One of feeble ilg’s most precious English words: Resilience. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Today, ilg ran up Smelter fr(om) RiverPad (my h(om)e near the Skate Park). Felt solid up the mountain, then, coming back through the Dog Park, was starting to dismantle. This broken back yogi’s right hip (4 career road […]
15-minutes. Opens with crazy beautiful GoPro footage of my Inline Skate workout with local Mountain Yogi extraordinaire Adam “The Brit” Gaubert as we skate the famous Animas River Trail then into the steep hills. It’s there where your feeble ilg nearly lost control on a 18% downhill! OUR TEMPLE HAS AND WILL BE […]
Parkour at 12,400’+; 4 Peaks/2 Hours w/Dewa! what a Sacred HONOR it was to – after nearly 15 years – revisit my old h(om)etown of Santa Fe with Dewa and just SLAM the CHI across 4 of ilg’s once go-to high peaks in just over 2 hours! most memorable m(om)ent… nearly 60 year-old ilg and […]
Most Noble Sangha, so, last Saturday, i guided Dewa (12) up Mt. Elbert, Colorado’s highest peak at 14,433’… we ran up, up, up…endlessly up…She summited in 2:16. reckon y’all can only imagine how special, how sacred our summit felt to Her young cells. i’ve taught Dewa the wisd(om) of never lingering on high mountain […]
pic; selfie at the famed “Gudys Rest” on the CT….over my shoulders i the Junction Creek (JC) drainage. 160/Lightner/Dry Fork/Hoffeins/CT/JC…i like this direction because from RiverPad it’s about 70-minutes of relatively gradual climbing. wanted to keep my HR steady and moderate and pretty much Mission C(om)pleted. As the Captain of the premier […]
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 […]
“Make the asana steady and firm.” – Swami Satyananda Saraswati pic by ilg of Dewa (12) training on the “Klaebo Klop” Technique, a half-hour before her Teammates arrived for a 2-hour distance workout. For more on why your feeble teacher is teaching is highly-explosive uphill running-on-ski’s technique to Dewa, most everything is […]
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