INNER STRENGTH
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STEVE ILG PERFORMS A yoga pose on the deck of his Cheshire home. Ilg is a world renown fitness expert and author specializing in Yoga. Photo: Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun
By KEITH JIRON
Sun Sports Staff
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 7:56 AM MST
Flagstaff-based best-selling health and fitness author and yoga instructor shares his gift with others
The principals in Steve Ilg's favorite game growing up were his jet-black pet wolf hybrid and good ol' Mother Nature.
"We'd wake up in the morning, look out the window and pretty much just take off," said Ilg, who spent countless hours with Apache in the creeks and canyons in and around Durango, Colo. throughout the 1970s. "(I'd have my) bow and arrow and I'd climb up (on a bluff), shoot the arrow high into air and try to see where it landed. Then I'd time myself on how long it would take us to find it.
"That was a classic game that we would play. We would just explore. We would have a great time."
The object of the exercise was clear enough, but Ilg came away with so much more than just a knack for tracking down some lousy stick.
He entered adulthood with his love of the outdoors even stronger, but more importantly, with a firmer understanding of his place in it.
"What Apache did for me was really to..."
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