pic of feeble ilg by James Hobby during a spring Time Trial in the ongoing DWC Championships in which ilg sit’s 4th place AG while prioritizing other disciplines outside cycling, a common trait of Wholistic Fitness® warriors which he has trained since 1981 Things I’ve Learned from Being An Endless Beginner By coach steve ilg, July 2, 2016 […]
“oh! those Lupines, those Columbines, those Pink Fairy Slippers!!! What Divinity! Even the most measly of wildflower is 10,000x a better yogi than feeble ilg!! So tall! So full of Unconditional Happiness! At this m(om)ent, while ilg is busy working in the City thousand(s) feet lower? They’re still up there, waaaay up there in their Heavenly […]
for the first spring in a while, ilg did not c(om)pete in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic – one of my Three Sacred Race Pilgrimages of Wholistic Fitness®* see, my lil brother was gettin’ hitched in Albuquerque (yeah, the Duke City) and so that glorious event put a kibosh on my usual Iron Horse Pilgrimage in which i’d […]
…mind unruffled
shaking distractions away
like the wind-god
scatters a few
forest leaves.
– Kottitha
(written a few thousand years ago)
pic: Dewachen Ilg dancing up Mr. Breezy (5.5) and making it look easy. Penitenté Canyon, Saturday. pic by Sandra Lee. “Stress, anxiety, injury, mood-swings are re-Minders that you are in need of yoga. Noticeable tightness – physical or mental – us the body shouting for release. Do yoga. Dance. Ski. Climb some rocks. Thrown the […]
pic; your feeble teacher of no-thing in some inverted Garudasana inversion during personal Practice. So, i’m teaching my High Performance Yoga® Slow Flow class this morning, right? There’s one of two guys in class. He’s kinda doing his own thing, not letting me adjust his postures. During the strength sequences he starts mouth breathing […]
Confidence is born from Training.
Though i’ve not sat in a bicycle saddle a FRACTION of the time compared to the mighty warrior brothers tonight? Ilg will be smiling upon my aero bars, hunkered low against Sister Wind, snapping my thighs at the top tube, recollecting my times offering my sweat upon the scared snows while ski racing, snowshoeing, and doing the MULTISPORT DANCE!
Wholeness lives in versatility.
Never count out your ‘lack of specific training’…that’s an illusion of the sport-specific Clans…so predictable in their lack of wholeness, in their lack of trust in It All…
Don’t be in too much of a hurry to solve all your doubts and problems. As the masters say: “Make haste slowly.” I always tell my students not to have unreasonable expectations, because it takes time for spiritual growth. It takes years to learn Japanese properly or to become a doctor. Can we really expect […]
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