WF Cancer Warrior T; pits SR Herbs and Sweat alongside the Medical Machine

MahaYogi Buddha taught,
"Living within a mortal body is like living in a house on fire."


when faced with their own Bardo M(om)ent...fitness warriors around the world - some of whom used to criticize and make fun of my Wholistic methods - suddenly contact me as the once-solid illusion of their bodies and minds begins to crumble. they don't call CrossFit® or CTS® or the owner of Chi Running®...scared and confused, they Knock on the Temple Doors of WF...the highest, most humble, most aggressively natural healing Temple of Transpersonal Fitness ever created on Turtle Island...


Student T is not one such scared, confused seeker;
he is a Noble Finder and long-time WF Devotee.
his Clarity instead of Confusion
as he was diagnosed with deep Cancer
is an absolute stunning Shock of Inspiration for all of us...

read,
study,
worship this Warrior's Words
uttered straight from the Battlefield of Cancer:



EXCERPTED FROM PRIVATE Teacher/Student Counsel from my Inbox today; do not republish:


Brother Steve:

Finished last part of the surgery today, biopsy bresults tomorrow.

Surgeon asked, do you have any questions? I had one. "When can I Sweat?"

(as in sweat and stillness)

Stopped him cold.

His medicine is with the knife and the pill.

Mine is with my mind and my heart.

He replied, "I don't know."

Well, tomorrow we start back on the sweat again (not capitalized). He prescribed Vicodin for the pain. He made his exit when I told him I have never taken a pain pill, I prefer a reality pill (ie, enjoy the present moment). I am not kidding that 71 days into this diagnosis I am stronger mentally then I have ever been.

Now here is the good news...all my opacities are gone or are going, lungs are getting clearer..my use of the Ilg prescribed Boomerang Run® has helped tremendously..I have been pushing my lungs and heartbeat so fucking hard...my lymph nodes have been a little more stubborn...though...

I bow down to your silent powerful teachings.

I am busted on the dough; I need to strategically purchase one or two Sunrider herbs for cell regen and life force.

If you had $100 bucks and everyone betting against you, what would you buy?

See you in the sangha.

I am grateful for your presence in my life.

T


*** COACH RESPONDS:

Noble T,
Bless the cancer; for the spiritual tenacity that you are so vividly putting into Appropriate Action is rocketing you past frieghtloads of black karma -
feeble ilg bows before the Mighty Warrior T...
you just better leave some astral breadcrumbs for me and my merry band of WF Warriors to follow you
into Dewachen!

$100 with SUNRIDER to fight the Noble Fight against Cancer?
...easy:

Alpha 20C
name stands for: the 20th letter in the alphabet is "T". this formula packs up the T-Cell Immunity like no other.
in fact, it's so successful in the fight against Cancer and other dis-eases (Mrs. Chen used it to kick the wholly crap out of her
Cancer battle) that he sells it in 5lb bulk containers for only $232...can't even get a damned x-ray for that much in the Western side of things!

Product Code # 191505 is your call. Order 2...you'll be getting 20 5gm packs for $52.60 each.
let me know when these potent Swords arrive at your Noble Side.

ilg is going to crank some singletrack for you...

from thy Corner of Corners...

your faithful teacher, fan, and friend
ilg

TEMPLE GONG: if ANY of you wish to purchase some SUNRIDER ALPHA 20C for T,
email me.



***
SUNRIDERS: look for my ANTI-SWINE FLU SR Recipe coming to your Inbox soon...

those of you foolish enough NOT to be on the SUNRIDER Herbs during this era of Kali Yuga?
better re-think,
re-feel...
and sign up today! ilg will guide you along my 3-Phase Approach and/or fit any budget...
be inspired by the many success stories of developing Bulletproof Immunity through the
MAP Aminos under Coach Ilg
and
the SUNRIDER Herbs under Coach Ilg

Traditional Core Nutrition from the Path of WF since 1982

My Day is A Trap As Well...

"Even the desire to be beautiful
before one's Wisdom Being
is a
trap which must be transcended."
- steve ilg
(written in my Meditation Journal earlier this week)


My Day Today:

•) Early Morning Ritual and Sangha Light Meditations
•) Svadhyaya
•) family time in Zendo
•) Eat Herbs, Sunbar, and MAP Aminos
•) Blog as Service
•) ride cross bike to town (10 miles on pavement)
•) teach HP Mixed Flow (substitute teaching for Ananda)
•) ride cross bike back to the WF Temple H(om)e (long way; 13.5 miles on dirt)
•) eat PowerBar and Fruit and more Herbs and MAP
•) office service
•) midday Pranayama
•) ride motorcycle to town; teach HP Strong Flow to a private group of NAU (Northern Arizona University) Girls Swim Team
•) errands on motorcycle
•) back H(om)e for family time/office service
•) prepare for private bodywork service (more Pranayama)
•) 6:15pm; give private bodywork service
•) 8:00 pm; take Evening Mealtime with Ananda


May your Practice be inspired and sincere and fun...

head bowed,
coach ilg

note: ilg does NOT professionally recommend readers to sustain such a schedule with eating only spiritual nutrition (via Pranayama throughout day) herbs, MAP, and one Evening Mealtime. such a schedule and mastery of food (ahara jaya) comes only with decades of Practice.

photo; coach finishing a Early Morning Ritual, last summer. photo by Ananda

Apres Meditation..."Become a child of illusion."

on today's DIRECT LINES



Wholistic Fitness®...where warriors practice the bravery to train our weaknesses toward Wholeness...since 1982.

New Video From Coach - Inside Powerbar® Team Elite®

text, photos, and YouTube video by coach steve ilg

click on pic to enlarge...

May - the wildflower month - is around the bend.

Gingerly unfolding cold legs,
i arise from morning Meditation
and wink at the frost still gracing the zendo window.

Grandfather Sun slowly shatters
cold silhouette of the Sacred Peak.

Resisting temptation to pull on moccasins,
i pad outside
filling the bird feeders
tip-toeing atop frozen grass clumps.

Warmth is a human desire far more
tenacious than arctic ice.

Feeble ilg keeps bringing you
logs, in your Heart, you know this.
Each day, you see me
stacking them at thy feet
singing
Prayers
for your sacred daily sweat
to be laced by divine insight and
stainless wisdom.

Feeble ilg may well be the weakest
Dharma Teacher
and
most afflicted Yoga Teacher of all time.

yet,
here is another log
for your inner fire...

ilg prays;
May you always stay
fueled for the Inner Journey...

See you in the Cave,

- coach ilg
***


***
Doko Oosliid and the Sacred Peaks of Saint Francis
from my Zendo window. photo by ilg.

Coach Ilg: Inside Team Elite®

BOOK REVIEWS

Most Precious WF Devotee Rick Strong has done a great job
reviewing two books authored by my 508 Teammate, Roy Wallack,
with whom i am working on a new book, Age-Erasing Yoga For Athletes.

check out Rick's reviews,
than bookmark this Warrior's Blog...
worth it!


here is the click:

Rick Strong Cafe

The Compassionate Heart Of Opening Thy Hips

The Compassionate Heart of the Awakening Hips


by coach steve ilg
4*09
with bows to ShantiDeva


do not republish without permission

The energy within opening hips is the supreme nectar
 that overcomes the laziness of spiritual slumber.

It is the inexhaustible treasure which eliminates poverty in the wholeness of fitness.

It is the supreme medicine that quells one's inner world dis-ease.

It is the Noble Effort of opening thy hips
- abode of the Princess Kundala -
that exterminates all weakness which still 
wanders and tires the tight-hipped on the path of conditioned existence....

READ THE ENTIRE POWERFUL DHARMA ARROWS BEING SHOT FROM THIS IMPORTANT TEACHING FROM COACH; GREAT PHOTOS...



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photos:
#1: coach in a Malasana Plyometric Jump www.JamesQMartin.com

photos NOT SHOWN ON IDL:

#2: after a long run; back to square one with tight hips...so goes the Journey of a Wholistic Fitness Yogi; it's the story of an Endless Beginner.

#3: laying it down at the 2009 Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon

#4: life beneath a Squat Bar is where Yogis abide.

"Trusting the Depth of WF's Ego-Slaying Wisdom!"; Meet New Tribal Sister Sue!

God i love my Calling.
Feeble ilg has met sooooo many AMAZING people during these decades of doing my best to, as Rumi says,
Just be what i love to do.

meet Sue B.

talk about being Tapped In!

whenever someone makes the Wisdom Call to sign up with me in the SUNRIDER Herbs, i get a note from SUNRIDER congratulating me. well, let me assure you, it is ilg that benefits as much as does the person who is wise enough to start eating these innocent, powerful, regenerative whole-foods.

when i sent Sue my own Welcome Letter, i often ask how it was that they came to sign up under me...check out what this beautiful Being wrote:

Namaste Coach!

To answer your question i signed up under you because I trust the depth of your ego slaying wisdom!

I started with your book Total Body Transformation (i just finished the Cosmic Yang program) then purchased HP YOGA BASIC STRENGTH DVD. i realized there would be another step to take with WF and so when I finally got the word from The Nudge, what i call my inner guidance system, i knew it 'was time for the herbs…' so here i am!!!

i look forward trying Sunrider and will be placing an order but i was wondering if I can eliminate Sunny Dew. i do not use anything in my drinks and if sweetness is Sunny Dew’s purpose i would rather not order it saving the money for other products.
.
Once I receive the herbs should I stop taking the supplements i’m using now?

Thank you Coach!!! i look forward to more WF!!!

Sue
Sue's Web Page

" Wilderness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."
Terry Tempest Williams


***

kinda hard to go wrong with a TTW quote as your sign off. Sue, welcome, welcome, welcome...oh, and to answer your questions, Sue?

Sunny Dew is far from just being the planets best plant as a non-blood sugar spiking sweetner. SunnyDew® is the world's first Stevia formula to be accepted by the FDA after Dr. Chen (founder of SUNRIDER) himself spent several MILLIONS of his OWN DOLLARS desperately trying to get FDA approval for this herb which indigenous peoples of South America have used for centuries in their medicines and teas. Stevia is a remarkable herb that helps maintain normal blood sugar levels in healthy individuals.*

Back in 'the day' those of us in SUNRIDER never had SunnyDew. we enjoyed it's precursor product, called SunNectar, which is still available. SunNectar is less sweet than SunnyDew and is more temperature-finicky...it tends to clog up. However, using either is vital whenever you drink either Fortune Delight or Calli Beverages; the two work symbiotically to ensure the Cleansing and Fat Loss properties of the herbs.

From the SUNRIDER Website:

Sunny Dew® supplement is a potent blend of stevia leaf extract and chrysanthemum flowers. Other brands commonly use a chemical reaction to process stevia, altering its natural structure. However, the stevia in SunnyDew® undergoes a unique purifying and concentration process that preserves the natural structure found in its whole food form.

Highly concentrated and all natural, SunnyDew® is an excellent supplement to your diet to help maintain normal blood sugar levels.*

and YES!!! once you get onto the Secret Herbs of Wholistic Fitness®?
ditch all the isolated nutrients from your supplements and experience what it feels like to have world-class concentrated and anciently formulated whole food herbs as your nutritional core!

Still need to step up to the SUNRIDER Herbs? look right for my sign up info or better yet, click here for COACH's SUNRIDER WEBSITE and join Sue and hundreds of others in the Ilg Downline today! We Crank because we Care.

True Self

Dear Teacher,

How do you distinguish what ego desires and true self wants?

WF Online Student JS
NYC

READ COACH's ANSWER ON TODAY's DIRECT LINES and stop wasting your workouts and life circumstances on anything less than your True Self!

TBT: "...the best book on fitness I've ever bought."

I just want to say that my very dog-eared copy of TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION (4 years young) was one of the best books on fitness I've ever bought. You've been preaching balance for a long time, a concept that only now others are beginning to embrace. Keep up the good work!

Gary Hall
IL

Cancer As Yoga...a glimpse into my Friend's Journey...

a truly remarkable Entry which elevates the omniscience and omnipotence of the Supreme Being within all of us...


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HP Yoga This Week...

HP YOGA
returns to SoCal...

if you love warrior-based asana and sun-kissed private beaches?
here is the link:

HP Yoga With Coach in Malibu, May 2&3




April 20, 2009

HP YOGA: An Interdisciplinary Warriors Approach since 1982

"The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well. Meditation is the road to enlightenment."
-Sogyal Rinpoche

above photo:
from formal Tibetan university meditation studies to
now studying my daughter helping me yesterday build Her
a sandbox...err, Her sand-triangle. i sense the metaphor
at work; ...a new type of Tibetan SandPainting born beneath our Sacred Peak.
photo by Joy.

***

some of us may not realize it, however, if our Practice has been steady, we are already viewing the rhythm of our lives differently.
matters which once triggered our emotive fire
have less power to do so.
more and more often, instead of seeing challenging circumstances as 'yet another problem to be solved by my already world-weary state' such trying moments are becoming rich, fertile terrain...ripe for our spiritual mining and personal growth opportunity.

***

when we knock the mud off our Mountain Bike shoes,
we can see that it all boils down to our Teachers, doesn't it?
ask yourself, Noble Yogi:
Who Taught Me What It Is That I Choose To Be?

Teachers...those Magnificent, Heaven-Sent Beings and Things
which ratchet up our flagging Awareness.
Teachers inspire us to Begin to See
more clearly
more purely
more divinely.

***

i was six years old when Father Ashley Samarashingle, a - get this - Hindi Catholic Priest first took me under His wing for spiritual training. since then, feeble ilg has been graced by a dazzling string of Meditation and Dharma Teachers. Each One categorically and exquisitely carved into my life to bless, guide, and protect my inherently gangly and gnarly yet consistent inward progress toward Awakening. A most recent Teacher in my astonishingly appropriate (and TOUGH) lineage of Teachers, is my
19 month-old daughter, Dewachen. Her unconditional ease of dropping into the most intensely concentrated yet unattached moment-by-moment meditation as She follows the Tao of Her days,
just boggles the comparatively mud-like nature of my own mind.

for Dewa?
every moment
is as it is.
no complication.

***

can something as mundane as a Stoplight be seen as our Teacher of Patience?
can we use the passing of a train as a Re-Minder for Mudra or Mula Bandha Practice?
are we willing to accept children and animals as our Upa Guru's?
can we accept a wild Wind as Hanuman's scream for our Highest Self?

***
my family and i will be teaching in Malibu next week,
so come,
let's gather this week in our Beloved Practice
for more Awareness Practice
within the Sacred Sweat...

miniscule ilg bows in wow
of tremendous you.

***



HP YOGA® CLASSES THIS WEEK at NAYC:

Tuesday w/Steve
5:30-7:00pm; HP Slow Flow
special focus; cultivating the Elegant Breath.

Wednesday w/Joy
9-10:30 am; HP Slow Flow
A class is geared specifically for women, though men are encouraged to practice with us! Stabilization and strengthening of the urogenital floor and mula bandha musculature as well as core muscles while breathing consciously and gracefully into higher levels of physiologic and biomechanic fitness.

Thursday w/Steve
5:30-7:00pm; HP PROP Workout
Practice what we all need; Strength and Spirit, once a week. This dastardly fun and focused class is not about your ability, it's about your chi force! Designed and proven to enhance ALL forms of asana, sport performance, and occupations. World exclusive right here in Flag! Class traditionally begins with 30 minutes of core work.
this weeks special focus; Japa


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

***

Dearest El Coache,
The closing meditation (Thursday) was filled with such Metta. I felt, for the first time this week a kindness towards myself and all others attending to the "Great Matter"...
And with deep humility, I acknowledge my courage, my fear, my anxiety, calm-abiding; crazy thoughts, and somehow coming through on the other side with hopefully a wider net and a more caring heart.

Thank you, EC, for extending an open hand and heart to me this week. A very deep bow in gratitude.

Much everything.
Love LH
flagstaff

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Bodywork, Online, and private consultations and training sessions within the disciplines of strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, nutrition, fat loss, and lifestyle training are always available. It's what i've done at a world-class level
since 1982. If you would enjoy myself or Joy to take a look at the Wholeness of your training, let us know.

Onward, Upward, and endlessly Inward...

your feeble teacher,

coach steve ilg



for a more complete view of Coach's notion of Yoga - one of nine subdisciplines of his Wholistic Fitness® Personal Training system, enjoy his book, TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION and his latest book;PRANIC JUNKIE ...

Kali Yuga Quote Of The Week

click on Shiva for a HUGE chi hit...




you know you're firmly entrenched in the unAwakened idiocy of Kali Yuga
when our nations economy is tanking,
our nation is leading the world in carbon emissions,
and our leaders of one of the most powerful
body/mind vehicles known; Movies

come out with a statement like this:

"I used to think not every film should be done in 3-D, but then, I used to think not
every car should have GPS."
- Paul Dergarabedian
Film analyst for Hollywood.com

Good Lord Shiva and For Christ's Sake,
will somebody PUH-LEASE get that dude onto a bicycle and take him camping or something...our National Tribe is quickly turning into a Tribe of Entertainment-Addicted-Obese-Zombies...


READ COACH's COMPLETE AND HILARIOUSLY POIGNANT VENT ON TODAY's DIRECT LINES,
and May Your Wholy Water Be Found Within Your Daily Sweat...



photo; this STUNNING picture of Shiva in Sukhasana on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh is a freely licensed photo i found on Wikipedia. make it your screensaver!...too bad it doesn't come in 3-D...

Beaten Helpless By Karma...

DharmaTeaching on today's DIRECT LINES, subscription format



May your Sweat be Sacred today,
coach ilg

Well, since you keep asking...

How is Dewa doing, many of you ask...
well, click on the above pic and you'll see why ilg can only describe my
Live In Resident Rinpoche as unspeakably exquisite in every possible aspect
of anything and everything She does and is.


here She is on Easter Sunday morning, showing off Her Easter Outfit for Pete C.


fighting off the New Daddy Pride at every breath...

abba ilg

"IN APRIL" - original photo and poetry by steve ilg

click to enlarge the photo for a more sensual hit...just try to tell ilg that diamonds don't last forever as they crash into your Heart from within this beautiful, precious, and dying snow upon my front porch...

In April

you go into the snow -

you do not find a
forgiving heart
but rather

silence perfectly
attuned
to the grace

of life.

- steve ilg
Pagosa Speaks; A Collection Of Regional Poetry (4th Edition, original publish year;1990)


discover the poetry of your coach...

"Ilg is a modern genius of Renaissance Man;
he has cultivated a fitness far more whole than a Lance Armstrong
yet lives and teaches from a Heart wrenched from Rumi."
- RM


order your copy of Pagosa Speaks today and find out why one published poet called this collection, "The most heart-opening poetry I've read since Whitman."


photo: and some spiritually-crippled people on Earth still think snow ain't sexy...ilg begs to differ. i grabbed this shot this evening after a wind-whipped 2" covered my front porch 'snowfield' with a most sensual layer of velveteseque powder in the fading rays of Grandfather Sun...

Student Quote of the Week goes to...

Dear Coach,
It is a week of Jesus' passion. I pray for the courage to face my own.

I read DL. Deeply moved by "Bantu"'s journal.

Head bowed,
WF Online Student Joongho Shin
NYC

Potent Quotes; Four for your Contemplation...

"In the pursuit of wholeness,
one inevitably and endlessly
runs directly into egoic barricades
- fierce ones -
which must be transcended.
or,
you give up on the fitness training of the
only Self that really matters;
your Highest Self."

- ilg, 4*13*09

READ THE OTHER THREE ON TODAY's DL...Mas Espiritu por su Dinero, since 1982

Chocolate Easter Bunnies As A WF Upa Guru

click on pics to enlarge





you didn't.

okay, so you ate the whole chocolate Easter Bunny.

let it go.

it's done.

ilg still loves Thee, although i admit...you eating the whole dang bunny just really makes me want to go back into the Service of being a part-time new age bookstore clerk. that way, i wouldn't care so much about your Conscious Nutritional efforts.

so, how did it happen?

did you succumb to the overwhelming desire for chocolate and predictably, unceremoniously chomp off the poor bunny's ears? did you even pause at just how quickly your ego rationalized this ear-eating within your Yogic Spirit? did you also instantly realize and rationalize that since his ears REALLY weren't THAT much of the bunny's anatomy and - after all - you ARE an ACTIVE person and those calories won't harm anything, did you go ahead and decapitate the poor bunny with your next mouthful? Good Gawd, Yogi!

{READ THE ENTIRE HILARIOUS, POWERFUL TEACHING FROM COACH ON TODAY's DIRECT LINES Subscription Blog...plus more photos!}

feeble ilg,
the most miniscule yogi of all time,
bows
as deeply as my padmasana allows,
to all Chocolate Bunny Beings
who were not consciously eaten yesterday.

and to those half-eaten ones sitting in your fridge...
a sad testimony to our feeble awareness that
truly,
Our Highest Workout Is Everywhere.




(NOTE: i will accept a WF Temple Tithe (to help the Free Tibet Cause) from ANY WF Warrior that
did NOT consciously appreciate at least the first bite of their Easter Bunny.
i'll also give a $10 WF Pro Shop Credit to ANY WF Warrior that used the WF Non-Dominant Hand or the 3x30 Technique while eating their Easter Bunny.)

photos:
1) Dewachen Rinpoche (whom turned 19 months on the 11th) and i yesterday, enjoying a most luscious Easter Sunday snowfall. Dewa has yet to taste chocolate or refined sugar of any sort. she prefers tomatoes, Sunrider Fruit SUNBARS, and of course, cottage cheese. photo by Ananda.

2)not shown on IDL

Easter Sunday SirMan...

the Dharma of a Maha Yogi known as Jesus Christ, who was, without a doubt, the world's most extreme athlete and most beautiful example of a Peaceful Warrior. i mean, with all due respect, i don't TAF that even the current crop of our best Extreme Athletes these days; pro bull riders, those 'wrestlers' and 'cage fighters', and snowboarders would ever dare do what Jesus did for us to try to Wake Us Up...

HAVE A AWE-FILLED, RESPECT-FILLED
RESURRECTION DAY...and please, consider subscribing to DIRECT LINES to read the rest of this Teaching and access to 2,000+ more and fresh Teachings daily to inspire depth and dimension into your current notion of fitness, wholeness, and Awakening...

inculcated demeanor and rutted belief structures...

click on pics to enjoy a deeper chi hit.
read between my direct lines to enjoy a deeper chi hit, as well.
as ever.





Don't you just love it when people say, "Well, just 'Be yourself' and you'll do just fine."

They mean well, i am sure.

This great sounding counsel at first hearing seems to have all the qualities of a spiritual truth.

"Just be yourself."

Heccuva great line.

It's wise.
It's simple.
It's empowering.


The Higher Truth belies the obvious charm of this saying, for in order to be "who you really are,"
requires first and foremost that you know who that is.

I'm writing this right after teaching another body/mind searing session of HP PROP WORKOUT to nearly 20 students.

Trust me, when the intensity factor of HP PROP hits you like a brick right within the 5th minute of a 30 minute Ab Work opening sequence which is the precursor to the sweatpouringheartthumpingspirittesting other sixty minutes of full body blastdom...all before the 15-minute Bardo Meditation on how death process begins...
then the true fact of the matter quickly arises that none of us really do know who we really are.

Oh sure, we have a rough idea.

It's an idea fashioned largely from conditioned and inculcated demeanor swept into our cells courtesy of our parents first, then societal convention and then, well let's face it; We all cling pretty tightly to the very sketchy self-image we have managed to develop through a whole host of weird - often hormonally fueled stages.

Is it not true upon meditation that this fanciful, multi-layered self-image only causes us to become more deeply rooted (rutted?) in opinions and belief structures* we ought to be growing out of?


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Not this lifetime.

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Blessed Be Thy Workout,

coach ilg



* Krishnamurti; "I have no beliefs, for belief is, by definition, a limit and spirituality has no limits."


photo 1: Lotus. Open Stock.
photo 2: Near the Mt. Baldy Zen Center...i took this when going skiing at Mt. Baldy where i do TAF that WF Devotee of 20 years, Ron Zolnick, is a ski instructor. i absolutely adore the zen qualities of the just fallen first snow upon the old rocks, sharp catci, and guardian pines in this Brahmanically gifted (what is not?) shot. nature is ilg's ishta devi.

"An Ass Kicking Session With Such Metta..." - Student Woody Passes Through Flag And Stops For Chi Hit...

slow flowing through the Taoist Yoga Postures, known as "Ai Imawa" as taught to me by Sensei Kishiyama. An updated version of my book, AI IMAWA: The Postures and Practice of Inner Harmony is being worked on along with a DVD. The above posture is, "Awakening The Spirit," location; Snow Canyon, Utah. Order your copy of Ai Imawa this month and receive $5 off!

I love it when one of my WF Students, Fans, or Friends float through Flag on their way to the Grand Canyon or elsewhere and make it a point to stop by for a dosage of HP Yoga at Northern Arizona Yoga Center like "Warrior Woody" of Florida did last week...here is what this Beloved Warrior from back East had to say:

Namaste Coach,

Thank you for welcoming me to NAYC yoga cave for an evening of sacred sweat. Not a day goes by that I don't think back to the energy you transmitted during that short but sweet event. My primary focus was on Ujjayi breathing as I struggled (a sign of my feeble grasping) to inhale the high altitude pran. Not an easy task for my sea level adapted lungs. My back survived with help from child's pose, although the "training" effect the next day was a strong reminder of the intensity and of a couple of "new to me" asanas.

Your ability to deliver an ass kicking session with such metta is unmatched in my experience.

I am planning a modest Temple Tithe of thanks after my next payday. I will also submit an "order" for a new blessing of my WF Training Mala. It has been well over a year since I received it and I TAF it is well over due.

Head bowed, Woody
Florida

Zen Cooking = Zen Fitness

"He carried a bamboo stick but had no hat on his head. The sun's rays beat down so harshly that the tiles along the walk burned one's feet. He worked hard and was covered with sweat. I could not help but feel the work was too much of a strain for him. His back was a bow drawn taut, his long eyebrows were crane white.

I approached and asked his age. He replied that he was sixty-eight years old. Then I went on to ask him why he never used any assistants.

He answered, "Other people are not me."

"You are right," I said; "I can see that your work is the activity of the Buddha-dharma, but why are you working so hard in this scorching sun?"

He replied, "If I do not do it now, when else can I do it."

There was nothing else for me to say. As I walked on along that passage-way, I began to sense inwardly the true significance of the role of tenzo."

- Dogen Zenji in Tenzo Kyokun (Teachings for a Zen Monastery Head Cook)

If you want a "McDonald's like" approach to personal fitness, yoga, and sport performance? There are thousands of such busy-ness.

However, if you seek a genuine Path of Transformation through personal wholeness based upon Conscious Sweat and Stillness?

Then people come to me, steve ilg...Head Tenzo of Wholistic Fitness®.

Such h(om)e zen-cooking might take longer.

Taking longer is a training effect from cooking with Love.

So, choose wisely, Noble Warrior of Wholeness.

Prioritize a Teacher's 'loving perseverance' when it comes to your self-cultivation.


Blessed be all Beings in All Realms on this Day of Days...


head bowed,

eager to Serve,

abba ilg

photo by ilg; early morning ice. click to enlarge the zen detail. God hides in the details. Awareness, Awareness, Awareness.



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A Wholistic Approach to "Protein Fitness"

Below, Coach answers a question from one of his Students, who wisely is on the MAP Amino Acids. Still need to sign up under Coach and receive his 24/7 free guidance using MAP which remains the ONLY non-whole food supplement in the Wholistic Fitness® System? click here,
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Dear Coach Ilg,

If one takes MAP twice a day at 2 tablets per 40 lbs body weight, is there a need for more daily protein?

Namaste,
Harry

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Most Precious Harry,

yes, if you mean 'dietary' protein.

sure, we in Wholistic Fitness® use the MAP Aminos as insurance to make as certain as certain can be that all the trillion jillion physiologic
regenerative processes associated directly and indirectly to adequate and consistent protein intake occurs.

however,
that does NOT mean that we just stop eating dietary protein! our bodies and minds need the complex interaction
of protein digestion to occur regularly so as to allow wholistic enzymatic fitness to be maintained.


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

coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness®

The Bantu Journals; A Day In Court

time for another check in with WF-Student Sponsored world-class mountaineer; Andrew "Bantu" Frost as he trains for a May ascent of the Denali Diamond on Mt. McKinley...click on pics to receive a thudding chi hit...

photo; Bantu at his top out of Comanche Ridge, 2nd Ascent, Grand Canyon. Bantu's own update on this route now appearing exclusively in the WF SanghaLounge!





"Over the years, I have learned many things about feet. You must have patience with them. You must have faith that they will carry you where you point them. It sometimes takes longer than you want it to. But if you are calm, and respect your feet, they will help you go anywhere. They are like two beautiful horses. Some men beat their horses to get them to go faster. The horses strain and spit, race, and finally stumble in their fear and flying lather. But horses hardly ever fall when you whisper to them; they'll take you gracefully where you're going."
- "Bantu"
From the Bantu Journal; COMMANCHE RIDGE now in the WF SanghaLounge
see more stunning photos from Bantu's COMMANCHE RIDGE adventure in the Grand Canyon below this Update from him)

photo; Bantu in training; navigating via footwork the crux of "A Day In Court" III 5.12, Sedona, Arizona.


BANTU TRAINING UPDATE TO COACH, 4*1*09



AVAILABLE ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS...DO NOT MISS THESE EXCEPTIONAL INSIGHTS AND MORE STUNNING PHOTOS FROM A WORLD-CLASS MOUNTAINEER USING WF TEACHINGS TO CLIMB A "DEATH ROUTE" ON MT. MCKINLEY THIS MAY!!!!

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From The Humble Helm; 6 Temple Notices and 1 DharmaTeaching

where i get the WF Teachings? ilg cannot stop the torrential Divine Downpour of WF. not for 30 years, at least. sometimes, i just need to run into the bottom of the Grand Canyon and go upside down to stem the Flow and experience a quaint sense of Kailavaya. photo by Craig Ilg.

a couple of things before the DharmaTeaching from Rinpoche Sogyal.


1) thank YOU for all the Metta regarding Ananda and my's Food Poisoning...
truly, i tell you, it was fantastic, enlightening Practice for those of
right at the nucleated fitness paradise of Wholistic Fitness! we do not take ill
often, so this was a great, needed, and important Gift from Shiva.

2) the reason why i coach yogis to Practice in and forge equanimity within
cold environments is not just because i love to ski!

it's because a very early m(om)ent in the Dying Process includes the experience
of utter cold without being able to warm again. i have Taught extensively on this
subject in earlier DL's. go fish if this important to you. if it is not? what is?

3) yes, both my HP YOGA STANDARD SLOW FLOW and STRONG FLOW PDF's have been translated into Americanized (bastardized) terms...i must be getting soft in my old, Fatherhood age. check them both out plus all the other great Pay-Per-PDF's right here:
coach's Pay-Per-PDF's

4) yes, the Random Rotation of pictures is now back in place at WholisticFitness.com
you may need to hit your Refresh button.

5) yes, ilg is on Facebook. another thing i ain't exactly kicked up about, however, the tremendous outpouring of Sanghic Love is truly, truly, truly mesmerizing to my HeartMind.

6) yes, it is blizzarding here beneath the Sacred Peak. time is ripe for those of you who are using Doko Oosliid as an ishta deva to deepen your meditation time upon Her.

here, then, is Rinpoche's DharmaTeaching:

DHARMATEACHING AVAILABLE ONLY FOR DL SUBSCRIBERS

FOOD POISONING as YOGA; 3 Teachings

"and to my local HP Yoga Sangha; sorry for being MIA last night...trust me, ilg woulda rather been training my abs with you in PROP WORKOUT than training them before the awlmighty and unforgiving Porcelain Throne..."


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"I am burning.
If anyone lacks tinder,
let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire."
- Rumi
translated by Kabir Halminski and Camille Helminski

that was friggin' gnarly.
well, the "guru" ate some unblessed flesh food (natural, free range chicken from a health food store) and both Ananda and i spent yesterday writhing in digestive agony.

when you have been on the SUNRIDER Herbs, and MAP Amino Acids, and when you have followed the potency of Wholistic Fitness Nutritional Principles (as outlined in TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION) for as long as i have, you get spoiled.

you get used to feeling superhuman, and as a result of decades of living each day at a world-class level of fun and fitness when Shiva does visit you with a biologic smackdown like He did to Joy and i yesterday?

you realize that you are undertrained in dealing with the agony of being sick.

so, if in your meditations yesterday, you could hear me moaning the Mantra, please excuse the ugliness...ilg was hurtin...couldn't even teach Prop last night. thank you, Steph, for substituting for me last night. and to my local HP Yoga Sangha; sorry for being MIA...trust me, ilg woulda rather been training my abs with you in PROP WORKOUT than training them before the awlmighty and unforgiving Porcelain Throne.

The Yoga of Food Poisoning points some very demanding fingers at a few pivotal Teachings;

DO NOT MISS THESE THREE TEACHINGS available only to DL Subscribers!!!