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 […]
your feeble teacher of no-thing… still all-Ways challenging ilg’s paltry limits in the most unique, wholistic, lunatic fringe ways… and? that is what ilg loves most about the Wholistic Fitness® lifestyle: it keeps life interesting and the chi elevating! my notes from Naropa (A Buddhist Contemplative University which ilg attended after defaulting from Molecular Cellular […]
Your Feebleness…channeling our Plane(t)’s most c(om)mon sense (and proven for 35 years) Path toward Wholeness… (yup, those are my talus-inspired holed-up Saucony Hatori’s…for you shoe afficianando’s!) Yup! There is no Higher Chill than a Chill Sesh at CryoMedSpa! life at -222 degrees, baby! Accurate. Intense. POWERFUL! you are what you EAT! which […]
All the spiritual teachers of humanity have told us the same thing, that the purpose of life on earth is to achieve union with our fundamental, enlightened nature. It says in the Upanishads: There is the path of wisdom and the path of ignorance. They are far apart and lead to different ends. . . . Abiding […]
So, yeah, like this just happened: my precious 80+ year-old M(om) – endured a massive Heart Stroke last night…thanks to Constance Ilg, my sister, being on the auspicious m(om)ent just after visiting myself, Dewa, and Joy Kilpatrick here in Durango, she was Johnny-On-The-Spot back in Long Beach, CA…yup, my m(om)my is still alive, and […]
Even Buddha died. His death was a teaching to shock the naive, the indolent, and the complacent, to wake us up to the truth that everything is impermanent and death an inescapable fact of life. As he was approaching death, Buddha said: Of all footprints That of the elephant is supreme. Of all mindfulness […]
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…
pic: several weeks ago…feeble yogi ilg enjoying a skiers winter life in our precious, heavenly hamlet beneath the sacred peak of Dibé Nitsaa with my live-in Rinpoche; Dewachen Ilg (8). tis a great Medicine Blessing to have nearly died 3x in this one lifetime for rare is the moment – let alone a day – […]
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