There is no substitute for Noble Effort...

"There is no substitute for Noble Effort. Always apply your full capacity in every Appropriate Action towards your Highest Self. The worst waste of all is the waste of our inherent Enlightenment potential."

- Coach Steve Ilg
200+ podiums in 23 different sports
7 World Championship appearances in 5 different sports

founder:
Wholistic Fitness
and
High Performance Yoga


photo: ilg crankin' "Medicine Ball Mini-Rockys"

The Yoga Sutra's reflect disparity not union?!

"There is no higher God than Intervals."

- Coach Steve Ilg
1989 Journal of Wholistic Fitness®




west wall, bookcase, of my Durango H(om)e office. click to enlarge Original print by HP Yogini Susan Deterling - Granite Camp, Grand Canyon. the three books which are always ready for me to grab while enroute to either the toilet during my Slim Cap moments and my reading chair facing the Mother Animas River: from left to right: The Yoga Sutra's of Patanjali, Sibley's Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, and - of course - the Bhagavad-Gita. Nag-Champa is burnt daily as devotional offering in the Buddha incense holder. the Feng Shui of one's office is of vital import...especially to us struggling feeble Dharma Protectors!

***

"...The yoga sutras have some gems yes (including two that i have tattooed on me, so I can't be that critical:) , but they are also very clearly an amalgamation of many paths and concepts that were around at the time compiled by someone who -- judging from the writing and from his other works -- may not have even been a practitioner. He starts off basically borrowing the buddhist structure of mind/consciousness but then throws a bone to the eternalists by saying: "well, ok, ishvara (god) is important too..." and never really ties together how his concept of ishvara relates to the ultimate "goal" of yoga, aka having freedom over mental constructs. the buddhist writings on mind are more thorough, the bhakti writings on ishvara are more thorough, and the shaivite writing on achieving recognition of the ultimate reality are more thorough... his writing pretty much fails to take an actual viewpoint in the end. I never realized this until now, when I'm actually studying them in depth at the source.... Anyway, enough nerd blabber... :)" - Josh Shrei

COACH RESPONDS:

Precious Brother JS S(om)ewhere in India,
ilg realized that inherent contradiction of Patanjali's immense effort on my first read...and then again it was driven home during formal studies (University of Marymount, CA), yet, His overall astral blueprint toward Enlightenment has done a lot of go(o)d to keep many of us feeble minded neer' do wells off the streets and into Pratyhara!

Hec, my own books are 'amalgamations' of existing knowledge/techniques which i (and hopefully my own pupils) use as springboards for own contributions to the Uni-Verse.

Then, again, Words are Forms and Forms only point toward Truth which gets us all into these wonderful messes of Avidya! keep sweating, keep sitting still and THANK YOU for your offerings!

Now, this Rever-End is off to run intervals on a hot track; "There is no higher God than Intervals." - Coach Ilg, 1989 Journal of Wholistic Fitness.

Stress Reduction: A Training Effect from WF

"Wholistic Fitness® reduces stress in our life
because we learn inner skills to adjust to 'problems' in a positive way.
What we used to see as 'problems'
become transformed into blessings; opportunities to Rise Higher!"
- steve ilg

HP Yogini Melissa Van Sant, owner of Rose Pedals in Durango, crankin' toward the summit of Jones Creek singletrack this morning; 2,375' in 4.8 miles of drop-dead beautiful singletrack to 9,580'. click to enlarge...the 'impressionist' quality of this pic is not via any PhotoShop antics; it's from my own sweat on my cell phone camera!

Melissa's daughter, Jennifer, an HP Yogini too, also cranked this run...6 months after giving birth! Jennifer knows how to suffer. She ran cross country under one of our nation's best cross-country coaches; Ron Keller of Durango.



Melissa's warrior husband, John? Yup, John's allegiance to HP Yoga is reversing all sorts of chronic pains from construction working...he cranked the "Hum SAH" HP CHI big time with us!

14 bikes to one car...YEAH BABY! Also; ilg faces the FaceBook Wizard Question

click pic and see extensive footnotes for killer details...

what's "on my mind*"?
asks the FaceBook Wizard each time ilg logs on.

ain't it obvious for ALL of us?
layers and layers of avidya...

if my Mind was Clear/Enlightened,

NOTHING would be "on it"!

oh, and is it just feeble ilg or aren't the most 'basic' yoga postures extremely challenging after each hard mountain run or
strength training workout in the Iron Temple?
i mean,
do Studio Yogis ever regularly do any other fitness discipline that is contractive, for Buddha's sake?
or...does doing intense, regular, contractive work somehow threaten their Attachment to 'deep and impressively fluid' yoga postures?
does not high intensity endurance work meet their notion of 'yoga'?
hmmmmm....
is starting to sound a lot more like
Ommmmm
to
ilg!

photo: that's Durangatang Nick Gould, fellow staff teacher at the Cave of Champions here in Durango...just one of several National Class cyclists and professional fitness trainers that have already found a deep friend within the chi of HP Yoga®and WF. Nick - a celebrated Expert/Pro Mountain Biker, who is a personal trainer turned onto HP Yoga and also a great DJ, is set to win the Durango Tri at DMR. the bikes in front of Yogi NG is Durango's first Bicycle Parking Lot in front of Carvers Bakery (...one of the founders of Carver's is Karen Carver, a WF Student from long ago; see WF Mealtime Cookbook). Kudos to Carvers Restaurant and the City of Durango who recently collaborated to replace one downtown parking spot with a bike rack that holds 14 bikes. Seeing as the City of Durango is funded primarily by revenue from sales tax, this will allow more tax-paying customers to conveniently park their bikes in front of this and other downtown businesses - all while reducing dependency on fossil fuels, alleviating congestion, reducing wear and tear on local roads, and promoting a healthy lifestyle!

* if "mind" is, as the Enlightened Ones concur, nothing more than a Great Mirror reflecting prakriti, then surely the question, "What's On Your Mind?" becomes sophomoric and essentially useless (like most WordSpeak).

A Way To Worship Workouts...

***

"A Way (not The Way)...

to worship workouts,

that vehicle of all glorious and truth quality,

is to sweat freely at least once every other day

and

then Sit Still

in Noble Silence,

far removed from all care and worry

at least once every day.

doing so cultivates adoration in every aspect of fitness and keeps the ego humbled regardless of time spent using the body vehicle.

finally, and listen closely:

Attach to no fad, no new device, no new nothing;

just explore deeply thy physiology

in each one of her awesome capacities and abide in that awe. If you do this you MIGHT, just MIGHT, help your chi-ld retain their beautiful sense of awe just that much longer which might make all the difference in the(ir) world."

- ilg with special Metta to my old dharmabrother from Santa Fe; Yogi Shrei losing himself somewhere in India right now

photo:go, ahead, try to follow my wheel. if you can hold my wheel in this Discipline? ilg has MANY other fitness disciplines for you to test yourself against even my meager attainments in Wholeness!
- ilg puts the hammer down during a club ride right in front of the famed, Rock Store, in the Santa Monica Mountains on the same course that the Tour of California did this year...just not as friggin' fast as those guys! i think this photo was by wayne williams, however, i'm not positive.

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Note To Sangha

Noble WF Sangha,

On behalf of Coach Ilg, I'd like to point out to existing Direct Lines subscribers that during this transition of WholisticFitness.com into a membership website, the existing WF Sangha Lounge forums are still open, and access is one of the benefits of your DL subscription (including access to all the inner kiva teachings; astonishing, inspiring, and informative posts which make for great reading and fantastic transfer into wholistic practice).

I TAF we tend to forget this, since it's been called a "DL subscription," not a membership with multiple benefits ... something we're changing within the new site (which we are working on night and day). Access to the Lounge (and Steve) is arguably an even bigger benefit than his blog posts on DL! Don't miss out by missing a weekly trip into the Lounge. Coach has taught us that, "Even a 10-minute journey through the SanghaLounge will celebrate the fact and the awe that our Precious Path of WF is so wealthy in depth, dimension, and clarity that even a 10-minute paddle through the SanghaLounge stream inevitably opens inner gateways of joy and inspiration."

Remember too that even though Coach is currently only posting new posts to this free blog, you still have access to everything he's written on Direct Lines: thousands of posts going back to 2002! (All that and more will be available on the new site.)

So, get into the SanghaLounge and if you are NOT currently a DL Subscriber, as coach has alerted you: NOW is the time to become a member, before we hit the toggle into a new membership website, and begin sealing the nation's most intelligent path of personal fitness for the truly sincere warriors of wholeness.

Lots of exciting stuff on the horizon, and thanks for your Practice of Patience.

From behind the keyboard
I bow,


Mike "MahaManas" Singer
new WF Website Development

i'll tell ya what's funny...funny as karmic blockages...

seriously,

here is what's funny:

how those
who love

high intensity contraction

fear

high intensity elongation

and how

those who love high intensity elongation

fear

high intensity contraction

"My Way is the Middle Way."...-Buddha

remember Yogis of Wholeness:
not too loose...
not too tight...

just
right!

i wish i could teach a HP Yoga® class for all of you
then hit up the Iron Temple
into a 3+ hour Cardio Workout
right Here
right Now
so we could share the Sacred Sweat...

may Practice purify our stains,
feeble ilg


photos:
1) me, fresh outta the Bardo
2) legs of ilg, www.waynewilliamsstudio.com
3) ilg in Bharadvajasana
4) ilg in MahaMudra via James Q. Martin

Burn for the rest of your life: gettin' abs is easy...the Real Situation is: Attaining A Father's Day To Take To The Bardo Entry...

self photo taken m(om)ents ago just to grab your attention to the Real Intent behind the Scientific Artistry of Wholistic Fitness; please, read further...

***

so...all you New Daddy's that are 45+...let's say you go into the bathroom to shower.
i know you do.
eventually.
you take a picture of your Manipura Chakra area; the gut.
what is The Situation which stares back at you?
is there Symmetry?
is there leanness?
is there functionality?
is there an expression of Upliftment in your gut (and butt!)?
or Down-rift-ment?
i mean, really...
truly...
where are You in relation to your Abdominal Situation?
don't default to the "I'm too old," baggage...screw that.
if you studied and STUCK WITH WF?
you'd know that gettin' Abs is the easy part.
far, far, far beyond that is the spiritual fallout which is called dealing with the Inner Jeweled City Which Burns In Your Gut...
isn't time to really just DO THE WORK OF WHOLENESS before you die?

a Proven Path
arises
shining before you
since 1982
ilg suggests;
taking it.

enjoy the following...

wish u wur here...

fires everywhere;
inner ones,
outer ones (Dharma Blessings to my Kinlani brother and sisters)...

if you come to me,

ilg can teach you how to make a fire to keep you warm for the night.

if you choose to study Wholistic Fitness® however...


ilg can torch you
so you can burn
for the rest of your life...

***

like the air that ilg breathes here beneath the Sacred Peak of Dibé Nitsaa, beside the Sacred River Animas,

part of my Dreamspeak which feeble ilg attempts to manifest is the sharing of whole-s(om)e sweat and stillness - the yin and the yang - of living WF right here, in her birthplace; Durango.

***

today, ilg lived a Father's Day for all Fathers Everywhere...

• early morning Practice...hum sah!
• without eating physical food, yet Pranically Satiated from my EMR, the Deities bless ilg to take 3rd in the HillClimb prime and 1st in the Finishing Sprint during the 2-hour Club Ride*
• transition quickly and go swimming at Trimble Hot Springs with my girls into a Ute Blessing and Sacred Dance...see photo's below.

dat's a Dad's Day...
courtesy of the Wholistic Fitness® Personal Training Path.

head bowed upon thy Practice upc(om)ing this week...
feeble ilg

i love this shot taken, like the ones below, at this evenings Ute Blessing and Dance. i grew up with the daughter of a Mountain Ute Tribal Elder. this pic reMinds ilg of her...and of the Sacred Simplicity inherent to honoring Father Sky and Mother Earth as our parents...

timeless...a 6 year-old Ute girl dancer honoring tonight's solstice in the "Sun Dance"

a flash of color expressing the endless bounty of chi inherent to the small, fierce Mountain Utes; the Native American's of the Durango, Colorado area. Their world once extended north to Wyoming, west to Arizona, south to New Mexico, and east to Nebraska. Now? ilg doesn't even have the 'guts' to tell you. let's just say it's very, very local around Durango.

Dewachen and Ananda join in the Friendship Dance along with the Utes...i absolutely adore Dewa's auspicious hand mudra in this blurry yet chiful shot...

Dewa and Amma-ji roll in the grass after the Native dancing...

* so, we're regrouped on the Club Ride at the top of Hermosa Hill; a 2-mile local climbing sufferfest upon bludgeoned pavement which leads toward the trailhead of the now famous Hermosa Creek Trail. anyway, it's the first time i'm on this ride and one of the bro's comes up to me and says,
"Nice climb..."
"Oh, thanks..." i reply resisting the egoic impulse to tell him that i rode the Passes back and forth on Saturday and did Track Intervals yesterday and that my legs felt as dead as tree stumps on the climb.
"Yeah, I couldn't quite follow your wheel...but just wait till you start getting grey hair...it's a lot harder to climb when you get older."

smiling politely, ilg takes the Noble Silence...eventually i find out that he is 7 years younger than ilg.

WF baby; the most important peleton you could EVER hook up with!
especially the older you get.

there is chronologic age.
then there is physiologic age.
then....there is WF age(lessness)!

Happy, Wholistic Daddying..."Training" in Durango!

click on pics to deepen the Heart Hit...

i wish to take this Father's Day m(om)ent to send a Wholistic Message of Gratitude for

all Daddies Everywhere who do what it takes to Stay Fit
and Stay PUT
to Be There
for their Chi-ldren...

and,
SPECIAL THANKS to Thomas The Train, who huffed and puffed his way to Durango from the Island of Sodor in order to give such insurmountable glee and rock-star like awe to hundreds of lucky kids like Dewa, myself, and Joy! Thomas truly imparts the values of a Wholistic Fitness Lifestyle: Fun, Focus, Perseverance, and Unity with all others in order to Be On Time, Be Prepared, and...Give 110%!

i took this pic riding one-handed with Dewa in the bicycle seat behind me during a Zone 3 Interval up the Bike Path hill in order to intercept Thomas at his stop right near our house!

Dewachen hittin' up the swing set in Silverton...the blast of aspens in bud behind her...Dewa likes to go up to
Silverton to swing; the 9,800' elevation makes for enhanced swinging through the thin-air!

parading Dewa through Silverton on a rad taxi-bicycle...she was shouting out: "HELLO!" to everyone on the streets...

Thomas ROCKS!

Viva La Daddy Day To All
and
To All
a
Go(o)d Sweat!

of Pain and Practice...

an alpine bouquet for you...photo by ilg two days ago.

Whatever you do, don’t shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is, because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift: the chance of discovering, through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow.

“Grief,” Rumi wrote, “can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
- Sogyal Rinpoche

***

71 kilometers yesterday riding over 4 mountain passes; over 5,000'+ of climbing all between 9,300' and 11,000'. Today? Thomas The Train in Durango with Dewa.
Buddha; "The Art of life is balance."

Blessings upon thy Practice,
ilg

WF Students Are Students For Decades, Not Weeks...

Instant Sartori...tossing a wildflower-holding Dewachen while doing Unweighted Squats at nearly 11,000' yesterday at Andrew's Lake. the WF Warrior knows that "Our Workout Is Everywhere!" click on the stunning photo by Ananda and tell me if you ain't getting the Chi Transmission!

***

Ilg,
Thank you for the effort that has been put into preparing the Blessed Mala, I will be honored to wear it.

Thou I am not a formal on-line student, I have been a follower of your teachings for many, many years. I have passed on re-purchased your book The Outdoor Athlete many times.

For years I have been a seeker & follower of the wisdom found in the Buddhist & other New Age ways. I have always searched for the perfect rep/set...the melting of mind, body, heart & Iron. After watching & re-watching your Iron Temple Teachings DVD,
I am hoping to tap into it.

Peter
Las Vegas, NV

Laker Power!

well, although it wasn't as moving to me as Lance's performance in the Tour of Switzerland today...ilg must say, "YEAH LAKERS!!!!!!!!!!"

Heron Lake, New Mexico...just another secret gem of The Land of Enchantment

click on pics to enlarge the Chi Hit

Northern New Mexico past weekend:
ilg family re-union (re-yoga)

location: Heron Lake, New Mexico

all photos and text by ilg

this offering is devoted to the Fish Beings...

looking north over El Vado Reservoir in northern New Mexico...a scant 1.50 hours from Durango, Colorado.

Should one sincerely undertake (take-under) the Teachings of all the great spiritual paths of the world? It would become quickly apparent that there is within us an ocean of resolve, of power, of wisdom and compassion...

Evening Brahmamuhurti over El Vado.

The power of what CHrIst called the Kingdom of Heaven is the search for Enlightenment. Remember Noble Yogin; Enlightenment is not about OUR endless Joy....it is about transforming not only ourselves but the world around us.

my dad.
6:00 am outside our fishing lodge last Saturday.
a chain-smoking, one-fingered yogi of the endless Stalwart Warrior since he was 14; his Message lies not in his addictive self, rather in his immutable love for his family and the natural world...

finally, my Dad caught more fish than both of his sons and found his Chi once again here, closing in on 80 years old, up in these sacred pinon-studded, water infested high mountain lands of Northern New Mexico.
my dad still stands on his feet Serving at Wal-Mart garden shop in Rio Rancho, New Mexico from 5 am to 4 pm.
5-6 days per week.

Brazos cliffs (great moderate free climbing!) and Heron Lake in the foreground all within virga.
Little wonder why Yogi Christ was a fisherman.

Has there ever been a time when the clear use of this sacred power was more essential or more urgent?

the Ilg Clan men from L-R; me, my dad, and my younger brother, Craig.
we set the new season record at Heron Lake with 13 kokanee taken before 12 noon.
i had visualized success for my Dad especially, this trip was hugely important for him
to bond with his two sons.






Brahman smiled and Graced us with a bounty exceeding even
my visualizations. we ate our catch and these Precious Fish Beings which offered us their Give Away
were absolutely delicious...5 star delicious...and the POWER within their precious flesh was
AMAZING!

the state record for Lake Trout was taken here at Heron Lake; 34lbs!
Lake Trout in New Mexico! can you believe it?
for the best guide: Don Wofley

Has there ever been a time when it was more vital to understand the nature of this pure power and how to channel it and how to use it for the sake of the world?

i spent the rest of my day with my niece; Ella and nephew; Alazar. here, they show off the fossils which we found along the shores of this amazingly beautiful slice of New Mexico...

shots of an Anasazi replica pueblo my brother and Ella and Alazar made...like Chaco Canyon, the replica pueblo centered around Grandfather Sun's appearance to the Brazos Cliffs. Craig is an architect in Albuquerque; thus the beautiful precision of the stonework...

WF puts the "om" in cust(om)er service!

dear noble coach

this humble student is the one who is thankful..for your valuable sharings...

i downloaded your audio teachings..today i even got dvds and again that beautiful scent, your personal notes from your heart and sweat..and beautiful stickers...all that work in such a short time! you are full of magic...a big heart

feel like a kid with big ice cream on very hot day...or a feel like a an desert about to die and finding a full well with precious water...

now time to study and enjoy my teachings carefully patiently and go for it :))

namaste

sp
los angeles

Whassup With The New "Membership Only" WF Website?

Mike "MahaManas" Singer...the MasterMind and former Microsoft® wizard who is behind the soon to be released (uh, yeah, i know you've heard me say that tag line for like a year...) WF Membership Only Website. Let ilg just say this much; i am watching very closely who has steadfastly subscribed to DL, MAP Aminos, SUNRIDER Herbs, and has shown consistent support of the Noble Effort of the WF Mission over the past year(s)...Thou shall be duly rewarded when Maha unleashes and locks up the new WF Website; For Warriors Of Wholeness Only! Stay tuned!

Below, Maha addresses the issue of the new WF Website...

***

Namaste Noble WF Sangha!

I'm doing all the web work, so I'm the slow poke.

It's been more like a YEAR-long Zen sesshin for Noble Ilg, actually. He is one patient dude ... although I suspect if I lived in Durango he'd be giving me one additional set of Two-Bench Triceps Dips to do each week for every day that goes by with the new site not up. (Uh oh, did I really just write that?)

Once we launch the new site, being a "WF member" will give you access to DL (including categorized and searchable archives of every post going back to 2002!), the Sangha Lounge forums, and more: monthly live webinars with El Coache, videos, audios, articles, discounts, etc.). It will be well worth the wait, and I too thank you for your patience. I know it's been a bit confusing.

I just returned from a week-long trip, so progress is afoot again.

Onward!
Maha (Mike)

"There is no will..."

"There is no will.
There is only God's Favor."

- an unknown Christ-intoxicated fisherman who auspiciously
appeared to me at the remote Rio Chama Trailhead yesterday...

click pic to enlarge
do not republish without asking

sunrise; Heron Lake, New Mexico as seen from the 20' pontoon...no wonder why Yogi Jesus was a fisherman...oh, and His Grace saw to it that my dad, my brother, and feeble ilg set the season record thus far for kokanee...

back from my pilgrimage...

coming this week on iDL;
• Heron Lake photo essay
• Devil Mountain: my 12-mile mountain bike uphill time trial
• WF Membership Only Website update
• and soooo much more to keep your Transpersonal, Wholistic onslaught toward Enlightenment
in tune with It All...

Blessed be thy sweat,
ilg

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"Wholy Sweat" - National Champion endorses ilg's HP Yoga®

"All I can say is "wholy sweat!"-
recovering from an amazing Steve Ilg Yoga class last night-amazing!"

- Marisa Asplund
2010 National Duathlon Champion
Winner 2010 Iron Horse Bicycle Classic

photo; local Durangatang Marisa and her Canine Companion Cora

*

That is seriously the BEST yoga class ever! Thanks for being here and sharing!
- Melissa Mayer
pro MTB coach at The Hub
Durango

*

"The best mental & physical workout ever!!! Coach you are awesome."
-Melissa Van Sant
owner/Rose Pedals
Durango

***

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click on my phone pics below for enlarged Chi Hits...enjoy and may your next Sweat be empowering...


another go(o)d thing of Self Healing from spinal paralysis: an injured and way hematoma'd right hip ain't gonna slow down this mountain yogi too long; top of Coal Bank Pass (10,640')...the first of three within a 2-hour, 50k ride yesterday...listen to this to take your in-juries to the Other Side

***

sometimes ilg just reckons
that the people struggling to get fit or healed simply have forgotten HOW MUCH MORE FUN a wholistically fit Human can pack into say...2 hours; take yesterday for instance...

Big Molas Lake from the top of Molas Pass toward Silverton. to the left of the foreground pine is Kendall Mountain, which i'm supposed to race up in a few weeks...right now, my right leg can't even take full bodyweight...hmmm...

***

in less than 2 hours i got to ride a most scintillating and beautiful 50 kilometers which covered 3 mountain passes, each of them over 10,600'. yeah; 3. average speed was 24.5 kph. vertical feet climbed was about 5,000'. max speed (did i mention FUN?) was a sizzling 77 kph. add to that the double Pranic Punch of immersed in that much high altitude pran coupled by that of merging into a heavenly Realm via the several hundred Sacred Mantra repetitions i used to inhabit a wonderful climbing rhythm...and...

it's
just
WAAAAY
too much FUN
being Wholistically Fit!

cuz then,
this morning i rode over to the Iron Temple
and knocked around some Iron element (elegantly of course)
in about 3x as fast/effective of a workout that the other warriors
were doing,
matched by this evening where i'm about to pedal off again to
throw down the Sacred Sweat in another dastardly fun HP PROP WORKOUT!

as our WF maturity grows,
courtesy of living the WF Lifestyle Principles,
the amount of fun we can pack into a 2 hour cardio workout or a 15-minute
gym workout or an asana session is just...
well...
it's
go(o)d.

really,
really
go(o)d.

there is no God
higher
than Sweat
or
Stillness.

Wholistic Fitness.

Challenging our weaknesses
since 1982

Blessings upon thy Sweat and Stillness,

your feeble ilg

A Durango Double Take...and MORE HP YOGA in DURANGO: CONGRATS to Ananda!

Dear Steve:
Just listened to "The Pain Guru"
It is totally awesome.
Ai Imawa...
Fit Kit
Vernon, Canada



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First, CONGRATULATIONS to Ananda (Joy), my Beloved Partner and absolutely the most amazing m(om) for Dewachen...Joy is now teaching HP Yoga Slow Flow at the Durango Recreation Center each Tuesday morning from 7-8 am. Lucky, lucky Rec Center folks! So, all of you that are visiting Durango, you've got three weekly chances now to catch an HP Yoga® class...and, more coming! photo by ilg this morning of Dewa and Ananda.

so, where we live is right beside the Sacred River; the Rio De Las Animas Perdidas (the River of Lost Souls). a bike path goes right along the River in front of our h(om)e...nearly everyone is doing a double-take as they pedal or jog along and see something red in the middle of the rushing river...but..what could it be? ....look closer...


...hey, they didn't call it the River of Lost Souls for nothing...this kayak is completely wrapped around a boulder...where is the kayaker?