Wholistic Fitness

From My DharmaTalk With Former WF and HP Yoga Teacher Q: “The sincere spiritual journey can be, and often is, a very precarious thing. For many reasons this is so. I will share one now. As my shadow was uncovered and my practice began to reveal the deep hidden things I tried so hard to hide. Tried so hard to run from. It can turn things upside down. What was up seems down and down is up, and what felt like love seems like hate, and vice versa. The illusions are powerful. So real. So captivating. It broke me. Broke me completely. I lost my whole life. I spat at all that was God, I hated all that was WF. And when my hate was sincere enough, when I was willing to die rather than hide from it any longer….she changed. What was Hate/Love became ONE…”

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honestly however, me toeing the Start Line tomorrow? has helped in unspeakably potent ways to heal my knee. see; let me tell you a Secret of Mountaineering, Sport Performance, Overcoming Weakness/Imbalance, Conquering Dis-ease and Injury, and last however, not least, Chi-ld Rearing: ALWAYS MOVE IN THE DIRECTION YOU WANT TO GO.

if you had seen my right knee one and a half weeks ago, here is what you…well, actually perhaps not YOU being a WF devotee…however, here is what many would have (and many did) say:

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Grandma Moon is beginning to rise over Brother Mountain…and that means, YOUR  FREE SHIPPING + 10% off is only 8 hours from being swiped off!  photo by ilg *** Whassup, Tribal Brothers and Sisters? just back from the Nordic Center which was dusted with a gregarious offering of snow! just REALLY want you NOT to […]

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A Little Christmas Story…

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It was Dewa who spotted this magnificent setting of Grandfather yesterday evening…Ananda was quick enough to capture it…given our Teachings this week, this photo reMinds ilg and Moves ilg to the understanding that just because we may not yell or scream or cuss or drink or whatever, doesn’t mean we don’t have Work to do with Anger…these clouds in Father Sky as we discussed this week reMind me that even passiveness equals anger…it’s just not acted out. the following five adorable Dewa-filled photos and my captions are sync’d up perfectly with our Teachings in the SanghaLounge and here this week…may we all Benefit…Can’t you just feel a celestial MIGHT within those beautiful Cloud Sisters in the pic above?! Conduct thyself in the manner of Father Sky and just let come what may come, and let go what goes.

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Most Noble Sangha,

make no mistake; along the Spiritual Path – among Western Awakened Fitness Warriors – the Mindful Practice of Hand Washing Dishes should be leaped toward by any sincere WF Student, not shied away from.

undone dishes is a metaphor for our undigested thoughts.

if left undigested, Thoughts naturally morph into Samskaric ripples, each one eventually needing…

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If any current WF Student comes closest to my definition of a Wholistic Fitness Yogi, my Precious Online Student and old friend from Santa Fe, Josh Schrei currently is on the podium. i am currently training this highly skilled, experienced, and tapped in ashtangi for an ultra-distance trail race this spring in New Mexico. Not many yogis that i have met thus far in my life, display such fitness across the physiologic spectrum matched by such a high level of spiritual ripeness.

For ANYONE in our Tribe who can get to Santa Fe this Saturday night, do so. Student Josh is going to crank off a chi-filled presentation: The Lake of Nine Devotions: A Photographic Journey Though India

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