i transformed one of my students of yoga/bodywork – a former National Champion in his sport – back to the top ten of last weekends’ National CycleCross Championships in Austin, TX. one year ago? his body was like the fabled tale of Zumbaks’ Suit; all twisted and contorted and full of deep cellular, neural, and hormonal imbalance from decades of professional cycling without a wholistic coach in his corner.
in the past 12 months…
All beings have lived and died and been reborn countless times. Over and over again they have…
“Most Loved and Honorable Steve Ilg,
did you know that i got “sober” while we were doing online training?
it is true.
that ain’t no morsel baby.
i
LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
thee!!!”
Go(o)d Karma Quote of the day goes to Student J, who, after my HP Yoga® Slow Flow tonight wrote me, “Thanks coach; that was so much fun that I cried!”
“We should all start to live before we get too old.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
– Yogini Marilyn Monroe in a creative variation of urdhva ardha marichyasana. free rights photo.
Rest in natural great peace
This exhausted mind
Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought,
Quote of the Day goes to Dewachen Catherine Ilg who came hOMe from kindergarten saying, “i realized today in school that what i think in my mind may not be real.”
dharma backstory:
Dewa has confided to Joy and i (though we’ve been Sensing it for months) that she is REALLY not diggin’ public school and that she sees herself as the “runt of the litter,”
Since everything is but an apparition,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection
You might as well burst out laughing!
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