35 years as an Outdoor Performance Coach, and seeing and feeling the transformation of students just gets more and more Sacred… this morning’s coaching was speed skating into snowshoe hill repeats for my Noble Warrioress students! Blessed Be YOUR Sacred Sweat! #skihesperus #durangorunningcompany #wholisticfitness #durangoparksandrec #runsteep #sacredsweat #tailwind #bodyhealth #pineneedlemountaineering — in Durango, Colorado.
pic by Ray Dielo of the Silverton Standard (one of the longest running newspapers on Turtle Island!) as i lead out the marquee-names of distance running down historic Blair Street, Silverton, CO last Saturday. 2018 8th Annual Winter Warrior 10k OVERALL RACE CHAMPIONS (thanks to Durango Nordic Club!) held on Saturday, Feb. 10th at […]
pic by ilg; the Precious Rinpoché Dewachen, at 11,578′ today, saying before this pic, “SERIOUSLY DADDY!?!? You are taking ANOTHER PICTURE when we COULD be SKIING!?!??!” pic by ilg : Dewa KILLIN’ another finish to another Black Diamond cuz, well? (Black) Diamonds are a (Colorado) Girl’s Best Friend! working on squaring our shoulders to the […]
Well kids, your feeble ilg finished 2nd Overall in the Twilight Series/SnowMaster category tonight. This 3-week BattleDance raged over crazy courses using the Wintersports of Snowshoeing, Fat Tire Cycling, and tonight’s Nordic Skiing. Kudo’s to Twilight Series Winner; Shaun! though ilg slayed Shaun tonight in the Nordic Ski (ask him, he’ll admit!), ’twas not […]
This M(om)ent… Dewa hockey stops on top of the headwall, as I narrowly miss reacting to her sudden snow-spraying stop… “Daddy?” “Yup?” “I don’t THINK I like skiing anymore…” I take a Conscious Breath…already attempting to convince myself that not skiing out the rest of my Blessed Life with my daughter might possibly still […]
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires […]
using her Daddy’s coaching counsel to ‘Use your arms like Pegasus Wings to fly downhill!’ Dewa is captured here by HP Yogini, Caroline Eastburn as we approached the Finish Line…meanwhile? ilg fights the ego as ilg looks at this pic and see’s an old, fat guy trying to keep up with his daughter! Ha! […]
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 […]
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