Even in the greatest yogi, sorrow and joy still arise just as before. The difference between an ordinary person and the yogi is how they view their emotions and react to them. An ordinary person will instinctively accept or reject them, and so arouse the attachment or aversion that will result in the accumulation of […]
Meeting of the Elder and his charge; yes folks, those of you old enough in WF to remember, Master Student Ken “Flex” Armstrong of my video; “THE FOUR KINESTHETIC TEACHINGS OF WF” will surely smile at this picture! this is Flex and i, reunited at the Finish Line of the IRONHORSE Road Race several years […]
She With Swollen Belly and i are off to my ol’ h(om)etown of Durango, Colorado for my first bike race of the season; the IRON HORSE BICYCLE CLASSIC! visit their website, take a glance at the profile of the Road Race and feel your toes cringe! it’s been snowing up above 10,000′. “Same as it […]
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.– Thomas Merton “Thanks for the chi hit this morning Coach […]
If you are a 3x National Champion in UltraDistance MTB Champion like WF Student Timari Pruis (Kenda/Ellsworth), crashes and injuries are part and parcel to the Journey. During a recent injury recovery, Timari developed a blood clot and the doctors put her on Coumadin. One of Timari’s first priorities was to contact me to get […]
NOTE: this first appeared in DL on September 12, 2005. i have republished it due to auspicious synchronicity connecting several WF Online Students. May this help you all… *** Headstand and the Three Realities of the Genuine Human Being by Coach Ilg Iyengar said it best, perhaps; “All these people rush up to me wanting […]
“(E)arnestly practice every good work.”– Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King, 1981 above photo; apres yoga…mountain yogi style! exhausted and intensely, sacredly happy. more seeds of impurity burned in the furnace of self-driven sweat of a 5 hour, 54-mile, 6,800′ mountain bike effort. this photo shows precisely why i am never impressed by fancy postures done by ‘studio yogis’…let them […]
Namaste Noble Warriors! it’s me, the “MultiSport Mutant” according to the June Issue of OUTSIDE Magazine… i got ribbed pretty good yesterday by the boys in the peleton,“Hey, ilg! Mr. Poster Boy!!! Can i get your autograph on my calf?”“Ooooh, look out, here comes, “The Mutant!”…Here, please take this wheel, Poster Boy!”you know…that type of […]
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