That Wonderful, Long Lasting Ilg Inspiration… The Cover That Launched 10,000 Meditations. May 1992: After nearly breaking the legs and rupturing the lungs of the then Chicago-based OUTSIDE Magazine editorial staff on a guided “hike” up Lake Peak above Santa Fe, Coach’s fitness so inspired the OUTSIDE staff that they assigned a writer to do […]
Most Precious WF Sangha! received a question from a long-time Student struggling to remember a Breathing Technique that totally brings down an elevated Heart Rate and/or Mental Confliction… ilg calls it; C(om)pression Pranyama or? When ilg coaches my Middle School XC Runners; the Compression Breath: Pic of a levitating ilg during another onslaught onto another […]
3 HP Yogi’s, 3 Podiums… pic by Joy Kilpatrick after Saturday’s Coke Nordic Race #2: L-R: Dewa Ilg off the sick bed and into 3rd Place Female 3k U14 feeble ilg nabbing 1st Place Classic in 39 minutes Bryn Aggler using her XC running fitness and HP yoga to get 2nd Place Female […]
pic by your feeble teacher of nothing of Marjorie Catherine Ilg – ageless at 89 – waving to Her son’s Sangha, cuz? Well, reckon She’s proud of Her son’s inspiring 4 decades of Warrior/ess’s like Her! Hec, you think ilg Teaches tough?!?! no…ilg’s M(om) is the tough one, trust ilg on this one! see […]
Pic 1: no words needed. Pic 2: by Mike Ellis; Dewa (photo far left) heading out into17-minutes of pure suffering in the Pain Cave alongside Her Durango XC Teammates..D eventually finished 11th out of 69 racers to help secure our Durango Middle School Girl’s XC Season to, uh, wait, lemme check, oh […]
Red (Mother)Earth, Blue (Father) Sky… ilg can be found here if not in the high alpine terrain… love EVERYTHING ABOUT the high desert… and to ilg? it gets more and more sacred as ilg grows older and shares my special sacred spaces with Dewa who REALLY vibes in Auspicious Ways among this pinon-studded, arid Heavenly […]
Dewachen Ilg (11) this morning during a two-sport duathlon workout involving 5k of vert…. here, Dewa is halfway up a ski-poling workout up the frontside of Purgatory whereupon, m(om)ents after your feeble teacher got this pic? ilg spotted a Bear Being not 100-meters fr(om) us.. “Baby Girl?” “Yeah,” (insert gasping for breath) “Dad…?” […]
“i have c(om)e to dis-cover and re-cover time again, how sacredly sweating within the terrain of Mother Earth and beneath Father Sky unconditionally forces us to feel unguarded, vulnerable, unprotected. It’s just this very fact – derived fr(om) Direct Experience – that c(om)peting and/or challenging ourselves in the wildness makes us stronger.” – steve ilg, […]
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