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 […]
Hello Coach, I have some pics I want to send you of the Grand Canyon after our Private Intensive… … this zazen was short lived but well felt. The spot was powerful….…look in the lower right corner of the photo… This One was taken in Hermit’s rapid. Man I love that place! NamasteWF Online Student […]
“I’ve been playing Dave’s music in my yoga classes and at home for several years. Astonishingly exquisite, his voice seems as if it is continually tuned by the endlessness of eons. His musicality too, seems as sharply soothing and soaring as the patina plated sandstone spires of his southern Utah homeland. A ‘Tate’ album is […]
WF Yogini Karen, evidently demonstrating for us Sitali Pranayama! click here to visit the blog of this artist extraordinaire:WF Yogini Karen From Portland *** “Loved Coach’s ‘sleepy head’ entry, i read it right after waking up at 7AM on Sat. and had to laugh at the appropriateness of the message….Om so ti. Om Mani Padme […]
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