So Long Summer...i'm taking Seven Days Off to Move My Clan North...

click on pics for a greater Chi Hit! all photos by el coache (ec) unless otherwise stated.



It's important for yogis to move...
it keeps us Whole and Unencumbered...
so we're sliding with the changes!!!
photo: Ananda at our county fair...more fair pics below.


So Long Summer...i'm taking Seven Days Off to Move My Clan North...


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your feeble teacher must take the next seven days off (one for each Realm) from DL'ing
to move my Clan from our beautiful abode here at Two Tree Manor (Shiva dancing)
up the Rim a tad north by ten kilometers to our new h(om)e...an absolutely
stunning Pranically saturated historic Farmhouse (Brahman creating) just a white karma stone's throw from the base of the Sacred Peak (Vishnu sustaining).

then, i and WF Master Student L'Gate from NYC are on a Dharma Pilgrimage together up to Ouray and Telluride to run the formidable Imogene Pass Race.

more on that,
you,
and
It All
later.

for now, i leave you with images from perhaps the ultimate way for a new Clan like mine to say "Hasta La Vista" to what has been an astonishingly beautiful, wet, luscious, and incredible summer.

my Prayers for my Daughters' first summer have been answered 10,000 x 10,000 fold (though, i am gettin' this undeniable TAF coming in, that it is She whom is producing such abundant miracles!).




Perhaps the
largest benefit from ParentHood;
how to fill the Mundane with undeniable Bliss?
just have your child reMind you of what you have forgotten...


above; Ananda and Dewa on an avocado break during the 59th Annual Coconino County Fair festivities.




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They don't make County Fairs like this too often...


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Enjoy the DL Archives, the WF SanghaLounge,
and all the WF books, CD's, DVD's, and ever flowing Chi...

and until we can gather in this DL Forum again,
may all your Sweat be Blessed,
and
all your Silences sacred.

May your Practice be strong and know that i send each of you
the Light from the humble, powerful Temple
waaaaay up there,
cloud hidden,
whereabouts unknown...


i bow in gratitude from altitude and love you for choosing to Be Here Now...

from my Clan to yours,
Om So Ti!!!!


your loving coach

"Just Begin Again...and Again, and Endlessly Again." - the WF Maxim

i didn't put the WF Maxim, "Just Begin Again...and Again" on my
Wholistic Fitness Sport Jersey
for no go(o)d reason, as i coach temporarily fallen Online Student B below:

Coach-

To update you . . .

I've been out of town for the last 2 weeks - settled my daughter into her new college home in Massachusetts, then off to Pittsburgh to help my family pack up our childhood home and move my mother to Florida to live with my sister. A crazy 2 weeks. My EMR was spotty at the beginning of the 2 weeks and then just plain dropped off.

Ran out of all herbs and MAP, while also running out of cash. A dilemma.

But you once e-mailed me to "just begin, again and again" and so I am.

Ordered MAP today and the herbs.

Will begin EMR in the a.m. and consistent DL.

Many thanks,
B

COACH REPLIES:
Most Precious New Student B,

you all-Ways have superb, excellent "arrows in your spiritual quiver" as a student of Wholistic Fitness...
especially during times of life turbulence.

what are those "arrows"?

well the two most important ones are:



DO NOT MISS THIS IMPORTANT TEACHING FOR BEGINNING STUDENTS OF WF!!!

ON TODAY'S DL!!!

photo: WF Temple Manager Ananda sportin' the WF Sport Jersey. photo by ilg.

Gampopa Blessing

On today's DL,
a DharmaTeaching from Gampopa within a kayak trip on Lake Powell last year. photo by my MTB Sensei; Bobby V.

Arizona MisConnect

Recent monsoon activity has swollen Oak Creek, as witnessed by this view at West Fork last week. This spot is less than 15 miles from my front door. The water is still quite cold for swimmers in shady areas, but warmer when they move into sunnier pools. (Betsey Bruner/Arizona Daily Sun)

amazing how some people still think where i live is in a cacti-filled desert when i tell them i live in Flagstaff!

Potent Quotes, Tribal Tidbits, plus...NICE TAT!!!!

click on pics to enlarge

my Red Rock Racing Team here in Flag...though ilg has been MIA on the bike racing circuit this summer as i've swapped my cleats for running shoes*, my team has been cranking the summer sweat big time. Congrats RRR Teammates! Can't wait to race with you again!!!...hey, is it just me or am i turning more Asiatic as the years pass? Front row between the kids!) photo by Sara Dillavou

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Growing up, i thrived on memorizing poems and sacred scripture excerpts, and quotes that stirred my Chi. surviving (barely) the eighties as a sponsored extreme athlete (synonymous with 'extreme partying'), has pretty much deleted most of my memorization skills. however, many of the Chi quotes still stick to my cells and pop up during high-intensity silence or sweat sessions. it with great honor that i begin sprinkling your own Practice with these pivotal sayings which graced my own Chi Development...use them with your Highest Integrity and they will empower your Path...

"If you are not leaning,
no one will ever let you down."

"If you let other people do it for you,
they will do it to you."

"99% responsibility doesn't work."

- Dr. Robert Anthony

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"No person does injustice to their Teacher if
they forever remain a student."
- Nietzche


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The hardest move a climber can make is to
do a difficult route &...


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(see bio on website for my race results thus far)

From The Nederlands; beginning the TBT Journey

a Q&A with coach on today's DL!

First Snow of 08/09?!?!

uh, i hate to tell ya...but that white stuff behind the summer green Aspen leaves this afternoon, looks an AWFUL LOT like SNOW!!!!!!!!! you might need to click on the pic to enlarge...


snow, snow...slobber, slobber...

photo by ilg