March 20, 2004
Fan Quote Of The Week?:
"WHO ARE YOU MR. ILG? ARE YOU STILL MARRIED? IF NOT CALL ME! YOUR BOOK IS THE BOMB! I THINK YOU ARE BUDDHA-LICIOUS BABY!"
- Nylie from Brooklyn
Buddha-licious!?
Oh Lord Patanjali, forgive me.
I did not know...i was just trying to bridge the gap between East/West fitness methodologies...being "Budda-licious" was NOT, i promise You, part of my intent!
how about some genuine Ilg-isms that have been coming through my early morning Practices?
send in yours! we all must help each other by sharing our In-sights
from Practice if we are ever to become Buddha-licious!
;-)
note: all Practice In-sights must come from the space where sweat dances with conscious breathing.
here are my most recent ones. may they help you turn an inner eye to your work'outs':
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In my experience, intensity reveals weakness.
- coach ilg
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�Wherever there is tightness in your body there is weakness. It requires tremendous inner fortitude to match suppleness with strength. For those of us who begin the journey toward genuine functional flexibility, we must attack our weaknesses and stiff areas with as much consistent conscious awareness and effort as it took lazy, unconscious lack of awareness to produce the weakness and stiffness in the first place! For many of us, particularly aging athletes, we are in for the best BattleDance of our life.�
- coach ilg
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�Answer people with your eyes not with your words. Eyes reveal the intensity and consistency of your inner work.�
- coach ilg
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�Consistent meditation produces a vortex within each moment making more of your life available for spiritual work.�
- coach ilg
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�If you want to be happy constantly, do this: Forget it. If, however, you want to regain your natural state of Joy, do this: train your mind (meditate)!�
- coach ilg
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�Spiritual work is a lot like commercialism in the fact that there really isn�t anything �new�...just cleverly repackaged in order to get you to try it.�
- coach ilg on why he chose personal fitness and sport performance as forms of spiritual training.
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�Too much ease = dis-ease. Ride your bike, strength train, do yoga, eat herbs. Move and breathe, baby!�
- coach ilg
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�Feel the pleasure of being in your body. The larger context will open later.�
- coach ilg
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�If you seek grace plus strength you must have clarity of intention. Use conscious posture to develop the strength and use conscious breathing as a means of acquiring grace.�
- coach ilg