My Most Potent Prayer Of All...

Dearest Teacher,

I've just started teaching yoga, attempting to bring some of your 'mountain yogi spirit' into my classes. It's hard. I feel like a fool and I don't know if I should continue. If i get too "out there" and say the "G" (God) word too much, I get reprimanded by both students and gym management. I know you began teaching Yoga out of gyms long before it became fashionable. I cannot imagine the barriers and resistances you have dealt with to forge the way for the rest of us. Thank you. If I could ask any one question to you it would be, "How can I bring a sense of Go(o)d - as you write it which I LOVE! - to my students without triggering their religious senses?"


For all that you have done and continue to do in Kali Yuga; may this Spiritual Dark Age bless you and your family with all of your Highest aspirations.

Lee
CA

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Most Beautiful Yogin Who Is Noble Enough To Serve The Dharma As A Living,


Listen closely.
Due to your Bravery i will let you know precisely how ilg has long dealt with the narrowed minds of those who confuse religion with spiritual cultivation. This may be perhaps, the only Prayer you'll ever need to know. Know it by heart. Sing it to the Wind. Mesmerize your mind by it's potency. Ride the blissful waves of Divine Joy as they wash over your Being as you recite this Prayer in Meditation. Yes, you may read it to your Students but only during Shavasana. It has been my Blessing to receive it from my Jnana Yoga Teacher during deep communication. Do not abuse it by throwing it away after reading it. Fall in love with it...the type of Love that makes you cry which is the Highest Love there is on our Plane(t).

My Teacher did not say this was a Prayer. He just ran it off as He is so easily capable of, during a Dharma Download... It is feeble ilg that made it into my most Potent Prayer of All...This is surely a most beautiful "Lords Prayer"...

May you use this Prayer as an inner hoist to elevate your Sadhana to a High Enough Vibration that praise and slander, glory and reprimand all look and feel the same to you...

10,000 Dharma Blessing to your Students,
Train them well by training yourself wisely...

head bowed,
coach ilg


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DUE TO THE HIGH VIBRATION AND SANCTITY OF WHICH I'VE RECEIVED THIS PRAYER,
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out of the eyes and abuse of the General Public...
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Uniting Posture of Body and Confidence of Mind

If you are sitting, and your mind is not wholly in tune with your body—if you are, for instance, anxious or preoccupied with something—your body will experience physical discomfort, and difficulties will arise more easily. Whereas if your mind is in a calm, inspired state, it will influence your whole posture, and you can sit much more naturally and effortlessly. So it is very important to unite the posture of your body and the confidence that arises from your realization of the nature of your mind.
- Sogyal Rinpoche

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"the desire to meld more of that with my life and practice."

Hello,

A quick note to say thanks for taking the time and effort required to produce Total Body Transformation, as well as the InDirect Lines Blog.

One of the wonderful things about the book is how applicable it is across levels of fitness. I am no stranger to hard training and initially saw the workouts as a decrease in my overall activity level. Last October, after week one, I thought otherwise. Taking my own mindfulness to the next level during workouts was a wonderful challenge.

My girlfriend Zenu was familiar with the yoga (as she is from Delhi and has practiced since childhood) but in terms of her general conditioning she was a novice. The friendly, motivating tone of your book and the clear instructions really helped. Her body has transformed and she loves being able to go out and run for an hour for no reason at all. She is more confident, motivated, and motivating. She loves how she looks.

In December I purchased a second copy of your book and took it to Salt Lake City to give to my best friend, an extremely talented but generally undisciplined ex-rock climber turned couch potato. Jason has innate athletic talent but not a lot of inner drive. I am concerned for him because he, like me, is aging (we are both in our late 30's) but unlike me he's doing a lot more sitting. I got a text message from him yesterday. He loves the book, is completing it, and is super motivated.

My dogs are also fitter than they ever have been. :-)

In the very near term I will subscribe to Direct Lines. As a PhD student living on a small stipend money is tight, but my current plan is to run through the entire book a second time, sell off some items that I picked up from storage in Salt Lake City during my trip, and then send in an application for coaching. I have been coached before for specific events and have used various training plans in the past, but I have find them unsuitable compared to self-coaching because of the broad range of things that I like to do--and do well in, if I am racing--over the course of the year...and the desire to meld more of that with my life and practice.

In any case, thank you again for what you have created, and continue to create.

Expect an application in late spring.

Rob W.
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