“oh! those Lupines, those Columbines, those Pink Fairy Slippers!!! What Divinity! Even the most measly of wildflower is 10,000x a better yogi than feeble ilg!! So tall! So full of Unconditional Happiness! At this m(om)ent, while ilg is busy working in the City thousand(s) feet lower? They’re still up there, waaaay up there in their Heavenly […]
for the first spring in a while, ilg did not c(om)pete in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic – one of my Three Sacred Race Pilgrimages of Wholistic Fitness®* see, my lil brother was gettin’ hitched in Albuquerque (yeah, the Duke City) and so that glorious event put a kibosh on my usual Iron Horse Pilgrimage in which i’d […]
Chapter 1 It was my older sister’s cackle with all the subtly of an ambulance siren that yanked my mental realm from my 7 year-old engrossment from within toward the outer world. Such yankment from the Inner World forced into the Outer World tis a transitory Dance with which i’ve yet – after 5+ decades – to c(om)e to learn. […]
OMG, OMG, OMG!!! THANK YOU MOST PRECIOUS Dr. David Minkoff, Chris Alexander, and the rest of the Bodyhealth staff for following through on my repeated suggestions for a powdered alternative to the Perfect Amino pills!!! Now my 8 year-old daughter and my 86 year-old m(om) can reap the myriad regenerative effects from being in a positive […]
“…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 […]
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