hit your WholisticFitness.com REFRESH BUTTON!

...hey, how 'bout that color for spiking a Nadic Rush?
...oh, and everytime you visit WholisticFitness.com
you see a new pic...with new ones added frequently!
...careful...it's addicting!

"Your Ways Work...Thank You for being in the United States." United States Marine Corps. Vet; Erl

Dearest Brother of the Path ~

Regarding your

EXPLORING THE VENTS PDF

Your ways work.

I know.

Given my life work (a wood-worker/artist), you would think I'd have developed carpal / wrist problems by now. Nope!

Everyone around me is sick (or a cripple), dieing or dead. As far as feeling good by (the WF Active Meditation; "Litter Patrol") picking up litter on my 22 person dirt roads ..not only that, i built by hand the roads my neighbors and i drive on.

Most are lazy minded.

They don't understand... How many hundreds and hundreds of tons of rock have they missed spreading?

Who pays for my shift on earth?

Who works for Jesus?

You and yours do.

Thank you for your being in United States.

- Erl, our Tribe's Most Devoted Marine Elder



Coach's Note: graphic sent in by Erl...and yes, by popular request ilg is gonna ask Erl for a DL Interview!

Native American Dharma Story...

Grant your blessings so that my mind may be one with the Dharma.
Grant your blessings so that Dharma may progress along the path.
Grant your blessings so that the path may clarify confusion.
Grant your blessings so that confusion may dawn as wisdom.
GAMPOPA

Noble Sangha,
well, i'm just about out the door to crank off the beautifully brutal; Kendrick Peak Duathlon workout (see DL Archives; Friday, November 14, 2008
"My" KENDRICK MOUNTAIN DUATHLON! a DL Print-And-Pump-It-Out Guide!) as i continue to prepare for Imogene Pass Race.

I told this Dharma story to my HP Yoga sangha just before last thursday's latest whipping of HP PROP WORKOUT. got great feedback from a few of the students and i'd like to share it with you this morning as i await my SUNRIDER Herbs "Slim Cap Moment" before merging into the Sky and Earth Spirits on another Sacred Sweat mission to explore thyself...

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Recently an acclaimed anthropologist from Harvard decided he wanted to write a definitive treatise on the Native American culture of the southwest. He traveled to Flagstaff as his jumping off spot into the Navajo and Hopi Reservations.

For two weeks, the noted scholar camped among the ancient peoples of the arid land. Soon thereafter, he approach an Elder saying, "I have now witnessed your dances, I have now listened to your songs. I have a question."

The Elder nodded, affirmatively, encouraging his question.



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READ THE ENTIRE TEACHING PLUS PHOTOGRAPHY FROM COACH ON TODAY's DL SUBSCRIPTION FORMAT: SUPPORT THY TEMPLE! SUPPORT THY WHOLENESS!


May all your Sweat Be Sacred,
and may you feel your feet upon Mother Earth,
and may you feel the whispering of Father Sky across your face...

your feeble teacher,
ilg

TEMPLE GONG: TONIGHT THE FINAL NIGHT TO ORDER MY LATEST DVD for 1-Cent!

Most Precious WF Sangha,

okay, so i got overwhelmed by the large number of you that took advantage of the 1-cent 'price' and ordered my latest DVD:

Agassiz; A Running Pilgrimage

so overwhelmed, in fact, that tonight will be the final night to order that DVD at the 1-cent price. Tomorrow, it will be $5...still a great price for the Chi Hit and Teachings involved.

Thanks for understanding and please, if you wish to order more for your friends, ilg is a man of his word...so go ahead and place your order right now:

ORDER AGASSIZ; RUNNING PILGRIMAGE FOR 1-CENT!


Our most Sacred Peaks are found within,
ilg

ilg featured in MOUNTAIN LIVING MAGAZINE

It is said that you can judge a man's character by what lies on his reading stand...here's mine; copy of current MOUNTAIN LIVING MAGAZINE which did a feature on Yoga and included a hit of Ilg, photo of my new Trek EX9 Mountain Bike to be shipped here any day from Durango (yes, i will be selling my trusted steed, 'Grunt'...if interested in the hole shot, email me!), and upper right; photo of Dewa riding her first pony; a once wild Mustang from the Sierra Nevada appropriately named, Nevada. Spot provided by Amma Ilg! click to enlarge.


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FOR THE LOVE OF LOTUS
Flagstaff's Passion For All Things Yoga

By Penelope Bass
for Northern Arizona's MOUNTAIN LIVING MAGAZINE

excerpted from their AUGUST 09 issue

For Steve Ilg, who teaches locally at the Northern Arizona Yoga Center in addition to being a world-class athlete and founder of his own fitness empire, Wholistic Fitness®, yoga came to him naturally. "By age 16, I had already grown so tight from distance running that I knew, intuitively, that I would need to balance the contractive sports with expansive or elongation disciplines. It seemed common sense. I began to fundamentally intertwine my already passionate embrace of Western sport training within the yogic system."

However, Ilg took a different path to yoga than most, beyond its physical aspects and benefits, which he believes saved his life, "I say that I came into yoga different than most Westerners because when I paralyzed my spine from a winter mountaineering incident, I simply could not move my physical body. I began immediately with my spiritual body, my breath body. I had to rely upon Tibetan-based Chakra meditations and yogic pranayams (precise and regulated breathing exercises) to literally breathe life (prana) back into my broken spine and smashed pelvis."

"My practice of yoga immediately took me out of a 'victim role' and immersed the wholeness of my inherent enlightenment potential into this most humbling yet majestic maturation of self-discovery, which continues to this day - to this moment." Ilg continues to compete across the country in everything from cycling to skiing and in 2009 alone took fourth place out of 125 master cyclists at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic and is the reigning Arizona State Nordic Champion. He also created his own form of yoga dubbed High Performance Yoga® which he teaches at the Northern Arizona Yoga Center. "My style of yoga completely honors everything that is written in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the other Hatha Yoga scriptures," Ilg said. "The chief delineation in my approach to asana is wholeness, mental concentration, spiritual tenacity, joint health, and stablization - strength before suppleness, wholeness before specialization."

I have taken many yoga classes before and like to think of myself as fit and active. However, Ilg's "HP Yoga" class left me with every muscle trembling and a sore weekend.

"Only by attacking our weaknesses, our negative tendencies, is there growth," Ilg said. "In comfort, there is only stagnation."

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To get a copy of the entire article, contact: Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Magazine 928*779*1877 www.NAMLM.com

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Agassiz Running Pilgrimage

An Offering Of Sacred Mountain Running

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Yogi Squat of the Week + Gita Empowerment!

excerpted from; HP Yoga This Week! weekly email to local HP Yoga Students

"O Partha (Son of Pritha, Arjuna),
surrender not to unmanliness;
it is unbecoming to thee.
O Scorcher of Foes, forsake this small
weakheartedness!
Arise!"

- Bhagavad-Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 3

How much does ilg love this quote?
It's Lord Krishna's counsel to the Warrior Arjuna
when Arjuna was basically peeing in his pants with fear
contemplating having to go into battle against his
own brothers at Kurukshetra.
Who among us, would not?

Many of us, when it comes to much less intense battles
back away. Ilg does, dozens of times per day.
Each day, you and i, inevitably confront battles
with our weaknesses, our lazy habits, our negative tendencies,
and our chronic weakheartedness.
Sometimes this means
not doing what it takes to show up for Yoga Class.
Sometimes, it means doing too much asana and not
enough Cardio, Strength, Meditation, or Mastery of Food.
Sometimes it means repeating addictive patterns in our
life. We choose to do too much Work,
not enough Playing
or Praying
or Resting.

Ilg teaches fitness
and
the Sacredness of it.

Come to Class this week, O Scorcher of Foes!
and...like Arjuna did;
Arise Noble Warrior!

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And Never Ever Miss Your Best Practice Partner; each day:
Direct Lines; Coach's Daily Teaching Blog



photo: HP Yogi Jut gets my "Yogi Squat of the Week" Award...i took this shot of him at the Agassiz/Humphreys Saddle during our 17-mile running pilgrimage of circumambulation of Agassiz and Fremont today. Warrior Jut is the epitome of an HP Yogi; a devoted student of wholeness; not just asana.

More "Vents" Pain Erasing "Miracles"...

There are a lot of us whose wrists and ankle joints are simply not flexible enough yet - or are continually being re-stiffened from cardio and strength workouts - to sustain the wrist and ankle stresses of a hard-core asana practice. My 20 year-old very simple workout known as, "Exploring The Vents Session" completely takes care of keeping our energetic vents open so our internal ocean can soften and process what needs processing. For only $10, it's one of the Hidden Gems of WF!" - coach ilg

photo by Ananda: coach on the Ancient's Staircase at Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Check out the Ancient One's self-fashioned hand and footholds which climb to their pueblo on top of a 600 spire! (click on pic to enlarge)

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Dear Ilg Master,

Saw this mention of your name today in an online article by Dan John and thought you would like to know.

“I've also embraced a teaching from Steve Ilg in his book, Total Body Transformation. He asks a simple question: "When was the last time you picked up some litter?" The other day, I cleaned up a neighborhood eyesore that's bugged me for weeks and felt lighter and happier. Each time I drive past it, I feel better.”

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/a_novel_approach_to_rest_periods

Enjoy!
Kevin B.


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Warrior Brother KB, thank you. Brother Dan has been very active and helpful in the WF SanghaLounge... he says he now swears by my Exploring The Vents Session PDF having found that it is relieving his body of chronic aches and pains from his world-class lifting and throwing career almost immediately. head bowed and Dharma Blessings upon thy Practice and May you realize your Practice everywhere, coach ilg founder/Wholistic Fitness®

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!

Snapshots and a Sutra from New Mexico; Plus a WF Challenge!

text and photos by steve ilg

What are the whispers shared by ducklings
as their feet paddle in frenzied manner
within the velveteen wake of their Mother?
Family Yoga might best be learned from the wild animals.

photo; Early morning last week; Red River Lake, NM.





When family comes to gather,
ilg advises;
buckle up thy Practice, Oh Noble Seeker Of Wholeness!
Cuz, inevitably, the fortresses of our mental composure
and emotional equanimity surely shall be tested by
an unequivocal barrage of interpersonal dynamics.

ilg knows you know what i mean.

Today's Teaching is about that most difficult, advanced
Practice of all;
Family Yoga.

And Family Yoga is perhaps the highest litmus test of
the state of our Practice.

So, buckle up and bring it!



In this Teaching, i share with you my most-relied upon Yoga Sutra of Patanjali's
to help my feeble Practice retain a degree of mastery while involved
in family gatherings.

photo; my dad and i designed this Family Gathering so we might be able to go fishing. The fact that it was my parents' 55th Anniversary seemed secondary to my dad. Trout were the priority.


DO NOT MISS THIS TEACHING WITH STUNNING PHOTOS AND FITNESS and SUTRA PENETRATION FOR YOUR SERENITY AROUND FAMILY AND OTHERS...


only for DL Subscribers; those who support their humble, powerful Temple beneath the Sacred Peak...

Blogger is back!

well, it looks like Blogger is back...

so lemme finish unloading from my NM trip and

hook you all up with more Dharma for your Practice of Sweat and Stillness!

thank you for your Practice of Patience!

big things coming up!

"Been Rocking The Kinlani Flow...and loving it!" - Master Student L'Gaté

Coach,

Namaste!!

Fantastic race report (Oraivi 8k in DL 8/11) - maybe I'll bring the Bronx can-do clan out next year.

Been rocking the Kinlani Flow DVD the past two mornings, followed by 10 minutes zazen, and loving it!

Love,

Student L'Gate

"My body is on fire!"...Warrior Z reports into the Temple...

EC!

Hope all is well with you and your family. I want to give you a brief update re:Sunrider Whole Food Herbs and MAP Amino Acids.

Phase I: my body is on fire! My cycling volume has increased to 2 hours/day Zone 1 and 2 for 3 days; 3 hours/day Zone 1 to 4 for hillclimb repeats for 2 days; and 3 hours for a Zone 1 cruise. This covers my six days per week. I currently do not have a gym but will shortly.

My BM's are quick and full. Body is leaning out consistently and I am noticing new muscle growth. My only vairation on the Phase 1 regimen is an increase in the 2 supplements at night to 3 tabs each.

Energy is good. Strength is good. Mood is good.

Is it time to Pounce to Phase 2?

Thank you for keeping me on pace.

- Warrior Z.

coach responds:

Precious Warrior Z!

yes!

it's time to POUNCE into Phase Two of SUNRIDER Herbs...

your Cell Cleansing/Fat Loss stage has been attained!

congratulations! now, for the REALLY FUN part:

am emailing you the Phase Two directions!

maintain your MAP intake.

head bowed to your action devotion toward wholeness in your

food choices!

coach ilg

note; each person who signs up on the SUNRIDER Herbs and the MAP Amino Acids under me, receives ongoing complimentary personal guidance.

ilg is back, Blogger is not...

Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch;
Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions.
If you have got to think about something—
Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death.


- GYALSÉ RINPOCHE



just wanted to let you all know that i have returned from a stunning trip,
however, Blogger is still trippin' and i am attempting to resolve
technical challenges with Blogger...cyberspace yoga requires much conscious breathing and incredible postural awareness to stay
centered in cyberspace snafus...
it's all Yoga
when you are a WF Yogin...

May your Practice be strong and fun
and full of dharma droplets from the Divine,

el coache

ilg outta town...

heading up to Northern New Mexico...
my parent's 55th...yup...you read it right; 55th Wedding Anniversary...

enjoy the Archives and it is deep honor to breathe along this amazing Path with you all...

Coach nails 4th Podium In 4 Different Sports This Season; Oraivi 8k - Hopi Footrace

here is a tiny part of what you are missing on today's Direct Lines...Daily Dharma Teachings from Sweat and Stillness since 1982...







the guy that beat me out of third place was pale face. Jeff. he qualified for Boston this year. i felt decidedly out of place again; a Warrior of Wholeness trapped among the Running Specialists. at the Finish Line, i told Warrior Leaf that i just missed out again on 3rd place and the treasured Hopi medals i craved so badly...

"You were close," said Warrior Leaf after we recovered from our Noble Effort in the Red Earth.

"Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades," i reminded him.

he threw his head back and caked in Warrior Sweat and stunning Hopi summer heat, the Diné...he did laugh.

that's why, "Hills make all men Brothers."

though our skin may be of pink or red or brown hues, all of our hearts beat with an ancient Tribal Rhythm. we Two Leggeds, are all of the same Tribe.

May your spirit ride forever,
May the Truth be rode forever within your sweat,
and may we - you and i - toe a Start Line together
before the Bardo Start Line...


head bowed, feet blistered from a Red Earth 41:44 8k effort among the Natives of this amazingly beautiful Turtle Island,
coach ilg

"THIS EXISTENCE OF OURS..." + Some STUDENT INPUT

"This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds
To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky,
Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain."
- BUDDHA

Didn't it seem like yesterday when you experienced for the first time the wonderful rush of water from an outdoor pump? Did it not come rushing by your lips, "like a torrent down a steep mountain"? The ever-present, ever-watchful new momma Joy, reliving that same moment through our daughter, Dewa, last week. photo by coach



Some recent STUDENT INPUT...

"You, sir, are truly an inspiration... Your book has revolutionized the way I think about fitness/lifestyle/spirituality. Your work is truly a blessing to us all. Namaste!"
- Serge Menendez

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Dear Steve,
"I am at a point in my life where change is due, a second career... I am seriously contemplating yoga, health and fitness. You seem like the perfect role model ;)
Thank you!"
- Angelica

***

"I have enjoyed your writing and work for years.
I am convinced your way is THE way.
Thanks for all the training and life advise."
- Andy Shelton

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El Coache,
Head bowed..... and sizzling from this morning's Kinlani Flow DVD!
THANK YOU!!!!!!
- hsbg


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"What you said during your ENERGETICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT lecture
will take years for me to digest...and I will savor it!
And your insight into Kinlani as Manipura Chakra blew my mind!
You are very powerful Teacher!!!!"
- J during the Flagstaff Yoga Festival

Pagosa Duathlon; Final Report - Dragon Slayin'

ON TODAY's DIRECT LINES Subscription Format...
huge performance insights from Coach's victory; Don't Miss It!





NOTE: i gotta take off for my annual Hopi Pilgrimage...be back in a couple of days. Thanks to all who came out to the Flagstaff Yoga Festival this weekend for our classes! Enjoy this final Race Report and may all your Sweat be Sacred...
- coach

Metaphysical Teachings #2 From Pagosa Duathlon - Race Report #2; Competition As A Wholistically Relevant Inner Space

"Attack
thy weaknesses,
Destroy
avidya,
Pursue the Great Spirit
of Wholeness."
- coach ilg

Such is the sweat-based sutra of the WF Yogi, for we would rather finish in last place doing a sport in which we suck than to go on winning, winning, winning in something that the Go(o)d Lord gifted to us naturally. To excel in a sport is not mastery of self-cultivation. A lot of people get that mixed up. Winning - if not done from a spiritually matured and wholistically relevant inner space - only serves to fortify that aspect of self which is not the True Self. I am speaking here of what yogis know as 'ahamkara' or the egoic construct. In my second book, The Winter Athlete, i coached you that, "Racing is not about, it's about ourselves."

Well, that is why New Daddy ilg chose again to find myself toeing yet another Start Line. This particular line - a scribble of chalk across a forlorn forest road tucked within the massive remoteness of the Weminuche Wilderness of southwestern Colorado, was a...



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"Because truly, us Wholistic Fitness yogis who choose to toe the Start Lines are completely at a dis-advantage to the sport-specific specialists who suck upon their strengths while ignoring over and over again their weaknesses. So, whenever i - or one of you - contest the Specialists for the sake of Wholeness and actually beat them at their own game?!"

That, to ilg, is hilarious, beautiful, and grossly mis-understood and under-appreciated.

So, tune in tomorrow and run and ride with your ol' coach ilg...


May may my time and energy and Love spent here,
be of Benefit in some perhaps tiny Way,
to your own majestic Practice toward Wholeness...

head bowed,
spine straight,
feet bare...

ilg



photo 1; above photo; the ilg body after a run through of the The Kinlani Flow DVD. after crashing on our mountain bikes or undertaking the curriculum of other injuries, the mountain yogi is in no condition to do a full throttle asana practice. what is needed instead is a pranic healing routine that does not rely upon a half-hour of Sun Salutations just to get 'warmed up.' my most recent DVD, The Kinlani Flow is an exceptional routine for injured and/or busy fitness warriors, requiring only 10 minutes yet affording a deeply healing and empowering inner journey.

We Interupt This Race Report For A Dewa Sadhana Update

What's it like to have "The World's Fittest Human" as your daddy? Well, find out for yourself, because each week in the WF SanghaLounge there are beautiful exchanges between WF Warriors, including Coach, each of us doing our best as "Conscious Parents"...

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due to popular request and because for some reason most of you have no idea of the wealth and intimacy and greatness of our WF SanghaLounge where this type and much more personal lives of WF Warriors is being exchanged each day...

here is a Dewa Sadhana, clipped from today's WF SanghaLounge. and, thank you to all of you who write in, asking for more updates on "Conscious Parenting"...

- coach ilg

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Author: Coach Ilg
Joined: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 620
Location: Kinlani "The Place Where Thunder Lie"

PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:00 pm



ilg reckons we Daddies and Mommies oughta start our own Cave Chamber so we don't bore the be-jesus outta the single warriors in the Tribe?

this morning; my Dewa Sadhana was:


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Metaphysical Teachings#1 From Pagosa Duathlon - Race Report #1

Metaphysical Teachings From Pagosa Duathlon - Race Report #1




"To excel in a sport is not mastery of self-cultivation."
- steve ilg

photo of coach racing at Pagosa Mountain Duathlon last month, shortly before a high-speed crash. coach went on to win by a 20-second margin. photo by Tom Steen

The spiritual advantages of being an absolutely mediocre athlete - or yogi - vastly outweigh the same for the naturally gifted. The reason is simple, yet you may need to concentrate on this key. Here it is: We - the middling fitness warriors - quickly reach our spiritually potent "edge" far faster, far more poignantly than do the genetically and karmically resplendent.

Having stated that, ilg understands all too well that when it is you in the driver's seat of an entire life of middling talent and capacity, such spiritual advantages often appear as "frustration" to our ego. Which is why, most average athletes and yogis quit the long and arduous Path of Self Cultivation through Sweat. Sad. If ilg had a more potent voice and platform from which to influence the masses, ilg would speak boldly and confidently and in support of middling warriors like myself.

So, what i will attempt to do in the course of the next DL's is to draw out the spiritual teachings of an unexceptional (me) fitness warrior whose sole focus is on wholeness, not specialization of fitness, and how that can - sometimes - result in an exceptional spiritual and competitive experience filled with absolute and endless divinity. So, if this type of stuff is what lubes your chain, and you don't mind reading and seeing some true Bhagavad-Gita like blood-and-guts warrior spiritual teachings, ilg humbly invites you to take this Pagosa Race Report Series and enjoy it for what it is.

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Reaching Our Spiritual Edge - We Must Make It More Available, Not Less

I'm going to repeat the key affirmation from my opening:
We - the average fitness warriors - quickly reach the spiritually potent "edge" far faster, far more poignantly than do the genetically and karmically resplendent.

Growth in a spiritual context cannot come from comfort. A cell must divide. In that intensity of division at the molecular, vibratory level - lies the rajasic quality of our UniVersal nature which is the same yearning toward Enlightenment. Comfort equals stagnation. Genuine growth - and thus, all Healing - must take its origins not from stagnation and comfort, but rather from turbulent intensity. That is, after all, what greets each of us at our Last Gasp, when we eventually exhale and can no longer draw an inhale...

READ THE ENTIRE TEACHINGS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS...so, if you vibe with the concept of Competition As A Wholistically Relevant Inner Space? come race with us over the next few days!


up next in this Series:

An InterDisciplinary Journey Of Easily Attainable Edges; Welcome to Wholistic Fitness! for DL Subscribers only

August 7 -10!...High Performance Yoga® at the FLAGSTAFF YOGA FESTIVAL!!!

"I cannot imagine NOT attending HP Yoga Classes with Steve! HP is woven into my daily practice and my everyday. A life-changing practice."
- Leslie Hutchinson

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High Performance Yoga® at the FLAGSTAFF YOGA FESTIVAL
Friday, August 7th, 2009
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm
The Energetics of Enlightenment
by Steve Ilg
The Energetics Of Enlightenment with Steve Ilg


High Performance Yoga® at the FLAGSTAFF YOGA FESTIVAL
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
7:00 am - 9:00 am
HP Yoga Master Class
by Steve Ilg & Joy Kilpatrick
HP Yoga® Master Class with Steve and Joy!

photo; coach cranking "Padma Crunches" by www.JamesQMartin.com