pic of feeble ilg by James Hobby during a spring Time Trial in the ongoing DWC Championships in which ilg sit’s 4th place AG while prioritizing other disciplines outside cycling, a common trait of Wholistic Fitness® warriors which he has trained since 1981 Things I’ve Learned from Being An Endless Beginner By coach steve ilg, July 2, 2016 […]
3 more days…till ilg see’s again for the first time in a month the Precious Daughter Who Chose To C(om)e Through Me…it’s been beyond brutal not hangin’ with my Highest Rinpoche, Training Pardner, Friend, and Rascally C(om)panion which i’ve known throughout countless lifetimes…Daddy is counting the minutes, nay, seconds until I can feel your warm, […]
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 […]
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…
Don’t be in too much of a hurry to solve all your doubts and problems. As the masters say: “Make haste slowly.” I always tell my students not to have unreasonable expectations, because it takes time for spiritual growth. It takes years to learn Japanese properly or to become a doctor. Can we really expect […]
This M(om)ent… Daddy and Dewa (8) as I continue introducing my daughter to my sacred vortices of my beloved Southwest…man, we had a blast…Blessed be your day, Precious is this life. My neighbor told me a coupla weeks ago after i swerved my bike like drunkard from fatigue after a local cycling Time Trial, “Oh my God! […]
“Panta Rhei” said Heraclitus… everything flows, and you cannot step twice into the same stream… S(om)etimes, okay…nearly ALL the time, people just crack me up. “OMG! Look at your abs! How old are you?” thundered the likely (obviously) intoxicated voice from a female fellow hot-springer at the Pagosa Hot Springs Resort this past Sunday. “Uhhh…in […]
pic: the Rainbow All-Ways leads you to what is Most Important…Dewa quickly drew this during the Awards Ceremony at my final Winter Race of this season which aptly included both Dewa and Joy Kilpatrick whose Noble Efforts took us to an Overall Title… i went hard for the first 800 meters… knew the Course…was a […]
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