February 13, 2006
OF FULL MOONS AND AMAZING FITNESS FACILITATIONS
I reckon a pregnant Grandmother Moon does affect me...i get even MORE generous with the MASSIVE CHI FLOW that cascades across my computer each day...today was as if TWO FULL MOONS pulled at my HeartStrings...
must be GrandMother's influence
along with the cedar cracklin' in the woodstove on Red Fox Deck,
yet tonight...
i am gonna let you listen in to some excerpts from Teacher Ananda to a new WF Online Student of hers...wow...i think i might have taught her the Art of Fierce Loving a little too go(o)d!!
oh, by the way, i FINALLY gifted Ananda the most Marvelous Valentines Day Gift a WF Girl would EVER want:
after getting lost 6 times over the course of 7 months, i had FINALLY hooked up the most beautiful, poetic Ponderosa laced 16-mile singletrack that exquisitely looped from our Temple H(om)e up Observatory Mesa, through Thorpe Park, and back
h(om)e along the Rio de Flag... and this afternoon? I rode it with her showcased beside a flaming sunset...OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there ain't NUTHIN' in the world
more dazzling than realizing 16 sweet miles of remote Ponderosa sweet heaven has magically appeared for your 'backyard loop"...now THAT is a Valentine Gift; 7 months in the making, losing, finding, cursing, sweating, visualizing, and MANIFESTING!!!!!! hell, even the age old LOCALS haven't hooked up this one!
HOW BLESSED IS IT TO BE HEALTHY, FULL OF CHI, AND APPRECIATIVE WITHIN OUR CELLS of the Majestic Beauty of the UniVerse!?!??!
lemme tell ya,
to some girls Diamonds might be a Girls Best Friend
yet to WF Yoginis...
it's probably more like Entrada Formation Sandstone!
listen close, Oh Mighty Minded and Legged Ones;
cuz this is Straight Up Go(o)d Stuff...
it is my honor and pleasure to Serve your Spirit in this Way on behalf of my AMAZING WF Teachers!
love,
coach ilg
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STUDENT:
My EMR (Early Morning Ritual...a prescribed assignment for WF Online Students) practice suffered a setback when we changed hotels midweek and I left my neti pot behind and have not been able to find a replacement in town.
TEACHER ANANDA:
As Coach Ilg would say and does often, even to me..." if you were a mountaineer you would be dead."
STUDENT:
The contrast is enlightening. I don't think I have ever drawn better breath than those first few mornings of high altitude neti and kapalabhati.
TEACHER ANANDA:
Well, there's the teaching. You had to loose your "pot" to find the "Light" of EMR.
Coach in his words... "the above awareness is very astute and should not go unnoticed. It tells us that you are picking up on the subtle difference between air and ether, whether you understand it logically or not." More to come on that
subject at a later time.
STUDENT:
Another enlightening moment was during Rasa Eating Assignment on Wed evening. Most meals are "out" this week so i have not had much quiet concentration. Dinner Wed was elk loin and it was very uncomfortable performing the exercise over "meat".
TEACHER ANANDA:
HUGE!
i get it and it sounds like you did too.
taking pause to eat with Rasa meditation the flesh of this beautiful animal being
asks you to question... is this Appropriate?
If so, then the act of honoring the flesh of this elk for its protein source becomes a more Sacred act of Nourishment.
STUDENT:
Last event was at the sink on Wed. As i performed the breathing exercises, my feet came alive and I got a great toe stretch!
TEACHER ANANDA:
Beautiful!
STUDENT:
A neti pot and yoga toes are surely essential ingredients on a ski trip.
TEACHER ANANDA:
Indeed... can i quote you on this?