Student Coop Inspires Other Warriors To Overcome Their Fears

photo by coach of Online Student Todd Bishop and the Vyanic Princess; Amy during their recent WF Intensive which will be profiled in DL soon. Below, Student TB was touched and inspired by Student Coop's conquering of limitations set by eyesight challenge in this morning's DL.

***
Namaste Coach,

Tell Coop she's a STUD, way to breathe into the fear Dragon
and move past her.

Dude, if people only knew what it felt like to have a Coach of your
caliber that will lovingly take the dull end of a rope for them or be trail side
with a big smile and a blast of teaching and encouragement for them...
Man! ... there wouldn't be a front door left on the temple home for all
the people beating on it trying to get in.
i hope your ready for it, cause i feel that day is coming soon.

Love
Student tb.

***
COACH RESPONDS;

i Teach what i know (5)
Growing weary of grasping (7)
Love is all there Is (5)

om so ti,
el coache

* above; chillin' in Moab this summer

WF Mother Warrior's Private Intensive With Coach; Set To Zen

TODAY ON DL
read key coaching insights from coach ilg from his recent Private Intensive with WF Online Student Wendy Cooper of Indiana. coach's text and photos swim with an array of zen quotes...

here are a couple of excerpts:

"The trouble is that you think you have time."
- Jack Kornfield, zen teacher



"...Coop must have been rooted beneath this initial overhang for 30 minutes before she found the answer within; CHI!
the WF Warrior must learn to see beyond the obstacle. body, you see, follows the mind."



"Begin at once to live."
- Seneca

"Stillness-
soaking into the rocks,
the cicada cries."
- Basho

"Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul."
- Simone Weil


Student Coop would reveal to us after doing Ai Imawa beneath the Sacred Peak;
"You know, i know all about the ongoing failures of other Online Fitness businesses. Though many other Personal Trainers, and athlete coaches attempt to do what you do but they fail. They might try to mimic WF, but they can't. You wanna know why?"

i smiled at Coop's growing radiance in that alpine meadow and responded, "No, why?"

"It's simple," she smiled, "You simply cannot Teach what you do not embody."

With that, Ananda, Coop, and i pedaled off into the Kachina Wilderness whereupon we learned how to do a paceline workout among Wapiti, Hawk, and shimmering aspens leaves beneath a Padmasambava sky.

***

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"The trouble is that you think you have time."

THE DL TRANSMISSION; feeling and flowing

Hello my Loving Coach and Teacher,

Many times I learn so much by going back in DL and flowing through with you as you expand and explore a certain teaching. I TAF one very beautiful tapestry was woven starting with the mental cleanliness question I posed, through to your Sutra teachings and your state championship Race experience. Thank you. I ALLways inJoy going back over and over again as I more deeply understand why WF was crafted the way it was. Reinforces my devotion to my Journey with WF as my vehicle. I am blessed.

in Love and Light,
Your ss

Coach Gets 6th at State! Bids farewell to his summer season...

Top Ten Reasons (Excuses) Why Coach Did Not Finish On The Podium
At The State Championships Saturday:


#10) i've been climbing so high on so many podiums this season that i've come down with a case of altitude sickness.

#9) A State Championship Jersey? whippety doo...been there, done that...who cares?

#8) lats were still so pumped from flashing a 5.11 sport climb (true) the day before they screwed up my aerodynamics.

#7) didn't want the local bros to think i was showing off after only one season of racing here...

#6) had a mechanical failure (true...front wheel)

#5) had a spiritual failure (true...Dharma Wheel)

#4) too many of those damned "Secret Herbs", not enough EPO. note to self; make phone call to Floyd Landis and finally get some damn steroids into my system!

READ THE REST OF COACH's TOP THREE REASONS (excuses) WHY Coach Did Not Finish On The Podium
At The State Championships Saturday plus a beautiful Dharma Teaching on why it's time too really "change gears"
for the season.

Here is an excerpt:

"now,
it's time to rest after a long season and climb some rocks, explore some ruins, find new canyons, and help keep the deer and elk away from the hunters. it's time to chop some wood, lace on the ski training skates, hit the Iron Temple, and deepen my asana practice. it's time to hang with my parents while they are still alive and go camping with Ananda before the frost gets too heavy. it's time to ride my mountain bike among the slickrock of Sedona and feel the crunch of cold, starlit skies wander into an elegy of an amazingly beautiful and miraculous summer."

***
Coach's 2006 Race Results Thus Far
From..."The Coach That Still Does, To Serve You From Sweat and Spirit"

2006:
1/22 Snow or No Snowshoe Race 1st Place Snowshoe Division
2/18 Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon 1st Place Overall Team/2nd Consecutive Team Title
6/4 Sandia Crest Hill Climb 4th Place/1st in 40+
7/29 SnowBowl Hill Climb 6th Place/2nd in 40+
7/30 Wupatki Road Race 8th place/1st in 40+
8/19 Old Fashioned MTB Race 3rd Place/1st in 40+
8/26 AZ State RR Championships 6th place

OF SUTRAS, SWEAT, and...TROPHIES?! PART II

by coach ilg, ryt/uscf/cpt

If only the Western "scientists" that came up with the word, Aerobic Training or CardioVascular Training would have been yogis!

Just think of the spiritual headway we ALL could have made by now, if "They" would have called "CardioVascular Activity" what is truly is; a form of Pranayama!

I mean, really, is it not absurd? Let's say we go out for a run. Running is a typical form of what these modern experts call, "Aerobic Activty" or "CardioVascular Activity." I don't know about YOU, however, when i lace on my running shoes and head out the door for a run along Rocky Ridge Trail, it ain't just my "Aerobic System" or worse, my "Heart-and-Veins System" that is being trained! My leg muscles are firing with millions of neural input, my brain is being nourished with a jump in oxygenation, the concussion of my joints upon Mother Earth starts secreting joint fluids and my endocrine system, my digestive system, my immunology, my ocular fitness, my sense of kinesthesia, and most obvious of all; my entire relationship with the Prana-vayus ; the currents of Life Forces within and without me are directly being trained! Why the hell must the infantile sciences of the West go and start trying to Limit the 6,000 year old science of Yoga by attempting to re-invent the Dharma Wheel?

Oh well, since They foolishly did, it is up to us Protectors of the Dharma to attempt to limit the Damage done to our Souls by such sophomoric approaches to the Wholeness Principle that has produced Enlightened Masters since before the first Scriptures of Self Development were etched into pre-historic palm fronds.

Thus begins my commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras II/50-53 as gained through my Mountain Bike Race Day preparations last Saturday.

May it Help...

om so ti,
coach ilg

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"Ilg is a freak (the genetic kind)..." A WF Historical Glimpse

"Other rock climbers disdained me, took shots at me, however, not one of them had the guts to Back Squat in the gym with me or challenge me in a running race. And, not one of those hairy apes had access to the clubbin' girls that i did.'
- our beloved Coach in his Chidom during the eighties.

Trust me, you do NOT want to miss THIS DL!

Historical photos and Coach's own words on his growing Internet curiosity and on his "unmatched extreme athletic versatility," of "The World's Fittest Human*," today on DIRECT LINES!

* UltraCycling Magazine

August Snow!

snow upon the Peak (5)
though my moccasins are wet (7)
they walk me with Chi! (5)

***

photo by Ananda; The Sacred Peak smiled upon my KinHin Walking Meditation this morning with SNOW!!
did you hear me?
SNOW in AUGUST!
oh man, where are my inline skates and poles?
time to start NORDIC TRAINING, baby!

Trapped Again in Duality...

"Dear Coach,
okay that did it.
today's DL "Trapped Again in Duality",
the pine sapling, the softness, the anguish, and the karmic consequences
brought me to tears.
how you write from such places of intense competition
and then within a flash write from such a place of deep compassion
is astonishing. i am a DL addict! thank you for all you Give!"
- "Sam"...a WF Devotee

Today in DL: Coach Explains The Multi-Layered Meanings of his WF Logo

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"Becoming the person I always hoped I would be..."

"The Path narrows."
this succinct observation from the Ancient Masters has long fueled my own spiritual quest as the Inner and Outer Terrain became more inhospitable to those who do not Practice, who do not "stand under" themselves enough to realize, "Hey, my Teacher(s) can only lead me so far...it is i alone who must walk my own Journey." and so i, like you, continue to walk upstream, up the Steep and Direct Path, one foot in front of the other be it a cold step, a wet step, a tired step, a doubting step, a frightening step...one step at a breath, you and i keep walking the Go(o)d Road.

below i respond to a young Warrior who has been touched by TBT...

i will continue the Sweat and Sutra Teaching in a moment...

***

Coach Ilg,

Thank you so much for...everything. I recently finished the Green Tara
program and more than anything, it has really made me aware of the person I
really am and what I want to be in the future. Throughout the plan, there were
several times I wanted to write you; in fact, each time I felt enlightened there
was an urge to compose a novel of gratitude. Instead, I am writing to you to
let you know that the path so far has worked for me too. I simply confirmed
what you knew was going to happen. With this weeks rest to focus on school, I
will be ready to tackle Cosmic Yang in addition to becoming the person I always
hoped I would be. Namaste!

Sike

PS: coach, I was wondering if you knew any other wf warriors that go to the UoA,
b/c it would be great to have a workout partner. I frequently try to convince
my friends to try some of these exercises with me, but none of them will have
any part of it. I guess when the student is ready, the teacher will be there
huh?

***

COACH RESPONDS:

Most Noble Young Warrior Of The Inner Light,
i bow to your HeartSpace which Feels the Unseen behind my feeble words.
though i do not know specifically of any WF Warriors attending UofA,
i Trust that the Sacred Hoop will hook you up with those that are Appropriate to your Ascent.
i know all too well how few genuine open-minded, strong limbed and lung'd Warriors there are out there these dark days.
the Masters warned the aspirant who continues to Climb Upward, Onward, and endlessly Inward;
"The Path narrows."

May your studies - both academic and spiritual - be Blessed with the WF Dharma Light
and may your Practice remain strong and sincere throughout the headwinds of life...

i give you this Gift of a spontaneous Haiku inspired by your letter to me:

head bowed into wind (5)
one foot after the other (7)
such pain! such delight! (5)



namaste my Brother Warrior and thank you for picking up the quill,
you are why Warriors like myself write books...


in the shadow of your Radiance,

coach ilg

OF SUTRAS, SWEAT, and...TROPHIES?!

"A race is, to me, a devotional sutra. While racing, words no long clutter nor come between Truth and Self. A racing season thus becomes an ongoing scripture of Self. And a fully-lived life becomes our most intimate Sacred Song to God."
- coach ilg

Coach, 1st place trophy, and "Lord Gunther" his mountain bike after the Award Ceremony on Saturday in downtown Flagstaff. Note the WF "TrackPack". photo by Ananda.


APPEARING RIGHT NOW IN DIRECT LINES:

OF SUTRAS, SWEAT, and...TROPHIES?!
Part I

by coach ilg, ryt/uscf/cpt

some excerpts:

"Above and beyond these outward intents for racing, i allWays have an Inner Intent when i enter a competitive event."


"As i Taught you long, long ago; "Racing is not about winning, it's about knowing ourselves."

"Racing peels away the "Veil over the inner Light," as Patanjali and the other Great Ancient Masters of body and mind called it.

"i race to erase prakasa avarana."

"This 'mental training' through fortification of the body's capacities is known as Yoga. Well, at least, it is known as High (Divine) Performance (Action) Yoga (Union)!"

"In Wholistic Fitness, it is crucial to not limit our comprehension and practice of yoga to "sticky mats" and yoga studios."

"To me? i was just Practicing Yoga, baby. Though i was inDeed on a mountain bike, truly, i turned my mountain bike into my 'yoga mat' for 1:57 over a 20+mile rock-strewn course with 2,000' of climbing."

"In fact, my entire race was chiefly an embodiment of what i consider to be four most vital Sutras in the science of Yoga..."


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Coach NAILS SECOND VICTORY OF SEASON; On His Mountain Bike!

we guess Coach is just into Heavy Metal this season! Another 1st Place Trophy - made from an actual bike cassette - was earned by "The Coach That Still Does," yesterday at the Flastaff Annual "Old Fashioned Mountain Bike Race."


Moments after bringing the wood to the local bulls, Coach wheeled into Two Tree Manor with a 3rd Place Overall and a 1st Place in the 40+ category!

The last time Coach raced a mountain bike was in the early nineties, when he earned a Silver Medal in Angel Fire, New Mexico at the New Mexico State MTB Championships.

"Hey, i know i sound like a broken record," Coach said after his astonishing and quite spontaneous victory of the season,
"All i can say is that the Path works,
when YOU work the Path!
I just woke up, called my bike mechanic to see if Gunther - my mountain bike - was ready after i blew out
the bottom bracket training in the rain in Telluride. he worked hard to fix Gunther for me, so, i jumped into the race just so i could donate some money for hungry children which is what the race money goes to, and, well, i guess i proved the Velocity of the WF Path...once again! I attribute my victory solely to the WF Practices i do OFF the bike and the SR Herbs...i am really not that great of a mountain biker."

we will have the exclusive and exciting Race Report from Coach in DL as soon as he finishes his "recovery ride" up in the high country today!

Coach will be racing against professional cyclists next weekend at the Arizona State Championships...stay tapped to DL for great insights and teachings directly from MultiDisciplined Sweat and Stillness from the creator of Wholistic Fitness, Coach Ilg, who is still cranking with top body/mind fitness after 25 years of multi-sport diversity all backed by Wholistic Fitness + SUNRIDER Herbs!

Nothing is little...

"Nothing is little to him who feels it with great sensibility."
- Samuel Johnson

Coach leads visiting Intensive Students; Todd and Amy from Oregon through an Ujjayi-based Ai Imawa session on 'Red Fox Deck' after a morning meditation focusing on this pivotal "Vayu Amplification Breath," known as Ujjayi Pranayama. This posture shown above is called, "Meeting the Dragon," and teaches us to meet those challenging circumstances in our days with the fierce grace of elegant posture and conscious breath.

Ananda and i are off to go rock climbing today at Northern Arizona's premier "traditional" crag; Paradise Forks. i'll be back soon to extract some of the potent Dharma moments from Todd's and Amy's remarkable Private Intensive. Amy left this morning with tears, remarking, "Thank you both SO much. This Intensive has changed our lives forever."

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H(om)e today, forever.

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{Second Photo; WF Intensive Student Todd, attempts to follow in Coach's footsteps up some world class dacite at Mt. Elden, across the street from the WF Temple H)om)e.)

Chi Hit From The RJ Side of the Tribe...

"Ragin" RJ after another sweat-soaked HP Yoga class at Mark Blanchard's studio in Studio City, CA. Below, he sent us a
wonderful, inspirational moment through one of his former ultra-racing teammates.

***
Hey you all!
Just heard from Ignacio Aronovich. Ignacio (i call him 'Iggy') is the photographer for Team Brazil I still keep contact with. He sent me a fabulous link that summarizes his photos for 2005. Iggy and his wife Louise are professional photographers that cover everything from war zones to bikini covers to street art. Great people with even better chi. See link and INjoy!

http://www.lost.art.br/yip2005_sound.htm

Ron Jones, MS-LLC
Atlanta-Los Angeles
ACSM Health/Fitness Instructor
Corporate Wellcoach
ronjones.org


*** Coach adds;
Ignacio was a teammate of Ron Jones when they broke the Course Record for the RAce Across America. Of "Iggy" RJ says, "Ilgbro. . . friggin Iggy has the garra chi brother! What a tribal Bro that guy is man. I could tell some stories about this guy man as we battled across the US for days on end. go(o)d times!"

Discriminating Awareness can thwart negative moods

Today on DIRECT LINES: Daily Meditations From Coach Ilg!

Coach on; Mental Cleanliness

blessings my El Coache and thank you for your wisdom,

A question. mental cleanliness? I am taking your teaching that mental cleanliness precedes other states like calmness to mean something akin to "the body follows the mind".  Mental chatter, busyness , distraction, confusion all lead to those states in the body as well.  Is this what you mean?  Thank you

clean living and loving,
ss



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"Yes! Most of us want to meditate, we really do. We have an Intuitive Wisdom that KNOWS, beyond a shadow of doubt, that we must 'be our own best friend," and to be our own best friend, we must tackle that crazy thing known as our Unenlightened Mind. The ONLY way toward Enlightenment is Meditation. There is no other route for those of us who have taken a body (Form).

So, we sit down, cross our legs, straighten our spine, and resolve to "meditate." That is our Noble Intent, right?

The Practicality of the situation is something quite different! As we attempt to "fall into a meditative state," that everyone seems to be bragging about these days (just pick up a recent issue of YOGA JOURNAL or something similar and man, it seems like EVERYONE is "A Master of Meditation"!)...in our own Inner World, however, things could not be worse when we attempt to meditate!

First of all, there is the Body Obstacle preventing our meditative bliss; our spine hurts when we attempt to keep it elegant and uplifted. Our legs and feet go to sleep...kinda hard to be in "bliss" when we are grinding our teeth in pain trying to out endure the pins-and-needles stinging our legs!

Secondly, there is the Ego Obstacle. That iron clad silk veneer of "I" and "mine" that holds our True Self (purusha) captive from the Boundless Light (prakriti). Though the pain of the Body Obstacle in meditation is hard to overcome, the Ego Obstacle will more than likely take most of us the rest of our lives (if we are lucky) to overcome. It is the Ego that prevents the Mental Nakedness from enjoying its true Nature of Diamond-like Reflection and Clarity."

To-Hell-U-Ride Training Camp...the fantastic inspiration is coming to a close on DL!

"It is our mind,
and that alone,
that chains us
or
sets us free."
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

AN Excerpt from today's DL from Coach Ilg:
...one of the many long stretches above timberline - and snowline - that i could not possibly ride and had to walk, and walk, and walk. right here, in this shot, is how much i love you. i have pushed myself hard, really hard, all these years and across all these crazy sports in order be One Thing:
A Genuine Teacher Of Yoga...
i push myself across the physiologic spectrum so that i know - by direct experience - my personal edge in internal and external, East and West, Yin and Yang polarities. my Teachers will not allow me to teach that which i do not know by Direct Experience. i know that YOU deserve the Mt. Everest of Personal Fitness Training. i make sure that i not only RAISE the Standard of what a Personal Trainer or Yoga Teacher should be...i attempt to broaden all minds, all bodies by broadening my own by using, trusting, and TESTING that which the Ancient, Enlightened Ones taught...

during this section, the rain was pelting me in freezing bullet ways, the summit seductively yet excruciatingly kept lingering, lingering...never drawing nearer...so it seemed. step by wheezing step it was Doubt that ran through my system more than oxygen...
"What would my Sangha expect from me in this moment?" became my moving mantra up into the rarefied Zone Of The Mountain Gods.

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{photo; blurred flowers from Coach's hypothermic hands shot from his camera phone at 11,300' on the 13-mile descent from the summit of Imogene Pass}

LOVING THE TELLURIDE TRAINING DIARIES!

Dear Coach,

just read Part 2 of the Telluride Training Diaries on DL. love the waterfall image!

check out the image i've attached:
look familiar? 'course, the artist had to use paint to create his image; you use sweat, breath, Pran, effort to create your Work of Living Art.

your DL entry of today..., this Teaching you shared is now one of my favs (as much of a fav as a simple Yoga might have).

Way to go Teacher Ananda! i bow to you, Sister.

Love to you and Ananda,
WF Teacher ko

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"TELLURIDE TRAINING DIARIES" PART I!

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WF FACT:
did i ever tell you that i walked on my hands across FOUR STATES?!
i have done so a few times!...
at the Four Corners National Monument!
photo by Ananda as she said, "Oh geez, here we go again..."

Ananda's first view of my old training grounds; Telluride!
see DL for a great mountain bike racing story about this very bridge!



"...getting closer to the falls as our bikes clawed up the notoriously heinous Black Bear Pass...nothing - and i mean NOTHING - is more Sacred to me than a Colorado alpine creek...if you appreciate the grounded wisdom of Wholistic Fitness...then, you should know that these high country creeks are the birthplace of my first sartori's and gave energetic impetus to introducing to the world a Conscious, Balanced Approach to the necessity of Personal Fitness. growing up as i child, i would spend entire days yogi squatting near and splashing around these creeks without reason save to fall into an intuitive awe of Mother Earth...fortunately, i have never lost that Sacred Awe of our precious Mother Earth and Father Sky...i let nothing stand in the Way of my soul nurturing time within the embrace of my Mother and Father. Nothing."
- coach ilg

***

COMING UP NEXT IN DL:
ANANDA ENTERS HER FIRST ALPINE WATERFALL VORTEX!!!

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"When the sun of fierce devotion shines on the snow mountain of the master, the stream of his blessing will pour down."
- The Tibetan Saint, DRIKUNG KYOBPA

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(self photo from cameraphone; "What would my Sangha expect of me in this moment?" became my mantra as i found myself fighting doubt, freezing rain, and fatigue as i had to consistently push my mountain bike, step by step, toward the 13,114' summit of Imogene Pass...perhaps the most difficult mountain bike ride in the nation...how did i do? what did i Practice? what did i Learn to better serve YOU as a Teacher?...find out only in DIRECT LINES from the Coach That Still Does.)

"Back Pain? Joint Pain?"

"Back Pain? Joint Pain?
It's just another form of self-induced purification.
The pivotal point is to Accept the pain as your Yoga.
If we can just muster the gumption to do the "Outer Work" of accurate, wholistic exercise and nutrition,
then the Way of the "Inner Work" will arise naturally...
and, arriving with it?
A Higher Form of motivation that 'magically' makes you enjoy DOING the Work!"

- coach ilg
"The World's Fittest Human."- UltraCycling Magazine


***
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And every year, a few very, very wise Warriors will finally begin the 20+ year old Proven Path of Wholistic Fitness + SUNRIDER Herbs. Nearly instantly, these Warriors will prove to be another Radiant Light that flips the consciousness switch on what was once considered, "impossible."

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T-Ride Training Retreat...

Noble DL Sangha...
i am taking Ananda (her first time) to my ol' h(om)etown hallowed birthplace of Wholistic Fitness...

TELLURIDE, COLORADO!

we will be up in my ol' hood training...i, for the State Championships coming later this month, and
Ananda to deepen her own Practice of WF. i am planning on cranking the famed Imogene Pass on my
mountain bike (18 miles and climbs up to 13,000'+) over to Ouray, Colorado. we'll see how that particular
"yoga session" goes...i've only ridden it once before on my mountain bike a long time ago and 'bout near died.
i used race the Imogene Pass footrace quite often in the eighties and placed in the top 20 consistently



see:
http://www.imogenerun.com/

so i thought,
"Shit, how the hell hard can it be to RIDE a damn bike over this thing?"

answer; desperately hard.
in fact, riding Imogene is one of the nation's most highly sought after prizes. i'll let you know
how it goes.

so, enjoy the DL Archives; there is PUH-lenty of chi, wisdom, and gems in those thousands of meditations and...with the
Mountain Gods of the Uncompadre willing...
A and i will be back in Flag on Sunday night, raring to go with enhanced CHI from the Ceiling of Southwest Colorado...

oh,
and we will be checking out a few places for a WF Tribal Gathering in T-ride...
more on that later...

and i have not forgotten...

PART II of my Wupatki Road Race coming up next!

until Monday,
may the Conscious Breath animate your Dance upon Mother Earth
and may you release into your Sacred Spirit and SOAR!!!!!!!!

from high above,


your mountain yogi coach

An Open Letter To The Flagstaff HP Yogis

"A yoga practitioner should continue to concentrate his mind until
he masters his mind and body,
and thus experiences a state of solitude wherever he may be;
then desire and possessiveness drop away."
- Bhagavad Gita, 6;10

[photo of HP Yogi Ben Sullivan racing up the Snowbowl Hill Climb on Saturday to an excellent time!]



Some people keep their cars very clean, even at the expense of using precious water in an arid land and era.
Some people never clean their cars, even at the expense of costly repairs due to poor maintenance.

Some people keep their bodies superficially clean, using all sorts of expensive lathers and lotions yet do not exercise wisely or meditate regularly and do not see the dirt that veils their vision.
Some people rarely clean their bodies and dishonor the beautiful instrument of the self.

Some people over exercise in one discipline, thus creating imbalance and weakness...
it's like not rotating the tires on their cars... eventually the Imbalance catches up with them and their wheels fall off in one way or another.

Yoga is the only Pursuit that is a complimentary Balancing Agent to everything you do, say, or think.
Yoga is never at contraindication to anything you do, say, or think.

With enough yoga practice, we always see the spiritual side of people and things like cars, weather, money challenges, etc.
This appropriate way of Seeing is called, "drishti" or "yogic vision."
Such a way of Seeing allows the yogi to remain unaffected by external things and superficial views.

Can you See the spirit of your (body) vehicle?
Can you See beyond the prakriti (matter) of your (body) vehicle and find the purusha...the essence behind the changing forms of nature?



i will See you in class,

namaste,

coach ilg