Coach!! Can you cook me a WF Blessed Mala for 100k+ prostrations?above; long-time WF Devotee Claudia *** Hello Noble Coach!!! Much has happened since we spoke last – I would like to come see you this fall to visit ananda and baby and check out flagstaff but before then I will be entering a tibetan […]
“Most men spend their entire lives fishingnever realizing that it’s not fishthat they are after.”– Henry David Thoreau When i first read that quote when i was a boy,it hit me like a brick. More on this insight coming up in DL,however,i just want this m(om)ent and this great picturetaken by Ananda of myself fishing […]
click on photos to enlarge We are what we eat. The current spike in childhood obesity, autism, etc, etc, along with the panoply of adolescent and adult dis-ease can often begin unwittingly by ‘too-busy’ mothers (enabled by their comfort-enabling partner?) who choose comfort over caring when it comes to day care and breast feeding. Our […]
click on pics for a greater chi hit Doko Oosliid, taken from my cell phone yesterday evening from near my front porch…the mountain bike ride described in today’s entry below, wiggles it’s way up the sexy left shoulder of the Sacred Peak toward the unseen Ski Area. i got this shot yesterday as well, from […]
After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things. When you do re-enter everyday life, let the wisdom, insight, compassion, humor, fluidity, spaciousness, and detachment that meditation brought you pervade your day-to-day experience. Meditation awakens in you the realization of how the nature of everything is […]
Namaste Coach, whoa…2 days in a row, have practiced the 20 min. nap after the mid-day meal. it definitely is a sweet treat after arising between 4:30-5:30 for the past 3 mornings to practice Zazen. yesterday it was challenging to relax at first as i was mid-stream of my ‘work’ and i knew i was […]
“The Intent of lifelong Ritualis to become abeautiful beggarofthe Divine.”– steve ilg, after an early morning crust-skiing workout into Early Morning Ritual, March 5, 2009 WF Beautiful Beggar Asanatry this to test your current beautiful beggar capacities;• right now (there is rarely a better time than ‘Right Now’) drop down into your yogi squat. breathe […]
“Why do we Sit Still in Wholistic Fitness training?… …in order to remove the darkness of conditioned egoic layers.”– coach ilg in siddhasanaMeditation is one of the Five Noble Disciplines of Wholistic Fitness, since 1982 *** If you are sitting, and your mind is not wholly in tune with your body—if you are, for instance, […]
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