Come Crank the HP Yoga DUATHLON with Coach Mackel and Coach Ilg!

April 2007 - Steve’s Mackel's Birthday Trail Run and Yoga Duathlon, Saturday, April 29, in Griffith Park, Los Angeles @ 10:00 A.M

Sunday, April 29, Steve Mackel heads back to Griffith Park for a two hour trail run followed by a special High Performance Yoga® pranayama lecture and class taught by Steve’s personal coach, Steve Ilg.

Coach Ilg's Flyer

We will meet at Travel Town (look for the trains just off the 134, near Forest Lawn) at 10 A.M. for a 1.5+ hour trail run/hike. This is a great opportunity to practice you ChiRunning® with one of the nation’s leading ChiRunning coach's Steve Mackel who is a long-time WF Online Student of Coach Ilg's.

Student Question Of The Month! (Year!?..it's THAT go(o)d!!!)

Hilarious!

now appearing on DL!

i love this Path!

Cultivating Discipline

“Discipline is just regulating and directing your energy in the right direction; it is not a prison.” - Swami Rama


Now appearing in Teacher Ananda's blog;

THE JOYFUL BREATH

IRONMAN? Ain't No THANG For THIS WF Father Warrior!

{I lifted the following straight from yesterday's batch of very cool dialogues that are going on 24/7 in the Wholistic Fitness "SanghaLounge". discussions revolve around all aspects of living, embracing, and struggling with the joys and efforts of the WF Lifestyle. don't miss this refuge on the Internet dedicated for the High Exchange between those of us who live a transpersonal fitness lifestyle. the SanghaLounge is complimentary to any DL Subscriber and all WF Online Students. enjoy the inspiration from Shishya JJ and i'll see you in the Lounge soon! - coach ilg}


"Last year I did Ironman Wisconsin in just under 15 hours. This was not a great time, but it was not an easy race. The temparature was in the 40's, it rained the entire day and it was so windy that there was a small craft advisory on the lake where we swam. A boat load of people never showed up and a fair number went hypothermic during the race.

What's the point? I did this with a strong base of cardio commuting (18 miles round trip every day) and commitment to the WF program. This meant that I did not give up a very large portion of my life to the ironman training. I have 4 beautiful daughters and it would not be appropriate for me to absent myself from their life because of a training program. Okay, I cheated a little bit because every weekend I took them swimming, biking, hiking or something else active which counted as additional cardio for me. Regardless, I took so little family time that when I called my wife at midnight to let her know I finished the Ironman, she wanted to know if I was driving the 3 hours home that night.

Think about it. The most consistent part of my WF program has been cardio because I do it for about 100 minutes every day, five days a week. It would probably take me about 80 minutes to ride a train into work, so those 100 workout minutes have only cost me 20 minutes of additional travel time. It is very difficult to do everything in these programs, but by combining cardio and travel time, I free up a lot of other time for strength, flexibility and meditation.

I coach my children in soccer, but have never played myself (although I am a very good ultimate player). I decided to learn to play soccer this year and have been out on the field with 20 year old kids. Amazingly, at the age of 45, I am outrunning most of the kids and certainly hitting as hard if not harder. Wow! Again, the combination of WF and cardio commuting has put me in a position to learn and enjoy soccer at the most competitive level. I forgot to mention that I am playing in a competitive league in which a number of the players have played at the college level. The best part is that my learning experience has directly improved my coaching of my children's soccer teams.

This is my way of saying thanks WF and cardio commuting for letting me rock at the age of 45.

Jim Johnston

When It's Okay To Become Stranded By The Light

STRANDED BY THE (RINPOCHE's) LIGHT

a coach ilg commentary on Rinpoche's Light:

RE: After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things.

after we abide in the exquisite spaciousness which is a training effect from meditation, don't be too quick
to cave into the contractile forces of the Outer World (society, 'our' family life, etc.). we must be diligent to anchor our Awareness within the Inner so the Outer doesn't run away with the whole show.



RE: Meditation awakens in you the realization of...

when we can sustain our concentration (Dharana) we begin to...

READ COACH's ENTIRE COMMENTARY ON AN IMPORTANT TEACHING FROM RINPOCHE IN TODAY's DL!

photo; apres meditation bliss at the Grand Canyon. photo by Ananda.

In WF, EVERY Day is Earth Day!

Keeping the Sacred Peak sacred by sweat and spirit. Engaged Religion and Spirituality looks like this! i first learned by Direct Experience what i would later fashion into the WF Litter Patrol from my Mom and Dad. oh, and yup, you can damn well bet that my own daughter will be raised in this Practice as well! talk about quality time spent with your child while imparting Noble Principles! Long Live the WF Litter Patrol Workout!(see Photo Footnote #1)


Those of you whom have been around WF for a while, are intimate by Direct Experience with our integrated Earth Day Workouts. Some of these WF Teachings include; "Media Fast," "Litter Patrol," "Periodic Renunciations," and "Walk Lightly (Upon Our Mother)."

Most of these Teachings have blessed the Halls of our Online Students for over 20 years. And yes, i wrote about the disappearance of our Bee Beings in DL several years ago. (Einstein warned, "Once the Bees go, Humans have 4 years left.") Now imagine my reaction when yesterday...

READ THE ENTIRE TEACHING on today's DL. ENGAGED YOGA = WHOLISTIC FITNESS!

an athlete living with asthma

A Spike Too Soon. after doing something that may have never been done in the history of mankind (somebody check!), i have seemingly gone and done my own self in! after living in the sea level and smuck of LA for a decade, within two years of moving back to high altitude, i have won four high altitude championships. the most recent one, however, brought the spike of my training graph a bit too high. i am paying the price for it.
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Hi, my name is steve ilg. i study Wholistic Fitness and have enjoyed a long, full life blessed by
extreme outdoor sports which i've used as my catalyst for spiritual growth. i have been sponsored since age 16 and will be 45 next month. i am Chairman of the
Board of my local bike racing team; Red Rock Racers. pictured above, i am wearing our new 'kit' for 2007 which i helped design. you like it?

oh, and also i am asthmatic.

what?

who?

where?

how?

while decimating the competition and setting a new Course Record at the World's Highest Nordic Ski Race in Telluride, Colorado on March 10th, i also decimated my lungs. subsequent tests and research unveiled a gnarly fact; i gave myself a condition known to affect cross country skiers, mountaineers, and well, most currently;
America's Outdoor Athlete; me. it's called Cold Triggered Exercise-Induced Asthma. it's not curable. it just kinda
goes away after several months of not aggravating it by three things:
1) exercise
2) exercise in the cold
3) exercise in the high altitude

great. i NEVER do THOSE things...

contemporary Western Medicine states - using its ever sterile language - that i should stay away from those three things i just mentioned. if perchance i DO happen to do any of them, why then, just take hit of Albuterol before and after the activity so my lungs can still function.

wow. Training on an Inhaler! What a 'blast'!

this may come as a shock, however, i ain't buying that line. i TAF i can dance with this condition naturally, using...

DO NOT MISS THIS FANTASTIC ESSAY and COACH's DETERMINED WHOLISTIC DANCE TO DEAL WITH THIS CONDITION...all on today's DL!

Saturday Editorial; Flag sets ban for Off-road forest driving

Exactly what the ATV'ers, jeepers, and motorcyclists are scared of; self-propelled effort and reliance upon their spirit instead of their gas throttle. photo of Ananda, self propelling herself and her 'machine' up Lower Brookbank Trail, Flagstaff.
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Excerpts From Today's Arizona Sun:


The Coconino National Forest might close almost all off-road trails used by motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles in September 2009.

The local off-road driving ban, which could be modified once existing trails are mapped, is part of a national proposal aimed at curtailing cross-country motorized travel.

The Coconino National Forest, like every other national forest in the country, has been directed by the Forest Service to figure out by 2009 where it will allow motorized vehicles to roam in light of a rule that will ban off-road, cross-country travel in the forests.

Beginning that year, motorcyclists and quad riders will have to stick to designated roads and trails as outlined on a map or face penalties.

"These things are dictated to us. We're not standing here making this up. This is coming from Washington," project leader Jim Beard, of the Coconino National Forest, told ATV and motorcycle riders Wednesday night.

How to retrieve game, collect firewood and where to allow car camping at large are some of the considerations yet to be figured out under the new rule.

New trails are constantly created when people drive cross-country over the same ground, Beard said, forming tracks. Causing ground disturbance in this way is illegal, but difficult to catch.

"We have no basis for enforcement. It's basically the Wild West out there as far as that goes," Beard said.




*** I WRITE INTO THE DAILY SUN THE FOLLOWING:

may the Priority Access to all Forest Lands start with sweat.

self-propelled vehicles first.
then horses.
then machines.
the bigger the machine,
the lower the priority and thus, access.

this is such a fragile ecosystem..

READ THE REST OF COACH's FIERCE SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF MOTHER EARTH IN TODAY's DIRECT LINES!

above photo; enjoying the QUIET of the Forest Lands they only way they should be; sans gas-powered machines! photo by Ananda.

Scout

"In WF, every day is Earth Day."
- coach ilg


I heard him the day before yesterday while working in the Temple Office.
then again yesterday up at about 8,500' in Dry Lake Hills on Sunset Trail on Gunther.
haven't seen him yet. just heard him.
and it was the sound promised warmth, long days, and dancing aspen leaves riding the waves of mountain wind...

perhaps i am preaching to the already-converted, those of us whose ears never tire of hearing the pontifications of a high country spring. clicking the gears jauntily on my mountain bike and sliding through freeze/thaw mud, i realize again how very deeply i care for the mountain life. as my wheels carry me in carrousel singletrack turns through ponderosa lined creeks, i am giddy with inner wealth. in DL after DL i attempt to share my desire for the Consciously Live and Adored Fitness Life and i know wherefrom my intense desire to share comes from; here. these trails. this sky. those swirling fingers of clouds wrapped like white linens about the - my - Sacred Peak.

i mention the coming of Humingbirds to my teammate; Rob, an ornithologist at NAU...

DON'T MISS THIS SPECIAL DL...it's one of those 'special ones' from coach that just hit the heart of sincerity so potently...it reminds us of what Fitness truly means; appreciation, awareness, and simplicity...

5 Coach Approved Chi Hits For Your Practice

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World Class Training From A World Class Athlete! Get it Done Baby!

Of Abs and Asses; i make Fitness Magazine's Best Training Tips of ALL Time!...TWICE!

"Hello, and thank all of you for this prestigious honor...
First, i would like to thank the 'ab-cademy' and my mother and father and..."

okay maybe not.

however, i would like to thank the alert WF Fan who GOOGLED "steve ilg" and found this article.

you know, when i grew up, i used to get in trouble for googling people...

click here and scroll down; i am #11 and #15; Abs and Asses...oh how utterly perfectly ilg!:
ILGS AB's; BEST TRAINING TIPS OF ALL TIMES


photos by Wayne Williams in TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION: My perennial go-to Ab Movements; Medicine Ball Crunches supersetted with some form of Leg Raises. i would have included a pic of my "sculpted ass" however, i couldn't get the photo to downsize enough to fit!

Teacher Quotes of the Week; 3 Chi Hits To Spirit Your Practice

Rest in natural great peace
This exhausted mind
Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought,
Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves
In the infinite ocean of samsara.
Rest in natural great peace.

- NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE

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ON TODAY's DL...
excerpts...

powerful, POWERFUL Teachings on Pregnancy Fitness, and Dharma Protection!

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photo 1) La Canyon Grande. such a powerful vortex. i am planning an epic spiritual fitness endeavor involving the Grand Canyon late this fall. you guys are gonna LOVE this one! still crazy after all these years! stay tuned and be sure to take pilgrimage to the Mother Canyon soon. photo; Temple archives

TEMPLE GONG; Is It A Boy? Is It A Girl? Daddy ilg gives it up!

okay, okay...

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!


GEEZO...you all think having a baby is like having a baby or something!!!


And the answer is...

Daddy's Boy or Daddy's Girl?

The HP Yoga PROP WORKOUT; the Mother of all workouts!

From Hakado Ru's Weekly Update to me:

"YOGA:
HP Prop DVD. Man, this just kicks my ass in so many ways...so many different ways...each and every time. There will be a major day of celebration in the Hak Household when I complete the entire 1:06 without stopping to catch my breath or rest a shakey limb that can give no more at that moment; and to do so elegantly."

The HP Yoga PROP WORKOUT; The Mother Workout That Is Half Strength Training and Half Asana
created by coach ilg for coach ilg and now available to YOU!

PROP TILL YOU DROP

order yours today and, well, go(o)d luck!

Western Lila; The Dance of the One Poem (Uni-Verse)

now appearing on today's DIRECT LINES; don't miss this impeccable Teaching on how to
flow with the One Poem,
using Her Forces,
instead of fighting them...

Photo) when i finish my Ai Imawa Postures (ancient Taoist yoga sequence; available on the WF Tribal Catalog) with the posture; "At One With The UniVerse," i often bring to mind this Zukav quote {see DL today}, then i saturate myself in contemplation of Atman, fill myself with Atman, become Atman. this is known as; Yoga. Union with the Divine. photo by Wayne Williams

FIRST BLOOD; Starring coach as i flail on my first mountain bike ride of the season...

Tis the season of mountain biking...fa la la la la la la...
don we now our gay apparel, fa la la la la la la la la...
time for hydrogen peroxide and antiseptic, fa la la la la la la...

photo taken just moments ago of my left leg and forearm.

it is SUCH A JOKE that i hold an Expert Mountain Biking Racing License.
i swear there needs to be a WF Category in all sports.
i mean really, i have not pedalled "Gunther" since October!
today i went out for an 'easy' hour MTB spin across the street.
'easy' in Flag means choosing a trail like 'Dog Food' which i did,
yet still requires a 3.5-mile, 800' climb.
not only am i one month behind in my cycling training (and counting) thanks to
my fried lungs after winning that crazy Telluride nordic race,
i am also now the not so proud owner of mountain bike handling
skills the caliber of Beginner Womens level.

least i am not alone in my horribly ugly downtrodden kinesthesia on the mountain bike. everybody seemed to be crashing today. i saw two bro's bite it on the ultra-classic trail; Schultz Creek which has seen the sweat and blood of such noble WF Warriors like Shelli Stein, Hakado Ru, Good Looking Alex, Todd Bishop, and many others. Today the trail was like the dirt equivalent to Belgium's Ghent-Wevelgem road race, people were crashing all over the place. early season jitters perhaps.

including your homey here. i biffed it good going up Dog Food. i was about halfway up the trail and clearing several fallen trees along the way. see, in Flag when a tree falls across a mountain bike trail, it's not cut up and removed. no sirree. what we do is pile up some rocks or limbs or both on either side of the fallen Tree Being and well, we ride over it.

sometimes.

by last fall, i was getting DIALED into rolling over these fallen trees, some as high as your living room couch. after all these trees ain't like pussy ass trees...these here are the Giants of the Mountains; the Ponderosa.

unfortunately, 'last fall' is not today.

a new tree had fallen across Dog Food and i was in my little chainring, huffing and puffing and wheezing (my lungs are still messed up) and i see this moderate sized tree with a big rock in front of it.

i can clear that shit, i said to myself.

i dunno dude, my other self said to myself, it looks gnarly and you are going uphill slow and you don't know if there are any logs or rocks on the other side of it.

yeah, but i've cleaned everything so far and i am feeling pretty good, my original talking self countered.

dude, i don't know...it's your first damn MTB ride of the season...said my other self.

i can do it, myself interupted myself, after all, how hard could it be and...i AM an EXPERT God Damnit!

and so with all the grace, power, and elegance of a Three-Toed Tree Sloth i popped my front wheel up onto the tree, and...
and...
and...
when i got on top of that tree?

myself said to myself;
Oh Shit.

there was another rock on the other side, however,
i was not on the line of that said rock.
my wheel was aiming for and now plunging into the abyss just next to the said rock.

i went down hard,
yet landed with as much yin attitude as possible and on an exhale of course...
hey, i might be a lame mountain biker however i AM a WF lame mountain biker!
knocked my noggin' (always wear a helmet while mountain biking!)
and drew some gentle blood and crammed my knee against my seat tube.

"Welcome baaaack!" sang the United Mountain Biking Trail Systems of Flagstaff into my bruised head.

Picking myselves and Gunther back up and remounting, i smiled at the tree obstacle and replied,
"It's great to be back! see you next time, buster!"

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Flagstaff Mountain Biking Beta

next time you are in Flag and want a beginner/intermediate level ride of about an hour, you can spin on the route i did today; it's 100% singletrack and glorious. you can walk over the fallen trees if you want. this route features steady singletrack climbing, ease of escape to Schultz Pass Road, fantastic jumps on the descent, and
an upper loop that is ideal for doing interval laps.

Start: Schultz Creek Trailhead off of Hwy 180 to the Grand Canyon - everybody in the world knows where this is...it's in just about every issue of Mountain Bike Magazine. it's right across the street from the WF Temple H(om)e)

* crank up Schultzy through the notorious 'streambed section' and then..

SORRY, ONLY DL SUBSCRIBERS GET THIS SECRET FLAG MTB BETA!! hell, if i told all you thousands of InDIRECT LINERS this secret beta? i'd be hanged by my gear shifting thumbs if the locals find out! this route is NOT on any guidebook

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WF Lifestyle Principle; Lateral Dominancy


Thank you Oh Noble Shishya Hakado Ru!

May it help.

When we allow ourselves the unquestioned addiction to lateral dominancy,
we create a neural, chemical, and spiritual dysfunction of massive proportion.

Question everything; especially in which hand your computer mouse is always in
and your spine while reading this. Dysfunction = Dis-ease.

om so ti,

coach ilg

Finding Our Inner Genius To Transcend Our Weakness

EXCERPTS FROM COACH's TEACHING ON TODAY's DL:

"When we are young, bold, and unaware it becomes all too easy to think that old age and death is something that we do not need to train for in the same way we might train for, say, earning money or a slim, sexy body. Setting up such an ignorant view early in life is not usually our fault. Our parents usually do not train us for aging gracefully and..."


"I was Blessed throughout my early life with Dharma Teachers and thus, i did things that developed my Bardo Training awareness such as meditation and free solo rock climbing and winter mountaineering. those three things have a common denominator; they..."

"So no, it don't take a genius to figure out where our weakness, wounds, and fears reside.
It will take, however, our Inner Genius to help us transcend them..."


photo 1) my nephew, Mogeus, gets an Auric Bath, African style. photo by two man ilg

photo 2 -shown only on DL - i found this fantastic 'cable route' up a sandstone pillar near Window Rock, Arizona the other day. i scampered up it rejoicing in my memories of my former profession of climbing while Ananda, who took the photo, calmed her nerves by reciting the Sacred Mantra.

QUIT SEEKING!

FIND!

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PaktiDass WINS the WF Challenge Test!

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The Projected Mind

We have been taught to spend our lives chasing our thoughts and projections. Even when the 'mind' is talked about, it is only thoughts and emotions that are referred to; and when our researchers study what they imagine to be the mind, they look only at its projections. No one ever really looks into the mind itself, the ground from which all these expressions arise; and this has tragic consequences.
- Sogyal Rinpoche

when the OUTSIDE MAGAZINE photographers start ramping up for a photoshoot, for me to attempt to express the countless hours of pain that i have spent in yogic meditation since paralyzing my spine is impossible. what i can do however, is to access that True Mind into which i go during my own solo practice. if an outer Transmission of my solo practice is somehow conveyed, then i have done my best.


photo by Ananda

Back beneath Doko oosliid and...A WF TEST CHALLENGE; win a prize

"i think over again my adventures,
my fears,
those small ones that seemed so big,
for all of the vital things i had to get and reach,
any yet there is only one great thing;
to live and see the great day that dawns
and the light the fills the world."
- Innuit, 1928


Namaste Noble Ones,
Ananda and i are back beneath the Sacred Peak of Doko oosliid.

i have some powerful Spirit Medicine for you from our travels into Hopi and Navajo land.

First, however, a WF Word Choice Challenge and a prize for the Warrior with the fastest response time;

in my Easter DL Essay, the one i wrote from the banks of the Rio Grande, contained a number of planted Misspells. The first Warrior to correctly pick out and tell me the exact number earns a prize from the WF Temple.

may your Awareness serve you well...

ready, set, JAO!!!!!!

head bowed,
the mountain yogi

ps; the above BEAUTIFUL quote was sumbitted to WF Temple H(om)equarters in a very mindful, elegant, handwritten form by 2x National Snowshoe Champion, Laurie Lambert. A deep bow to my Spiritual Sister over in New Mexico, and THANK YOU for your heart-filled package! Ananda and i were both crying like babies over the pregancy gifts, words, and utter beauty of your friendship. thank you, thank you, thank you...


ps2; and thank YOU, Noble DL Sangha, for all the words of gratitude for my Easter DL Essay. guess that one is going into the Most Popular DL vault! it is my honor to write in Service of the Divine for all of you who care about keeping the Spirit mixed into our Daily Sweat.

photo; at our Nation's TRUE Capital City; do YOU know where?

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On The Road; Ripples Make Waves

Starbucks
Bernalillo, New Mexico -

"predawn humidity seeps from luscious overlays of clouds. a peleton of 50+ Canadian Geese take graceful flight from the sandy banks of the turbid Rio Grande. i feel pulled to extract the mystic beauty of my h(om)eland in Direct Lines straight into you like a Padmasambhava shot Dharma arrow. If each state in Turtle Island had their own Theme Music, certainly Baroque Classic would be integrated as New Mexico's. The rising cresendo of space and sky vivid with undescribable hues which change into riffs of weather induced playfulness superimposed with ancient cultural flows with a quixotic interdance of the massiveness of her natural world."
- excerpt from today's DIRECT LINES by coach ilg

COME JOIN COACH as he takes you along with him to his h(om)eland of New Mexico and his travels through the Navajo Nation capital city of Window Rock, New Mexico and into the Sacred Lands...
...POTENT DHARMA TEACHINGS in this week's DIRECT LINES!

SUNRIDER Face/Skin Care Q&A with Coach

i don't know if there are too many people on the planet that have abused their skin/face in the outdoors as much as i. however,
my 25-year allegiance to the SUNRIDER Herb skin/face care products have kept my skin aglow, supple, and physiologically capable of effectively respirating the tons of sweat and toxins that pass through my skin barrier each week.

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BioBuilde and Coach

Alert WF Veteran Student Cerame was quick to notice the WF Chi on the recent BioBuilde newsletter...
great job, MC!

here is the link:
ilg crankin on Tsidool

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The EEE-GAD Workout; a WF ultra classic strength training routine

Friend,

I found this brilliant, incisive, simple:

"I had many work plans for today.
Then the day dawned."
{coach ilg in DL last week}

From time to time I am reminded of something called the Eee Gad workout. I have an Outdoor Athlete's Training Journal showing I did it a couple of times in October 95. Notes from my first experience with it suggest the leg intensive portion of it was "unpleasant", which I take to mean difficult. I didn't save my Master Sheet for some reason, and could not find it detailed in Total Body Transformation ... would you please remind me? I'd like to revisit it at some point as I am sure some of what we do now came from it (jumping squats, tuck jumps, static hold in squat position, heavy front squats). The more things change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Salute,
Mark



Most Noble Mark!
thank you for writing and EEE-Gad is as powerful as ever with dozens of WF Warriors the world over cranking out that bad boy of the Iron Temple each day! You can find EEE-Gad in THE OUTDOOR ATHLETE or THE WINTER ATHLETE or, for your utter convenience and support of the humble Temple, there is a handout of this tremendous routine in the Pay Per PDF section of the WF Tribal Catalog...just scroll down toward the bottom:

EEE-GAD! Workout!

Enjoy the Sweat and LIVE THE WF CHI!!!!!!

i bow to your Metta and Devotion to keep Rising Higher!

namaste,
coach ilg

photo 1; enduring the Bardo of Two Bench Triceps, one of the ending movements in the formidable yet fun; EEE-GAD Workout.

photo 2; "It ain't enough to be agile and supple, Oh Noble Yogis, you also gotta be STRONG!" Cranking some 'pulls' nowhere NEAR those damned Gravitron machines! At one point during my rock climbing era, i did 62 consecutive pull ups. Pat Adams beat me by 8 reps...oh well.

photos by Wayne Williams as they appear in TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION

Coach Cranks The Dharma In The News - INNER STRENGTH

INNER STRENGTH

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STEVE ILG PERFORMS A yoga pose on the deck of his Cheshire home. Ilg is a world renown fitness expert and author specializing in Yoga. Photo: Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun


By KEITH JIRON
Sun Sports Staff
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 7:56 AM MST

Flagstaff-based best-selling health and fitness author and yoga instructor shares his gift with others

The principals in Steve Ilg's favorite game growing up were his jet-black pet wolf hybrid and good ol' Mother Nature.

"We'd wake up in the morning, look out the window and pretty much just take off," said Ilg, who spent countless hours with Apache in the creeks and canyons in and around Durango, Colo. throughout the 1970s. "(I'd have my) bow and arrow and I'd climb up (on a bluff), shoot the arrow high into air and try to see where it landed. Then I'd time myself on how long it would take us to find it.

"That was a classic game that we would play. We would just explore. We would have a great time."

The object of the exercise was clear enough, but Ilg came away with so much more than just a knack for tracking down some lousy stick.

He entered adulthood with his love of the outdoors even stronger, but more importantly, with a firmer understanding of his place in it.

"What Apache did for me was really to..."

READ THE ENTIRE AZ DAILY SUN FEATURE ON COACH ILG
in TODAY's DIRECT LINES!

Why Don't Monks Squat?

Why Don't Monks Squat?

great question.


Why Are So Many Studio Yogis Afraid To Squat?

great question.


FIND OUT ON TODAY'S
DIRECT LINES with photos and commentary from the King Of All Sports Squats; coach ilg!

Coach Goes Poetic plus; Student InSights; Knee Gurus, Strength Training as Yoga, so much more!

Dead, our white bones lie silent
when pine trees lean toward spring.

Remembering, I sigh. Looking ahead,
I sigh once more.
This life is a mist. What fame?
What Glory?

- Li Po

i took this photo of 'Red Fox Deck' here at the WF Temple H(om)e last week. With a New Baby Being on my horizon, i may soon see the quiet of my Fitness Monk lifestyle and the fame and glory of winning multisport races change. like any WF Warrior, my SvaDharma is to adapt to the Divine Change. a growing percentage of my meditations are now being steered by my Teachers toward visualizations of finding 'Ai Imawa' within and around and for our possible Baby Being's arrival and stay.

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"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou


the pull of the Mountain Playground all around me, "America's Outdoor Athlete," is so great each day that i even attempt to combine a measure of the outdoors with my online coaching work! photo by Ananda.





"I had many work plans for today.
Then the day dawned."

- coach ilg

do you have the Self Discipline to work for yourself and make a lot of money?
i don't. it's go(o)d to know one's limits. the only true Wealth is, at least for me, world-class Health! LIFE IS SOOOOO FUN! ENJOY THE RIDE BEFORE YOU DIE! The Bardo don't accept visa or mastercard. Live Deeply, Life is Short.

photo by Justin Gallen at the Rio de Flag bouldering area across the pasture from the WF Temple H(om)e.

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THE FOLLOWING THREE TEACHINGS WERE LIFTED DIRECTLY OFF THE VARIOUS CAVES IN THE WF SANGHALOUNGE...where, on the internet, are YOU choosing to chill??!?!

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Coach and all,
Coach your comment helped me see the balance of WF a little more clearly. Now I observe people's bodies/workouts differently and see the imbalances that extremes produce. thank god for WF!


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