Welcome to Direct Lines for 2007! Please excuse some of the changes if you’ve been watching this space go through some rather funky morphing over the last several hours. Until we get this ironed out, please feel free to peruse the DL archives going back to July 2002! Just click the link on the left […]
“The great problem is bringing lifeback into the wasteland,where people live inauthentically.” – Joseph Campbell Tonight, Ananda and i are going on a moonlight cross country ski with some fellow yogis. Merging into my most treasured sound of ski across snow, we’ll each reflect on the past year before returning to our tiny town hunkered […]
The Associated Press today titled their story:Body found on Chinese mountain ID’d That body belonged to my old climbing friend and mentor, Charlie Fowler. I could tell you a number of heart thumping and heart warming about Charlie, as could any number of Colorado climbers that tied into a rope with Charlie. The man, now […]
So, i understand that Nike has merged with iPod and has thus begun a marketing(read spirit-deconditioning) campaign to convince the UnAwakened massesthat to go for a run without being ‘plugged in’ is soooo uncool.feeble ilg wonders,“Would Steve Prefontaine train and race with an iPod?”whatever happened to running while listening to and nourishing one’s own Divinity!?! […]
Hi Steve, A steep path indeed my friend. I had dinner with {a fellow WF Online Student} tonight. We talked and talked about the WF Path, the grade, the positive effort, and the mystery that is Ilg. I thought it might bring a smile to el coache’s face to know that we up here in […]
My friend Michael Secrest from Scottsdale, AZ whom some of you WF Devotees may recognize from my books, just broke the World Record for 24 hours of continuous cycling on October 22, 2006. The Two Wheeling Warrior rode 534.75 miles at an astonishing average speed of 22.28 mph! He set the mark at the Home […]
Is this coach ilg now appearing in Yoga Journal? Below, i settle the rummor once and for all! A handful of Alert WF Warriors wrote in to ask if that was me in the February, 07 issue of Yoga Journal. “I don’t know,” came my reply, “i don’t subscribe to mainstream magazines. And Yoga Journal […]
“Where are you between two thoughts?” There is no Practice quite like Holiday and Family Practice! The yogi is trained to participate fully in the family and Outer World yet maintains his or her Inner World as the true and steadfast Source of “Christ’s Mass”. Immersed in the Holiday Practice, relying on Early Morning Ritual […]
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