I can honestly say I Was There…
WF Master Student Suparna after c(om)pleting her first half-marathon…
… and now my love of focused fun
among snow covered woods,
pine-lathered mountains, and
high, rocky peaks where only Pika play and occasional Hawks reach their wings into majesty…
reMind me of my True Human Beingness
shouting unheard into my HeartCave;
“Don’t Wait Any Longer…”
so, within the garden of Self,
ilg dives into an inner ocean
each morning…no matter how busy…
spoken like a genuine HP Yogi of the Year (which she is)…honesty, the best policy among Warriors Toward Wholeness…
tonight, in the Warrior Cave, i premiered my YoZenGa™. the first time i’ve taught this unique class since leaving my Los Angeles Mission…
the pic of me that was made into a poster, without my knowing, let alone, residuals! ilg pinnacle jumping in the North Cascades a long time ago by David Terrance Turner
Yup, I’ve just JUMPED again!
based on my sangha’s input from a survey i recently sent (thank you all who contributed!):
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,
ilg admits; it’s been the steepest headwall i’ve ever attempted to climb
yet, thanks to my Practice begotten from my Teachers…your Teachers..our Teachers…of this
amazing Precious Path of WF?
my Essential Nature of Mind is only intensifying through the difficulty…not diminishing…
how doth the saying go?
“The interruptions ARE the Practice!”
Most Precious Sangha, what’s more important than learning the dimensional breath? be at YogaDurango (Florida Road studio) tomorrow at 11 am to 1 pm for a fantastic workshop with Joy and myself head bowed, coach steve ilg, cpt/uscf/ryt 500 founder: www.WholisticFitness.com www.highperformanceyoga.com
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