dat’s right: i’ve been virtually off the bike(s) since placing in the top 20 AG of the Imogene Pass Run and i’ve been fighting off an insanely powerful virus that has laid my two girls flat for five days; yet, when a four-event bicycle racing Championships occurs in my beloved hOMetown of Durango which has […]
enjoy….4 minutes of WF Chi… World’s SLOWEST MTB Ride? get out and do, dwell within and be… your high mountain yogi
click to enlarge the Chi Hit…taken from my cheap ass camera phone today… A fork in the road (5)The steep, direct Path beckons (7)Upward and inward (5) WF Master Student L’gateNYC *** what other ever-fresh Student Dharma resides in the amazing WF SanghaLounge?you won’t know how much inspiration and knowledge you are missinguntil you keep […]
click on pics to enlargen and enliven your DL Chi Hit! “While unperishing love melted my bones,I cried,I shouted again and again,louder than the waves of the billowing sea,I became confused,I fell,I rolled,I wailed,Bewildered like a madman,Intoxicated like a crazy drunk,so that people were puzzledand those who heard wondered.” – Manikka-vacakar’s 9th century love songs […]
Namaste Noble Sangha, COACH’s CAVEAT: this entire DL portrays Mountain Yogi endeavors that should NOT be attempted by your normal 45-year old Expecting Father. in other words, do NOT try this stuff at home…unless, of course, you are into a WHOLE LOT OF “FOCUSED FUN” in the WHOLISTIC FITNESS definition of the words! Yesterday’s yoga […]
“So don’t be in a hurry and try to push or rush your Practice. Do your meditation gently and gradually step by step. In regard to peacefulness, if you become peaceful, then accept it; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. That’s the nature of the mind. We must find our own Practice […]
“(E)arnestly practice every good work.”– Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King, 1981 above photo; apres yoga…mountain yogi style! exhausted and intensely, sacredly happy. more seeds of impurity burned in the furnace of self-driven sweat of a 5 hour, 54-mile, 6,800′ mountain bike effort. this photo shows precisely why i am never impressed by fancy postures done by ‘studio yogis’…let them […]
The Sacred Peak of Doko oosliid (Mt. Humphreys) is not only the highest point of Arizona, it also becomes the center point around which the ultra-distance ride of “Around The Peaks” revolves. I took this shot from about mile 28 from my bike while riding. This is her northwest slope, still holding significant snow. Come […]
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