“Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.”– Soygal Rinpoche “We must learn to be still in the midst of activity…and to be vibrationtly alive in repose.”– Indira Gandhi ***Photo 1) connie ilg, my sister, strikes a pretty pose during a Pacific sunset. […]
“The WF Path works,when YOU work the Path!”– coach ilg photo by Ananda; back beneath my Sacred San Juans while tele skiing at Durango Mountain Resort (formerly known as Purgatory) near my childhood home of Durango, Colorado a week ago. Pic of the Month; Showing the Pain while qualifying for the United States National Snowshoe […]
More than twenty-five hundred years ago, a man who had been searching for the truth for many, many lifetimes came to a quiet place in northern India and sat down under a tree. He continued to sit under the tree, with immense resolve, and vowed not to get up until he had found the truth. […]
photos by my Beloved Ananda; click to enlarge to get a WF Chi hit of thedeepest effect; the birthplace of all that is the spiritual rasas of WF! i know many of you know this guy; my outdoor endurance sports hero and honored to say, long-time friend, Ned “The Lung” Overend. World Mountain Bike Champion, […]
“Racing is a privilege to the genuine yogi. It helps us train the mind in sustained concentration, acceptance of pain as purification, and prepares the subtle anatomy for deeper states of energetic transmission for Enlightenment. No true spiritual athlete can shortcut mastery of the body. Training the body wholistically is the First Base of all […]
Skis all waxed with chant (5)herbs eaten, Rituals done (7)now, ilg, BRING THE CHI!!!! (6) i can’t recall the last time i did a Nordic Race. must be well over a decade ago.i recall winning the Taos Mountain Stampede and the Santa Fe Classic in the same weekend back then.who knows dates?who cares?those of us […]
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What […]
For the past year beneath the Sacred Peak, Ananda and i have brought the Fire and Light of the Steep, Direct Path of HP Yoga – the yogic subdiscipline of Wholistic Fitness – to a small Warrior Tribe of Seekers fearless to do the Inner Work. Among them was one warrior, whose appearance in the […]
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