My breath comes in thrusts, like a spawning salmon determined toward higher, purer waters. Just 4 days after racing Imogene – and the very morning after teaching a HP Yoga™ PROP WORKOUT – i somehow have again managed to forget both my age and adult responsibilities and find myself bolting about the alpine tundra like a Rocky Mountain ram. …come, let’s share a Recovery Run together in my beloved pranic playground in the high San Juans as the highest chakra of Mother Earth whispers soft, tensionless saluations as she begin to hunkers down for a long, cold winter…
we made healthy raspberry cupcakes to take to Dewa’s fantastic “Durango Early Learning Center”… she was sooo pumped to be the star of her own party with her new school-mates! the frosting was made from organic raspberries…
“Thank you God, for San Juan Septembers…” a photo essay of ilg once again…smitten by early September at 6,512’…
The exhaustion and sacrifice – personally and financially – inherent to Consciously Parenting a chi-ld is astoundingly lopsided on the fatigue and i’m-going-to-start-throwing-furniture-through-the-window exasperation yet even more astoundingly, confound-ably, and Divinely balanced by mere m(om)ents when even the sun and stars fade into a whirling stillness of inner brightening as your chi-ld becomes that Great Mirror of All Teachers, All Gurus, All Lama’s, All Rinpoche’s, all Traditions, all-trees, mists, mountains, flowers, fish, stones, and streams. Within their stream-entry of egoic-free laughters, the cosmos chuckle and such beauty as God is known in thy very cells causing my heart to re-ignite my own stumbling toward Enlightenment…
High Heart Rate with a view…
looking NE over Ophir Pass…the 4wd road pictured. the snow still tinges the southwest edge of the unnamed lake, about 1,200′ below my Pranayama perch. as i was immersed in my pranayama, an Osprey buzzed me at warp speed, nearly sending me off my perch! this is a very Go(o)d place to ilg…
My precious shishya EYT shown here awash in San Juan wildflowers during our run/hike ascent of Engineer Peak last week. EYT (Elizabeth) is from England, and is taking Pilgrimage to Turtle Island from Germany. Within m(om)ents, EYT has charmed the Kundala off all us local WF/HP warriors with her inner radiance, fetching accent, and absolute fierceness of chi! Below, i asked EYT 7 Questions about her Pilgrimage here to the h(om)eland of WF in honor of the 7 Realms…enjoy and LEARN from the sage wisdom of this AMAZING student of our Beloved Path!
Gaden Shartse monks working on a Chenrezig Mandala at Open Shutter Gallery, downtown Durango today…Tomorrow evening, the Mandala will then be offered into the sacred waters of the Animas River…the Teaching is of Impermanence…
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