we have been spending a lot of time together
hiking and after a few weeks i dragged her to a yoga class. it is ashtanga influenced \
class and although she hasn’t practiced in years she did very well. she said she learned to breathe from a yoga instructor by the name of
Steve, but she couldn’t remember his last name….
Isn’t it extraordinary that our minds cannot stay still for longer than a few moments without grasping after distraction? They are so restless and preoccupied that sometimes I think that living in a city in the modern world, we are already like the tormented beings in the intermediate state after death, where the consciousness is said to be agonizingly restless.
ilg has been steadfastly stalking this huge, beautiful Trout Being for the past several weeks in a not-so-secluded pool just off the Colorado Trail near my childhood home up Junction Creek Canyon, Durango, Colorado. i’ve been in my Zendo, applying not only the mandatory Mantra’s for the safety of any harming ilg might cause, but also the Zen Archery technique to catching (and releasing) this beautiful Trout for weeks…visualizing which fly i’m going use, my approach, what time of the morning, my presentation of cast, the drift, the mend…you know, all the other 10,000 Things which keep fly fisherpeople like ilg awake at night…well, FINALLY, the Universe aligned Herself so this new, old Daddy could combine a training run with yet another ninja assault upon my Present Precious Trout Podium Being…the girls left the house early enough and i was alone!!! so, of course, i picked up a burrito to go and a pear (a pear?) along with my Ilg Supreme from Sunrider Herbs…that’s when the hilariousness of the Divine began…
Noble Sangha;
ilg trusts by this point in your WF Journey, you are really embracing your understanding and daily Practice of Pranayama…even if it is only through my EMR DVD…
there is nothing more important to our spiritual ascent toward Wholeness before we leave this incarnation, then mastering elemental pranayamic fitness before the
age of 75…if you need Guidance, that is why ilg has chosen to Be Here Now for you…use me! get going on your own Pranayama Fitness Training Program today!
the following is an actual training exchange between myself and a beautiful, skillful Warrior of our Path….
Blessed and Wholy remain your Practice Higher,
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this Teaching Blog inspired and dedicated to my 2011 HP Yogini of the Year; Sandra “DawaGahti” Lee…
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What’s not Blessed?
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Tvat Tvam Asi…Thou Art That
“In the ancient meditation instructions, it is said that at the beginning, thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like…”
“As a native of beautiful southwest Colorado, I find it incredulous that Red McCombs continues to bulldoze his endless bank account through his pet travesty project; to build an overwhelmingly ridiculous “Village” upon such high, fragile, rarified terrain…”
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