Noble Sangha, today, we reVisit one of my most dastardly clever and deeply helpful Nutritional/Wellness Techniques; my "3x30 Assignment".  If this Assignment is NOT a part of your WF Practice,  it needs to be...first, let's rehearse what the "3x30 Assignment" is:

remember the touch of your Daddy's strong hand upon you when you were 4?  the comfort?  the Release into the Realization that you are Unconditionally Loved?!?

THE YIN (pictured above): Daddy and Dewa chillin' outside Aztec Ruins, New Mexico this afternoon...shortly thereafter?

THE YANG (no time or breath available for a pic no matter how much i love you!) : a 43-mile, 2,780' A/B Club Ride to Needles and back...average speed; 20.4, max speed; 54mph, baby! pros were on my left, right,

"...Sacred Joy is in every moment, it travels from the inside to the outside... which is why WF trains us from inside toward the outside..."pic of your coach during Solo Early Morning Practice

After ringing the Tibetan tinksha bells to open tonight's HP Yoga™ Slow Flow class,  i re-Minded the gathered students that the yoga cave is one place where we must leave aside all competitive thoughts.  That there is no need,  no reason to make a

Shawn Collins

Boulder, CO

...they don't call it "X-rock" for nuthin...note climber approaching the intersection...

note my Yosemite Big Wall rack so i can set up

I hope my friend and coach, Steve Ilg, won't mind a story. I'd been involved in fitness and athletics for years when I saw a cover of Outside magazine with a picture of Coach Steve in striped tights and the headline reading; "This man will break you......." It was quite an article. He charged an arm and two legs for a six week program, had a list of professional athletes as clients, and a 6 month waiting list to go and train with him. I was really intrigued but he was in New Mexico and I was in Southern California so that's as far as that went. But then years later (and I'm talkin' like 10 years, give or take), I'm training clients in a Powerhouse Gym in SoCal and there's an announcement of a new Yoga class & instructor. I had never really paid much attention to Yoga, other than seeing the occasional spot on TV with a Yogi folding himself up into a tiny plexiglass cube or something. But then I read the announcement of the new Yoga classes at Powerhouse Gym and the instructor is 'Steve Ilg.' I'm thinkin', "No way, he's in New Mexico and has way too much going to be here. But if it is him, well here's a cheap way to meet this Ilg guy and see what he's got." One Yoga class and one meditation session later and I was hooked. Yoga, and my friend Yogi Steve are legit! I'd also been training with a mountain bicycling race team and introduced Coach Steve to the team owner. Steve joined us for a few training rides and I remember thinking I was doing okay with making a bike go fast on dirt trails in general, and one ride in particular I was really pushing hard. Then in the middle of a fairly technical corner, here comes Coach pulling up right beside me and saying real softly....."relax Ross, breath....breath....breath" as he effortlessly pulled away exiting the corner. Coach, correct me if I'm wrong but that was around '95 or '96, making it about 17 years ago? I haven't been as good about keeping up my Yoga training as I could be, but the impression you made on me is indelible. You mentioned my 'Metta' but if there's any Metta I have with Yoga, it started with and grew from you Coach." Ross Burke California

Namaste Sacred Water Drinkers! i told you we're onto something...the rest of the world is (once again) catching up... Blessings upon your 17 trillion cells...give them some Sacred Water... coach ilg ps; still haven't tried the Sacred Water of WF?   click here and contact me to get hooked up today! *** The research, conducted by the renowned Human Performance Laboratory at Appalachian State University, validates what ASEA drinkers all around the world already know: ASEA has profound positive benefits to the body.  In fact, the research findings were so profound that even the scientists doing the research were astonished by the results.... 14 minutes: http://vimeo.com/user8637029/review/41735974/7cc35e543b

From one of my old students - Ross Burke - when i brought HP Yoga™ to POWERHOUSE GYM in Chatsworth, CA, i think... Thank you, Student Ross..ilg is humbled: *** Good morning Noble Warrior, Hope you don't mind,

Ha = Sun Tha = Moon Yoga = Union

Most yogic rituals and practices - such as my EMR - are designed to balance, support, and nourish our innate solar/lunar frequencies to safely conduct the Kundalini or the Cosmic Power within us toward Transformation and eventual Enlightenment...tonight's Supermoon is a great Blessing to yogis...here's why...

pic of last night's nearly Supermoon by ilg

Grandmother, last night, out our humble Temple H(om)e door.  To most Native Turtle Islander's,  tonight's moon is known as the  Full Flower Moon...probably because, May -in most areas-  flowers are abundant and resplendent everywhere during this time. I know Durango however, at our 6,514',   things are just beginning to crank; the lilac's are insanely beautiful, for instance, perfuming our pranic, river-punched air with a perfume seemingly Divine. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.

However, tonight's Full Flower Moon is special; super DOOPER special, for Grandma will don her brightest garb since March 19, 2011 and she'll shine her brightest illumination of the year tonight.  She'll be soooo close to Mother Earth that the intervening 221,802 miles separating them will be like a cosmic butterfly kiss!   If you think that many miles is a lot, give pause.   It's 15,300 miles closer than average and just slightly longer than how far i rode my bike today (kidding.)

Tonight is an auspicious m(om)ent for those of us who enjoy Meditation beneath the Divine Canopy...just beware, sea-level friends, Grandma unusual position will invite equally unusual high tides...and perhaps a few scintillating effects upon our chakral and other energetic vortices within our mostly-watery bodies!