okay gang… new daddy here is gonna toe another Start Line tomorrow: i’m doing the 10k race of theFlagstaff Marathon i tried to ‘jog through’ this new course the day before yesterday…uh, yeah right…my “jog through” saw my heart rate to 183, i re-pulled the hamstring injury from the Hopi Races (which did not, miraculously, […]
my ‘boss’ cranking out the routes at “The Gunks”, upstate New York. photo courtesy; john doskicz Hey Coach!Today is a Rest day today after 3 days on. Climbed 42 pitches under the belt and two more days promising the best to come! Watching the birds beat on the steelers in the hotel room! Thanks for […]
from this weekend in DL: i open and then close behind me a barbed wire fence, tacked precariously on a moss rock hillside and start jogging up a slight incline toward Sabi Meadow. the Meadow itself greets me with a splendor all its own. i love this Meadow; i snowshoe train here in the shock […]
Dear Coach, i have followed your Teachings since 1993 and think you are the most genuine Teacher, coach, yoga instructor out there; thank you for teaching us how to be brave…your DL of of few years ago about “Worshipping Fearlessness,” changed my life. Thanks to you, I know attack my weaknesses and lazy habits with […]
click on photos to enlarge (DL Subscribers only) i struggle greatly with the amount of dharmic deluge which sometimes courses and at other times infiltrates, and then at times coyly flirts within the strands of this self called, ‘steve ilg’. the struggle comes from choosing which teensy tiny parcel of It All i should attempt […]
coach ilg, Strength and Conditioning Coach of the famed, “Team 7-Eleven” pro cycling team from the eighties, still cranks out indoor cycling intervals, especially as a new father! photo by Ananda. *** CYCLE IN, BREATH OUT“Turning our minds to our Breath produces a moment of purity.No clutter. No random thoughts. No Drama.” – Coach Steve […]
click photos to enlarge this morning in the paper i read the obituary of a local 3 month-old, a beautiful little girl, who died in her sleep on September 11, the same day Dewachen was born one year ago. as a yogi trained in Death and Dying Meditations, those black-and-white words and image still made […]
When you have explored the great mystical traditions, choose one master and follow him or her. It’s one thing to set out on the spiritual journey; it’s quite another to find the patience and endurance, the wisdom, courage, and humility to follow it to the end. You may have the karma to find a teacher, […]
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