Warrrior Leaf Speaks...plus: Potent Quotes

"When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct."

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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yah tah hey coach!

congrats on the IPR sweat!

a 17-mile/sweat-lodge ceremony is an awesome experience, just wish i was there to attend.
nevertheless, a pilgrimage to the sacred arches of Moab was in order.

so fall time is setting in and i'm looking forward to the ski season. i guess the first step is to begin some roller-skating?

followed with some equipment purchase? what are your thoughts on the steps?

in the meantime i'll continue my sweat-lodge practice here in kinlani*

diné


* the Navajo name for Flagstaff, Arizona


photo: my Diné Warrior Leaf, enjoying a sandstone variation of Adho Mukha Vrkasana (Handstand) at Broken Arch, Moab, Utah. Warrior Leaf and i have shared a cOMmon Dreamspeak and are working on it together...perhaps, just perhaps, you'll hear more about it later...

"The beauty of training our weaknesses..."

"The beauty of training our weaknesses
lies in the indescribably personal
and penetrating transcendence of them.
Our reward?
Nothing less than Wholeness."

- Coach Steve Ilg
"America's Fittest Yogi" - LA Times

photo by Wayne Williams...click to enlarge my muscles cuz, i only wish it was that easy!

Let Us Be Thankful...

"Let us be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us be thankful."

- Buddha

artwork; Alapadma by Paige Bradley
source; www.inspirationz.com

Uncompounded luminous clarity...Sweat Dharma

Profound and tranquil, free from complexity, Uncompounded luminous clarity, Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas; This is the depth of the mind of the Victorious Ones. In this there is not a thing to be removed, Nor anything that needs to be added. It is merely the immaculate Looking naturally at itself.

- NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE

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Such is the benefit, the beauty of being born into a Warrior Caste...
study the Scriptures of the Ancient Enlightened Ones...
you'll quickly find Realization that
loving the sweat,
cherishing the stillness,
skillfully befriending breath and mindwaves
during sport,
during practice
has elevated us Warriors closer toward Awakening
then the common man
- rooted in lethargy, addicted to sense pleasures, slovenly grasping for
convenience over nobility.

How Blessed are We
to know the necessity of lifestyle fitness?
Of sweating each day to rinse clear the Clouded Mind and Eye and Heart?

Even if we remain scared of meditating,
too frightened to close the chambers of input
and sit still?

It's okay,
for at least you are unplugged from the iPod as you sweat
and
that alone,
might just be enough fodder for Awakening Higher
in the next life.

Is that not the very nature of your Sweat?
Tell feeble ilg if it is not.

Is not everything that is your Weakness
also your Gateway Higher?

Is not the muscle that is tight and restricted
also the the same springboard to Sacred Joy
as you soften it
and grow
more accurate in your silent m(om)ents?


Dharma Blessings upon thy Practice today...

your Rever-End ilg



photo: Leg of ilg. there is actually a rock climbing route in Eldorado Canyon named after these wheels of my current incarnation. Let us all be grateful - those of us who have two legs - let us use them as Go(o)d intended:
as our Dharma Wheels! Get out and do...sweat so you can begin to See.

There is no substitute for Noble Effort...

"There is no substitute for Noble Effort. Always apply your full capacity in every Appropriate Action towards your Highest Self. The worst waste of all is the waste of our inherent Enlightenment potential."

- Coach Steve Ilg
200+ podiums in 23 different sports
7 World Championship appearances in 5 different sports

founder:
Wholistic Fitness
and
High Performance Yoga


photo: ilg crankin' "Medicine Ball Mini-Rockys"

the greatest endeavor of your life

please do not republish without consent. thank you.

coach in MahaMudra by James Q Martin

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Just as a writer learns the spontaneous freedom of expression only after years of often grueling study, and just as the simple grace of a dancer is achieved only with enormous, patient effort, so when you begin to understand where meditation will lead you, you will approach it as the greatest endeavor of your life, one that demands of you the deepest perseverance, enthusiasm, intelligence, and discipline. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Happy, Wholistic M(om)s Day!!! + Yogi Squat of the Week!

photo by ilg earlier this morning,
click to enlarge the Love Hit...

Ananda also wins the Yogi Squat of the Week Award for this one...

(and yes, for those Alert WF Warriors who have NOT lost their Inner Chi-ild,
that is indeed, Thomas and Percy in Dewa's hands!)

"We have all been mothers in previous lives."
- Buddha

Happy Wholesome Mother's Day To All...
especially, my Beloved Ananda...

There Is No God Higher Than Truth." - Mahatma Gandhi

Academia Rings In: Warriorship is a birthright! "It's very important" for ilg to keep doing what ilg does

WF;

Because Warriorship is our Birthright!

ilg likes it!

what do YOU TAF?

let me know in the SanghaLounge...

that might just be my next WF T-shirt/bumper sticker!

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Hey Coach!

I can't get over how cool it is to email with you. Thanks for sending out the HP Yoga Basic Strength DVD today-- REALLY looking forward to it. Actually, I just bought the HP Prop DVD .

Thanks also for the 20% discount offer, but no need: it's worth every penny and I want to support what you're doing because I think it is very valuable.

I wrote my master's thesis on the social and cultural history of physical fitness in this country, and I can tell you from a fairly unique perspective that it is very important for you to keep doing what you are doing.

There's enough people making plenty of money off baseball players and helping meatheads confirm that they are "tough". You are one of the few voices out there telling the shy, obese freshman or the meek housewife that they have warriorship as their birthright. I'll donate my 20% back to you, for them.

However, if it's not asking too much, what I would definitely say yes to is an autograph. I don't know if you're able to do that sort of thing, but if there's a way to sign the DVD to Matt and Jenn, that would be awesome.

Thanks again for being a hero who doesn't disappoint,

Matt B
New Haven, CT

Less Desire

less desire
means
less pain...

no anger inside
means no enemies outside...





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photo; coach in japa mala

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Dear Coach,
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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

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my Red Rock Racing Team here in Flag...though ilg has been MIA on the bike racing circuit this summer as i've swapped my cleats for running shoes*, my team has been cranking the summer sweat big time. Congrats RRR Teammates! Can't wait to race with you again!!!...hey, is it just me or am i turning more Asiatic as the years pass? Front row between the kids!) photo by Sara Dillavou

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Growing up, i thrived on memorizing poems and sacred scripture excerpts, and quotes that stirred my Chi. surviving (barely) the eighties as a sponsored extreme athlete (synonymous with 'extreme partying'), has pretty much deleted most of my memorization skills. however, many of the Chi quotes still stick to my cells and pop up during high-intensity silence or sweat sessions. it with great honor that i begin sprinkling your own Practice with these pivotal sayings which graced my own Chi Development...use them with your Highest Integrity and they will empower your Path...

"If you are not leaning,
no one will ever let you down."

"If you let other people do it for you,
they will do it to you."

"99% responsibility doesn't work."

- Dr. Robert Anthony

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"No person does injustice to their Teacher if
they forever remain a student."
- Nietzche


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The hardest move a climber can make is to
do a difficult route &...


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(see bio on website for my race results thus far)