Tonight,like most New Years Eve nights,i will celebrate via sweat and stillnessthe outgoing year and welcome the new one.Historically, some of my most intense workouts have occurred on myNew Years Eve Workout Rituals…including ascents of some of the mostdifficult peaks, ice climbs, and ski traverses available on Turtle Island.Often, i would combine doing Repetitions of […]
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At h(om)e among the Flagstaff ponderosa, HP Yogini Of 2007; Leslie Hutchinson holds her champion agility dog; Kai with her stalwart other animal companion, Yoda, looking on below. DL: When was your first formal introduction to yoga? LH: I was first “introduced” to yoga in the early 1980’s. My teachers were history professor Dr. John […]
Namaste Coach,i am really enjoying reading “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” currently am in the section of Karma and it is shedding a new light. i have been quite aware of my “active laziness” (DL;1*4*08) throughout 2007 and really in-joyed creating time over the holy-days. My husband and i patiently waited for some […]
Noble Coach Thought you might like to see this: WF Cardio Commute I credited you with the term “cardio commute,” however, they edited it out, along with some other stuff. WF Online Student Mark Featherman photo; Student Feather preparing for Cross Nationals…stay tuned!
42 minutes into it and feeling the CHI!!!!!! FIRST TRACKS! ahhhh, finally! The First Snow of the season graces my Temple Training Grounds on the Sacred Peak! You know what that means? Yeah baby; your ol’ coach-who-still-does high tailed it ASAP to the Arizona SnowBowl the very minute the road was open in order to […]
“Go out and breathe God!” – instructed Sasaki Joshu Roshi. That’s precisely what i’ve attempted to bring to the Westerners notion of Personal Fitness. Although i could wear my Naropa monks robes for you,i find that if i wear them, too many people bow superficially and it sets up difficulty withmy SvaDharma of bridging Western […]
“Things will never be perfect. How could they be? We are still in samsara*. Even when you have chosen your master and are following the teachings as sincerely as you can, you will meet difficulties and frustrations, contradictions and imperfections. Don’t succumb to obstacles and tiny difficulties. These are often only ego’s childish emotions. Don’t […]
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, …the waves, …the tides… and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . ….the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. words by: TEILHARD DE CHARDINphotos:1) monsoon squall over Doko Oosliid, summer of […]
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