Coach Ilg,You are an inspiration. Thank you for providing wind to my sails. I have a friend here in Calgary on the Canadian National Mountain Running Team Interestingly, not unlike you, she calls it “Warrior Running” because of how it is done and most importantly how it makes you feel at one with the land. […]
editing note;for some reason, Blogger is not allowing me to post exclamation marks, which, often litter my enthusiastic writing. please understand that my original draft of this entry contained about 100 exclamation marks, okay?Yesterday, after five years of super dedicated Study, i granted Michael Cerame of Commack, NY his WF Master Student Inka during his […]
This Actual Student Exchange is typical of precisely why most conventionally trained fitnesspeople steer well, well away from the Fire of WF which is so confrontational with our egoic masks.I have designed the Practice of WF to bring each one of into the yogic fire of self-cultivation by self-examinationin myriad ways. This Noble Student’s beautiful […]
By Popular Request for “more baby pictures please!”…here is another Dewa m(om)ent…and thank you, Bless you all who are keeping Ananda and i – pure Rookie Parents in our forties – so in-couraged with the tests of Rookie Parenthood! it ain’t so baaaaaad! not with you all in our Astral Corner! Dewa at 2 months […]
Coach, I logged into the DL today for the first time in a few days and felt the warm embrace of serendipity as I read your post about writing our own epitaph. On Tuesday I buried my friend who fought the good fight for 67 days after being burned over 90% of his body. He […]
“That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.” – Sogyal Rinpoche, My earliest formative spiritual training was the Tibetan Mountain Lineage. That Path has […]
the priceless value of “Sangha”; the community of like-minded warriors – is perhaps one of the most important shining jewels of a Fitness Lifestyle. it’s impossible to stay depressed when you create an environment of friends who understand the necessity of a sweat-based approach to personal growth. clowning around before high-end suffering in a bicycle […]
“Go out and breathe God!” – instructed Sasaki Joshu Roshi. That’s precisely what i’ve attempted to bring to the Westerners notion of Personal Fitness. Although i could wear my Naropa monks robes for you,i find that if i wear them, too many people bow superficially and it sets up difficulty withmy SvaDharma of bridging Western […]
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