Campfires are Upa Guru’s of Tapas….ilg has Taught – err, attempted to Teach – you all about Tapas through my words, sweat, and actions for the past 3+ decades. Tapas = Spiritual Sweat which results in Karmic Purification. See the log above? See the smoke? THAT is Tapas. in that wafting, seductive, mesmerizing dance of smoke lies perhaps that most vital Teaching of all warrior athletes, certainly of all yogis. Do you know what that Teaching is?
Main intent of this trip will be taking my girls to one of my lifelong Sacred Southwest Vortices; Chimney Rock Archeological Area; the northern High Priest Hangout of the Ancient Ones…this place spin balances your chakral fields faster than an Osprey tracking on a Trout… Chimney Rock is on pace to soon become a National Monument…
thank you thank you… we need people like ILG in our lives.. Linh Thao Nguyen Chatsworth, CA
An honest realization must precede the evident answer to ‘preventing disasters’ on Chomolungma (aka; Mt. Everest). No one that uses supplemental oxygen on a peak actually climbs that peak. Using oxygen falsely ‘lowers’ the elevation and subjective dangers of the natural peak to the fitness capacity of the perpetrator…errr, ‘climber.’
Precious Ones Along The Path….aging IS easy!!! it’s the Attachment to Youth that is hard!
I wonder if you remember teaching me my first yoga pose…in your driveway at a garage sale of yours 5 years ago?!
I finally got into doing yoga over a year ago and have not stopped! love it!
Yogi Josh and i just agreed to a summer’s worth of WF Online Training to prepare him for his next yogic Mission…ilg trusts my Sangha – YOU – will once again cOMe through him as i attempt to do my best to prepare him for an incredible Tapasaya..
“If you are quiet enough you will hear the flow of the Universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow…happiness lies ahead…”
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