Answer To Yesterday's WF Test Challenge...winner goes to...

Answer is: American Black Bear. With over 16 Black Bear sightings in my neighborhood this summer and a very tempting Black Walnut Tree blooming outside our bedroom window, each evening invites the sounds of bear mixed with running river. Kinda reminds me of my summers spent living in the old "Camp 4" (Climbers Camp) in Yosemite Valley where the Bears were nothing more than overgrown raccoons...

Local Durangatang Outdoor Athlete Warrioress Julie Lennon Feilen nailed my Poop Question within minutes of my publishing it and thus has earned a $10 WF Pro Shop Gift Certificate for her fecal knowledge! Only in WF does it pay to pay attention to POOP!

Congratulations to Julie and thanks to ALL of you who played!

WF Test Challenge; POOP! $10 Gift Cert to whoever wins!

Any "ilg" devotee will surely known my infatuation with poop. When it comes to fecal matter? It matters A LOT as an expression of personal fitness. Hec, ilg can tell more about a new student from a few questions regarding their poop than any current medical questionnaire!

Be the first Warrior (all true Warriors are natural scatologists...gotta be!) to identify the Being that produced this poop and you get a $10 Gift Certificate in the WF Pro Shop! which, unlike other Personal Training Paths...actually buys you multiple Teachings from me!

Here are some Hints since most of you all have been pretty much striking out on my Test Challenges ;-)

• = the Poop measures 9" long by 7" wide and is about 1.5" thick
• = the Poop is situated in my backyard; Durango, CO...elevation 6,512'...riparian environment (we live not 50 meters away from Animas River)
• = the Poop was found this morning at about 10 am; it was fresh and had berry seeds in it.

good luck!
i'm waiting...

Healing Sands of San Luis Valley...plus; a WF Test Challenge!!!

click on pics to deepen the Chi Hit...all photos by steve ilg unless otherwise noted. please do not republish without first asking. May my effort amplify your Practice this week...

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Prehistoric man journeyed through, lived within, and more than likely marveled at these captivating sand dunes which lay like a Devotee before the snowy summits of the Sangré de Christos...

Mt. Herard with the Sand Dunes in the foreground

The Jicarilla Apache still take pilgrimage to these Sacred Sands to gather and use these Sands for ceremonial and healing purposes...

So too, does ilg.

Some fitness warriors rush to doctors,
or to ibuprofen
or to Lord knows what else
when they become injured...

ilg?
rushes his wrecked Body Vehicle here...



So too, should thou.


at least once...

...can there possibly exist a more fun, powerful, or pranically potent place on Turtle Island for a 2 year-old Rinpoche...

...or Her M(om)...

...or, for a feeble mountain yogi like ilg to celebrate his 48th date of current incarnation?




ilg TAF's* not.

Crestone Peak (far left) and the highly sought after summit of the Crestone Needle (center spire), and the massif of Marble Mountain with Dune in front. let ilg tell you, a long meditation was required to stay put to get this shot for you! thank you Ananda and Dewa for your patience with ilg's devotion to his Sangha.

This traverse on mossy, slick granite over a very churning and snow-cold Zapata creek toward the gushing Zapata Falls made both ilg and Amma Ananda a bit nervous...looks like Dewa is a bit edgy, as well! does ilg love anything more than a hidden waterfall during spring runoff?

i TAF not much!

Dang this Rinpoche is getting heavy! photo by Ananda. on the hike into Zapata Falls. i couldn't fasten the hip belt due to my still raw and deeply bone-bruised right hip. Dunes and Crestone Peak in the background.

iDL Quiz:
is this a Ground Squirrel or Chipmunk or Alpine Gopher or...?
first alert Warrior to get the correct answer receives a FREE MEMBERSHIP** to my new WF website (c(om)ing soon)! a fantastic photo by Ananda near Zapata Falls!

"I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment
on my life."

- David Ignatow

if you respect the artistic photographic chi of these pics,
perhaps it's time to consider a
Temple Tithe
to help support
the mission of WF:
restoring Sanctity to Sweat for All...

thank you for TAF'ing with me today...

Dharma Blessings upon thy Practice,

your feeble teacher

* TAF is a traditional WF Aphorism for: "Think And Feel"... when a WF Student says "i TAF..."
it means that he or she has not just 'thought' about something before saying, rather, he or she has run it through both sides of the brain...the Thinking Brain and the Feeling Brain...the Yin and the Yang...the analytical and the poetic...the male and female...hey, what can ilg say? WF ain't just "Kettleball training."


** or, if you are already a DL Subscriber, you receive a $15 WF Credit to use as you wish!!!

No Correct Answers! Entire WF Sangha Stumped! Here is the answer!

I think former Online Student Karen Carmona put it best about today's WF Challenge Test when i told her, like all the others, 'nope, not correct' on her guess...to which she wrote back,
"Things are not as they appear."

of course, Student KC was quoting Buddha, however, what she was trying to say was that we don't extract from everyday situations the richness of Lila (go ahead and Google that word if you are still - by now - unaccustomed to ilg's ease of flipping between yogic and Western terms. don't be lazy; ilg plants words to challenge your willingness to explore spiritual beacon words) which runs rampant through the fabric of our Outer World.

okay, i've pushed you i DL'rs long enough, although, quite frankly, ilg is surprised - given the volume of you sitting around the DL Campfire - not one of you were able to get the correct answer.

it was Keith Erickson from i don't know where, that came closest. he wrote well past my deadline time;

Hi Steve,
Longtime fan of Outdoor Athlete just bought Total Body Transformation and saw your In-Direct lines test. Thought I would give it a try.
I see four Canadian Geese and one well hidden whitetail deer. Just got home from work @6pm so I'm probably over the time limit.

Best Regards,

Keith Erickson

Warrior Keith, you were the ONLY ONE who spotted the deer in the foreground! sadly, however, it was not a "Whitetail Deer" but rather, a "Mule Deer." Also, you missed one goose.
here is how i wrote my DL Sangha after they got stiffed as well:


The correct answer to yesterday's unsolved WF Test Challenge:

Five Canadian Geese (Branta canadensis)
and
a Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)

Glimpses of undifferentiated Reality...what the Japanese spiritual seeker might call, Sartori, and what i have historically termed, 'shards of Awakening' are like finding the huge Deer in yesterday's photo.

look again at my photo.
this time; hit up WF Lifestyle Principle #1: take an Ujjayi Breath, adjust your posture, soften your eyes as if in meditation...as if in asana practice.
look softer...you'll soon be greeted by our beautiful Deer Being
and you'll be shocked, "Why, how the hec could i have missed THAT?!"


that's precisely how Truth feels
when we happen to rip through a layer of Avidya...spiritual ignorance.
like water; Mind is clear.
like muddy water, Avidya makes murky that which is by nature quite Clear.


when i composed that photo,
i purposely framed Sister Deer within her natural camouflage; the dogwood and elder bushes along the river bank...

like Sister Deer in my photo;
modern American culture thwarts the context or framework in which to comprehend transpersonal insight and Truth. Worse still, rather than encouraging us to explore Truth and spiritual penetration more deeply and discover where they spring from, we are taught and basically brainwashed in both obvious and subtle ways to make more murkier our Clear mind nature; each time we plug into an iPod, watch TV, gossip...

that's what freaks us out when we reach a certain depth of understanding in WF:
we arrive at the frightening station that what we call our 'selves' is really just an accumulated mish-mash of second-handed opinion and unEnlightened trivia.

as Rinpoche Soygal says, "This is perhaps the darkest and most disturbing aspect of modern civilization—its ignorance and repression of who we really are."

Today's WF Assignment:
Look Softer, Not Harder.

see if YOU can solve my WF Test Challenge!

for the first time ever, my most recent WF Test Challenge has completely evaded solution from my Direct Lines Subscribers!

can YOU provide me with the correct answer to the following photograph i took the other day just outside my new home office beside the Animas River, here in Durango, Colorado?

be the FIRST ONE to email me the correct answer to:
steve (at) wholisticfitness (dot) com

and receive a FREE MONTH SUBSCRIPTION to Direct Lines!

and...here you go...you have 6 hours to solve it:

WF Test Challenge: how many Animal Beings do you see in the above picture?
click it to enlarge

First Entry From Durango: the Wolf has returned to his den! Back From The Moving Bardo!...Plus A WF Challenge Quiz!

READ ABOUT COACH's MOVE TO DURANGO;
see pics of our new h(om)e
win the WF Challenge Question...
absorb the Dharma Teaching and shaktipatka of moving!

all on DL Subscription Format...

so here, with these La Plata Moutains...
beneath Dibé Nitsaa (left most, highest peak in photo) the Sacred Peak of North
under which i was raised,
ilg shall remain until age 75
i'll build a WF Institute and Retreat Center here,

raise my daughter here,
live and love with my Beloved Ananda here,
and then,
on the cusp of my final ashramic phase of life;
ilg will take my own final solo journey
back to my Himalayan spiritual h(om)e...
however,
i
still have a LOT of Inner and Outer Fitness to attain
before age 75...
so,


i pray you will continue to join me
toward Wholeness through
the crazy wisdom gained from meaningful movement
and the unmatched interplay of integrated personal fitness as Ritual
we have all come to know
and love
as WF!

ilg bows, smiling, from beside the Sacred Banks
among the wild geese calling...
can you hear?

* shaktipatka; the inherent capacity to spontaneous awaken the latent spiritual force within all Beings.

** 'my Beloved La Plata Mountains'; La Plata Mountains, part of the San Juan Mountain range in Southern Colorado, as seen from Escalante Pueblo, looking northeast. 205mm focal length, used a tripod. Zoom out to wide angle view

The mountain peaks here, from left to right, are Hesperus Mountain (13,232ft), Lavender Peak(~13,180ft), Mount Moss(13,192ft), Babcock Peak(13,149ft), and Burwell Peak(12,664ft) -- And the site I'm standing at is about 6,936ft elevation.

photo on Flicker by Peapicker; thank you!

ThanksGiving WF Mastery Test

Ananda and Dewa (in the baby backpack), lead my 80 year-young mom and my dad on a WF Earned Sustenance hike behind the WF Temple H(om)e before the ThanksGiving Meal...photo by ilg

Go(o)d Luck:

Take Me To The THANKSGIVING WF MASTERY TEST!

And The Winner of Yesterday's DL Challenge Test Is...

RANDO!!!

that's right,
Randy Owen - my former WF Certified Teacher from back in Boulder, Colorado
was the first of only a handful of DL Readers that even sent in a response!

the rest of you betta brush up on your Train Training! ilg LOVES trains...lived near them most of my life, including growing up to the darling 'CHOO CHOO' sound of one of the few remaining Narrow Gauge Trains of yesteryear in Durango. for those of you that have visited me here in Flagstaff, well, you know all too well how often the trains rattle through this mountain town!

for his exceptional Train(ing), Rando is gonna receive a BEAUTIFUL "Old Oraivi" Hopi Running Cap direct from the Hopi Harrier himself, Juwan Nuvayokva
PLUS
an extension of ONE MONTH to his DL subscription!

thanks to all of you who Choose to Be Here Now
and
for contributing to these WF Challenge Tests...
ilg is watching...
rewarding those
who JUMP!

YOGI RC WINS $20 WF CHALLENGE TEST

It PAYS to be a DL Devotee!

Thanks to ALL of you who jumped at my WF Challenge Test in yesterday's DL!

photo; steve in a 'malasana plyo'. click to enlarge but promise me you won't try this near sharp-edged furniture! pic by HP Yogi devotee; JamesQMartin.com

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Well, i didn't think it would take a rocket scientist to win yesterday's Hidden WF Test Challenge, however, it did. Yogi Crespo is kinda a rocket scientist, i think. He is an engineer that designs and develops Lunar Vehicles for NASA. Or something like that.

Anyway, within 20 minutes of my posting "Snapshots and a Sutra From New Mexico", WF Devotee and multi-sport warrior Rich Crespo from Pasadena, CA answered my Test Challenge first and correctly:

Namaste Coach Ilg, Here's my shot: #1 Doko 'oslid - San Francisco Peaks, I think specifically it's Humphrey's Peak in Flag #2 Tsoodzil - Mount Taylor in Nuevo Mexico #3 Dibé Nitsa - Mount Hesperus in Colorado #4 Tsisnaasjini - Montana Blanca in Colorado Survey Says???? Yogi RC

Survey Says;
You nailed it, RC!
ilg was raised beneath Dibé Nitsa
takes annual pilgrimage to Tsoodzil
and now lives on the slopes of Doko 'oslid.
guess the Deities are saving Tsisnaasjini for my later years.

Yogi RC receives a $20 WF Tribal Catalog Gift Certificate and a one-month extension to his DL Subscription for his 'high performance' act of yoga!

Colorado Mountaineer, Bryan Bishop, was 11 minutes off the pace yet answered correctly and added the direction of which each of the Sacred Peaks anchor. For Bryan's effort, he receives a one-month extension to his DL Subscription!

Real Devotion Is Not Mindless Adoration

click on pics to enlarge.
all photos courtesy of the WF Temple unless otherwise noted. do not republish. thank you.







QUESTION:
Can you identify the difference in Mindset among the following pictures taken from my own version of a WF Lifestyle?

test photo #1: Inner workouts far outweigh any physical workouts throughout my life, working my Training Mala during Mantra Practice

test photo #2: the morning of Sunday's State Nordic Championships, doing Neti (Nasal Washing) as per part of my Early Morning Ritual DVD.

Test Photo #3: Engaging WF Yogi Squat and Non-Dominant Hand Practice during laundry folding

Test Photo #4: finishing just off the lead pack at the end of the Bike Up during the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon the Saturday before last. photo by Bruce Nagaan.

ANSWER:
ONLY ON TODAY's DL SUBSCRIPTION FORMAT
along with a POWERFUL DHARMA TEACHING ON DEVOTION
from Sogyal Rinpoche and Coach Ilg.

SnowTrack Answer; The Track That No One Tracked!

this is the SnowTrack in both of my blogs this past week which no one was able to determine. never before has a WF Test Challenge stumped BOTH of my DL Sangha AND the iDL'rs!


i certainly enjoyed your guesses, however:
Martins, Fishers, Black Bear, Coyote, Puma, Mexican Wolf, Snowshoe Hare...Oh MY!
Two readers that that it was a YETI! Technically, around here, we have no Yeti's. we do however, have the North American version; the Sasquatch (aka; Big Foot).


the best humor guess was this one from a Marine:
"It's a large frog with a woody."


in fact, the Marine's had an entire Discussion Board set up for deciphering my photo (thanks to ever-devoted iDL'r Erl)...including a VERY, VERY CLOSE CALL!

last winter, i did a WF Teaching on the value of going barefoot in winter, particularly spending time barefoot in the snow. (is the Light going on, yet, oh Noble Yogi?)

then, in DL i published this darling photo:


2/28/08; Dewa First SnowTracks

which should have been quite the clue for the Alert DL Reader.

Finally,
you should know your Coach by now...
thinking "outside the box" should be mandatory for you after 3 decades of following my Teachings!

it amazed me that everyone defaulted to what Buddha called, "Afflicted Thinking" as you tried to figure out the SnowTrack. you made the fatal error of 'assuming' the Track was an Animal Track instead of looking at the Track with what the Zen people would call, "Beginners Mind."

did you even pay heed to my Word Choice? i called it, a "SnowTrack" didn't i?

i didn't call it an "Animal Track"...you guys did!

surprisingly, it was Tamara, my dear friend who makes Monsters for movies, in Studio City, CA who came sooooo close with her offering,

Dear Steve,
I'm going to take a stab and say what first cam to my mind... I'm no tracking expert but it looks to me like you have captured the very rare signs of a mama lowering her baby into her first snow! Looks like the tracks of a little creature known around your parts as Dewachen feeling her first snow! Makes sense to me because she is very cat like... and her retractible claws won't come in for another 10 years or so :)

XOXOX
T

so, by now, i Trust you've figured out my SnowTrack Test Challenge which will now go down in WF History as the only Test Challenge to stump all the Sangha...
indeed,
it was my own barefoot track.

since it's evident you guys aren't Practicing barefoot walking in snow
(otherwise, you would have NAILED the track right off the bat), i'll explain the track indicators:

i told you it was about 4" across.
near a woodpile.
high compression across the forefoot.
known to exhibit cat-like behavior at times (hey, doesn't a professional yoga teacher and former pro rock climber display "cat-like behavior"?)

any yogi who Practices barefoot as much as possible (which is a MANDATORY WF Lifestyle Principle which i have Taught you constantly) knows that when it's time to get more firewood from the outside woodpile during snow,
we perch up on the balls of our feet, thus keeping the more temperature-sensitive arch area off the snow, at least for short periods of time.

guess i need to put a lid on any more advanced Training for y'all.

time to Begin Again.
perhaps review the WF Scriptures...
maybe Begin Again with the "Namaste" or the "Green Tara" WF Training Programs.
uncover and rediscover those glowing WF Basic Teachings
such as Barefoot Litter Patrol, Early Morning Cleaning Ritual, and Brushing Teeth while in Yogi Squat with Non-Dominant Hand.


such are the Basic WF Techniques which make this Precious Path so rare, so powerful, and so immediately Transformative.

such are the simple Teachings so characteristic of this Path that are so easily passed off by those with busy, fancy minds...thinking to themselves, "Oh how quaint! That's really cute stuff...but i am far too busy and powerful of a person to be bothered with such simplicity...i want to go to India and study with a real Guru."

fine.

go ahead.

however, if you couldn't figure out feeble teacher ilg's
Track,

go(o)d luck tracking an Enlightened Guru who is already and endlessly waiting for your Awareness to elevate high enough, consistently enough to receive the Teachings for which WF is ideal groundwork.

happy tracking!


i'm going skiing...17"of fresh snow up on the Sacred Peak...

remember, don't email me about my DL's or iDL's!
that is what the DL Cave is for in the WF SanghaLounge!
thank you for respecting my "InBox'.
i cherish your DL input; it helps me pace my Teachings for you all.

that is all,

your mountain yeti...
er...
your mountain yogi




PS: last night i clued in my WF Online Students as to the origin of the SnowTrack.
Student Singer was quick with his reply:
"See, I was correct... Coyote. 'Trickster'!!"

DL Challenge Test Stumping All Sangha; 12 hours left...Contest now open to iDL'rs!..

i took this shot of the WF Temple H(om)e (aka; 3-Chi Manor) yesterday while nordic skiing on my private ski loop. the snowtrack from the Creature which has apparently stumped my Noble DL Sangha was found near a woodpile on 'reader left' of 3-Chi Manor.


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So, my DL Challenge Test yesterday has seemingly stumped my Noble DL Sangha.

Tracking is very important; in our Bardo Entry,
our spiritual evolution becomes dependent upon how well "we" maintain the filaments of our SupraConsciousness throughout the 5 dozen wrathful and pleasurable Realms of Extreme Intensity. Precisely why i have you training in so many different fitness and lifestyle Realms; i am developing your Awareness throughout various intensities to make your Atman 'more spiritually fit' upon your Bardo Entry. our "Bardo Consciousness" has to 'track' the Highest Lights and Nada during our Bardo Journey...and there is VERY LITTLE ROOM for 100% Navigation toward Dewachen (the "Highest Step on the Podium of the Human Race for our Tribe" of which i have Taught you before in DL. if you attain Dewachen, your personal coach will be at the feet of Amitabha Buddha, Himself!).

now, back to the WF Challenge Test:

So, i'm posting the photo again below and the Challenge Test is now open to the iDL'rs!
one of them MIGHT just win 3 FREE MONTHS of DL!!!

you gotta earn it by using your Creative Tracking Skills, however.


here is the pic:




Tracking Hint:
try clicking to enlarge the picture. this might not work on some Browsers.


2007 HP Yogini of the Year, Leslie is hot on the trail however. She asks;

"So...your track...hard to see it clearly, where it was, the time of day, spacing, tail drag etc ...SOOOOOO, I am going to quess mountain lion. Cat-like track, retractable claws, A-1 Mountain area, birds, deer, little domesticated cats around .... Large print."

the track was RIGHT OUTSIDE the WF Temple H(om)e!! near the woodpile. time of day; morning Brahma Muhurta. no tail drag evident. not Mountain Lion, however, you could be on the 'right track' since this creature certainly displays 'cat like' behavior. claws are NOT-RETRACTABLE! for my outside Flagstaff area readers, 3-Chi Manor sits on the edge of a dry, alpine lakebed right on the north side of A-1 Mountain; a mixed aspen/conifer forest at an elevation of 7,577'.



interestingly, my best two nature trackers in the WF Formal Sangha are both women;
Leslie of Flag and Online Student Anne "SassoSan" of NJ. can you beat these two Warrioress to win the 3 FREE MONTHS OF DL!?
CONTEST NOW OPEN TO iDL'rs!


May your Stillness be sanctified by the sincerity of your Sweat today...

Scenes From A Storm + A DL QUIZ!

22" of wet snow matched by 50+ mph winds whip the WF Temple H(om)e...see the dramatic photos plus; A DL QUIZ that could gift you 3 free months of DL!


Below:
i am engaging at least 3 WF Lifestyle Teachings that are invaluable for long-term health and well being as well as spiritual progress as i wrap this "Whole-iday" Gift...can you name them?

Find out today's DL and REMEMBER the WF MAXIM;
YOUR WORKOUT IS EVERYWHERE!!!
(especially during the Whole-idays!...keep your Practice STRONG!!!!!)

Yesterday's WF CHALLENGE TEST WINNER: SUET from London!!!

Dear Coach,

I don’t often take up your challenge tests. I’m a scaredy-cat. Anyway, I’d like to try this time only because I’d like to win the PRANIC JUNKIE

From my studies, Buddha is often pictured with a deer. This is symbolic according to the legend that Buddha first gave sermons at the Deer Park in Sarnath after newly attaining Enlightenment. According to Ted Andrews, the deer also represents innocence and a return to the wilderness.

Namaste,
suet
London

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COACH RESPONDS:

WELL DONE NOBLE YOGINI!!! right on BOTH accounts and i appreciate the double Research on Deer Medicine; so, in addition to your quick answer to the Temple Gong on the Deer Park answer, i'm gifting you another 3 months FREE of DL for your gumption in cross referencing what Deer Medicine is! you, Oh Noble Suet, are welcome to take my side ANY DAY on the BattleField. would be an HONOR to enter any Bardo with you!

Temple Manager Ananda; please see to it that Suet receives 3 months extension to her current DL Subscription!

Most Precious Student Suet; please send me your email address and a well-earned copy of PRANIC JUNKIE will be soaring from my spirit to yours...

USSSA Qualifier Pics and Teachings...

Steve,

I just read your chapter 2 race report of the TOUR de SKI CHRONICLES.

"After the first drop of 1,500' feet (can you say, EARNING YOUR TURNING?), there was a, get this, 8-minute tuck section! That's right, bucko! Chair Pose for a solid 8 minutes on 3-hour pre-fatigued legs? And you wonder why i teach HP Yoga in the manner i do?!"

Yowza! Now that hits home with me. I can only imagine the lactic acid joy coursing through your quads and lower back at this point!

You're da man!

love,

hak"

click to enlarge. this and the other race photo by wwww.myracepics.com

New daddio ilgo attempting to break the spirit of our first chase group at last Sunday's USSSA National Qualifier. right on my snowshoe tails is the ever smiling WF Devotee and Bronze-medalist at the World Championships, Laurie Lambert of Red River, New Mexico. Laurie and i both switched snowshoe sponsors from Atlas to Flag's local and very tragically hip, www.kahtoola.com. just WAIT till you see what ilg + Kahtoola (Tibetan; means "directly") are working on!

by this point in the race, Sly Coons, the defending champion (and 8th place finisher in the 2007 World's) had already launched an insane pace from the Start Gun. as our Chase Group entered the singletrack, i knew i had about 8 minutes of rolling terrain before i could attack on the first climb which was...

UH...Trust Us On This One; you do NOT want to miss this account in today's DL Subscription Format! DON'T GET GAPPED! GET TAPPED into your Highest Spiritual Fitness each day FRESH as subscriber to Coach Ilg's DIRECT LINES!!

PaktiDass WINS the WF Challenge Test!

READ THE $25 WINNING SUBMISSION FROM PAKTIDASS ON TODAY's DL!

CONGRATULATIONS, PAKTI!!!!!!

Back beneath Doko oosliid and...A WF TEST CHALLENGE; win a prize

"i think over again my adventures,
my fears,
those small ones that seemed so big,
for all of the vital things i had to get and reach,
any yet there is only one great thing;
to live and see the great day that dawns
and the light the fills the world."
- Innuit, 1928


Namaste Noble Ones,
Ananda and i are back beneath the Sacred Peak of Doko oosliid.

i have some powerful Spirit Medicine for you from our travels into Hopi and Navajo land.

First, however, a WF Word Choice Challenge and a prize for the Warrior with the fastest response time;

in my Easter DL Essay, the one i wrote from the banks of the Rio Grande, contained a number of planted Misspells. The first Warrior to correctly pick out and tell me the exact number earns a prize from the WF Temple.

may your Awareness serve you well...

ready, set, JAO!!!!!!

head bowed,
the mountain yogi

ps; the above BEAUTIFUL quote was sumbitted to WF Temple H(om)equarters in a very mindful, elegant, handwritten form by 2x National Snowshoe Champion, Laurie Lambert. A deep bow to my Spiritual Sister over in New Mexico, and THANK YOU for your heart-filled package! Ananda and i were both crying like babies over the pregancy gifts, words, and utter beauty of your friendship. thank you, thank you, thank you...


ps2; and thank YOU, Noble DL Sangha, for all the words of gratitude for my Easter DL Essay. guess that one is going into the Most Popular DL vault! it is my honor to write in Service of the Divine for all of you who care about keeping the Spirit mixed into our Daily Sweat.

photo; at our Nation's TRUE Capital City; do YOU know where?

SUBSCRIBE TODAY to DL so YOU can win the PRIZE while absorbing the most potent Transpersonal Fitness Medicine on the Planet!