Ananda applying with Padmasambhava focus, her chi in the Iron Temple during a set of my Staccato Technique� DB Curls supervised by yours truly. Those of you who have known Ananda since her pre-WF and SUNRIDER herb Journey, quickly realize the astonishing Transformation in her Body. I know the degree of Transformation within her Mind […]
dear coache’, a moment? “To find a Buddha,you need to find your nature.Whoever sees his natureis a Buddha.” –The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma i taf this picture of my daughteris a very g(o)od example…she sees…. love,student dansan Student Dansan,when your baby Buddha girl grows up, you be sure to tell her that ol’ Coach ilg […]
Coach- Plowing my way through a book called The Creators, a world history as seen through the lens of creativity. In a section on ancient Greek sculpture and the importance of the athletic ideal, I came across this quote from Socrates: “No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical […]
Coach Ilg, on the summit ridge of Agassiz Peak last week, after a record 61 minute ascent (!) of the 12,250′ peak, wearing “Kahtoola’s” a type of running shoe ‘crampon’. Combined with the 27 minute, 3,000′ descent over technical steep terrain,Coach uses WF and yogic internal techniques to transform the sheer pain of such ‘workouts’ […]
Student Shel learning a “Performance Pranayam” from Coach’s Ilg and Ananda during a WF Intensive last year. Instead of training like a typical runner would for her Honolulu Marathon, Shel cranked out cross training in only the way a WF Warrioress can! Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, Strength Training, and of course, the SUNRIDER HERBS! Let’s see […]
May each of us who are Blessed enough to see and Practice the Wisdom of everyday sweat and stillness be inspired with the motivation to dedicate our Practice, and our life, to at least the Awakening, if not the Enlightenment of all beings…particularly those who have chosen the HouseHolder Path. Creating a human being is […]
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