okay the novelty of being back in the Big City has worn off. my z1000 is still stuck at Burbank Kawaski. sorry bro’s can’t give your Service a thumbs up. without my pocket rocket i feel Lost in LA. ilg driving around LA in a Honda Element is about as fun to me as a […]
the call came in late… “Steve! Oh my God! I am so glad i caught you…I didn’t get the message that you were in town until just now.” I recognized the sweet, hurried voice. She was a bodywork client of mine from Century City. Personal manager of perhaps the most famous Las Vegas showperson of […]
a night-long vinyasa of linked Friday night sirens awakens me too early…my nadic system is burdened by the ever-accumulating particulate and subtle toxins of the Valley. i feel the arousal of the schmuck in my pranayama practices. alongside this energetic lethargy however, is the Great Vibe of this Pueblo Grande…. as i glide up Magnolia, […]
oh, it’s the same ol’ LA Love Song that i’ve been bewitched by before… before in fact, with such Forcethat i’ve left no less than two spiritual cairns– once in the eighties and once in the uh, 2000’sthies –in this amazingly, seductive, sexy vortex. i am sorry…did i imply just then that LA is a…well […]
Before i take you along with me during Race Day and invite you to share some fantastic professional, poster quality images of me suffering on the race course (be sure to click to enlarge the photos), out of respect, let’s take a m(om)ent to honor what is far more important… Tsoodzil, the Blue Bead Mountain…the […]
click to enlarge “Just as surely as there is mental power in the body, likewise there is this cosmic power which yogis know as “kundalini.” In athletes living only in the sweat plane, and in yogis living only in the studio plane, it remains covered by tamoguna…the layered thickness of addictive, lazy patterns accumulated over […]
“What goes up, must come down.”– common “It is best not to be overly excited or too depressed about the ups and downs of life.”– The Dalai Lama upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize “The yogi, trained in equanimity, attempts to reside in the space between the Highs and Lows of life circumstances and keeps […]
“Resort to your Highest Weakness and enter there; dive into your deepest Pain for therein lies the purest of your Truth; Awaken to the understanding that each relationship we experience on this Plane(t) is perishable. Every belief structure; illusion. Every thought; changing. Every limit is a creation of mind. Know this to find your most […]
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