must be wrong: You were supposed […]
click pic to enlarge YOGI SQUAT OF THE WEEK goes to… Dewachen Catherine Ilg of Flagstaff, Arizona! Dewa has been a lifelong (22 months) WF Student. she is very strong and powerful and possesses remarkable agility. i once read a study where ‘they’ tested several world class athletes and challenged them to simply mimic everything […]
coach is going off in the WF SanghaLounge about the craziness of this years “Tour”…come on in and sound off! and, as always, read and contribute to the amazingly informative, inspirational, and down right fun input in constant dance among the various disciplines, principles, techniques, teachings, and feelings about the WF Lifestyle from our worldwide […]
Don’t we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and don’t learn what we can from the experience? As Rilke wrote, the protected heart that is “never exposed to loss, innocent and secure, cannot know tenderness; only the […]
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