i had found my Prayer Wheel; and it was my own flying feet… – an injured coach ilg, in the final 800 meters of the Old Oraibi 8k footrace The START LINE was a scratch of blue cornmeal across the weather-smoothed dirt in the America’s most continuously inhabited village Old Oraibi. Race Director Juwan Nuvayokva, […]
Pre Race Day of the Old Oraibi 8k; Hopi Reservation, Arizona, last saturday. *** “If something can be remedied,Why be unhappy about it?And if there is no remedy for it,There is still no point in being unhappy.”– ShantidevaGuide to the Boddhistva’s Way of Life one of the images that will be sure to flicker past […]
To work with changes now, in life: That is the real way to prepare for death. Life may be full of pain, suffering, and difficulty, but all of these are opportunities handed to us to help us move toward an emotional acceptance of death. It is only when we believe things to be permanent that […]
this entry concludes my Series on my back-to-back performances at two Traditional Hopi Footraces. due to popular input, this Series may become available as an audio file and Pay-Per-PDF. check my Pro Shop often for new products…only sincere Seekers become Finders in our humble, powerful Path of Transpersonal Fitness since 1982. Thank you for considering […]
all photo’s can be clicked to enlarge. photos by ilg. precisely why most yoga teachers prefer to distance themselves from the notion that distance running is yoga! “Running ruins yoga,” i’ve been told by yoga ‘teachers’ since the eighties. not in this Tribe, baby. in this Tribe? we uphold running as did the Ancient Masters; […]
click on photos to enlarge the chi hit all photos by ilg, unless stated otherwise. The root of all phenomena is your mind.If unexamined, it rushes after experiences, ingenious in the games of deception.If you look right into it, it is free of any ground or origin,In essence free of any coming, staying or going.JAMYANG […]
continued from Part One.. Micah, the Race Director, uses a cholla stick to help us see where the Race Course would take us. A Hopi who is also an archeologist, Micah later took me on a ethnobotany walking tour of the native plants around Homolovi by which his Ancestors survived in this harsh environment. it […]
click on photos to receive more intense Chi Hit: Homol’ovi wall, morning of my first of of two Traditional Hopi Footraces that i did last Saturday and Sunday. photo by ilg. makes a great Screensaver…then again, many of the DL photos throughout the years make for great Screensavers (see yesterday’s DL). In WF, a ScreenSaver […]
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