Confused About God?; Recall Tribal Maturity

"Be still and know you're God."
- Yogi Jesus Christ, a long time ago recorded in the Bible

"Be still and know your God."
- yogi steve ilg, right now recorded in DL

Life Is Go(o)d

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Confused about God?

Consider Silence as your starting point toward knowing God.

God is strong.

It takes strength to sit still.

Law of Mutual Attraction will eventually...

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As Promised; "THE JOYFUL BREATH" BLOG Launches Today!!!

It is with such deeeeeeeeeeeep...
dat's right;
it is with the "SCUBA DEEP!" Mother Hen Happiness
that i give to you the Launch of WF Teacher Joy "Ananda" Kilpatrick's new and approved WF Blog:

THE JOYFUL BREATH

Let us ALL show our WF ChiFull Support of this complimentary Blog, yet another High Vibrating, Beautiful Refuge
on the Internet dedicated to the Female Spirit of Wholistic Fitness!

My Beloved Joy;

thank you for choosing to be so brave, so bold, and so beautiful in so many Karmic Yogi Ways. You Honor my humble Path
with a degree of Warrior Exquisiteness that both soothes and ignites my Soul.

i bow to Thee.

WF Sangha; ENJOY!!! let Joy know your support! Personally, i can barely WAIT until each new Mo(o)nday now!


our Path glitters like the Inner Gold that it is...

om so ti,

coach ilg
creater/Wholistic Fitness

Can You Doubt Your Doubt?

"If you are strong enough to doubt your strength and willingness to do something,
are you not as equally strong to doubt your doubt?"
- coach ilg
photo; eventually, all WF Students practice Pranayams each day in the ongoing effort to stabilize our mind, develop equanimity of body and mind, and attempt to gain control of vayu (inner currents of prana or chi). Professional Western Skeptics like the one in my story below, do not believe in such 'new agey' notions as pranic or chi development since the chi cannot be seen. if we don't believe in something we don't understand, why is it so hard for us understand our disbelief?



i know a very famous professional skeptic. you may have seen him on the tv. he makes a living going around the world and 'disproving' phenomena, miracles, and the such. he is quite proud that he does not believe in anything that cannot be scientifically proven.

honestly? i did not enjoy spending time around his energy. i came to know him through the ultra racing world. predictably, he was a ultra athlete. i say that because it is often the case that ultra athletes tend toward the narrow minded, hard, and, well, obsessive side of the Dance.

i was a keen and easy target for his sterility. "New agey, mumbo jumbo without discernible principle," is i think what he once called Wholistic Fitness.

he never commented however, on my race results in physiologically diverse sport performances using WF principles. Rather he enjoyed broadcasting his doubt at my Teachings and WF.

only once did i take Time to engage him. it went something like this...

DO NOT MISS THIS HILARIOUS DHARMA DEBATE AND TEACHING PLUS THIS HISTORIC PHOTOS:

photo 2; setting a Course Record at the Furnace Creek 508 Ultra
photo 3; working toward a PR in Back Squats in the same month of a podium in a 50-mile mountain running race. circa; 1986

Moccasin Wisdom

Moccasin Wisdom

by coach steve ilg, cpt/ryt/uscf

"Do not judge another man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins."
- Native American saying





Do you deserve your Pain? You might be surprised at the answer.

How long has it been since you performed an UnAssisted Shoe Placement and Removal? The WF Master Student never uses chairs, beds, or walls to put on or take off their shoes. Leave it to Wholistic Fitness to climb into every compartment of our life that we have chosen to ignore (thus accumulating avidya). photo; coach ilg, one of Turtle Islands most prolific and enthusiastic promoters of the Yogi Squat, still relies each day upon this ancient, tribal movement as a form of an interactive 'wheelchair' to vent his chronic lower back and pelvic Pain from a mountaineering 'accident.'


You can tell a lot about someone by the manner in which he (or she) puts on their moccasins.

When was the last time you performed an Unassisted Shoe Putting On, or for that matter, an Unassisted Shoe Taking Off? Below, I am going to ask you to explore the harmful repercussions of living in a Shoe Addicted Society.

Most of us have lower back and pelvic imbalances which are the Root Cause of most, if not all, our afflictions.

What we might not be as quick to Realize the Real-Lie of our Pain.

Okay, I will give it to you straight up. Hold on, cuz it is a jagged little pill along the Path of Awakening...

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The 2006 WF Online Student Of The Year Award goes to...

it is Appropriate Action that on this Day After Wolf Moon,
this feeble Messenger, who grew up with a Wolf,
bestows upon the following Online Student a Recognition due to her
impeccable, elegant, and as focused as fire devotion to this Tremendously Steep Path of the Ancients
which spits out all but the most Sincere and Sattvic...

due to her incontrovertible allegiance to the SUNRIDER Herbs (she was our most Valuable SUNRIDER Leader of the year),
due to her devotion to take pilgrimage to the Sacred Peak and undertake a WF Private Intensive,
due to her seamless sincerity and transition to continue her Online Studies with Teacher Ananda when her original WF Teacher resigned,
due to her heart warming smile and utterly beautiful Goddess Spirit which shines throughout her Practice and Presence,

i give to the Worldwide WF Sangha our 2006 WF Online Student Of The Year...

GIVE IT UP FOR INDIANA's OWN...

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS WOMAN ON THE FAR RIGHT?

THAT IS OUR WF STUDENT OF THE YEAR, BABY!!!

Learn Who She Is on Today's DL SUBSCRIPTION FORMAT and BE INSPIRED from this amazing being!

* Photos:
1) Last night's Wolf Moon came roaring over the eastern peaks flanking the WF Temple. photo by coach.
2) Coach and Student Shawna, elbow to elbow during Bike Skill section of her Private Intensive. stunning photo by Ananda.
3) Coach spotting Shawna during Sport Climbing section of her Private Intensive. photo, Ananda.
4) MB Crunches during the Strength Training section of her Private Intensive. photo, Ananda.
5) Learning the WF StarDrive Technique (tm) in the Iron Temple from Coach. photo, Ananda.
6&7) This was a Bardo Training Moment for Shawna and, for me, is what Sealed The Deal for her Master Student Inka; that woman from the Flatlands came up to the Sacred Peak, instilled the WF Sacred Mantra at 9,500' and with One Pointed Mind and Arrow Like Spirit, this amazing Being did not stop until my Direction to stop at the "Logjam" Sign over a 1,000' higher! Not only did she carry out her Coach's instructions without one ounce of whining or doubt in her Capacity, she chanted her way into a final, all out, Zone 5 SPRINT for the Logjam Sign! This Beautiful Being will soar through the Bardo Realms if, by some chance which looks pretty small, she does not reach all out Enlightenment in this lifetime! photo, coach.

My December Practice Stats; of Pranic Reliance and conquering the need of Motivation

Oh, i know, the excuses for losing Abhyasa (steadfast Practice) during the holidays are old, predictable, and so easily justified.

There are the family get togethers,

pressing work projects that need finishing (like the post production work on my new DVD!),

and preparation of All Things (particularly SKIING!).

However, the WF Warrior's Practice remains unfluttered by such paltry excuses for even if we lose a few physical fitness disciplines by the wayside, we remain focused and utterly devoted to what matters most in a WF life; the LifeStyle Principles. We are trained to cultivate our Workout Everywhere via Conscious Breath & Posture, Mindfulness, Appropriate Action, and Practice. And, in doing so, we discover great Practice opportunities within the outer chaos of the holiday season.

Now, the conventionally minded Fitness Sheep might think that if one was to defend a Course Record at a Winter Quadrathlon in a few more weeks as am i, one should ramp up their CardioVascular Volume and Intensity in order to be ready to Defend their title.

Not me. My Cardio volumes in Dec. went down (see chart below).

What did i elevate? Yoga and Meditation.

As a Podium Topper for over a quarter century using WF Training, i know well by now that it matters little how frail my Cardio Hours are compared to the Sport Specific Sheep. why am i so confident of WF Training? because i know that my WF Training is bringing to me the most potent weaponry that any athlete can bring to the Start Line; A Conscious and Controllable Mind.

Most athletes spend the bulk of their training time unconscious of the Divine, unaware of how to regulate the Pranic Flows in their bodies.

The conventional minded athlete still relies on that old fashioned Muscle and Oxygen system. They are like Blind Men feeling an...

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with poised and potent quill for 2007,
i bow to you from beneath the Sacred Peak,

coach ilg, ryt/uscf/cpt
founder/Wholistic Fitness® Personal Training since 1982