Video (3min 5sec) of still photos. Believed to be built on sacred earth with miraculous healing powers, the legendary shrine El Santuario de Chimayo, is probably the most visited church in New Mexico. The crucifix which began the original shrine still resides on the chapel alter, but for some reason its curative powers have been overshadowed by El Posito, the "sacred sand pit" from which it sprang. Each year during Holy Week thousands of people make a pilgrimage to Chimayo to visit the Santuario and take away a bit of the sacred dirt. Pilgrims walk a few yards or a hundred miles. Chimayo is located 40 miles south of Taos and 24 miles northeast of Santa Fe, about ten miles east of Espanola in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Construction of the church shown in the photo was completed between 1814 and 1816.

Contributed by J. R. Ransom

Summer Solstice Sadhana video (6min 36sec) from 3HO Spiritual camp help in the mountains of Espanola, New Mexico near Taos. Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year. Officially it's the first day of Summer. It's a time to renew, refresh and pay tribute to the Sun. People in the yoga community know very well New Mexico is the place to be for Summer Solstice... "Amid the swirling, confusing, unfocused energies of the modern world, there is a light, a calm and healing in the center of all things" - Yogi Bhajan. It's a spiritual pilgrimage that draws thousands of people from all around the world. They travel up a long dusty road to 7,000 feet above sea level to the top of a mountain to practice White Tantric Yoga and enrich their souls." "White Tantric Yoga is for people who are on a path of self transformation. And they want to get that as fast as they can. They are not doing yoga for physical exercise. They're people who understand the whole yogic science..."

Contributed by Lance Cherry

The Valle Vidal: The Big Picture
by Lance Cherry

So what ainbow trout, brown trout, Rio Grande cutthroat trout and rainbow hybridization, known as the “cut-bow.”

RIO GRANDE CUTTHROAT TROUT

Rio Grande cutthroat are vibrantly colored averaging exactly is the Valle Vidal? Translated "The Valley of Life," and named after a very impressive valley that splits the 100,000-acre unit of the Carson National Forest like a seam, the park was a gift to the public by the Pennzoil Company. Formerly, a part of the Vermejo Park, this donation was the single largest and most valuable donation of private land ever transferred to the Forest Service.