Take a conventionally-trained runner, for instance. As a typical coach, I would monitor his or her ‘hard days’ with either ‘easy’ or ‘off’ days. Trouble with this predictable, boring approach is two-fold; 1) the runner feels guilty when not training hard or worse, if there is a prescribed ‘off day’ which is enough to send the usually compulsive if not obsessive into conniptions and 2) as my friend and fellow Durangatang, Ned Overend (maybe you’ve heard of him!) taught me many years ago,
Hi Coach, I am planning on using your 3 phase approach. I plan on making a purchase Feb. 1st what do I need to purchase? Thank you, Jeff
Less than a month ago…the Plastic Surgeon said it would require several weeks of dubious recovery to see if Dewa’s lip and mouth would structurally heal correctly after her sledding incident……within one week of WF Nutrition? Dewa’s lip and mouth self healed at Godspeed (aka; The Speed of Enlightenment). we crushed up the MAP Amino Acids for her, she suckled at SUNRIDER’s Sunbars, and we doused her lip/mouth and skull with the Sacred Water of Asea…
…and today…even with significant psycho/spiritual trauma?
Dewa and i skied from Top To Bottom, Chapman Ski Hill without falling…
pic: this amazing shot was taken by Most Noble HP Yogini Sandra Lee during one of Durango’s earlier (and vital) snowstorms…Sandra earns a free HP yoga class by this fantastic pic! THANK YOU, YOGINI SANDRA!
ilg has been doing and teaching the same and/or similar core movements for over 3 decades and am falling ever deeper in love with core training. why? i don’t use music, or fancy machines or other gimicks…i use core training to rescue over and over again my soul…by using core training as a form of Pratyhara (yogic sense withdrawl)
Dry wind whips, kisses, and caresses sandstone pillars here in the Southwest, the Rock Beings are sculpted and molded into awe-inspiring shapes and textures. So too, do are our characters molded by friction of the WF Path; the asana, the meditation, the strength training, the long hours of cardio training are designed to round off our rough, egoic edges….
feeble ilg sez; “let the body speak…let the ‘summit’ leaders sweat together before they intellectualize the future of human-kind…” Good Lord..can we just begin at First Base in all that we pursue? can we just command our own bodies as Temples, as Offerings to our Divine Connection before ranting on and on and on about Gods, Religions, Taxes, Immigration, et. al!?!??! put the Human SweatLodge first, then, as Sweat-based brothers and sisters, begin to climb the mountain toward collective Enlightenment on this Plane(t) as we know it….that’s all…hey, how ’bout we start as instituting WF as the National Fitness Path…that might just cure it All..Tvat Tvam Asi…
“This spring, before the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, all I had going for me was not the bike, but Coach’s HIGH PERFORMANCE YOGA™ classes…and man, did it pay off!”
– Champion cyclist Mark Rosenthal, Durango, Colorado
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