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Williams' clear vision: An NFL comeback
Scott Ostler
Thursday, March 1, 2007
(03-01) 04:00 PST Grass Valley, Nevada County -- Dreamers and desperados came to these lovely foothills a century and a half ago seeking gold. Ricky Williams comes here seeking the antidote. If you're seeking Ricky Williams, you turn off Route 49, the old gold-mining trail that is now a speedway, wind along a beautiful country road for 6 miles, travel down a bumpy dirt road for a mile and arrive at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm, 80 green acres of ommm.
There is a cluster of cheery, brightly painted, main buildings, and several tiny cabins overlooking a pond, near which is the "Fire alarm gong." The farm sits in a valley and it's all very clean and quiet and peaceful. Hey, it's a yoga farm.
A sign on a door inside the main building: "Blessed self: No entry, please. Office staff only."
This is where Ricky Williams spends his non-football days, teaching (without pay) and studying yoga and its many elements, such as meditation, spiritualism and positivism.
Though most come to the yoga farm to collect their thoughts, a man from the NFL's drug-testing lab comes here two or three times each week from Oakland to collect Ricky Williams' urine. As a four-time loser in the NFL drug-test lottery, and still on suspension, Williams gets cut no slack.
Yes, Williams hopes to play football in the NFL this year. Soon, he will petition the NFL commissioner for reinstatement, having been suspended in '06 for flunking that fourth drug test.
Williams also intends to continue along his yoga spiritual path, even though being both a running back and a yogi seems the strangest dual career since Clark Kent/Superman.
Less than a mile from the farm, perched on a mini-mountaintop, is Williams' home. He just moved into the plain, yellow, two-bedroom wooden house that he bought sight-unseen.
He lives here with his partner, Kristin Barnes, and their children, Prince (almost 5) and Asha (5 months). This valley is Ricky's home base when he's not playing football or on a yoga road trip to India or the Bahamas.
Read the rest complete with pictures of Ricky doing Yoga and his family at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/01/SPG5KODA3M1.DTL
He seems to be doing Great.
Scott Ostler
Thursday, March 1, 2007
(03-01) 04:00 PST Grass Valley, Nevada County -- Dreamers and desperados came to these lovely foothills a century and a half ago seeking gold. Ricky Williams comes here seeking the antidote. If you're seeking Ricky Williams, you turn off Route 49, the old gold-mining trail that is now a speedway, wind along a beautiful country road for 6 miles, travel down a bumpy dirt road for a mile and arrive at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm, 80 green acres of ommm.
There is a cluster of cheery, brightly painted, main buildings, and several tiny cabins overlooking a pond, near which is the "Fire alarm gong." The farm sits in a valley and it's all very clean and quiet and peaceful. Hey, it's a yoga farm.
A sign on a door inside the main building: "Blessed self: No entry, please. Office staff only."
This is where Ricky Williams spends his non-football days, teaching (without pay) and studying yoga and its many elements, such as meditation, spiritualism and positivism.
Though most come to the yoga farm to collect their thoughts, a man from the NFL's drug-testing lab comes here two or three times each week from Oakland to collect Ricky Williams' urine. As a four-time loser in the NFL drug-test lottery, and still on suspension, Williams gets cut no slack.
Yes, Williams hopes to play football in the NFL this year. Soon, he will petition the NFL commissioner for reinstatement, having been suspended in '06 for flunking that fourth drug test.
Williams also intends to continue along his yoga spiritual path, even though being both a running back and a yogi seems the strangest dual career since Clark Kent/Superman.
Less than a mile from the farm, perched on a mini-mountaintop, is Williams' home. He just moved into the plain, yellow, two-bedroom wooden house that he bought sight-unseen.
He lives here with his partner, Kristin Barnes, and their children, Prince (almost 5) and Asha (5 months). This valley is Ricky's home base when he's not playing football or on a yoga road trip to India or the Bahamas.
Read the rest complete with pictures of Ricky doing Yoga and his family at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/01/SPG5KODA3M1.DTL
He seems to be doing Great.