Tuesday, October 19, 2010

OOOPS! inDirect Lines no longer aqui!!!

hanging out with ilg near Flagstaff, AZ. pic by Bill Galen.


OOOPS!

Sorry, ilg no longer hangs out here...we're all over at our shiny new Head Temple of Fitness Monks the world over at

www.WholisticFitness.com

Coach Ilg is still offering Teachings fresh each day in a multi-media format...just scroll down on the homepage to Coach's Latest Teachings

Enjoy and may all your sweat be (w)holy... coach ilg founder/www.WholisticFitness.com & www.HighPerformanceYoga.com

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Two Questions Toward Passionate Balance...

What is it that I am bringing to this circumstance
that is making this a 'problem'?



(in WF, we have no problems...only spiritual challenges we have co-designed with the Divine
in order to make us Stronger, more Whole, more Fit for Enlightenment potential.)






and...

what is my resistance to allowing this moment to be as perfect as it is?

excerpted from my PASSIONATE BALANCE notes for tomorrow's
Member's Only Teleconference.

don't miss it,
member up now
and let's Dharmatalk tomorrow night!


photo by ilg; "de fleur 4 you" taken tonight.

“A Flat Spine: High Performance Yoga™ for Cyclists”

Let’s forget about all the cycling equipment and expensive tweaks you’ve purchased over the past, say 3 years. Let’s trade ALL of it for something that is endlessly more vital to your enjoyment, performance, and spiritual transformation through cycling: a flat spine while riding. Oh, like you have something MORE important to work on over the winter than getting a flatter back, more open, powerful hips, and a stronger core?



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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Passionate Balance - The Path of WF...A Talk and Q&A This Friday With Coach


This Friday evening I’ll be holding a special conference call for ALL
current Online Students and Members
to celebrate the new web site, and a new beginning!

Join me on the phone for “Passionate Balance,”
a DharmaTalk about Wholistic Fitness,
followed by some Q&A with you.

Call Details
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010

Time: 7 PM Mountain time (that’s 6 PM Pacific, and 9 PM Eastern)

Length: About an hour

Monday, October 11, 2010

DWC Championship: buzz kill didn't kill the spiritual victory!

photo by LA Times; ilg racing into the Bardo Night pull during the Furnace Creek 508 race, Death Valley, CA.


I was informed the night before the Road Race by the Race Organizer that my division "C" would not be eligible for an Overall Championship/Jersey. i'd be moved into the "B" division for the rest of the Championships (RR and Crit).

must admit; it was a buzzkill fer sure since i was in first place with my two favorite events ahead of me. yet, podiums i'm not lacking in so it wasn't that big of a deal. would have been nice to flip a Championship in cycling within less than a month of a top 20 AG at Imogene, however, the art of wholeness in racing is pretty much ignored by everyone save for our Tribe, so i woke up on the Road Race Day (Saturday) with a new game plan...

i'd work for my amigo, Miguel, for the 3 laps in the valley. i'd be his domestique, chasing down racers that got up the road in order to save him energy to deliver his crushing blow on the final hillclimb. this is what Road Racing is all about; alliances in sweat.

i felt okay and definitely was animated at the front of the B peleton...current National Duathlon Champion and HP Yogini Marissa Asplund was there, working for another racer, so she definitely caused a higher caloric burn and some sauced thighs before the final hillclimb.

having served for Miguel, i wished him luck at mile 32 and then retreated deeper into the 25+ peleton to find the only racer that threatened my "C" championship...which was now a warped version of a virtual race within a race. after some PowerBar GelBlasts and some Fortune Delight, i bandied up my remaining muscle fibers that still flickered after all my work at the front of the peleton for the last hour and a half. psychospiritually, i determined myself to stick like glue to my marked man up the climb. i had to finish right behind him to tie up the "Virtual C" Championships. i did, finishing 4 seconds in back of him at the top of the always lung-searing Shalona hill which was this finishing hill climb.

Result: won the "virtual C" Championship, plus, amigo Miguel stood up and delivered a 2nd place on the final hill and then won the crit yesterday to win the B Championship! i sat out the crit, choosing Family Time instead of racing, since in my virtual race, i had enough points to win the title.

i finished 10th place in the B division.

also of Warrior note; HP Yogini Dana Shin won the Women's A Championship! Congrats, Dana!

all in all?
a pretty fine week for HP Yogis and another victory for Wholeness-trained athletes everywhere!

i'll be announcing my intended Winter Racing Schedule soon, and probably send out a Sponsorship Plea to help curb the crazy expenses of racing in Kali Yuga while maintaining only a Dharma-based income of Service. if you can help keep your feeble yogi toeing the Start Lines, we will insure that at least someone is still out there teaching from Direct Experience at the front line of genuine, multi-disciplined yogic warriorship.

thank you for your spiritual sends during this week of Championship racing here in the high hamlet of crazy-fit mountain athletes!

head bowed,
el coache


Sunday, October 10, 2010

IF I HAD TWO QUESTIONS TO ASK THE BUDDHA (aka in our incarnation: the DALAI LAMA)



Read This Teaching

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this inDirect Lines blog will soon disappear like a Tibetan Sand Painting...

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Coach Takes "C" Lead During Epic Time Trial @ DWC Championships

"The Ilg before the storm..."
special thanks to HP Yogi RT for the helmet and Miguel for the Cervelo! photo by Ken.



What can i say?
i felt my Tribe with me this evening...
the Nordic Weather Gods were out in full display...lightning, downpours, scintillating pockets of sunset,
and the end of a rainbow arching toward the Finish Line...
Time Trialing is known as the "Race of Truth" for go(o)d reason;
it's just you against the clock;
come rain, hail, wind, (en)lightning, whatever...
and this evening? we racers had it all; sometimes all at once!
thank you, my Tribe of WF Warriors!
i feel like i really represented all teachers of yoga and wholeness well tonight
against the sport-specific cyclists.

it might make you all smile as well at this:
two HP Yoga™ yogi's currently hold first place in their categories at these DWC Championships;
myself and my super-vajrayogini Dana!

still, after all these decades...
WF out in front...

the following is from the Durango Wheel Club Website...

next event: the Road Race on Saturday...ooooph!


Blessed By Thy Sweat;
Get Out and DO; no matter what the weather!

your feeble teacher




2010 DWC Championship Road TT October 7, 2010


Epic, Cloudy, Clear, Rain, Hail, Thunder, Lightning, rainbows , Variable Wind
Temp.: 66° / 56° F.
Humidity: 32%
Wind: 0-15 mph
Barometer: 30.06 in. (1018.0 mb.)


C Pts. Name Time + Avg.
1 25 Steve Ilg 00:37:29.08 +00:00 24.33 mph
2 21 Kurt Blair 00:38:38.75 +01:10 23.60 mph
3 18 Greg Otteson 00:41:02.12 +03:33 22.22 mph

2010 Durango Wheel Club Championships
DWC Championships (Preliminary) Omnium Results,

2 of 4 events,

Oct. 5-10 2010

1 Steve Ilg 2-21 1-25 46
2 Kurt Blair 3-18 2-21 39
3 Steve Morozowich 1-25 0-0 25



Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Strength Training Q&A



photo of ilg, the day after a 10-mile, high altitude mountain run; getting male (gym) after being so female (running).


Hi there,
my name is christian, from Germany. A friend of mine showed me your “Total Body Transformation” program, and i want to start to do it soon. I am into strength training and cardio a long time, and meditation since a year or so. I find the whole programmappealing...




Read and Learn from this actual Q&A between a WF Warrior and Coach Ilg at:

www.WholisticFitness.com

the most centered, fit place on this plane(t) since 1982

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Coach Crashes To A Second Place In Event #1 of 4; DWC CHAMPIONSHIPS


Durango, Colorado -

your “Endless Beginner” of a Tribal Chief made yet another noble – yet unspectacular – effort tonight beneath Sister Rain Clouds and Hanuman Wind Clouds closing in as fast as an October sunset should be over the La Plata Mountains.

finished 2nd in the C race among the Durango Sage and the “extremely rough, wet, and rutted” singletrack in this backyard training sufferfest of world-class mountain bikers since the 1980′s.

especially for New Daddies everywhere – combating an in-casa illness for five days and a near-complete lack of specific mountain bike race training – i reckon my effort tonight scored a B on the WF Noble Meter.

Maybe a B+...


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Coach To Compete...4-day, 4-event Cycling Championships This Week!


First, the Posturing:
i’ve been virtually off the bike(s) since placing in the top 20 AG of the Imogene Pass Run
and i’ve been fighting off an insanely powerful virus that has laid my two girls flat for five days;



Then, the Practice:
yet, when a four-event bicycle racing Championships occurs in my beloved hOMetown of Durango which has more World and Olympic and National class athlete per capita than any other city in the US?

it’s a no-brainer for any Devoted WF Warrior: you GOTTA TOE THOSE START LINES!

Read More

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photo; ilg hammering...sadly, i'm only hammering to attempt to claw back toward the Leaders (never happened) during the Squawker Cycling Classic, this spring in Durango. pic by HP yogi RT

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Gaining An Occasionally Rippled Mind…



coach in Meditation, the 4th of the 5 Noble Fitness Disciplines of Wholistic Fitness™/photo courtesy Wholistic Fitness Archives.

It’s the casual questions I get after teaching another Samadhically infused HP Yoga™ class in the Sacred Cave that are always difficult to answer questions about Meditation…I take this as a compliment; any yoga class that ends with students moved enough to ask about Meditation is to me, a sign of Teaching Success in the Highest of Ways. If you’re gonna get a yoga class high, then you better make sure the high ain’t coming from dirty, stale bong water! Keep it clean, keep it Wholy Sweat!

I’m gonna tell you something very special that my Tibetan Meditation Teachers at Naropa taught me…

According to the Ancient Enlightened Ones, the Warrior Energy is summoned...


Read The Full Story

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note: the door opens to new Members this week!


Saturday, October 2, 2010

Top Ten Reasons Why Roller Skiing Does Not Suck!

Photo; Multi-time State Nordic Champion coach ilg, ramping up for snow season on East Animas Road yesterday. Pic by Vishnu.

#10) Cuz it cuts up your thighs, calves, abs, intercostals, butt, lats, and delts like NOTHING else can while burning twice as many calories as lower body specific endurance activities!

#9) Union-carbide road ski pole tips gives you the upper hand against omnipotent chasing dogs, paparazzi, bears, serial murderers, etc.


READ THE REST HERE


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refreshed DAILY if not more!


Friday, October 1, 2010

Ilg’s September Elegy; Thank you September, for thy Grace….


all photos and text by steve ilg...please do not republish without asking, thank you! above;
aspens shimmer before a Missionary Ridge drainage.

What makes the bliss of a Durango September so potent is the fact that you’re standing right in the middle of a gold mine; the aspens turning, the amber rays of fleeting afternoons while ripping some shale singletrack along Raider Ridge…slow pedaling home while marveling at the geese skulling a twilight sky over the Ganges of the San Juans.

The gold mine will soon be covered, equally skillfully and equally beautifully, by a pandemonium of snow. That same snow will inevitably cover my autumn sentiments softly, like a barefoot hobo walking the tracks. My heart swells while I feel my love for autumn in the breeze yet I know that same breeze will soon freeze as it floats away into winter’s cold embrace...

Read & See the rest...


note: the door opens to new Members in one
week!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

the NEW WF WEBSITE; "It Just Rocks!" Student Intial Input!!!




El Coache!

And I do mean LAUNCH!!!
I have taken a few minutes last night and today to poke around in our new home and it just ROCKS!
in comparison, well there really is no comparison between the two.

I know that there is more to come, the site feels so rich and the content pops in a whole new light.

Searchable archives by topic is brilliant. When we taf that we need juice in a specific area,,,,, it's clean and easy!

I did some software marketing in a previous life and web content and presentation were part of our chores. I can appreciate the tedious pain, effort and time that it takes to pull that off.

Love it, Congrats

NSMM
AR

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"It's been WELL WORTH the wait! THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS!"
Student KK
NC

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"INCREDIBLE! PURE MAJESTY UPON THE INTERNET...what else should one expect from ilg?"
RC
CA

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"GREAT SITE!! soooo well organized- exactly the detailed logic that elucidates the unified nature of WF. Good Job!
in awe,
barely adequate ic
NYC



Wednesday, September 29, 2010

New WF Website Is Now LIVE!

i wish to dedicate the opening of my NEW WF WEBSITE to my Beloved Partner, Most Conscious M(OM) ever, Lover, Teacher, and Pranic Angel, Joy (Ananda) Kilpatrick. Lord Buddha only knows what she has put up with over the past YEAR it has taken me and Master WF Student Mike "Maha" Singer to produce what you can now see in its formative vision...sooooo much more to come! To you, Ananda, for your Trust, Faith, and unflappable Support of my DreamSpeak; Wholistic Fitness™...still chugging along and going ever Higher while so many others have come and gone since 1982...feels like we are almost There! photo of Ananda by ilg during another glorious September blissful day last week...


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My Most Precious Sangha of Wholeness Through Personal Fitness...

Gleefully,
and at long last, the new Wholistic Fitness site is live!

Current DL Subscribers,
look for an email from me with details about the changes and all sorts of rewards for your monetary support and Practice of Patience of this nation's original transpersonal fitness Path! now, you are i headed back into the Sacred Cave of WF where i have commanded Maha to roll the boulder over our Cave Entrance and Begin Again the Ascent Higher in a much more protected, freer, and higher tech way than that will touch your heartspace...a Space which you and i began so many incarnations ago...only this time? Enlightenment or Bust, baby!


If you’re not yet a Member
of our unique tribe of multi-disciplined yogic and fitness warriors? the Cave Entrance for new Members will be opening in a week or so. We want to get our precious existing Members into the new site first and tweak things a bit.
In the meantime ...

1. Go check out the new site at wholisticfitness.com
2. Sign up for my Tribal mailing list using the form on the right side of the page

Very soon,
after nearly 4,000 complimentary blogs! and ignitions to all sorts of other personal trainers, yogis, and athletes,
your feeble Teacher will stop posting to Indirect Lines.

The Trendsetters, watchers, spectators, and all those who sit outside the ring of their very own inner Firelight?

Well, as my Tibetan Mountain Yogi Teachers would say to me,
"Travel Well."


ilg breathes a prayer on this night of nights;

phew...finally...i get to be with YOU!



For a few more days, I’ll keep posting here.

See you on the new site!

your feeble teacher of wholeness through personal fitness,

ilg

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Stream Entry WF DharmaTeaching and Meditation NOW AVAILABLE ON MP3

one of my brightest young Lights for WF; Online Student "IC" from NYC...i'll be interviewing this astonishingly talented Brahmin Yogi who relies on WF Online Training for his world-class musical endeavors. this kid is gonna blow you away! Below is his response to my latest MP3 release; the classic WF Teaching of all time: Stream Entry.





Dear Coach (Appreciator of That Which Is),

...like a CliffsNotes guide to TBT, Stream Entry delineates the key tenets of Wholistic Fitness.

no longer will i listen to the "experts" on the mere grounds of the three letters following their names- unless those letters happen to be I-L-G!

WF Online Student IC
NYC


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order your MP3 of STREAM ENTRY
by
clicking here

Monday, September 27, 2010

Perceptions...vs. M(om)ents....


"Perceptions create our problems,
m(om)ents themselves never do."

- Coach Steve Ilg


photo by Ananda of Dewachen yesterday up in the High Country. My 3 year-old Rinpoche is teaching me my highest yoga of my life...each day and in everyWay. click to enlarge Her Transmission into your Practice today!

the quote arrived to me yesterday as i rode up to Andrews Lake (10,748') to meet my girls, culminating 3 days on the bike totaling 9 hours and over 11,000' of climbing. i hadn't been on a bike, hec, i hadn't done any cardio really besides cardio commuting since before my Imogene Pass Run! Amazing, from the intense 3-day cardio immersion, i feel great.

That's the type of yogic wholeness that WF imparts...may all be so Blessed to find this Precious Path.

Dharma Blessings upon your Practice today,

coach ilg







Saturday, September 25, 2010

Worlds SLOWEST MTB Ride? Yesterday's Pilgrimage...

enjoy....4 minutes of WF Chi...




get out and do,
dwell within and be...

your high mountain yogi

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Honoring Grandmother...


on this night of Autumnal Equinox,



feeble ilg collects his small,
yet fierce Tribe of WF Warriors
and
collectively
sends a bow to
our
Beloved Grandmother during this Auspiciously Empowering night...
i just finished a two hour Meditation that felt like 10 minutes;
such is the Pranic Potency of tonight! the Wisest and most Devoted of my Students
will be cranking a few more extra rounds on their Blessed Malas!


here is ilg's Offering To Our Grandmother On Behalf Of My Tribe
on this Night of Nights...

(click to deepen the chi hit)



"Daddy, look, God painted NanaTha white!*"

- Dewachen Ilg, pointing up with her little,
delicious finger at this very moonrise
on the eve of her 3rd birthday
as Grandmother Moon arose
so seductively over my beloved San Juan Mountains
hovering over the hamlet of
Ouray, Colorado on September 10th...

May we all reLearn the Awe of Chi-ldren and Moonstruck souls everywhere,
your feeble teacher


*Nana = grandmother in many languages, and Tha = Sanscrit for Moon...as in Hatha Yoga = union of Sun (Ha) and Moon (Tha)


photos:
1) Grandma as captured by ilg, 9/10/10, Ouray, Colorado with Dewa hanging off my right arm.
2) Dewachen the other evening, looking once again, so dang cute i could eat her up in one big bite...note the Auspicious orange globe She is intuitively, symbolically holding near Her Manipura Chakra; Om So Ti

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Yogi Squat Of The Week...and the Metaphysics of It...do you know what "Laziness" is?


HP Yogi Squat of the Week
goes to Venerable HP Yoga® student and fellow Durangatang, Brad Tafoya. Shown above during a recent backpack trip into the Weminuche, Yogi BT is not only in an active yogi squat, he is also sawing with his Non-Dominant hand in a wonderful display of two of my basic WF Lifestyle Teachings!

Note: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! Yogi BT trains with me every week in our Practice Cave, do not attempt this yogic movement without supervision...especially with saws!


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Yogi Squat Metaphysics
what ilg has been Teaching you through these decades remains outstandingly simple, though most over-think WF. remember, there are only two words in the WF Bible: "Just Listen."

when we Listen to our Outer Worldly (or ego) Mind,
we get superficial fast...gossip, Facebook®, the hectic Things-To-Do Today lists, etc.

when we Listen to our Inwardly Turned (or Dharma) Mind,
we release into the in-dwelling Heartspace within.

the former produces high-breathing, adrenalin, and anxiety.

the latter produces sensual breathing, relaxed alertness, and equanimity.


We tend to continuously choose Ego Mind instead of Dharma Mind due to an ignorance
of WF Lifestyle Principles which are as follows:
  1. Conscious Breath and Posture
  2. Mindfulness
  3. Appropriate Action
  4. Practice

ilg began Teaching fitness students the Yogi Squat after my initial Self Healing Shift from spinal paralysis in the early '80s. the physical benefits of this Do-Anywhere-Anytime fitness movement are as Iyengar might put it; 'innumerable' and include lumbar decompression, spinal integrity, hip opening, pranic saturation, mental healing, lymphatic flushing, pelvic alignment, etc., etc.

yet few Westerners do it.

when i assign it to Online Students, and check in with them, the honest among them report that they didn't do it because;
  • it looks ridiculous (ego mind)
  • i'm too lazy (ego mind)

From a WF Perspective, do you know what "laziness" is?

laziness is less about skipping sets in the gym or sitting out intervals, then it is
not putting the effort into virtue.


there, ilg just gave you another WF Give-Away affirmation
that could possible trigger your next Transformation, so let's adjust our Postures and Breath and say it two-gether Three Times:
  • i am Lazy when i choose not to put the effort into virtue.
  • i am Lazy when i choose not to put the effort into virtue.
  • i am Lazy when i choose not to put the effort into virtue.

Whenever we, like HP Yogi BT, Consciously CHOOSE (Listen!) to sit in Yogi Squat,
be it while brushing our teeth, or in line at the grocery store*, or at our campsite high in God's wild pine palaces
we are creating Merit,
we are cultivating Virtue
by
executing Dharma Mind (conscious effort) instead of what's easy (Ego Ming...sitting in chairs, standing around out of posture, making money from non-Dharmic enterprises, etc).

Now, when we apply Yogi Squat (and CERTAINLY Non-Dominant Hand Assignment), what we are meta-physically hooking up goes far deeper than a new more healthy neuro-hormonal circuitry which positively influences our glandular health far more than your expensive 'supplements' or worse, prescribed pills.

What meta-physically occurs each time we choose to sink our breath into our tight lower back and hips as our quadratus muscles stretch into a Yogi Squat is nothing less than a conquering of Duality Addiction and a psychospiritual accumulation of upward, inward mobilization of our Prana...our Life Force from which our personal divinity, unscarred by religious complication, arises like smoke from an inner fire of tapas.

Those of you still reading this understand that a healthy body - strong and clean - follows Dharma instead of Ego.

Perhaps then, you can understand too, that our Willingness to Yogi Squat - to apply our Non-Dominant Hand when we pour the Silk Soy® into our SUNRIDER Herbs Ilg Supreme Drink - is nothing less than a distillation of the mirrors of our spiritual perception.

and, it is only through our perceptions that we ignorantly superimpose 'problems' upon
that
which
simply
IS.


Today, Noble Warrior Toward Wholeness;

May you Yogi Squat more often,
and
Practice Bravery in your Non Dominant Hand...

and...
you'll Begin to See the Simple Beauty
of this Precious Path, so high above the rest...

Wholistic Fitness®
America's Indigenous Path of Yoga For Westerners
since 1982

head bowed,
your feeble teacher



* how BRAVE do you really want to LIVE and SHARE your WF Study? Please live these Teachings of WF out loud - inspire someone today!