Wholistic Fitness

up here, high above the now fancy smancy base lodge resort which caws toward Texans and others with hot tubs, heated swimming pools, and valet ski assistants whom will pre heat your stinkin’ alpine ski boots and serve you an expresso at the same time…here? ilg uses only breath and 1990’s skate ski equipment to elevate above the froth of the common man….up here?…ilg’s old ears hears no whining from the Mother Earth/Father Sky -sapping gearing of chairlifts running, snow blowing, and no arrogant, if not drunk, bellowing from visitors. hec? up here? ilg has the whole mountain to himself…no nothing save for silence, uphill sweat solo, through my beloved pines…

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yet on days like today when it’s time for a final farewell to the OM-sounds from chairlifts
servicing such puja as these sacred snows?
it’s all Go(o)d baby…
it’s all God…

get out and do…
the Bardo comes quicker than we think…
and what a precious Plane(t)
we have to immerse within…

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…why are mine the only ski tracks now poised in splendid juxtaposition
with the forlorn, empty, entropic lifts?
what happens to the brash and verve of the young
when the lifts simply stop?
too lazy to crave the pines in soliloquy?

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remember i told you that Durango’s Tad Elliot – son of Mike…my ski coach who you read about in my books – won America’s biggest nordic race; the Birkebeiner….well, i found this fantastic post race
interview with Tadd and his two American podium shareholders talking about breaking ski poles, course conditions, and ‘amping up’ those Norwegian dudes… Tad’s interview skills are getting polished by the victory,
giving up for his ski maker and his grinder…check it if you’re into such nordic warriorism:

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This morning?

The magnificent Deities of the WF Path once again Blessed ilg….for ilg was seeking that last, lingering spring ski day where all of my 100+ Ski Days just coalesced into a precious, hummingly sweet surrender of ski into soft, forgiving snow…where all my former bucking-bronco telemarks merged into a monumental line evidenced by 8 x 3,000′ vertical descents matched only by probably 3,000+ deep knee lunges linked by instantaneous fast-twitch neuro-muscular movements and present mind…this morning? It was all Wholistic Fitness®…my breath and movement down the dwindling snowslopes of my beloved local ski hill an anthem to all which made ilg, ilg…thank YOU Deities for GRACING through feeble conduit ilg the majesty, the power, and the Ancient Warrior mystique which is WF! here, then, are a few shots from my Good-Bye morning to Purgatory Ski Area…

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This is why feeble ilg calls Wholistic Fitness™ the true practice of peace, the true practice of nonaggression and nonviolence, and the real and greatest disarmament toward that which hinders us from Enlightenment in the Bardo; our egoic attachment. Tis better to cultivate an Endless Beginner’s status and keep working our weaknesses instead of becoming famous and applauded in our specific and Divinely-granted strengths…Contemplate these words until we meet again, Noble Warriors toward Wholeness….be free and roar toward Enlightenment…

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My precious HP Yogi of 2011, Sandra Lee, receives a comp’d pair of Kahtoola RNR22’s due to her amazing and steadfast in-courage-ments to inspire Native Youths to get out and do! twas my honor to help!

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There are tools that the Ancients have bequeathed us to keep us tapped into the present….such as Conscious Breath and Posture (the first of my 4 Lifestyle Principles). When racing, when loving, when driving, when being? Just do this, okay? Trust the Breath…and all will be better than okay. pic; ilg after crushing another Course Record and a 5k Overall Win at the Pagosa Nordic Winterfest age nearly age 50.

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