Sand had sifted in underneath the tent covering the baby and the woven mat….
“Before I knew I had to run..I had several excuses lined up: “its tax season, I should just work”; “It snowing hard out right now” etc. Then a voice somewhere inside (maybe Tsidool deities?) said “get off your butt and get out there”! So I went! Man am I glad I did!”
WF Devotee, bRad Tafoya
Durango, Colorado
There are tools that the Ancients have bequeathed us to keep us tapped into the present….such as Conscious Breath and Posture (the first of my 4 Lifestyle Principles). When racing, when loving, when driving, when being? Just do this, okay? Trust the Breath…and all will be better than okay. pic; ilg after crushing another Course Record and a 5k Overall Win at the Pagosa Nordic Winterfest age nearly age 50.
Most Noble Sangha,
if you lived in Durango and became one of my High Performance Bodywork clients, you’d receive not only world-acclaimed Compressive Tissue Manipulation (via both Table and Floorwork sessions) interwove with Tibetan Healing Energywork, you’d also receive free of charge, my mother-hennish updates and suggested Course of Actions because,
How a WF Master Student ‘actively recovers’ from chopping 36+ minutes off her time in a 75-kilometer winter quadrathlon; Padma crankin’ some sweet 3+ Waterfall Ice in Utah the other day…
This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. And what will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
the pic of me that was made into a poster, without my knowing, let alone, residuals! ilg pinnacle jumping in the North Cascades a long time ago by David Terrance Turner
Yup, I’ve just JUMPED again!
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