Showing posts with label Coach's Vents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coach's Vents. Show all posts

Friday, August 20, 2010

Life In Kali Yuga- When will the Dharma of WF be listened to?



They Ain't Laughing Now...

i first wrote publicly about the physiologic, physical, and spiritual dangers of listening to headphones while exercising when "Walkmans" first became popular in the early eighties. Back then i was a columnist for Rocky Mountain Sports & Fitness. I wrote that listening extensively to blaring music piped directly into ears was a physiologic train wreck waiting to happen in the years to come. I also said that, physically, we are going to see a lot more 'accidents' occur out on the trails and roads as people, "addicted to listening to music instead of appreciating and developing their inner listening skills," will become involved in car vs. pedestrian/rider crashes and trail rider crashes.

when the ingenious heads of Outer World technology invented the iPod® with their refined delivery system of ear-pods growing like lotus stems from an unimaginably small housing, i wrote, "...they call them iPods, right? Well, the 'i' stands for Ignorance," and sure enough, today a national study released showed that an astonishing 1 in 5 teens now suffers from hearing loss due to - basically - an addiction to iPods.



Get Used To This Phrase; "Especially dangerous to those with compromised Immune Systems"
Hilariously sad. So, i guess like half a BILLION eggs are being recalled due to contamination with Salmonella. Get used to this. And, i love their warning which has, over the past several years become more of a trite disclaimer from conscious and responsible development, manufacturing, and distribution practices among our nation's food suppliers; "Especially dangerous to those with compromised Immune Systems."

Uh, have you SEEN the typical fat yet undernourished American?
Have you SEEN the statistics of our 'health'?

Hate to tell you, however, most American's DO HAVE 'compromised Immune Systems' owing to their addiction to junk and mass manufactured foods and beverages!

All these 'new disorders' and dis-eases ranging from 'allergies' to 'restless leg' to cancers are simply training effects from poorly nourished Immune Systems!

And you wonder why i and my faithful warriors who gleefully consume MAP Aminos along with the SUNRIDER Herbs haven't seen the inside of a doctors office in decades and just keep cranking Higher and Far Beyond the reach of the common dis-orders and dis-eases of the mainstream?

Let's see, latest figures for the cost of cancer - besides being the worlds top economic killer and well as the most likely leading cause of death surpassing AIDS, malaria, and the flu - reached $895 billion in 2008 according to a report from the Center for Global Development.

$895 billion?
Uh, that would certainly provide more than enough bottles of MAP Aminos and SUNRIDER Herbs for like every person on Earth for their entire lives.

Weird, how the Unawakened just don't prioritize Regenerative, Preventive, Wholistic Health and Fitness until...well, it's too late.


In Other Kali Yuga Head Shaking News...
Pro golfer Phil "Lefty" Mickelson probably earns the Kali Yuga demerit award of the month as he proudly announced that he is "turning vegetarian," after his addiction to poor food choices has left him with a well-earned dis-ease along with his 'weight problem.' The downside is that Lefty, who could have swayed millions more than someone like feeble ilg can toward a more healthy, vegetarian-based nutritional intake, kept his vegetarianism in the closet so he would not negatively impact sales on his national junk-food, dis-ease inviting chain of highly profitable restaurants, Five Guys and A Burger* or something idiotic like that...



Om So Ti...

and
Blessings upon thy Practice this week


Find The Chi,
Develop The Chi,
Live The Chi...
Wholistic Fitness®...since 1982





*Men's Health magazine claims that Five Guys's meals are unhealthy.[8] A standard double patty burger, for example, contains almost 800 calories and 197% of the recommended daily saturated fat intake.[9] Men's Health also rated Five Guys's french fries as the 4th most unhealthy food in America, noting that a standard large order of fries contains almost 1,500 calories (but is said to feed 3-4 people).[10] The Center for Science in the Public Interest placed Five Guys's bacon cheeseburger, which contains 920 calories, among its 2010 list of most unhealthy meals available at U.S. chain restaurants.[11]

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Laker Power!

well, although it wasn't as moving to me as Lance's performance in the Tour of Switzerland today...ilg must say, "YEAH LAKERS!!!!!!!!!!"

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

what about Tiger?

Funny how many people (not Durangatangs) ask me about Tiger.

thing is, it's none of my business and ilg really doesn't care that much about sports where there is sooo much money and so little sweat. ilg respects the skill sports, sure. then again, ilg respects a good morning poop, too.

ilg is more stoked with the Av's squeaking into the Playoffs, and certainly the podium performances of the American Nordic Combined bros, and of my bro Chris Horner at age 38 taking the Tour of the Basque beating Valverde, and...

Tiger?

hey, we're all addicted.

if not to drugs or sex or gossip or entertainment than we are addicts to our non-dominant hand, our useless Speech and Thought which is not kind, nor helpful, nor true.

we're all addicts to various kleshas (see current DL Teaching) and lazy tendencies and negative habits. some of us have terminal dis-eases...often unknown, yet. all but the Enlightened are addicts to Desire. so what's the big deal about Tiger?

does ilg wish he woulda at least changed sports when he chose to Sweat again?
sure, however, Golf is far more of a comfort zone for him than the Terrain he has been recently traveling, so...

until we are free from kleshas we're all addicts.
so let's Practice the Teachings of Yogi Jesus, shall we and just work on Forgiveness, Tolerance, and Compassion.

okay?

go(o)d.

that is all.

May all Tigers Roar Higher than their Kleshas...
May we all!

head bowed,
ec

ps; just back from teaching my 2nd HP PROP WORKOUT here in Durango and already the Durangatangs are ALL OVER IT! had 8 Warriors step up tonight; MAN ALIVE are they strong!! Love them! Love you! Blessings upon thy Sweat...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

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





...when the Dalai Lama is escorted out the BACK DOOR of the White House past piles of trash bags...

Om Mani Padme Hung


special thanks to HP Yogi Jut for this lead.

photo by Getty Images

Saturday, April 18, 2009

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...

Thursday, March 1, 2007

The Beginning Of The End Of What i've Come To Love As ilg?


take good look at that face.
because today, on this Morning of all Sacred Mornings...
i'm getting the first hit that DaddyHood may well be the end of ilg as i love him.
i know, i know. some of you veteran Daddies are already smiling, seeing that ol' ilg is finally, finally gonna have to grow up for christ's sake. let me explain.
see that face? that is a typical ilg face.
you know, the one we've all come to love and enjoy, even me.
and trust me, it's been a long, hard grind to learn to love every afflicted, painfilled, negative, lazy, and spoiled cell of me.
you know how i've come to love all the conflicted parts of me?
i'll tell you right here and now, DL Warriors;
i've allways loved, embraced, and downright embellished the mischievous soul of ilg.
that is right, i said, 'mischievous.'
can a professional yogi REALLY be allowed to be 'mischievous'?
you bet.
in fact, in the Lineage of Mountain Yogis, we excel at mischievousness. we, in additional fact,

{another excerpt...}


...see all that fresh fluff upon the Sacred Peak?
if you could look outside my window right now, your Heart would Dance as the glimmering, glitter of cold snowflakes glissade through Morning Light like an Arctic fantasyland. there is fresh snow upon my Beloved Mother thanks to some night work from Father Sky. Mt. Elden, looking like a celestial white Ganesha in the background, appears to applaud in measured waves as cold and hungry finches, ravens, and chickadees flit like freezing fire through immensely needled giant pines. Each morning in the mountains is to me, Temple Time.
yet, as i write this, in this very moment...

{another excerpt:}

mischievous ilg applies his best yoga in these trees, mimicking puma like agility;
swiftly dropping one knee and then the next in deep, seemingly endless powder as the massive tree trunks whir past.
breath comes quickly, then slowly.
torso rising, then falling tapping into some version of primordial ocean movement still at large within my being.
this is why i telemark ski,
this is why i live,
this is why i...i...


DO NOT MISS THIS HILARIOUS, POIGNANT, POETIC ESSAY IN IT's ENTIRETY FROM AN AUTHOR, WORLD CLASS EXTREME ATHLETE and YOGA TEACHER COMING TO GRIPS WITH A LIFE-CHANGING SITUATION
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* first photo by WayneWilliamsStudio.com
all others by ilg