Most Noble Sangha, i TRULY CHERISH all of your Haiku Poetry submissions! keep them coming because on the next enhanced version of WF.com i am having a slew of cool WF Forums for easy research and gathering of Students to exchange ideas, news, etc., and i will have a Temple Haiku forum as well! however, […]
i bow to your Devoted Practice and offer you this article today as a Giftfrom beneath the Sacred Peakwiththe visualization thatall “Two Legged Beings” get OUT this winter and DO THE DO! enjoy: www.snowshoeracing.com/home.htm (scroll down, look right for my “RUNNING ON WATER” column!) namaste,the mountain yogi
Shantideva said: If all the harmsFears and sufferings in the worldArise from self-grasping,What need have I for such a great evil spirit? and, several thousand years later, a feeble mountain yogi named coach ilg received an Insight after Meditation one day in Los Angeles:(click to enlarge): as we continue to Look Within, we will find […]
i dedicate this DL entry to my MahaNidraRishi. i bow at your Lotus Feet. “Especially since fracturing my spine, i have come to see the skeleton as the sherpa for the spine and not the spine as the caretaker of the skeleton. It has become my maxim therefore, to focus upon cultivation of the Ancient […]
Below is actual counsel from a local yogini who came to her first HP Yoga Class. She had been doing “Bikram Yoga” for some time, however, this was her first immersion into well, you know; the HP Yoga intensity of focus. Beginners will always Teach us by allowing us to revisit our own first encounter […]
I swear our WF Tribe has the absolute coolest, toughest, best looking, stoic, versatile, leanest, and meanest babes on the planet! our very own Temple Manager Joy “Ananda” Kilpatrick is a world-class example of our humble yet powerful Tribeswomen. Tonight, for the first time since leaving LA, Joy will be taking the Stage in the […]
“Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of cement pavement, a fall of rich cloth in a shop window, the way the sun lights up flower pots on a windowsill. Be alert for any sign of […]
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