the most efficient machine ever created...

"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon."
~Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist

"To the Wholistic Fitness® yogi? A bicycle is our lifeblood; it's our car, it's our health insurance, it's our chi-developer, it's our weapon against Gaia Abuse.
Today? Ride your bike...

...Then, teach your child."

- coach steve ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness® Transpersonal Training since 1982

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photos - ilg archives:
1 - typical scene; downtown Flag
2 - crankin' down Lower Oldham; my bike commute toward town.
3 - another generation of ilg/bike chi discovered!

You know you're living in Kali Yuga when...

Excuse me,
however,
isn't that a Double-Vajra Dorje in the new set of the Jay Leno Show? (see wall set design over Leno's left shoulder)

and...
uh...
isn't he standing on a Zia Symbol from NM?


interesting how those who capitalize on gossip and enter-tainment are drawn to (ab)using the powerful Transmission energies of symbols representing inner-attainment from eon-old spiritual Traditions!

what's next?

Leno puts the WF Logo on the chairs?

In Defense of Sport

excerpt from today's DL from Coach;

For many, sport comes into our lives where real things are missing. Daily sweat tethers our “monkey mind” creating an empowering sanctuary for us to love the discipline of genuine self-learning, instead of rote memorization. Where there is no daily sweat, there is no ventilation. Such chronic inner toxicity suffocates personal wholeness with blubber and mental clutter.

Sport IS a teacher. In fact, sport is a multilayered and very beautiful teacher. Like any student however, we must take the curriculum if we are to learn.

The wholistic value of sport is sweat, a necessary agent for personal well-being, integrity, and wise discrimination. Cramming education with the “three R's” - as the writer suggests - at the expense of sport (and art and music perhaps?) is precisely the insane intellectual codependency which has resulted in national obesity, bickering, mental illness, and spiritual poverty

As a lifelong 'jock,' I speak for the unspeakable, sacred joy arising from sports and the wholeness it offers to the compass of our lives...

you really shouldn't miss this Teaching, or the 2,000+ Archived Teachings from "The World Fittest Human."

subscribe today and forever sweat with Higher Intent and Focus...

To Breathe or not to Breathe...that is YOUR endless question!

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"Without conscious breathing,
it's drama.
With conscious breathing,
it becomes Dharma."
- coach ilg

in a casual "virasana" while engaging one of my most successful WF Teachings; a "Pranayama Appetizer" during a book photo shoot by Roy Wallack. Studio City, CA.

GodSpeed, Oh Noble Climber, In The Bardo...

i'll get back to the Tour de Ski Chronicles next.

right now,
a DL M(om)ent of Silence for a climber/adventurer whose humility knew and embraced one of my
guiding mountaineering quotes;

"Though man can climb to the highest summits,
he cannot dwell there long."
- Shakespeare.


For the Atman of Sir Edmund Hillary now on the greatest adventure...without a sherpa:

Sir Edmund Hillary; may your Bardo Navigation be accurate, fast, and preciously victorious...
thank you for not forgetting the mountain people of the Himalaya...may we recognize your reincarnation
by the shining, loving, guiding radiance for all Beings in All Realms.

Om Mani Padme Hung

fellow ascentist...ilg

A WF ThanksGiving M(om)ent

Namaste Coach & Teacher Ananda,
a day of Thanks brings much awareness of things to be thankful for. WF being at the top of the list. Steve and i piled on the layers and rode in 37 degree weather with wind and slight sprinkling rain, that later turned to our first snow of the season, it was a pleasant re-minder of how fortunate i am to be traveling the path of WF.

Before dinner everyone starred at their plates with anticipation for everyone to sit down with their plates to begin. i asked my nephews to all share what they were thankful for that day, a lot of them began talking about all of their ‘stuff’ and then we each took a turn to be thankful for something that wasn’t ‘stuff’. By the time they all took their turn, the food had cooled and everyone ate just a bit slower. it warmed my heart to tell those lil guys that i was thankful to be sharing such a wonderful day with those that were special in my life and to see they all got little grins on their faces. i also said that i was thankful for the bird that gave it’s life…they all stopped and looked at me….’what?’ and i repeated what i had said….one of my nephews said…”uh, Aunt Shawna, i don’t think this bird gave it’s life, i think someone took it.” (kids are so darn smart)… i smiled and said, “you’re right, all the more reason to be even more grateful for the nourishment it is providing all of us.” After we finished we all gazed out the window at the bird feeder and there were a few woodpecker’s that arrived. Now, Coach you told me to find out what the real names of those woodpeckers are and after searching there are 100’s of names for those picidae…we were visited by a Pileated woodpecker and i think what was a Hairy Woodpecker….i TAF you are requesting me to tell you a different name for ‘woodpecker’ and i am not certain where to search.

between your DL entry on “The Go(o)d Foundation” with inspiration from - Sogyal Rinpoche and Student L’Gate’s entry, it inspired me to get The Tibetan Book on Living and Dying. upon ordering a copy on Amazon, their ‘based on the books that you order’ it was recommended that i read Steve Ilg – The Winter Athlete…

Teacher Ananda, it was great seeing you back on your blog and that little Dewa….oh what a beautiful sight!

Namaste,
ms.s

coach responds;
Master Student Shawna,

beautiful. you've got the Goddess Chi flowing for sure, and your ThanksGiving MealTime prayer
will be certain leave indelible ripples in your family (especially the young ones) spirit.

any birder worth the designation spends countless hours pouring over the SIBLEY GUIDE.

and, for feeble ilg to be even mentioned on the same page as Rinpoche is honor beyond belief...

head bowed,
heart open,
spirit giving...

love,
your coach in your corner


ps; you can visit MS.Shawna on the GALLERY page of WholisticFitness.com