ON ANY GIVEN WEEKEND: Mr. Consistency! Coach (im)proves his Path again during gruelling race weekend!

the "Veit Springs" headwall at mile 4 on the climb up to the Ski Basin; this section requires the yogi to bring his or her "A Game" at this section where the road gradient goes steep and undisciplined egos weep

"Know the mind and see its essence,
and you may speak at will
and go wherever your feet take you -
nothing is not the Path."
- Liao-an



The Devoted DL Reader will recall that last year, i raced my first race weekend here in Flagstaff since relocating from Los Angeles. One year later, and i once again toed the Start Line of the Two Day Event. Day One is the SnowBowl Hill Climb; a 6.5 mile hammerfest up 2,000 vertical feet ending at dizzying altitude of 9,500'.

Day Two is the notorious "Wupatki Road Race" at the soaringly beautiful Wupatki/Sunset Crater National Monument. This 'Yoga Studio' for studying thyself features a 45 mile course with 4,800' of climbing; all of it in the final 22 miles!

This is the story of my "Yoga Practice" within these beautiful races this weekend.

It is a true Blessing to sweat and apply thy spirit within such natural beauty and among such talented Two-Wheeled Warriors...

may the sweat i spilled out on the roads this weekend
and the Inner Spirit i gained from doing so
be of Benefit to YOUR Practice this week...
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in sweat and spirit from the "Coach Who Still Does,"

coach ilg


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"The very body that we have, that's sitting here right now...
with its aches and its pleasures...
is exactly what we need to be fully human,
full awake,
fully alive."

- Pema Chodron

in the moments before a race, Pratyhara (Sense Withdrawl) is crucial. The Warrior must look deep within during these precious moments. Do not talk to friends...focus on your Warm Up. Limit Distraction, Increase Attraction to your Visualization. Break a go(o)d sweat and be on time for your Start. You will be nervous because you are going to suffer. In the best case of preparation; the WF Warrior Athlete transforms suffering into pure, beautiful effort.

during the Pre-Start Gun Bardo; engaged Pratyhara on the trainer; i draw my senses inward, run my Race Visualizations and temper my body, mind, and spirit into a unified Self Guiding Missile...


{DO NOT MISS COACH's intensely inspiring and insight-loaded Two Part diary of his Race Weekend at this two grueling events ...great photos with chi-packed quotes...find out how Coach did as he prepares his body, mind, and spirit for the State Championships next month! Subscribe to DL and come ride, climb, ski, and go for Enlightenment Through Sweat and Spirit with Coach!...subscriptions are nominal and serve to protect the WF Teachings. available on the Tribal Catalog today!}
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COMING TOMORROW IN DL: PART TWO...the BIG HURT: The Wupatki Road Race!

TEMPLE GONG RINGS: DHARMA MOVIE...WF WARRIORS UP!

those of you who follow Teacher Haku's blog may have seen the Promo Trailer for the movie;

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Ananda and i just used our Meditation Time today to go see it.

Coach's Orders;
1) Go See This Movie
2) Come home and re-read the Wholistic Fitness Sutra section in TBT

and then,
follow up with Action.

WF Warriors have been leading the charge into Conscious Fitness of Body/Mind/Spirit since 1982...

we might now be able to help a Powerful Revolution to do something go(o)d for Mother Earth...
remember,
Wholistic Fitness was created from my love of Ma Earth...that is why we are so grounded a Path compared to other personal fitness services.

let's Charge!

WARRIORS UP!!!

"Lazy Until Enlightenment Does Not Work." - Coach Ilg goes off in DL Subscription!

"Let us be moral.
Let us contemplate existence."
- Charles Dickens



"You do not wash the Dish with your non-dominant hand for the same reason you do not brush your
teeth with your non-dominant hand; you are lazy. you think to yourself, "Oh why waste time doing such non-sense as using my non-dominant hand..i am far too busy and important of a person to do such silly things."
So, you sit down to put on your shoes and lose hip flexibility throughout the years
because you are lazy.
You do not cardio commute so you grow fat and tepid in spiritual tenacity
because you are lazy.
You do not eat the Secret Herbs and become physiologically lethargic at the cell level without realizing it
because you are lazy.
You do not do your Meditation and Breathing Practices...


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a spiritual kick in the ass that we ALL need!
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Photo #1; Grand Canyon up the street from the WF Temple H(om)e during a Monsoon moment. photo by Marcia Fowler
Photo #1 B; The Sacred Peak, yesterday. Photo by Coach.

Photo #2; coach practicing Uddiyana Bandha during a Pranayama session. Photo by Ananda

Purification of Dream States; Let the Wholistic Pursuit of Yoga Do The Work!

in padmamayurasana several years ago.
at the time, my weekly hourly cardio volumes were 20+.
if taken as two separate Practices: 20+ hours/week of cardio as one Practice
and then,
sustaining padmamayurasana as another Practice
you have intermediate/advanced skill levels in each.

however, attempt to combine the two Practices?

suddenly you find yourself in a very, very small percentage of humanity.

even few yogis tread such an encompassing embrace of what "Yoga" really means.

one must be VERY careful not to Limit the notion of Yoga to merely one physiologic compartment like "flexibility".

true Yoga must be explored within each physiologic capacity in order to honor the notion of Yoga.

it is, after all, the Science of Union...not the Science of Specialization!

{READ THE ENTIRE ESSAY BY COACH IN TODAY'S
DIRECT LINES...including his counsel on what to do when WF Practice begins affecting the Dream States and enjoy a great old shot of Coach in one of his former mountain towns!}



Wholistic Fitness...America's Native Yoga; MultiDisciplined In The Way of All Warriors

come,
climb the Path! Photo 1; by Marc Romanelli, near White Rock, New Mexico

Buddha Baby Graces Our Tribe

Christian Davis Roche, at 5 weeks old, with his Sacred Wholistic Fitness® Blessed Mala Beads. The Mala is a Gift from his Daddy's Coach, Steve Ilg. photo by WF Online Student Shawna Shwaub of Clan Ko.

WF Teacher Ko writes, "Coach actually wore these beads everyday for 7 months, and performed his "empowerment rituals"
before Gifting them to Christian. The Chi was dripping from them when i opened the package."

You will not want to miss this entry on Teacher Ko's blog:


http://www.twistedsageblog.blogspot.com/


May all parents perform years of Inner Work on themselves before having babies...Conscious Parents = Conscious Parenting.

om so ti,

coach ilg

Vayu Amplification; a WF Online Training Effect. Moving from Seeming Fiction to Function

Ananda cranking some High Altitude Pran during a Pranayama workout at Schultz Lake last year. Riding your mountain bike to a place of solitude to Practice your assigned Pranayama is a duathlon that seems to be engaged only by a few yogis. Most of them can be found in our Tribe! The creative interplay of Practices to Transform your life have NEVER been more refined and accessible than right now in WF Online Training.

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Recently, a former Online Student rationalized his exit from the Steep and Direct Path of WF Online Training by trying to make it about me. He said that my "philosophies" have recently taken a turn that no longer interests him.

oh reallly, now? oh...the Perpetuation of Rationalization! (see DL of 6/18 and 6/27/2006).

the ONLY "philosophy" that i have Taught since 1982 is that of Sweat and Stillness. no other. if you do have an 'issue' with the notion of regular Sweat and Stillness, then, yes, perhaps you are not ready for WF.

the fact is, for students entering the colorful Path of WF Online Training, they are now privy to a FAR more evolved set of progressive Practices - protected from the Mainstream so far - that fire the Inner Self and create quickly an impenetrable foundation toward Awakening and possible Enlightenment like no other modern Path of Self Cultivation currently available.

below i answer a question that triggered Most Noble Yogini and WF Temple Manager Ananada's spiritual interests. She was Wise Enough to ask me about. The Students that get the most Value of their Online Studies are the ones who ask the Wise Questions and JUMP on every available morsel that drops like gems from this Path.

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Maha Rishi,
i would like to understand more about the below Vayu Amplification
if Appropriate.

Beginners Mind,
ananda


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The Noble Sweat, The Noble Stillness...

" The Yogi understands the faults of others by seeing and studying them first in himself. This self-study teaches him to be charitable to all." - Iyengar

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Namaste Noble Warriors,

as we begin to Awaken to deeper dimensions of our Yoga Practice, we start to See things differently.
Feel things differently.
Make choices based on a degree of inner spaciousness instead of compulsion, conditioning, or reaction.

as we create space and strength within the fabric of our bodies,
we also create space and strength within our understanding of why some people choose to sweat and practice
stillness,
while others do everything they can, or so it seems, not to.

{Read Coach's entire Meditation at:
DIRECT LINES}

Planets Put our importance into perspective...

Today in DL:
sent in by WF Devotee, Lt. Col Craig Diamantopoulos
teaches about humilty using our 15th brightest star in the sky as the Teacher.

don't miss it!

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just what science was intended toward; to inspire AWE,
not dillute it!

love,
coach ilg

The Pedaling Mennonite! FLOYD RULES! The Inspiration of The Tour!

Okay, that does it.

i am going to have to name my First Born child:
"Landis."

Landis Ilg.

i do not really care if it is a girl or boy.

Landis...in honor of Floyd's friggin' CHI, baby!!!!!!

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I have a bicycle racing friend and former teammate who, upon hearing the drug-related kickout of Road Cycling's two top stars since Lance's retirement; Jan Ullrich of Germany and Ivan Basso of Spain, simply refused to watch the Tour de France this year.

what a shame.

It was the best Tour i have seen since Lance took on Ullrich and eventually only beat him by slightly over one minute.

i will be drawing CHI from this year's Tour like crazy over the next several years.

my friend will not be able to.

such is the Way of "beliefs" and "judgments."

Yogis accept Everyone and Everything as Teachers and Teachings.

Take what is useful for your Ascent, and throw the clutter away.


* The podium (L to R): Spain's Oscar Pereiro (2nd), San Diego Stud and former mountain biker Floyd Landis (1st) and Andreas Kloden (3rd) of Germany/ Photo:Sirotti


The fact that this year, for the 8th straight year in a row,
an American stands upon the topstep of the Tour de France podium, is to me...
well,
a Miracle.
Floyd expressed a decidedly nonchalant attitude toward keeping the Yellow Jersey after the second week of the race. Perhaps this pacifism was instilled in his cells from his Mennonite upbringing, yet, it seemed to karmically rise up and snakebite him REAL bad when...

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VIVA LA TOUR!!!!!

STUDENT QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Student SassoSan!

Student Quote of the Week goes to the ever Awakening
Student SassoSan:



"Dear Coach,
I am now noticing that when I engage mula bandha, there is also a pulling in of the navel area. It is as if bringing attention to mula bandha sends a signal that brings about alignment in other centers. The alignment that I mention is as a result of the continued practice of mula bandha and the instinctual kechari, navel pulling in and spine lengthening. Another side effect seems to be a loosening of my shoulders (a chronic region of body tightness for me). There is just more mobility there these days and it is not like I have been hitting the yoga mat regularly or anything else. Just steady practice of your prescribed Early Morning Ritual and Mula Bandha Meditation. That is my current TAF. I continue to observe."

"There is no armor like perseverance."

Today in DL Subscription...

the Tour de France is within...

Ananda's journey into the Bardo of Wupatki...

"...you know that Pain must precede Purification and that Purification must come before Strength. Only from Purified Strength
does Genuine Wisdom, Clarity, and Transcendence arise."

do not MISS today's entry...subscribe right now for another Download of the Divine through the MultiDisciplined Path of Yoga;
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coach ilg

WF Teacher Haku's son, Kerry, takes 2nd at World Championships

what does that make for this week? 3 World Championship contenders in 3 physiologically diverse sports across 3 WF Warriors?

sounds pretty incredible?

nope,
just another week along the most humble, most powerful Transpersonal Fitness Path in the world;
Wholistic Fitness, baby!

check out Kerry's pics at :

http://hakutrain.blogspot.com/

congratulations, KerrySan....you are a beautiful, living example of a Young WF Warrior! May all young men radiate a fraction of your integrity and Light!


"The Path works,
when YOU work the Path."
-coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness®

Father Warrior Ludgate Beaming and Learning

We ordered up these sunsets just about every night - this is the view from our front porch


Coach-
Just back from the "unplug from the grid" trip to Maine - full media fast and full family feast.
Out for a hike with my boys - and Lucas sees this: Next thing I know he's here - then here In the category of "from the mouths of babes" I asked him how he got up the rock so fast, and he said "I just looked for cracks in the rock, stuck my fingers and toes in those and pulled myself up".

Two things in my vacation reading really stuck me. On finding the right balance between stillness and awareness, a Zen book used the analogy of the frog, which sits, still and unmovable, looking for all the world like it is completely unaware of the world around it...but always ready for the fly!

For extra Arjuna inspiration, I am re-reading the Gita. and in the introduction is a quote from Gandhi that really hit home: "By detachment I mean that you must not worry whether the desired result follows from your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means correct. Really, it means that things will come right in the end if you take care of the means and leave the rest to Him...But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result. In regard to every action one must know the result that is expected to follow, the means thereto, and the capacity for it. He who, being thus equipped, is without desire for the result and is yet wholly engrossed in the due fulfillment of the task before him, is said to have renounced the fruits of his action."

This helped resolve a false paradox I had struggled to reconcile - your non-attachment to results and your highly competitive nature. I see now that those need not be in conflict.

More to come in the next few days, as I wrap up the WF Arjuna Training Cycle this weekend.

Love-
Student L

IN-CourageMent for my Troubled Teen; Coach's Counsel

Now appearing in DIRECT LINES; Subscription Format...do not miss it!

Today's DL is RIGHT ON!

WF Teacher Joy "Ananda" Kilpatrick watches on as fellow WF Teacher Joseph "Haku" Sheader practices some Ai Imawa in Arches National Park for our upcoming DVD; Ai Imawa, The Postures and Practice of Inner Harmony. The emails are streaming in from our Noble Warriors based on today's DL trumpeting the call to help protect what remains of our amazing National Park System!

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Steve,
Thank you for this mornings DL. As a previous NPS ranger (and I have trained special forces personal including one time student Commander Ken Kops who strongly felt Afghanistan was appropriate yet Iraq was very wrong...last I heard from him was when he was moved from Afghanistan to Iraq) I bow to the call to protect our parks and the mother earth for which they stand. Strange how we will prosecute those who burn the flag but not those who desecrate the land for which it stands.

lots of love,
haku

Wholy Healthy Foot Batman!

Wholy Healthy Foot Batman!

Hello EC

Wholy Coconino........Thank you so much for this teaching........Foot-loose and Fancy Free ----In---joying Foot Fitness and looking Forward to me and my 3 Pivot Points embracing and remembering my relationship with Mother Earth !

Yours in WF-FF
sole-shel

3-Pointed Feet Input

Dearest No-Bull Coach,

Thank you so much for yesterday's DL on the elusive 3-pointed foot. I remember cracking my eyes open with a "Whachu talkin' bout mistah D?" look at my early yoga teachers when asked to find the "4 corners of [my] feet." Next I would look at their feet, expecting maybe shoebox shaped appendages. It's go(o)d to know that I am not the only one with 3-pointed feet!

love,
humm-bull herb-All war-eeyore chris

photo: WF & HP & SUNRIDER Devotee Chris enjoying a Tribal Splash in the backcountry of British Columbia. note the SUNRIDER Shaker bottle...a Warrior must know his/her priorities!

Unexamined Mind Rushes After Deception

appearing today in DIRECT LINES...

WARRIOR UP! Axing our national parks

coach ilg, about 17 years old, with a Big Wall Sack (named; "Blucky" cuz he was black and brought good Luck), a bagette, and salami moments before heading up for an attempt on "El Capitan" in Yosemite Valley.

Without the influence of our National Parks, i seriously doubt if Wholistic Fitness would have been created. My years spent as a young mountain yogi growing up among the San Juan National Forests and wandering Turtle Island climbing and backcountry'ing in Yosemite, the Tetons, Rocky Mountain National Parks just to name a few certainly cemented the priceless value of our access to what remains of Ma Nature. I ask that you read the below story by Jim Hightower and make the call...
WF WARRIORS UP!!!

Let's not make images like this one an antique memory...the day before a High Peformance Yoga® Workshop in the Sierra Nevada a few years ago. I had just snowshoed up the obvious colouir behind my right shoulder and above Mr. Ducky.

namaste and may our children's children experience just a fraction of the depth and dimension of sacred beauty in which i've felt in my cells...

coach ilg
"America's Outdoor Athlete"

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Axing our national parks
Spinning cuts to the public
By Jim Hightower
Published on 07/06/2006

America’s network of national parks is a natural resource so beloved by the public that even George W has posed in parks for photo-ops in his two presidential campaigns, promising to bolster funding for these treasures.
Once the campaigning is done, however, our park-lover-in-chief goes after them with a double-bladed budget ax. This hypocrisy is so blatant that, in the 2004 election year, Bush’s spin miesters instructed park guides not to use the phrase “budget cutbacks,” instead substituting the euphemism, “service level adjustments.”
Now, Bush is back with his ax, quietly directing each park superintendent to prepare a five-year budget that will slash appropriations by up to a third. This at a time when the backlog of park repairs now tops $6.8 billion, an increase of $1.9 billion in George’s five years.
And, once again, Bush political operatives have distributed “talking points,” telling park employees how to spin the cuts to park visitors, who will, of course, notice the reduced hours, discontinued services, deteriorating facilities, and increased fees. When visitors ask why they’re paying more for less, the memo tells employees to respond with this sentence: “The National Park Service, like most agencies, is tightening its belt as our nation rebuilds from Katrina, continues the war on terrorism and strives to reduce the deficit.”
Holy Ansel Adams! The administration that totally botched up the response to Katrina, that has us mired in a bloody $300 billion war of lies, and that has been the worst deficit bloater in U.S. history—now wants to use these debacles as its excuse for gutting our public parks!
This is Jim Hightower saying … To fight both the cutbacks and the rank dishonesty of the Bushites, call the watchdog group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: (202) 265-7337.

HP Yoga Principle: The 3-Point Foot! Taking Care of your Foot Fitness!

{coach ilg during one of his many unique "Rock Vinyasa" moves; Engaged Balasana...this age-old Early Morning Routine is about read to be released to Active Online WF Students...}
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The 'breaking down' of our hard, brittle feet is Priority Numero Uno for any Warrior of the Higher Way. Huge energy Vents lie within the subtle anatomy of our feet. That is precisely why i have designed and used so many unique methods to exploring and cultivating "soft feet".
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Rare are the feet that have been more abused than mine. 100+ miles per week while running, championship cycling, world class rock climbing, ski jumping, winter mountaineering...my feet have been hammered world class hard for nearly 3 decades...i can help you soften your feet and the softer foot is the more powerful foot and the more powerful the feet? the more powerful the organs (both gross and subtle).
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You may hear a yoga teacher instruct you to, ‘work the 4-corners of your feet into the ground.’ However, our feet do not have four “corners”...they have 3 pivot(al) points.
*
These 3 pivot(al) points are easily known and used by those of us that run, climb, ski jump, pedal bikes, and
dance.
*
Using my
“3-point foot”principle will result in a more wholistic and ‘fleet’
foot!
*
Get over to DIRECT LINES; Subscription Format and read my exclusive "3-Point Foot Principle"...this is one of those great DL's that just flips the accepted notion of something with the wisdom that can only be gained by world-class MultiDisciplined Yogic Insight...i have made a graph for you and everything...i CARE about your FOOT FITNESS!

it'll make your asana practice grow by leaps and bounds as well as your cardio, strength training, seated meditation comfort, as well as a healthier day to day Energetic Connection.

See you over at the Tribal Newspaper Rock of Wholistic Fitness; DIRECT LINES!

om so ti,

coach ilg

Learning To "Flip" All Evil...now appearing at Direct Lines

OH...and yet ANOTHER WF Warrior qualifies for World Triathlon Champs!

Most Noble WF Warrior Karl MacPhee from Canada
who attended last years' WF Retreat at Red Mountain Spa in Utah with
his wife Jen,
qualified for the World Triathlon Championships (Olympic Distance)!

He wrote to me today:

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Dearest Coach,
I thought of you and the WF Tribe throughout my race...
Thank you for your coaching, encouragement, sweat and stillness...

Namaste,
Karl

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and look how Karl has found the Wisdom Of Wholistic Fitness to keep him fresh and recovered instead of training
so sport-specifically like most triathletes...he writes this in his blog:

"I want to thank everyone for the encouraging words and support, and I also want to thank Steve Ilg for encouraging me to challenge events like this without the overtraining that generally occurs in multi-sport athletes. Through your coaching and racing that I read about in DL, I have adopted many of your training philosophies which contributed to my results."

Now,
i ask you all; just how POTENT of a Training Tool is DIRECT LINES and the access to the WF Product Line?

Just how fully do YOU want to live?

Congratulations Karl!

i encourage you all to visit regularly Karl's fantastic blog located at:
www.kmptrainingsolutions.blogspot.com

"The Path works,
when YOU work the Path."
- Coach Ilg

WF & SUNRIDER HERBAL Warrioress Makes It To WORLDS!

If i have said it once, i have said a million times:
"The Path works...
when YOU work the Path!"

Lisa Goldsmith, a SUNRIDER Herbal Warrioress under WF Teacher Haku and Practitioner of WF/HP Yoga just clobbered the best of the best female mountain runners in America up at Vail, Colorado to qualify for a trip to the World Championships in Turkey

read what this amazing 41-year young Warrioress sent in to the WF Temple this morning
at:
DIRECT LINES;
http://www.wholisticfitness.com/dl_order.htm

don't get gapped,
go for the Real Juice of the World Class Way;DIRECT LINES!

OVER AT DL Subscription: COACH SPEAKS ON CELEBRITIES: NFL PLAYER(s) GETTING THE DL HIGH?

An exchange with DL Subscriber and long time WF Student Jones (above) sparked Coach to write about his Noble View on preserving the Teacher/Student Relationship even in the temptations of celebrity exposure.

So, if you wonder why you don't see Coach in a lot of magazines and media these days, be sure to Join DL Subscription today to find out the Dharmic integrity from Coach's view...would you be willing to turn down huge, free exposure for YOUR profession in order to keep your spiritual integrity intact?

Of Chi and Being; 5 SR Arrows For Self Healing

{Note; if you are new to the Wholistic Fitness Tradition. the "SUNRIDER Whole Food Herbs" have been the "Official Nutritional Program of Wholistic Fitness since 1983." Coach Ilg attributes much of his personal and professional success at world class levels of Self Healing and multisport performances to the potency of the SUNRIDER Herbs.}

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SUNRIDER WARRIORESS S:

Dear El Coache;
The SUNRIDER herbs are beginning to work at yet another, more deeper, Level. Seven years ago i strained/pulled/pushed while doing a solo yoga practice and injured intercostal muscles. I have not had any such occurrence since then in my yoga practices.


COACH:
This type of 'Prevent Offense' within your body will continue to increase in scope as you continue to saturate your cells with the chi from the SUNRIDER Herbs. Phase Two of my 3-Phase approach to using the SUNRIDER Herbs, really targets what is known as "Pranic Constitution"...a phrase that relates to the Life Force Composition within an individual's etheral fields. To keep the Pranic Shift happening, a steadfast diet of Phase 2 SUNRIDER Herbs is required along with a Wholistic Fitness® type of approach to exercise and lifestyle. Specifically, Dr. Chen's latest addition to our 'Herbal Stash', a product known as, "MetaBooster®" is, in my opinion, a most miraculous and potent source of Nutrition that direct feeds our "all-permeating Life Force Current" known in traditional Yoga as, "Vyana-vayu." Those intermediate and beyond Yogis who are able to Sense and Manage their inner Energy Currents (vayus) can rapidly verify my definitation of MetaBooster; for those of us to depend upon Daily Pranayama (Breath Science & Exercises) to empower our Higher Energy Fields, we can immediately and joyfully tell the difference when we start eating the MetaBooster® herbal formula. It is utterly fantastic for developing an inner spaciousness and resiliency.


WARRIORESS S:
To my first question----anything i can utilize from my SR arsenal for the popliteus {Back of Knee} recovery?


COACH:
Of course!
I will offer you Five SR Arrows to put into your Quiver! Be sure to keep them in stock!

First: the incredible SUNBREEZE BALM; it brings the chi (warm or cold) to where it is most needed and in the appropriate manner. magic stuff. i used it daily for nearly 10 years; it was the only way i could get through a day. it speeds the CHI to where Healing is needed most.

Second: JOI/ESE; Dr. Chen says that the latter calms the neural branches, the former rushes in a world class concoction of herbs that nourish micro traumas to joint beds and CT

Third: Wu Chia Pi...the "poor mans" JOI/ESE. nourishes all neural/muscular junctions and physiology.

Fourth: 2 Ilg Supremes per day; super saturation of the body cells on all Five Elemental Levels works...well...WONDERS!

Fifth: Dandelion Root; this herb warms the CT and provides more blood/nutrients into the injured area.



WARRIORESS S:
Thank you
I look forward to continuing my WF practices in regaining my hip real estate and look forward to my next program .............
in love and trust
ss

COACH:
i bow to your Devoted Practice and Engaged Activity to do what is BEST for you which means,
doing the BEST for all humanity...

do the do,
become the Be.

love,

coach ilg
founder/http://www.wholisticfitness.com/
Lead Director/SUNRIDER® Herbs

Inside Catastrophe Lies Much Go(o)d

Coach Ilg,

During my month off training, I started rereading your Wholistic Fitness book from the beginning. I realized that if I start the Green Tara again I might start with a foundational approach. Boy....I'm surprised at how much I missed or just plain forgot. Now I see the road more clearly and the surface of the lessons I just scratched.

The most striking thing was reading about your traumatic accident. My spine felt a shudder the way you explained the accident. I tried to picture your struggle hiking out and how painful that must have been. I'm not writing this to rehash old pain or bring troubling thoughts to you, but more to express the awe I feel of your experience.

Recently I though about my own experience. When I was 18 months old I slipped into a sudden and unexplainable coma, for two weeks. My family was mortified by this experience, and coincidentally set my mother on an Eastern spiritual path. Her experience shaped my life in unimaginable ways.

I gave thought to your and my experiences in a meditation. I realized that sometime God plays a cruel joke with irony. Inside a catastrophe sometimes lies the omen that sends people on their journey. In some ways this changes my perspective in a fantastic way. If I keep a "clean house" I should trust God to send anything my way without question. I guess I'm learning to be open to what irony comes my way.

Once again, my gratitude to your spirit. Whenever I have a tough moment I keep your struggle close to me, and realize.....well this too will pass and make me stronger. Thank you again for everything, you are in my thoughts these days.
warmly,
Angola

Noble WF Online Student Harry Lewis Inspires!

Noble WF Online Student Harry "L" Lewis...a very, very 'ripe' student who is pacing himself on this Steep and Direct Path with a beautiful sense of Challenge and Nurturing. Over at DIRECT LINES is an actual training exchange between himself and i in regard to an important aspect of yoga and meditation...here is a sample for you:

STUDENT L:
The edge needs to be pushed by the ego and body being in sync. If the ego goes on the other side and tries to "pull" the edge further out than the body is capable of attaining at that moment, injury may occur.


COACH:
go(o)d...
consider, in your upcoming months of Practice,
a gradual dismantling of the ego entirely until there is no longer any sort of "push" or "pull"...
only a wonderful and ever deepening sense of 'merging into' the edge.
the yogin attempts to blur all edges until he becomes an Edgeless Warrior; able to merge into any posture; be it a physical one or - better yet - metaphysical ones; emotional, mental, spiritual.



namaste,
coach ilg

We Are Back and Fully Loaded with Northwest CHI, baby!

Namaste Noble Warriors!
Ananda and i have returned from the great far North...
we had an absolutely EXQUISITE time...






reuniting with some of my most Cherished and Loved Students, including (L-R) "Fit Kit" Johaneson, a still God-intoxicated me from Teaching, Yolanda, and Chris...just check out how beaming these wonderful Canadian Students are! it is their Aura's alone that speak the Beacon Warrior Light of the Wholistic Fitness® Path! Aren't they just GORGEOUS?! We had a GREAT time at our HP Yoga Master Class, yet that was only the beginning...




i was gathering new sports and deep insights nearly every breath of the Way as our trip took us over to Vancouver Island whereupon many miracles jumped and danced within my Awareness of this astonishingly beautiful land...and sea!



i'll give you a moment to hop over to the Tribal Catalog and become a Subscriber to DIRECT LINES, for it is in that forum that i am going to release some incredible pictures and tap you into our amazing trip...i will also offer a sure-fire "Airport Pranayama" Routine that i have used for years to keep the germs and viruses of international air travel - or any air travel for that matter - well away from your internal environment. So, please, become a Subscriber to DIRECT LINES today...

because,
well,


you will miss some "deerly" important inspiration and Practice techniques if you just chew the flowers of mainstream fitness

Don't get gapped; Tap into the Direct Lines; Daily Meditations From Coach Ilg...FRESH SERVINGS OF WORLD CLASS CHI each DAY!

May your Practice be strong and sincere,

coach ilg

Coach and Ananda Off To Teach in Vancouver!

You ask why I live in the mountains

and forests...
and i smile and am silent,
And even my soul remains quiet:

It lives in the other world
Which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom.

The water flows.

- Li Po

***
The Temple will be closed until July 11th.
I will be attempting to maintain DL Subscriber Format plus of course, my Online Coaching with Active Students...however,
email/internet connections will be sketchy until my return.
So:
eat your Herbs,
do your Practices,
enjoy the Tour de France,
sweat each day,
sit still each day,
and
know how much you are Loved
fiercely sometimes,
yet allWays
in the Highest of Ways,
by
me.

om so ti,

coach ilg
creator/Wholistic Fitness

ps; wish us luck at our HP Yoga® Master Class up with my beautiful and noble Vancouver Sangha!

photos:
#1; my old backyard of Telluride, Colorado. i have ice climbed most of the waterfalls in this picture by my Flagstaff mountain biking training parter, Bob "Sensei of the Singletrack" Verderame.

#2: my current day backyard; this is during my favorite hillclimb; Waterline/Abineau; a 17-mile, 4,000' climb to 10,400' which starts, literally, out of my front door.

#3: a DL reader wrote in saying i look like a "young Robert Redford," here...hey! i'll take it! must be the SUNRIDER herbs, since i'm looking young at 44! thanks!!!

#4: Ananda back h(om)e in Floridian oceanic waters while visiting her Daddy for his birthday.

TEMPLE GONG; Mula Bandha Teachings Upcoming

Coach Ilg in a variation of Maha Mudra; the inner springboard into paranormal powers (for sport performance, fitness, and meditation), Kundalini Awakening, and eventual Enlightenment. "I first taught you how to do a Barbell Curl more elegantly and more consciously, now, the years ahead i will teach you how to safely attain far greater levels of fitness; Inner Fitness that will make your body, mind, and spirit more elegant and conscious."

***
Most Noble InDIRECT LINES readers -

this entry should be considered your WF Temple Gong ringing...

beginning shortly in DIRECT LINES; Subscription Format,
i will be imparting Ancient and Secret Teachings of the Maha Mudra (Great Gesture).

Training of and Attainment of Maha Mudhra shifts the individuals reliance on the gross physical body
into and onto the Pranic Body; a vastly superior energetic structure that accounts for paranormal levels of
energy, insight, and most importantly; it sets the Inner Stage for the Awakening of Kundalini and eventual
Enlightenment.

Subscribe to DL today; you do NOT want to miss this Series of Secret Teachings imparted by your Coach
who is not allowed to Teach that which i have not yet attained. You can rest assured as ever, that i will only
coach you in Genuine, Ancient, Safe, and Progressive mind/body techniques as i have since 1982.

Don't get gapped now; we have travelled too far together...


that is all,

coach ilg