What Have You Bought with Your Life?

What Have You Bought with Your Life?

On Resurrection Day God will ask,
"During this sojourn I gave you,
what have you produced for Me?"
Through what work have you reached your life's end?
For what have your food and your strength been consumed?
Where have you dimmed the luster of your eye?
Where have you dissipated your five senses?
You have expended eyes and intellect and the pure celestial substances;
what have you purchased from the earth?
I gave you hands and feet as spade and mattock for tilling the soil of good works;
when did they begin to work by themselves?"


- Rumi
translated by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski





photo: i snagged this shot right from my back porch Sunday evening at the WF Temple H(om)e in Buddhaville (aka; Baderville).




HP YOGA® CLASSES THIS WEEK at NAYC:

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A kinder, gentler ilg all week!

Tuesday w/Steve
5:30-7:00pm; HP Slow Flow
Dedicated HP Students may remember my "Cornish Hen" class...a delightful enriching release for the entire body. Begins by focusing on the hip flexors and thoracic spine matched by periodic pranayams for the ascent of apana-vayu and rejuvenation of the organic and glandular systems. Come, breathe, and practice relaxed alertness with the "Broken Back Yogi" so we can all help each other Higher!

Wednesday w/Joy
9-10:30 am; HP Slow Flow
A soaring, uplifting class geared specifically for women, though men are encouraged to practice with us! Stabilization and strengthening of the urogenital floor and mula bandha musculature as well as core muscles while breathing consciously and gracefully into higher levels of physiologic and biomechanic fitness. Joy has attracted a strong sangha for this class among the medical community for good reason; it spurs self-healing and transformation with wisdom, love, and expertise.

Thursday w/Steve
5:30-7:00pm; HP PROP Workout BASICS CLASS!
QUICK! Go run and git that friend of yours that is too "scared" to take my regular PROP classes! This class covers the fundamental movements of PROP and will include restorative movements along the way. Seasoned PROP'rs; try to get in extra cardio before this class for an even richer, wholistic training effect! Come PROP!

above photo of coach doing "PadmaCrunches" by James Q. Martin...click on photo for his website.

The HP Yoga® Wholistic Progression System "Coach, This morning in our beautiful, NAYC yoga-cave, you helped me to inhale the entire Universe, exhale my mind right out of my skull, and sweat at LEAST a day's worth of ego out on to the cave-floor. It is now QUITE apparent to me that it is the DIVERISTY of my practice(s), not just the regularity or repetition of them that makes for success in my "Wholistic" growth! CRY (Climb. Run. Yoga.) oN! LOVE Wyatt" Using the HP Yoga Wholistic Progression System in place at NAYC (and available in DVDs for your out-of-town friends and family), you will be assured of a great, safe, and wise way to slowly shift your body toward the yogic goal of JivaLaghuvata or 'a yogic body of Light.' Each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday class affords unique physical, physiologic, and subtle training effects upon your body, mind, and spirit. As you continue to train within this system, you'll joyfully feel renewed, recentered, and more whole...you'll be able to tell by direct experience that this style was born from a Wholistic Fitness® tradition. There's nothing quite like it! Bodywork, Online, and private consulations and training sessions within the disciplines of strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, nutrition, fat loss, and lifestyle training are always available. It's what i've done at a world-class level since 1982. If you would enjoy myself or Joy to take a look at the Wholeness of your training, let us know. Onward, Upward, and endlessly Inward... coach steve ilg for a more complete view of Coach's notion of Yoga - one of nine subdisciplines of his Wholistic Fitness® Personal Training system, enjoy his book, TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION and his latest book; PRANIC JUNKIE...both are available at the The Northern Arizona Yoga Center retail shop or click on "Shop Coach's Website Pro Shop" link below

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Yogi Squat of the Week; Bryan Bishop @ 14,000'

"GET OUT AND DO!"
- coach ilg

WF Devotee Bryan Bishop of Colorado, sure does!

Anyone one out there wanna break WF Devotee Bryan Bishop's altitude and style points for a yogi squat?

Check out these pics our Noble Mountain Yogi sent into WF Headquarters this weekend from his recent climbing expolits in the Rocky Mountains...click on his pics to enlarge the Chi Hit!

God, ilg loves this Path...God, ilg loves his students! Thanks for the inspiration and bravery to share, BB!
- coach

"The world can't weigh you down when you're standing on top of it!
Nothing feels better than a yogi squat above 14000 feet!
--bryan--"

ps; The peak is Little Bear, photo taken by my friend kent.

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HP YOGA = "HOLY YO-GUH!" - ONE STUDENT'S CONTEMPLATIONS ON COACH

HP Yoga Student, Wyatt Brown, cranking "Little Smoke" above Flagstaff. photo; Wyatt Brown archives.

Coach,

This morning you subbed for my regular, amazing Ashtanga Yogi in our beautiful, NAYC yoga-cave.

Holy Yo-Guh!

You helped me to inhale the entire Universe,

exhale my mind right out of my skull,

and sweat at LEAST a day’s worth of ego out on to the cave-floor.

It is now QUITE apparent to me that it is the DIVERISTY of my practice(s),

not just the regularity or repetition of them that makes for success in my “Wholistic” growth!

CRY (Climb. Run. Yoga.) oN!

LOVE

Wyatt

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

Meditation Excuses and a Dharma Teaching

oh, the excuses from Students not incorporating the fourth Noble Fitness Discipline of Wholistic Fitness® into their lives - Meditation.

ilg has heard about the kids. the 'bad knees.'

ilg has heard about the work schedule...the dogs, the lack of space, the lack of time...

here is what is lacking;
your willingness....


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that is New Daddy Ilg up there; torso tilted, feet cramping and sliding out of a haphazard Siddhasana, it's past 10 pm...absolutely wretched posture, not elegant like Buddha...
fatigue these days seems my most faithful friend.

yet, still
ilg
sits.

Rev. Ilg prays for LA

As a son of the American Southwest,
ilg knows about the Scorcher Guru...
and the Teachings of Wholeness come hard:

"One second I'm crying,
one second I'm guilty,
the next moment I'm angry,
and then I just want to drink Tequila and forget.
I'm going to have to figure out a new philosophy:
how to live without loving stuff."
- Adi Ellad, who lost his home in Big Tujunga Canyon
where ilg used to train a lot when living in LA.

As the apocalyptic plume dances Shiva's Dance over my Beloved LA,
ilg prays...
yet, here in the words of a m(om) whose home was being engulfed by the flames
over Pasadena where many of my students still live, come the BuddhaWisdom Words
as the Conscious Mother attempted to console her young daughter:
"You have to surrender to the natural forces when you choose to live up here.
It's about nature doing its thing."


My Precious LA Sangha;

ilg sends thee
these pictures i
took,
not long ago
from outside the WF Temple H(om)e...

May the Rain Dance arrive,
May the Hanuman Winds dwindle,
and by your Grace and Strength of Practice,
May (y)our prayers be answered...

imagine the two photos side by side...
and you feel the Wholeness of Resplendent Abundance...
imagine the fractured parts of our fitness
aligned; Body, Mind, and Spirit
and
we attain the Wholeness of Resplendent Abundance...

Q&A with a new yogini who sees the Light of Wholeness

Dear Steve,

Can you please advise? I have 'experimented' with yoga in the past but get disillusioned after a few weeks as I don't seem able to increase my flexibility. I have especially tight hamstrings and lowerback/hips. At the moment I do do a cardio workout (cycling/power walking) 3-4 x week followed by at least 10 minutes of stretching. Again I am getting frustrated as I don't seem able to increase my flexibility. Many, many, many years ago I used to body build and a am wondering if this might be the cause (I accept I may just not be very flexible but would have thought I should be able to increase it more than I have to date). I think it is time to dedicate a little more time and effort to something like yoga, however I still want to get a work out (I have two children under 5 and so must make the most out of my workouts). Do you think you might have a DVD that would suit me?

Thanks

Mandy Choat

ps. I live in a small town in australia and cannot get to a class.


COACH RESPONDS:

Most Noble Fitness Warrioress Mandy,

1) hang in there.
ilg was paralyzed.
you can't get any stiffer than that!
if ilg can stick with it, you can too.

2) Practice Patience.
as a Wholeness Warrioress, you must understand that you are doing something that most are too timid, too weak to
attempt; you are attempting to attack your Weaknesses for the sake of Wholeness.
that requires far more strength and nobility than merely 'doing what you are good at."
so, ilg wants you to Rejoice In Your Process Of Wholeness...and apply PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE!

3) get Joy's (my Partner) DVD:

Joy's QuickFix Power Yoga DVD

you can do either one, two, or all three of the 10-minute segments.
Joy designed the entire yoga program for people just like you...as a Mother herself, she knows
how precious a 10-minute slot is for Solo Practice.

May this Help your Journey, and keep me updated... ilg cares for your Wholeness...

love, sweat, and stillness,

coach ilg




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

coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness® and High Performance Yoga®