The Imogene '10 Chronicles, Part 3: Toeing The Start Lines = Yoga. The WF Sacred Sport Pilgrmage "Bucket List"

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"Toeing The Start Line," has long been a catch phrase of mine.

Here is why.

Doing what is required to simply Toe The Start Line of a race (or of a performance) is tantamount to cultivating the Warrior qualities which the Ancient Enlightened Ones advised as key for success on the spiritual journey; steadfast practice (Abhyasa), Faith (Shraddha), determination (sankalpa), and mental collectedness (sama-dhana).

At a deeper, perhaps largely unconscious level among athletes, the desire to Toe The Start Line reflects our ancient Warrior lives and symbolizes our inherent desire to become liberated through intensity of training pain and sweat.

We now live in a very diluted age of Yogic integrity where "Yoga for Athletes" is being taught by dancers, and 'Pilates' teachers' and many other overly limber studio yogis who themselves have never even done what it takes to consistently Toe The Start Lines of races; let alone match the ultra-endurance, high-concussion, and varied physiologic diversity which you'll find throughout my Racing Bio which informs to a large degree the success and Transmission of the WF Path.

Yoga means "Wholistic Practice,"
and as such, a yogi must never push away any aspect from his or her understanding of what Yoga includes. Not one area of our physiologic capacities should ever be considered 'not important' to our yogic fitness.

Toeing the Start Lines of sport (and life) prepare the yogi for our ultimate Start Line; our Bardo Entry which is also the Start Line for cashing in our just how deeply we chose to train for the ultimate podium of the Human "Race"....Enlightenment.

Why do you think They call us the Human "Race"?
Life is a competition; it's a competition in it's truest sense which means, "to arise from within." As you peruse my Race Results, i think you'll find a refreshing, inspiring example of a 'broken back' athlete who keeps toeing the Start Lines in order to Practice what i teach; genuine yoga; genuine wholeness.

That is important to me...as i Trust it is to you, as well.

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GET OUT AND DO:

TOEING THE WF TRADITIONAL SACRED SPORT PILGRIMAGES
aka:
The "Bucket List" as a WF Yogi

here are the Traditional Three Sacred Sweat Pilgrimages of Wholistic Fitness®; each one should be on your "Bucket List"...guided training and intensives are available for each:

Spring:
The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, Durango Colorado. Each Memorial Day Weekend. Beginning WF Yogis can just do the Bicycle Tour, Intermediates should do the Road Race, while the Highest WF Aspirants need to do the Omnium. The salient event is the 50-mile Road Race over two 10,000+' mountain passes...often in snowy/rainy weather!

Autumn:
The Imogene Pass Run, Ouray to Telluride, Colorado. Always the second weekend in September. 17 miles; 10 up, 7 down. High point is 13,114' at the famous Imogene Pass.

Winter:
The Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon, Grants, New Mexico. President's Day Weekend (usually the third weekend in February). A four-sport Pilgrimage to the 11,311' sacred summit of Tsidool (Mt. Taylor) and back. Ironman Champion and WF Devotee, Fit Kit of Canada, checked this one off his WF Bucket List last year saying, "That made Ironman's feel like a sprint!"

i Trust i'll see you on these Start Lines, My Mighty Limb'd Yogis!


- coach steve ilg

photos by Ananda:
1) ilg takes a Pre-Start bow to YOU for your inspiration to get New Daddy Ilg here!
The real spiritual victories are already scored by just Toeing The Start Line!

2) the Imogene Pass Run Start Line; Ouray, Colorado.

3) The Gun goes off!

Life In Kali Yuga- When will the Dharma of WF be listened to?

They Ain't Laughing Now...
i first wrote publicly about the physiologic, physical, and spiritual dangers of listening to headphones while exercising when "Walkmans" first became popular in the early eighties. Back then i was a columnist for Rocky Mountain Sports & Fitness. I wrote that listening extensively to blaring music piped directly into ears was a physiologic train wreck waiting to happen in the years to come. I also said that, physically, we are going to see a lot more 'accidents' occur out on the trails and roads as people, "addicted to listening to music instead of appreciating and developing their inner listening skills," will become involved in car vs. pedestrian/rider crashes and trail rider crashes.

when the ingenious heads of Outer World technology invented the iPod® with their refined delivery system of ear-pods growing like lotus stems from an unimaginably small housing, i wrote, "...they call them iPods, right? Well, the 'i' stands for Ignorance," and sure enough, today a national study released showed that an astonishing 1 in 5 teens now suffers from hearing loss due to - basically - an addiction to iPods.



Get Used To This Phrase; "Especially dangerous to those with compromised Immune Systems"
Hilariously sad. So, i guess like half a BILLION eggs are being recalled due to contamination with Salmonella. Get used to this. And, i love their warning which has, over the past several years become more of a trite disclaimer from conscious and responsible development, manufacturing, and distribution practices among our nation's food suppliers; "Especially dangerous to those with compromised Immune Systems."

Uh, have you SEEN the typical fat yet undernourished American?
Have you SEEN the statistics of our 'health'?

Hate to tell you, however, most American's DO HAVE 'compromised Immune Systems' owing to their addiction to junk and mass manufactured foods and beverages!

All these 'new disorders' and dis-eases ranging from 'allergies' to 'restless leg' to cancers are simply training effects from poorly nourished Immune Systems!

And you wonder why i and my faithful warriors who gleefully consume MAP Aminos along with the SUNRIDER Herbs haven't seen the inside of a doctors office in decades and just keep cranking Higher and Far Beyond the reach of the common dis-orders and dis-eases of the mainstream?

Let's see, latest figures for the cost of cancer - besides being the worlds top economic killer and well as the most likely leading cause of death surpassing AIDS, malaria, and the flu - reached $895 billion in 2008 according to a report from the Center for Global Development.

$895 billion?
Uh, that would certainly provide more than enough bottles of MAP Aminos and SUNRIDER Herbs for like every person on Earth for their entire lives.

Weird, how the Unawakened just don't prioritize Regenerative, Preventive, Wholistic Health and Fitness until...well, it's too late.


In Other Kali Yuga Head Shaking News...
Pro golfer Phil "Lefty" Mickelson probably earns the Kali Yuga demerit award of the month as he proudly announced that he is "turning vegetarian," after his addiction to poor food choices has left him with a well-earned dis-ease along with his 'weight problem.' The downside is that Lefty, who could have swayed millions more than someone like feeble ilg can toward a more healthy, vegetarian-based nutritional intake, kept his vegetarianism in the closet so he would not negatively impact sales on his national junk-food, dis-ease inviting chain of highly profitable restaurants, Five Guys and A Burger* or something idiotic like that...

Om So Ti...

and
Blessings upon thy Practice this week


Find The Chi,
Develop The Chi,
Live The Chi...
Wholistic Fitness®...since 1982

*Men's Health magazine claims that Five Guys's meals are unhealthy.[8] A standard double patty burger, for example, contains almost 800 calories and 197% of the recommended daily saturated fat intake.[9] Men's Health also rated Five Guys's french fries as the 4th most unhealthy food in America, noting that a standard large order of fries contains almost 1,500 calories (but is said to feed 3-4 people).[10] The Center for Science in the Public Interest placed Five Guys's bacon cheeseburger, which contains 920 calories, among its 2010 list of most unhealthy meals available at U.S. chain restaurants.[11]

Dewa's first day of pre-school...Conscious Parenting Test #1

My Precious Live-in Rinpoche...Dewachen. Totally stoked for her first day of pre-school this morning (8:30 - 12:00) at my alma mater, St. Columba. click to enlarge the 'Dewa Chi'.

*

It's a heccuva thing; this Conscious Parenting gig...

What you see in the photo above is the one thing that all Conscious Parents pray and toil toward; seeing a Confident Smile - a manifestation of Self-Esteem - on our chi-ldren's faces when it comes time for our chi-ldren to be apart from us.

Beyond Dewa's school backpack, Dewa carries with her into her first solo dance* with the Outer World, something far more priceless than colored crayons and a packed healthy snack...it's called Self Esteem.

It's our sense of Self-Esteem that is required for success in any pursuit, especially the spiritual journeys which lie before all of us.

Self Esteem...sOMething that i and Ananda have both struggled to gain over our entire lives, often over-achieving in our fields as if to prove to the Outer World that, 'yes, see me? i am brimming with confidence and skills,' only to live with a chronic sense that our inner chi-ld is still in a fetal position, scared and feeling alone.

our Daughter...well, let's get real here: Dewa is not 'our' daughter - she is Brahman's daughter, she is a chi-ld of the UniVerse, she is God's daughter, not 'ours' -
is packing sOMething that i never had in my quiver when my mother dropped me off in front of Kindergarten; inner confidence.

After essentially 4 years (Dewa will be three next month) of professional and personal 'sacrifice' in order to spend 100% of our time with Dewa, this morning symbolizes a dual opportunity for Ananda and i. we get to see how our parenting skills and choices have prepared Dewa for her social integration and...a MUCH NEEDED chance for Ananda and i to eventually spend a few hours per day with each other; alone! our attempt to re-familiarize ourselves with each other while mountain biking, climbing, doing all the things i had 'planned' for her and i to unconditionally share untethered by chi-ld now finally resurfaces in a far, far different light then what i had envisioned.

For these past 4 years (the first 'year' of pregnancy to now) our coupleship has had one podium; Conscious Presence with our Dewachen. No childcare, no daycare, no babysitter without one of us all-ways being around.

As i pedaled behind Ananda and Dewa on our bicycles along the Animas River this morning toward St. Columba, the Narrow Gauge # 473 train chugged past us, filling Father Sky with that sultry smell of coal soot which is surely going to be one of my Beloved Odors when time comes for me to enter the Bardo. i could not help but recall my own chi-ldhood growing up here along these sacred banks, beneath these incomparably beautiful blue-bird skies shivering above the La Plata and San Juan mountains. today, another generation of 'ilg' begins to adapt to society's conventions while attempting to simultaneously learn how to quell a wildly deep yearning to run free in the natural world.

heccuva thing, this Conscious Parenting gig.

it's a helluva of an exhausting gig...
it's a heaven of an exhilarating gig...

Conscious Parenting is the Highest Yoga feeble ilg has ever attempted.

Dewa; though you sit now in school, surrounded by new friends and teachers, your Abba loves you so much and knows in his heart that your Amma and i have truly,
truly,
truly
done and given our Best for this most special day in your Precious Life...enjoy it all and...
bring the CHI, baby girl!

i know you will.

head bowed to all Parents Everywhere In All Realms,
abba




* actually Joy is going to stay at the school with Dewa...hopefully as 'distant' as possible.

Dental Crowns and a Shakti Vortex of Supreme Splendor

click to enlarge: Box Canyon Falls, Ouray, CO... one of the most powerful Shakti vortex's of Turtle Island's southwest. this is ultimate Yin...you can see the waterfall gushing behind the vagina-like, sculpted granite crevice. photo by Ananda.

***

Hello Coach,

Hope all is well with you and your family. i know you are very busy but i value your opinion towards health and fitness related issues. i am supposed to get a crown on my tooth that contains metal. If it were you, would you get it??? any TAF about this would be greatly appreciated.

i have done some reading about this topic and the crown is made and supposed to be put on my tooth tomorrow. i don't like the idea of metal toxins in my mouth. WHAT DO I DO??

Anyway, sorry if this is a weird question for you and i will not keep you anymore

Thanks


KEEP CRANKIN
v


COACH RESPONDS:
Most Precious Warrior Vito,

reschedule the appointment.

checking with one of my bros who is a very accomplished peridontist.

oh, and don't worry too much...ilg's own teeth are chock full of mercury fillings that have been in my teeth since i was a punk.
well, i'm still a punk...i meant to say, when ilg was a teenager. the only side effects ilg has noticed from the mercury seepage into my
system is a nearly complete incapacity to remember anything.

then again,
that is kinda a Blessing...
it helps keep ilg
Here Now!

;-)

more info when i get it,
ilg


ps: i'll tell you right now however, that keeping on the MAP Aminos, SUNRIDER Herbs Phase Two, and EMR will pretty much mitigate all toxicity within the cellular body; be it from fillings, environment, or anything else!

Heron Lake, New Mexico...just another secret gem of The Land of Enchantment

click on pics to enlarge the Chi Hit

Northern New Mexico past weekend:
ilg family re-union (re-yoga)

location: Heron Lake, New Mexico

all photos and text by ilg

this offering is devoted to the Fish Beings...

looking north over El Vado Reservoir in northern New Mexico...a scant 1.50 hours from Durango, Colorado.

Should one sincerely undertake (take-under) the Teachings of all the great spiritual paths of the world? It would become quickly apparent that there is within us an ocean of resolve, of power, of wisdom and compassion...

Evening Brahmamuhurti over El Vado.

The power of what CHrIst called the Kingdom of Heaven is the search for Enlightenment. Remember Noble Yogin; Enlightenment is not about OUR endless Joy....it is about transforming not only ourselves but the world around us.

my dad.
6:00 am outside our fishing lodge last Saturday.
a chain-smoking, one-fingered yogi of the endless Stalwart Warrior since he was 14; his Message lies not in his addictive self, rather in his immutable love for his family and the natural world...

finally, my Dad caught more fish than both of his sons and found his Chi once again here, closing in on 80 years old, up in these sacred pinon-studded, water infested high mountain lands of Northern New Mexico.
my dad still stands on his feet Serving at Wal-Mart garden shop in Rio Rancho, New Mexico from 5 am to 4 pm.
5-6 days per week.

Brazos cliffs (great moderate free climbing!) and Heron Lake in the foreground all within virga.
Little wonder why Yogi Christ was a fisherman.

Has there ever been a time when the clear use of this sacred power was more essential or more urgent?

the Ilg Clan men from L-R; me, my dad, and my younger brother, Craig.
we set the new season record at Heron Lake with 13 kokanee taken before 12 noon.
i had visualized success for my Dad especially, this trip was hugely important for him
to bond with his two sons.






Brahman smiled and Graced us with a bounty exceeding even
my visualizations. we ate our catch and these Precious Fish Beings which offered us their Give Away
were absolutely delicious...5 star delicious...and the POWER within their precious flesh was
AMAZING!

the state record for Lake Trout was taken here at Heron Lake; 34lbs!
Lake Trout in New Mexico! can you believe it?
for the best guide: Don Wofley

Has there ever been a time when it was more vital to understand the nature of this pure power and how to channel it and how to use it for the sake of the world?

i spent the rest of my day with my niece; Ella and nephew; Alazar. here, they show off the fossils which we found along the shores of this amazingly beautiful slice of New Mexico...

shots of an Anasazi replica pueblo my brother and Ella and Alazar made...like Chaco Canyon, the replica pueblo centered around Grandfather Sun's appearance to the Brazos Cliffs. Craig is an architect in Albuquerque; thus the beautiful precision of the stonework...

Cardio Commute Pic of the Week; they don't call it Chi-Town for nothing!

the following pic was sent in by WF Devotee and Cardio Commute King; Jim Johnston of Chi-cago, IL. click to enlarge...love the heels and side saddle posture!

if you spot a Cardio Commute pic of the week, send it into the Tribal Headquarters!

That’s what I am talking about!

I was running into work this morning and saw this couple biking into the Chicago loop. They started weaving in and out of traffic and that’s when I pulled the camera phone out.

All is well with me, I thought you might appreciate the picture.

Jim
Chicago

Owning The Beauty of Wholeness...

My Yin Prayer Today:

owning the Precious, Priceless Beauty of Practicing Wholeness... the Blessing of 10,000 lifetimes!

My Yang Prayer Today:

ilg prays for all Gulf Coast Beings...phew...until we can take Conscious Care of our own Plane(t), may each of us prioritize Inner Space Exploration over Outer Space Frivolity, Non-fiction over Fiction, InnerAttainment over Entertainment, and Conscious Sweat over Body-Oriented Narcissism. If you doubt this Prayer of mine today, go ask for a second-opinion...from a Gulf Coast Sea Turtle suffocating on an oil-gushing ocean.

Happy, Wholistic Mother Earth (Birth)Day!!! 2 simple actions

sage and sunrise over Hopi Land...photo by ilg. click to enlarge the Chi Hit

Blessings Upon Thy So(u)lstice! - Sledding Prayer

click on pics for enhanced Chi Hit...

When ilg hears the word 'winter solstice,' i've trained myself to hear instead another WF Word Choice Guru;
'Win Our Souls (to) Us."

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...not content to ski and sled on the 'baby hill,' Dewa eyes the Big Boy and Girl Hill (photo #2) and soon enough, her and i were blasting down and screaming with laughter among the big kids...in fact, the whole goal of my spiritual life rode within me upon that plastic sled with my daughter clenched between my thighs...
May All Beings Remain Big Kids and
May We Recognize each precious Solstice
as time to honor and express Gratitude for
each Being's Soul To Win Enlightenment...
Winter Solstice...
Win Our Souls (to) Us...

you know...during my winter Canadian mountaineering years, ilg was always the guy that pulled the sled...hmmmmm.

Soygal Rinpoche teaches:

"To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all."

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Grandmother? ilg is soooo sorry...

Grandmother Moon rises over Elden Peak, outside the WF Temple H(om)e two years ago. by ilg.

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Most Precious GrandMother, ilg is so sorry... on behalf of my Turtle Island Tribe of the Two-Leggeds, ilg is sooooo sorry.

as a boy with a wolf, you empowered my courage to fight the scariness of backcountry night.

as a climber i would ascend sandstone spires, naked, taking unfathomable joy in my simian strength beneath your glow among the pines.

as a yogi, never does a day go by where i worship you not, Oh Precious 'Tha" of HaTha Yoga! For you are my Ida Nadi inside!

as a father, my own Daughter has grown up giggling, screaming with Love for you... "Tha" the Sanskrit word for you, was our Daughter's first Spoken Word.

Each night, every morning we hold her in our arms and search Father for your delightful, illumined Grace.

This morning,
my Tribe pile drove some fancy trash into your navel.

My People...
oh my People.

Oh, my People.

we cannot take Go(o)d Care of our own Mother (Earth) and Father (Sky) so for some inexplicable instinct for demolishing assumed 'frontiers', we sent a crude rocket to literally 'fuck' you this morning. Grandmother, you should not be violently fucked by we, the very Tribe which You sustain in your endless Dance...


Support what's left of your Tribal Soul;
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for this act of violence upon
our Grandmother...

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A Clarification of Karma Transmitted Through Wapiti Beings...

Karma

ilg has seen many Sacred Terms become beaten, abused, and over-used to the point of pointlessness as the "new age" has turned "yogic." one of the most abused term is Karma...

"it's 5:18 am, this morning.

four Wapiti prowl among pre-dawn light among the grasses of "Buddha Hill" behind the WF Temple H(om)e. My statue of Gautama Himself, momentarily trapped between the legs of a spring-born Elk child.

i stall my steps out the door for my Early Morning Ritual walking meditation; content to leave my jaw dropped in awe at these Elk Beings - two children and two adults - and content to leave them to their own santosha. i find myself mouthing a Tibetan Protection Mantra; asking that..."

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photo; eyes of Buddha from my Santa Fe Stupa

Yogi Squat & Quote of the Week

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Yogi Squat of the Week

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YOGI SQUAT OF THE WEEK
goes to...

Dewachen Catherine Ilg
of Flagstaff, Arizona!

Dewa has been a lifelong (22 months) WF Student. she is very strong and powerful and possesses remarkable agility. i once read a study where 'they' tested several world class athletes and challenged them to simply mimic everything a toddler does. not one of them could hang. indeed, most of my Practice has been about doing just that; mimicking my daugther all day long and man, oh man, what a workout it is! i got this pic of Dewa near Echo Canyon Ampitheatre, New Mexico.

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HIDDEN DISCOUNT; WF Devotee Claudia gets her WF Priorities right before a Buddhist retreat

Coach!! Can you cook me a WF Blessed Mala for 100k+ prostrations?
above; long-time WF Devotee Claudia

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Hello Noble Coach!!!

Much has happened since we spoke last - I would like to come see you this fall to visit ananda and baby and check out flagstaff but before then I will be entering a tibetan buddhist vajrayana training where be begin by entering the lineage with 108,000 full body extension prostrations. I saw that you have malas especially prepared and blessed for 3 days - is there any way if I order today that you could send them so that I could have them in hand for my depart?

Thank you for sending the emails - I plan to get back on DL and on SUNRIDER herbs this fall - I would love to train with you for a day too! Life has totally changed since we spoke and you were right - but you always are and thank for being there for me.

Much love and thank you for your help - i would love to have you with me on retreat!

With much love and gratitude
Claudia
Garuda Warrior



ps:
Can you relate briefly what you did to prepare the WF Blessed Mala so I can share what a great teacher and coach you are? I think people would love to know you exist


AFTER A FEW DAYS OF EMPOWERMENT RITUALS BY COACH...COACH RESPONDS:


Most Precious Claudia,

you should receive your Blessed Malas today.

here are some Guidelines to follow when using your Blessed Malas:

{Two PDF's were enclosed}

it will take a while to wear in your Beads to the point where the space between the beads
allows for faster Mala work. this is a pilgrimage of sorts.

my Empowerment Rituals involve a lifetime of sweat and spirit and stillness. most of all,
my Empowerment of your Blessed Malas pivot upon my Love of your Atman.
wear them constantly; around the neck or on thy left wrist (see Guidelines).
consider them your baby, for they have been treated Here in the WF Temple as such.

it does not matter if the students at your Buddhist retreat know about ilg.
our Tribe is a very small, precious, and ancient Lineage of Mountain Yogis.
we are easy to find however,
just apply constant high intensity sweat and stillness within every physiologic and mental capacity you are able to over the course of your life, and it is doubtless that they will reMember their WF Tribe (which, in the East, is known as NavanYoga).

that is all...study well, my Precious Student, for now you have the Blessed Beads to
empower your Practices...



head bowed and Dharma Blessings upon thy Practice and May you realize your Practice everywhere,

coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness®


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Ahimsa Revisited- Part Two...of Herons and Hunter/Gatherers...

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"It is truly impossible for an embodied being to abandon actions completely, but he who relinquishes the fruit of action is called a renunciant.

The triune fruit of action - good, harmful, and mixed - springs up in nonrenunciants after their demise, but in renunciants never."

- Verses 11 &12, Chapter XVII Bhagavad Gita

... We all come from a Hunter/Gatherer Tribe; it's vital to reVisit that ancient skillset. We may be surprised at how much 'gunk' comes up emotionally from deeeeeep within our lower chakral fields when we pursue hunting or fishing as a spiritual assignment. The spiritual advantages of inflicting pain and death upon the Animal Realm are not to be politely shielded from your supposedly more 'harmonious' endeavors along the Way toward Enlightenment. Really, why do you TAF that India's most Beloved and Powerful Scripture - The Bhagavad Gita - takes place in the middle of an intense civil war?! C'mon; if ilg has taught you ANYTHING about the spiritual journey it's that, "it ain't spiritual if it's comfortable to your ego."


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A Parent Must Forgive...So Too Does A Dharma Teacher

often, steering the helm of America's Original Transpersonal Fitness Service is sad and hurtful, even though constantly deeply sacred. Sometimes, steering of the humble Helm is best done by turning my training upside down so i can see from the inside out what it's like not to have a lifelong Path of Soul firing your every fiber. ilg feels only compassion for the many who attempt to copy the Path of WF. photos 1) WF Bumper Sticker available in the Pro Shop. graphics on this great sticker devoted by WF Devotee Brad Gantt. 2) Free hanging Inversion Crunches; an old ilg standard. by Ananda.

***



Noble Sangha,
listen closely, because i get this question several times per month...and it will only continue in the years ahead.

yes, there are former WF and HP Yoga Teachers and students that were not able to sustain the Steep and Direct Path of WF. for one reason or another, some of these 'WF Children" have produced their own websites and businesses which are blatant and even sophomoric rip offs from my LifeWork. some even use my quotes and slogans for their businesses. yet, rarely is my name ever mentioned. this type of disrespect for one's Root Teacher is best left to Karma. one of you asked, "...is this flattery or intellectual property right infringement?"

it's both plus substantial karmic and samskaric consequences.

ilg leaves that stuff to God. ilg stays focused on my sincere Path Followers without attachment to those who fall off the arduous and genuine Path of WF. my family and you Know with a capital "K" who ilg is and what ilg tries to put forth in my books and services. that is what matters most. it's obvious that both my fitness and LifeWork is pretty intense to attempt to match, so those who can't tend to rip me off. again; such lower chakral action is best left to karma and God, not ilg.

ilg always at Service...ilg has submitted to over a dozen articles to one of the popular Yoga magazines, each one mechanically refused. this particular 'vehicle of yoga' has a seemingly very un-yogic like tendency not to publish articles from teachers that do not purchase very expensive advertisements with them. ironically, this magazine used stock images of myself to sell their conferences which i remain uninvited to! "All karma is God." photo by Ananda.

as any Parent of Children knows, you just give sooooooo much of yourself in the early years of conscious parenting...then, as your Children attempt to find their own feet, their own 'stances' in the Outer World, some degree of rebellion is natural; "Oh God, Mom, Dad! Don't walk so close to me, my friends will see me with you! Yech!"...that type of thing. Though difficult and sad for the fatigued Parent, it is the Parent's role to weather such adolescent storms of self-discovery from their Children.

May all Beings be freed from avidya and know the causations of avidya. May all Beings honor their Root Teachers with their words, sweat, and stillness.

May all of you find the Sacredness within thyself and be Free from the opinions and slander of others.

Stay focused on having focused fun, and you heard it first:
"Why just workout, when you can work within?!"

head bowed,

ilg
the humble grandfather of Genuine American Cross Training since 1982

Hydroxycut Death Put Into Perspective...

Most Noble Sangha,
when i first heard of a Hydroxycut® death, first i chanted the Tribal Mantra for the deceased one's Soul through the Bardo, another Mantra for that person's family, and a final Mantra for the worldwide Sangha of Suffering.

then, i admit, a much Lower Self of ilg jumped to the ThoughtWave:
"See, i KNEW it! Those &%$# companies that produce that crap! Why can't everyone just LISTEN TO ME and use our Whole Food Herbs of SUNRIDER® to help their efforts in losing fat, healthfully!?!?!"


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My Day is A Trap As Well...

"Even the desire to be beautiful
before one's Wisdom Being
is a
trap which must be transcended."
- steve ilg
(written in my Meditation Journal earlier this week)


My Day Today:

•) Early Morning Ritual and Sangha Light Meditations
•) Svadhyaya
•) family time in Zendo
•) Eat Herbs, Sunbar, and MAP Aminos
•) Blog as Service
•) ride cross bike to town (10 miles on pavement)
•) teach HP Mixed Flow (substitute teaching for Ananda)
•) ride cross bike back to the WF Temple H(om)e (long way; 13.5 miles on dirt)
•) eat PowerBar and Fruit and more Herbs and MAP
•) office service
•) midday Pranayama
•) ride motorcycle to town; teach HP Strong Flow to a private group of NAU (Northern Arizona University) Girls Swim Team
•) errands on motorcycle
•) back H(om)e for family time/office service
•) prepare for private bodywork service (more Pranayama)
•) 6:15pm; give private bodywork service
•) 8:00 pm; take Evening Mealtime with Ananda


May your Practice be inspired and sincere and fun...

head bowed,
coach ilg

note: ilg does NOT professionally recommend readers to sustain such a schedule with eating only spiritual nutrition (via Pranayama throughout day) herbs, MAP, and one Evening Mealtime. such a schedule and mastery of food (ahara jaya) comes only with decades of Practice.

photo; coach finishing a Early Morning Ritual, last summer. photo by Ananda

Get Real; Understanding Indirect Violence

Today on Direct Lines; Subscription Format...
a Dharmateaching on the hypocrisy of indirect violence in our
daily actions and choices...don't miss it!




photo by Ananda. think fishing is 'violent'? i dare you to do an impact study
on virtually ANYTHING you step into, onto or put on your skin, into your body...
in a society where most kids and adults have zero appreciation for where their
McDonalds "Fillet of Fish" (do they still make those?) or their Big Mac comes from,
it's poignant yoga to actually use your own skills to hunt and gather before you eat.
doing so is a superb yoga of nutrition and inter-connectedness. this is a big Northern Pike i tied into while trout fishing at local Ashurst Lake.

My Daughter Will Grow Up With A President Who Trusts In Pranic Force

(note; images may be available only for DL Subscribers)




i devote my DL today to two Bodhisattvic Lights
who dared to Shine in the spiritual darkness of Kali Yuga.

my coaching instructions to you today, Oh Noble Seekers of Wholeness, is
to Practice Tolerance in some way shape or form for somebody today.
- coach ilg

"I have a dream that one day...
little black boys and black girls will be
able to join hands with little white boys and girls
as sisters and brothers."

- Martin Luther King Jr., 1963

"There is an entire generation that will grow up taking for granted
that the highest office in the land is filled by an African American.
I mean, that's a radical thing. It changes how black children look at
themselves. It also changes how white children look at black children.
And I wouldn't underestimate the force of that."
- Barack Hussein Obama II, 2009

illustration of Obama by Office of Paul Sahre
illustration of MLK, open internet image at:
http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/features/sixth_annual_mlk_day-2008.html