How To Test A Teacher of Yoga + Puja Feng Shui

i answered both of these Student Questions in the WF SanghaLounge; check out the Meditation and Yoga Caves!


The WF SanghaLounge is perhaps one of, if not the, most powerful Practice Enhancers within the Path of WF...
if you need to chill,
chill there and LEARN and be inspired by your fellow WF Warriors!
i love hanging out there!!!
Hec, even our Precious AnandaMayiMa stopped in the other day!

Educate Me! - The Spiritual Side of HP PROP Workouts

it's go(o)d to rock our boat of belief structures...how else are they tested and strengthened? no matter what or who we 'believe in'...that belief structure is gonna get SMASHED to DIVINE SMITHEREENS anyway upon our Bardo Entry...so, why not continually test and develop our sense of Truth through confrontations, not avoidance?
-coach ilg
photo by AZ Daily Sun

Hi Coach!

My friend, D, is an extremely Evangelical Christian. I was just lying in bed and thinking of how much fun your HP YOGA PROP WORKOUT class will be tomorrow when I flashed on a time I inadvertently offended my also Evangelical niece by taking her to my Unitarian Universalist fellowship (definitely the opposite of Evangelicalism). My nature is to be very respectful (and in fact very curious) about other’s quest for Truth (as long as the rights of others to do the same are not infringed upon). I do not want to put her in an uncomfortable position so I started thinking of anything about your class that could cause unease for D.

So, that is the purpose of my email. Can you give me an idea of the spiritual side of your Prop class? Also, I guess I have never thought about the alter and know not of its purpose. Can you educate me?

What are your thoughts of the possibility of tomorrow’s class causing unease for a VERY Christian Christian? I think this is a weird question to ask but I am trying to be sensitive to this side of her. I am trying to imagine walking in shoes that I cannot possibly imagine wearing, if that makes sense.

Warmly,

K


COACH RESPONDS:

"Most Precious and Sensitive Yogini K,

ilg thinks the likelihood is very high! and that is go(o)d!


PROP is all about the only engaged spirituality that matters;
SWEAT! (aka; Holy Water)! "

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President OM; sounding off a lot of WF Dharma; attacking our Addiction to Comfort

Obama's New Sky Dawns Over Sacred Peak; this morning...
photo by ilg. click to enlarge.

Well,
well,
well.

A new Leader for the Turtle Island Tribe.


God Bless him...
May Dharma light his way...
and
there indeed be, as i put forth months ago;

a lot of OM in ObaMa...

regardless for whom you may have voted...i bow to your noble effort in so doing
and
reMind you that WF is a Warrior/Warrioress Caste...
we are soldiers of spirit, strength, endurance, suppleness, and insight;
as such it is time to take up our own Dharma Swords
with a new Leader
in whose voice and posture and breath awareness
i sense sincerity.

sincerity.

something that has been so sadly lacking in Turtle Island Chiefs for nearly my entire life.

OM (my nickname for ObaMa) is already asking us
- are you listening to the intended SPACE between his words? -
to...



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ps; speaking of Change;
we're still working on it,
however, go ahead and hit the Refresh Button on the homepage of
www.WholisticFitness.com
tell me if you like the new Chi Hit!

VOTE

Intention go(o)d.
Action more go(o)d.
- ilg

Unknown Korean Warrior; "Wholistic Fitness is very great."

i'll need us ALL to Slow Our Roll
and
just look,
listen,
and
FEEL
the sincerity of this beautiful
WF Warrior Brother from Korea...


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Hi Steve Ilg's
I'm Korean
I can't english well (I will study english well^^)
but I have a question
I read a book Total Body
Qustion is Herb
Kind of emperor herb, plase

and i hear meditation side effect
Total Body meditation is no side effect?

Total Body is great book
Wholistic Fitness is very great

Thank you Steve Ilg's

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Appendicular vs. merely Axial Fitness...NOVEMBER MEANS NORDIC!!!!

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awlright...
enough of the cute baby pictures...


November means only ONE thing to me: it's NORDIC SEASON and i've got a State Title to defend!!!









time to sharpen the biceps as well as the thighs...
it's time to make the appendicular musculoskeletal fitness as strong and enduring as the axial musculoskeletal fitness!

runners & cyclists are imbalanced; their lower body and axial fitness is all they got. trust me, when i train runners in my HP YOGA PROP WORKOUTS or in the IRON TEMPLE using WF Strength Training Techniques? uhhh, they may be fleet, but they ain't FIT!..least not in a WF World!

nordic ski racers combine the lower body and axial skeletal fitness WITH the upper body and appendicular skeletal fitness.

Nordic fitness = wholistic fitness.

running and cycling fitness = what i call; Insect Fitness...specialization is not athletic prowess from a WF perspective. and it sure ain't Warrior Fitness! it is merely specialization and specialization, as i put on WF t-shirts in the late seventies; is for insects, not true athletes!



this balance of Whole Body Endurance is what makes NORDIC SKI RACING the Most Noble Cardio Discipline and Sport in the world! this summer i used our precious jewel of a path, WF, to gain 4 AG Podiums and 3 Top Ten Overalls in trail running.

i'd trade 'em all in for ONE NORDIC PODIUM! cuz' running is kindy-garten compared to Nordic Ski Racing, baby!!!

so, now it's time to match my 'lower body endurance fitness' with something that i've worked so hard on my whole life; upper body endurance fitness!

this WHOLISTIC BALANCE between a lower body and an upper body endurance fitness is precisely what is soooo beautiful to me about Nordic Ski Racing...it REALLY demonstrates which endurance athlete is a more whole, balanced strength-endurance athlete.

my winter training and racing schedule is going to be subject of course, to Priority #1; being a Conscious New Daddy...however, my winter racing goals are ambitious and clear; get on the AG Podium and into the Top 20 at the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon, defend my State Nordic Championship Title, regain my World Highest Nordic Ski Championship in Classic Division, and get a AG Podium at the grueling, Tour de Ski Ultra Nordic Marathon.

dat oughta keep me off the streets, as my dad would say.

and,
hopefully
keep YOU tuned in and inspired to keep CRANKIN' this winter!
i KNOW i'll need your support this winter...it's gonna be tough, tough, tough...

and,
as you'll see COMING UP next in DIRECT LINES,
my Kendrick Mountain Duathlon that i cranked off yesterday in 4.3 hours is a sincere gesture that New Daddy ilg ain't givin' up the fight for what turns on most: Winter Multi-sport Endurance Racing.

May your Workouts and WorkWithins be Blessed today...

in endless cold mountain sweat and freezing morning meditation,

always achievin' steven





photo 1; Quan Yin and i outside my "Ski Shed", preppin' ski bases last week. Quan Yin counsels most of my ski wax choices...She's quite go(o)d at it, actually! the mask is used to help thwart the flouracarbons from the ski wax...i am sorry, Father Sky! pic by Ananda.
photo 2; courtesy, Maurizio Pozzi

Apres Hallow's Eve Teachings, Images, and a Prayer...from Rev. ilg

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Do NOT miss this beautiful Blessing Prayer and pictures!


photo; Dewachen Ilg, 13 months, at last evening's Flagstaff's downtown Halloween Gathering...photo by Ananda