My Precious Live-in Rinpoche…Dewachen. Totally stoked for her first day of pre-school this morning (8:30 – 12:00) at my alma mater, St. Columba. click to enlarge the ‘Dewa Chi’. * It’s a heccuva thing; this Conscious Parenting gig… What you see in the photo above is the one thing that all Conscious Parents pray and […]
Hey Coach Ilg!You gave a great talk to us at the Mountain Shop in Ft. Collins years ago, back when no one really thought much about training and doing any type of crosstraining or supplementary work. It was great stuff! Thank you,Steve SeckingerFt. Collins, CO
More than a few WF Yogis have been here…some of you with your anal sphincters beginning to contract; the beginning of the knife-edge arete of my lifelong Sacred High Peak Pilgrimage; Engineer Mountain this morning…YouTube link of me running this 12,613′ granite puja table this morning in my ‘moccasins’ is found below… *** Most Noble […]
“The tightness will not resolve by itself.The pains, the aches, the lack of equanimity…those are all beacons streaming from our Inner Lighthouse.Feeble ilg says, Just Do The Practice and Begin Again and Again, and Endlessly Again tobreathe into and release that which is restricting us.Don’t ignore the Inner Lighthouse! Honor your Inner Light!”– coach ilg‘the […]
Namaste Noble Warriors of Wholeness!yesterday i took a jog up the Goulding Trail…locally it’s infamous for it’s super steep gradient with over 22 switchbacks in the first mile. personally, i lost count after the first six. starting elevation: 7,900′ finish elevation: 10,000′ length: 2.7 miles through spirit-rousing pine and aspen forests beneath the enormous Hermosa […]
WF Devotee, Single Dad, Native Runner Warrior “Leaf” (Tribal Nickname; Diné) enjoys somebouldering at Priest Draw near Flagstaff. He didn’t tell me that later fact, i can just tell… 😉his email to me today below: Yah’ tah’ hey’ from the sacred peak of the west!i received the first arrow of the dreamspeak quiver and greatly […]
do your Chi a favor; click on each to enlarge… Yogi Squat of the Week goes to…Dewachen Ilg, who turns 3 this September 11th. oh, like you’re even gonna TRY to throw down a Yogi Squat comp with Dewa? i think not…your patella’s would just shoot straight out through your skin if you tried sinking […]
“The beauty of training our weaknesseslies in the indescribably personaland penetrating transcendence of them.Our reward?Nothing less than Wholeness.” – Coach Steve Ilg “America’s Fittest Yogi” – LA Times photo by Wayne Williams…click to enlarge my muscles cuz, i only wish it was that easy!
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