“…most civilizations die of a nerve collapse, because they have shut the fresh air out… because they have tried to hover the little ones, to harness them up and pin them down … they have no freedom. The very thing on which we and all things live. You have prejudiced him against all that. You have prejudiced his soul against god.” -“Health Benefits to Children From Contact with the Outdoors and Nature.” (1921)
…mind unruffled
shaking distractions away
like the wind-god
scatters a few
forest leaves.
– Kottitha
(written a few thousand years ago)
pic: Dewachen Ilg dancing up Mr. Breezy (5.5) and making it look easy. Penitenté Canyon, Saturday. pic by Sandra Lee. “Stress, anxiety, injury, mood-swings are re-Minders that you are in need of yoga. Noticeable tightness – physical or mental – us the body shouting for release. Do yoga. Dance. Ski. Climb some rocks. Thrown the […]
pic; your feeble teacher of no-thing in some inverted Garudasana inversion during personal Practice. So, i’m teaching my High Performance Yoga® Slow Flow class this morning, right? There’s one of two guys in class. He’s kinda doing his own thing, not letting me adjust his postures. During the strength sequences he starts mouth breathing […]
pic of Dewachen Ilg (8) Saturday while fishing at Vallecito Lake, near Durango, Colorado. Moments after i snapped this pic, i netted a 16″, 2lb that D-cat hooked and landed…providing a wonderful meal for her family! “Your body is so beautiful just the way it Is. It is a living, breathing Truth of God. Cosmetic […]
pic: my toes graced by Frozen YogaToes® today after my ‘sweltering’ mountain bike ride in 75-degree heat Noble Sangha, gotta hand this foot trick to Sandra Lee who TOTALLY turned me onto this treat-ment! used it again today after my MTB ride in the first SWELTERING HOT spring day here at 6,512′; it was […]
Among my many notes from Naropa University from waaaay back when, i find this hand-scribbled, barely discernible lecture from one of my Tibetan Lama Teachers: “If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.” My Teachers of Meditation would compare the mind […]
Confidence is born from Training.
Though i’ve not sat in a bicycle saddle a FRACTION of the time compared to the mighty warrior brothers tonight? Ilg will be smiling upon my aero bars, hunkered low against Sister Wind, snapping my thighs at the top tube, recollecting my times offering my sweat upon the scared snows while ski racing, snowshoeing, and doing the MULTISPORT DANCE!
Wholeness lives in versatility.
Never count out your ‘lack of specific training’…that’s an illusion of the sport-specific Clans…so predictable in their lack of wholeness, in their lack of trust in It All…
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