Maybe our Mayor is the misguided one? Dewachen seems to consider public parks full of Dandelions just Dandy…how about you? Want you and our children to play in Dandelion-studded organic parks or toxic-waste dumps?
This Sweatshirt that you so graciously took the time to document, must have been made circa: 1984 when i went through a Marketing Crisis and didn’t know if i should stick with “Wholistic Fitness®” or go with “Harmony Now” an obvious bow to my Sensei; Kaoru Kishiyama…
“…many have the predictable (if not obbessive) capacity for high intensity sweat….how few, however, have the equal intensity or capacity to Sit Still?” Wholistic Fitness® by Steve Ilg, because Specialization is for Insects… When you meditate, breathe naturally, just as you always do. Focus your awareness lightly on the outbreath. When you breathe […]
you know, feeble ilg actually spends a LOT of hours contemplating which people should play the Game of Leading where truly,
let’s be honest, no true Leaders lead…yes, politics. By Tradition, yoga teachers are apolitical, preferring to give our lives and sweat toward increasing and amplifying the Pranic Wholeness of people and then allow their enhanced Wisdom/Intuition to govern their choices…however, as my life is an open book, for better or worse, and for those of you that have Trusted in my humble, sweat and dharma based Path over the past 35 years? here is how i casted my ballot today…
These are my happy times, when the Aspens can no longer whisper their cheers to me… when, lower, the harvest begins to wane and the Bear Beings begin etching their long nocturnal nap beds…. when I force myself time and again to my lonely walk and work to the utmost upon this aging body of mine… There is warmth in the valleys
7+ years ago; BRRRRING! goes our doorbell at “Two Tree Manor” our precious home in Kinlani. Joy was in her full-on Ganesha Mode; hugely, beautifully pregnant with our chi-ld…
“PACKAGE FOR THE ILGS!”
how prophetic would soon bec(om)e that shout out from Chris. You see, Chris was our UPS Guy…and on that fine evening of September 10th, 2007 Chris delivered our package and – typical of mountain folk – he hung out a bit to chat with Ganesha Joy and i….when suddenly,
“Uh…Honey?” there was a distinct twinge of something between wonder and anxiety in her voice.
“Yeah?”… i replied feeling a sudden wave of my life changing…
“You better get our hospital bag…”
“A beautiful fall day for a run in my back yard. Ai Imawa Fit Kit” THANK YOU, FIT KIT!!! so…what’s YOUR ‘go-to’ Backyard Run look like?! send ’em JPG’s to steve@wholisticfitness.com
…and Daddy LOVES YOU, my precious Baby Girl… my precious Rinpoche Who Chose To C(om)e Through Joy and feeble i!!! LOVE YOU…waaaay beyond Wor(l)ds!!! note the dual-facing OM Symbols on either side of the Smiling Heart!!! DAT’S “my” girl!!!!
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