my two First Women…asleep in the sattvic waves of the vortex known as the “Yavapai-Apache Garden of Eden”…my choice for the ‘baptism’ of my daugther, Dewachen. From Pada One (DL 12/22): One half mile into my run, the sliver of trail veered west, tucking itself under the north wall of a soaring monolith of red […]
For as long as space existsAnd sentient beings endure,May I too remain,To dispel the misery of the world. – SHANTIDEVA From ours, to yours, and most importantly to the Sacred Space that keeps us One… Thank you, my faithful and beautiful Sangha of Strength and Suppleness,of Sweat and Stillness… Your support of our humble, powerful […]
we interrupt this beautiful 3-part story of Dewachen’s Native Baptism to bring you some VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: Sacred Peak, Elevation 11,500 – reporter; coach ilg tonight, just now…i have returned from a starlit ski up and down Agassiz Peak…in what only could be explained as an OBVIOUS CHRISTMAS MIRACLE i have the following to share […]
me and my own little “First Woman”…Dewachen Ilg. we are both high on the Earth/Sky Chi after 48 hours of being immersed by the ionic field spray streaming from the mouth of the “Yavapai-Apache Garden of Eden” during Day Two of Dewa’s Baptism by Mother Earth and Father Sky. photo by my REAL FIRST WOMAN; […]
The sandy sinew of trail was bathed in the warmth of December’s “Cold Moon” sun. A winter’s solstice run up to the vortex of Boynton Canyon; creation birthplaceof the Yavapai-Apache to commemorate my 3-month old daughter’s ‘pranic baptism‘. This baptism of my child would not be performed with cold tap water and commissioned by some […]
yet another National Podium for a WF Warrior! Sammy Morse, far left in Kansas City at the United States CycleCross National Championships! A big WF Tribal HOWWWWL for Warrior Morse!!! Yeah, baby! El Coache, Thought I’d pass along to you a couple pictures from my experience at Cyclocross Nationals in Kansas City. The conditions were […]
“The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called Calm Abiding. All the fragmented aspects of ourselves, which had been at war, settle and dissolve and become friends. In that settling we begin to understand ourselves more, and sometimes even […]
-your humble mountain yogi, at His Service, a while ago. – true; my first exposure to organized spirituality came by way of Roman Catholicism. “organized” is putting it lightly. each day, every day came an intoxicating mix of resounding organ pipe music, mystical reverberations of Latin wordage, drinking and eating each early morning of the […]
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