Tsé bi´tá’i “Rock With Wings”… if you c(om)e to race with feeble ilg next year at the Chuska? you’ll get to pass beneath the Blessing Wings of Tsé bi´tá’i !!! pic by ilg on Race Day afternoon! alarm off at 4am… didn’t need it…ilg sleeps on the floor upon a simple blanket, wrapped like […]
A(nother) indelible Daddy/Daughter Warrior(ess) karmic/samskaric m(om)ent captured in squence by Sandra Lee…yesterday at the infamous and now 40th running of the Kendall Mountain Race! been racing this esteemed hallowed race since ilg was a kid, and yesterday? my own kid helped my lame ass to the finish line and inflamed her OWN desire to race […]
Many students have asked me about my Traditional Opening Prayer…it is beyond Sacred and should not be recited without my head nod due to Lineage implications…however, for your OWN PERSONAL SADHANA, here you go, again, never recite this most precious Prayer from the Ancestors without contacting me first because, as Rinpoche says, “Each time we […]
super stoked to be the featured guest on Mike Brook’s “ClimbTalk” Show tonight! 9:45pm at KVCU 1190 AM Boulder/Denver…or visithttp://www.radio1190.org/ and press the live stream button Feeble ilg when i was not so feeble…mid-eighties, Boulder, CO…i could get on podiums of bodybuilding, ultra-marathons, and free solo some of the most difficult climbs in the […]
skill in WF? not important.
ability in WF? none needed.
intellectual prowess in WF? Lord no!
what matters most along this Proven Path of Wholeness?
consistency of Practice.
from one broken back mountain yogi to another…Danelle? it’s been a while since chasing each other on snowshoes, however, your inspiration remains as fresh to me as a September snow in Leadville…
sure, of course, i love running, snowshoeing, skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and nowadays taking my daughter along the sinewy sweetness of the massive network and drop-to-your-knees beauty of the Four Corners trails! doh!
but, what only a few of you know?
i love creating and maintaining trails even more!
why?
i love the seduction; trails beckon us further, higher…toward purer terrain. Trails are metaphors for our own yogic, fitness, and life journeys.
i want to do my part in protecting the vinyasa of trails for my daughter’s generations and many more…
Big Medicine Day for feeble ilg..i re-visited after a couple of decades my old ‘office’ of Eldorado Canyon where during a decade i was engulfed in a tidal wave of sacred creation; where once i put up dozens of First Ascents which to this day, legions of rock climbers still monument my original ascents…oh, baby, have things changed since my near daily pilgrimages to this unspeakably precious crayola-colored canyon hallmarked by a clear, wild creek rushing over still tumbling (though be it in slow-motion) boulders.
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