this was in my inbox after a loooong day of early morning solo meditation/pranayama/yoga-asana into 90-minute SPIN/CORE class taught by pro triathlete and friend, Marisa Asplund, into a ski waxing clinic/classic ski/skate ski workout with Kinlani brother; Warrior Leaf into ice-skating with my girls..phewww…can ilg tell you – and especially to DawaGhati – how much this Animal Medicine pic helped me tonight, running on fumes, to Eagle UP to the evening’s work?!? enjoy…
The Route toward Transmitting Awareness of the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth is understood easily by our Chi-ldren if we, as parents/guardians, LIVE in Wholistic Awareness.
Precious Student J; “I went to the store and bought a pair of pants. I went from x large to medium. Now that was fun! See you in the (Practice) cave!”
ilg calls this posture; Apresthresholdhellasana. ilg reckons this is what the common man is afraid of…spewing Sacred Spit after 51 minutes of Threshold uphill running through snow…yes, feeble ilg missed breaking the 50-minute barrier up the 2,029′ walls of snow by 1 stinkin’ minute. aaaaargh!!! That’s okay…in failure, we learn more than through success. Next week? If it still hasn’t snowed? I already have a different route selection that just may save me those few seconds to break 50-minutes. Such goes the Warrior Mind.
“When we have prayed and aspired and hungered for the truth for a long time, for many, many lives, and when our karma has become sufficiently purified, a kind of miracle takes place. And this miracle, if we can understand and…”
you know ilg does not seek the Print…the Media…yet if any of the current crop of CrossFit, Yoga, Meditation, Nutrtion stars and starlets would even consider spending a week training and practicing with unacknowledged Grandfather of American Wholistic Fitness® training?
trust me,
ilg would drop them all within 3 days of WF intensity…
today was special…
after 3+ decades of yoga-asana, including a broken back from winter mountaineering and high-volume/intensity cardio, ilg is closing in on Baddha Padmasana (Bound Full Lotus)… give me another 3 years…i’ll make it…ilg is nothing if not a steadfast, if feeble, Practitioner.
the yogi has no place,
no space…
just a Dance
Gifted from the Divine…
whether others understand this Sacred Dance?
does not matter…
what matters?
the Dancing…
through It All (Lila)…
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