“Everything I’ve needed to teach my child, I learned from Snowshoe Racing.” – coach steve ilg champion winter sports athlete
ilg devotes this DL and bows to the immutable grace and strength of my Beloved Partner, the ‘great saint’ with whom live and love; Joy “Ananda” Kilpatrick…May All Beings Benefit From My Miniscule Progress To Be More Like Thee… photo by WF Student Shawna Schwaub. “Are you in Love?” the Teacher asked the Scientist. “Yes,” [...]
Noble Coach, Thank you for reminding me of the Mula Bandha awareness during daily life. While the process of Atonement is simple, I allow myself to be caught up in the innumerable details of the ephemeral, forgetting my yoga at times. Learning to undo the incredible repression of my masculine core started in early childhood [...]
“Attack thy weaknesses,Destroyavidya,Pursue the Great Spiritof Wholeness.”- coach ilg Such is the sweat-based sutra of the WF Yogi, for we would rather finish in last place doing a sport in which we suck than to go on winning, winning, winning in something that the Go(o)d Lord gifted to us naturally. To excel in a sport [...]
Flagstaff Nordic Center – Sunday, February 1, 2009 click on pics to enlarge After 3 consecutive weekends of racing in three different winter sports, covering race distances from 10k to 42k, and canvassing 700 miles of travel, Coach cashed in on his final event before the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon by repeating as Champion in [...]
now appearing at: The JoyFul Breath
OUR DL THIS MORNING IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY WF TEMPLE MANAGER, TEACHER, AND BELOVED PARTNER OF MINE,Joy “Ananda” Kilpatrick…this conversation is going on right now in our WF SanghaLounge, in the “Relationship Yoga” cave. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” [...]
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