feeble ilg all-ways seems to have the Weminuche Deities with me when racing in Pagosa Springs, Colorado…my old h(om)etown! Not sure, but I think I just took Overall Silver at the National Push-Your-Fat-Bike-Through-Miles-Of-Soft-Snow Championship! Actually it was this morning’s ‘Dust 2 Fat Bike Race’ in Pagosa Springs, CO and it was a 7-mile very ‘wholistic’ […]
So, we’re taking the longer, more rural, more scenic driving route to a New Mexico sleepover..Dewa starts going off on all the oil rigs punctuating the vast pinyon/sandstone landscape wondering why the White Man had to greedily take from Mother Earth when wild Horses could and should still run free…. “Daddy?” “Yes, Precious First Daughter?” […]
Sacred Continuation to my 87 year-young m(om) – cancer sur-thriver, lost my dad her one and only of over 55 years five years ago- …and to ANY OF YOU that have received direct sweat under my guidance over the decades? if you think Feeble Ilg is tough!??! you better count yo’ dang Blessings […]
Many students have asked me about my Traditional Opening Prayer…it is beyond Sacred and should not be recited without my head nod due to Lineage implications…however, for your OWN PERSONAL SADHANA, here you go, again, never recite this most precious Prayer from the Ancestors without contacting me first because, as Rinpoche says, “Each time we […]
Feeble ilg’s note to all the upcoming New Years Resolutioners: Over intellectualism (which includes rationalization of excuses) is Culprit #1 of lifelong fitness…prioritize Sweating instead of Thinking. Sweat is (W)holy Water, cherish it daily. Dance across diverse activities weekly over various fitness disciplines. Wholeness thus bec(om)es.
To Whom It May Be Of Snow Concern, As a Durango native, (oh, geez, the obligatory preface): outdoor sports performance coach of over 3.5 decades, yoga/fitness teacher of s(om)e renown, gainer of a ‘few’ podiums across many winter sports, and way more importantly? The ever-learning father of a 9 year-old girl who loves to rip […]
More like, ‘White Friday’ around ilgsville…dat’s da way we like it! so D and i created this powder trail through the trees which got more and more skier traffic throughout the day…that was meaning-full for her..trailblazing-wise…D named our Forest Path trail: “Black Stallion”…OMG, we had SUCH a great time!!! love the kid that chose to […]
This M(om)ent… Bittersweet, surreal emotions swirled as Dewa rode chairlifts for the first time with a friend instead of Daddy…what’s next? My car keys?! Om Ami Dewa Hrii.. Letting Go ain’t easy… Noble Sangha, i took the above pic today…that’s Dewa (9) on the left with her friend Isabella up at Purg. This M(om)ent touched […]
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