September 30, 2004
A COACH ILG APPROVED AND ENDORSED PRODUCT:
YOGA TOES�
"Dear Stephan,
I AM wearing my YogaToes right now after a 57.5 mile, 7,000' bicycle training ride up in the Santa Monica mountains. In fact, slipping into my YogaToes is now a ritual and comes right after my post-workout shower!
Having used your fine product now for over a year, it would be hard to calculate their positive impact upon my subtle and physical anatomy. It is yogic truth that 'brittle feet equals unhealthy organs,' and even I began to doubt my capacity to ever attain the highly sought after "yogic toe spread" after so many decades of cramming my feet into rock climbing shoes, ski boots, running shoes, etc. Yet, due to the ergonomic affect of your amazing product, my entire stance and walking and running gait has been sublimely affected...not to mention a deepening fitness of my energy lines.
I find Yoga Toes to be absolutely essential for ALL endurance athletes, of vital importance to any fitness warrior,
a secret weapon for skill athletes like sport climbers, golfers, and ball players, and for yogis, well, yogis should LIVE in them!"
- Coach Ilg, RYT/USCF
author/TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION
"The World's Fittest Human."
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Interested in getting your toes into YogaToes�?
contact: Stephan at YogaPro...tell him, Coach Ilg sent you!
1.800.488.8414
stephan@yogapro.com
http://yogapro.com/
September 29, 2004
Our goodbye salutation to...
the Windy City...
We will miss our faithful Chicago Warriors like Online Student Jim Johnston
who cardio commuted to my Master Class at the Women's Athletic Club and gave me
his "A-game." To the warrior ladies at WAC during our luncheon DharmaTalk...your
attention and laughs are etched into my smiling heart.
To Danielle DeVaux at the stunningly posh and standard raising
Peninsula Club where HP Yoga still graces their Class Schedule
and where, in-house computer doctors (see below)
await any cyber emergency to help
people like me bring the ever faithful Dharma of DL to people like
you.
To my faithful assistant Ananda,
who steadily increases her own Practice of
- and pushes her own edges -
in the multidisciplined fitness nature of WF.
To all of you, who like myself, are determined to find more Truth
as we glide along the shores of our comfort zones and repeatedly dance
in sweat and spirit...
to Chicago, Anne, Robyn, Claudia, and all of our Midwest WF Warriors...
May your Practices be ever strong and...
May Your Workout Be Everwhere...
your feeble teacher,
coach ilg
September 28, 2004
Namaste Noble Warriors!
ahhhhh...the feeling of a job well done! Ananda and i have finished our
last day of consective teaching and lectures on our final Seminar swing
ending in the Windy City of Chicago!
you know my humble Path...we don't send out glitzy brochures enticing you
to join me as i speak and teach across the country...i trust that if i ring the Gong,
the noble warriors of our Tribe will show...and they did! MUCH thanks to our AMAZING Chicago
WF and HP devotees; Anne Pringle and Robyn Grieve who did the legwork and logistics
to bring Ananda and myself here. Following are a few shots of our Chicago experience starting
with our stay at one of the worlds most astonishing hotels, The Peninsula...
i'm telling you, don't miss out on a HP Yoga or WF retreat...check it out. Now Ananda and i are
going to enjoy our day off with an inline skate along Lake Michigan and maybe stop by the
Lincoln Park Zoo and talk with the Animal Beings. I love Chi-town...THANK YOU ALL MY CHICAGO
WARRIORS! :
http://chicago.peninsula.com/iflash.html
WF long time devotees from Chicago; Anne and Robyn share a lunch with Coach before the Master Classes. photos/Ananda
Another packed HP Yoga Master Class at the historical Women's Athletic Club, Chicago. Amazing architecture!
Coach signing books to his Chicago fans...
Looking from our hotel window toward Lake Michigan with the Old Chicago Water Tower in the foreground. Photo/ilg
September 26, 2004
Dear Yogis and Wholistic Fitness� Fans,
Here is you chance to truly get away and immerse yourself in the Light�of Yoga and Wholistic Fitness� -- A week of Eco-Camping and Yoga in St. John U.S. Virgin Islands with Certified Wholistic Fitness� Teacher�Chris "Kodanda"�Roche.�
�
For�Yoga and Wholistic Fitness� details contact Teacher Ko.�
Phone: 317.297.SAGE(7243)
Email TwistedSage@sbcglobal.net
For�specific trip details visit the Ambassadair Travels website,�www.ambassadair.com�
Space is limited, reserve your spot today!
September 23, 2004
"Truth comes between breaths."
- Buddha
"Zen is to have the heart and soul
of a child."
- Takuan
The only truth to increased sport performance
is the same truth which lies behind
zen
and
increased health,
and
job enjoyment and productivity,
and
relationship harmony,
and
spiritual growth.
That truth
is
breath.
Create the time each day to become more and more conscious of it.
Your conscious breath
is your conscious life.
That is all.
i bow to you,
coach ilg
{photo of coach in siddhasana by Wayne WIlliams. playing tennis by Ananda.}
September 22, 2004
SPECIAL ISSUE OF DL!
NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS OF MOUNTAIN YOGI COACH ILG ACTUALLY IN WATER OVER HIS HEAD!
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Hi Coach Ananda -
In the absence of being able to be in Utah with you and Coach, I am grateful for the wonders of the Internet, and the photos and account you posted on the DL. It�s so vivid and immediate!
Next I want to see photos of coach swimming! Knowing him, he�ll be world champion within a few months... ����; )
Love
WF Online Student Diana
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coach ilg reponds:
Noble Online Student Diana -
whatever my Online Students ask for,
they shall receive.
3 Words when viewing these shots:
Phelps
Look
Out!
note how i have cleverly angled my dive so i end up in the shallow end:
ilgdiving.JPG
though dozens of expert swim coaches have attempted to teach me how to swim, it was
WF and HP Yoga Teacher Ananda, who used Yogic terms and techniques to relax me enough
into the water so technique could arise from my fast-to-sink body:
ilgswim1.JPG
ilgswim2.JPG
after nearly two laps of 'swimming'...
an exhausted ilg turned into...
NOODLE BOY for several hours!!
photo's by Ananda.
coming up: HP YOGIS STORM THROUGH MALIBU TRIATHLON!
September 21, 2004
"I can't change the direction of the wind,
but i can adjust my sails
to always reach my destination."
- Dharma found on a paper towel by Ananda
photo/waynewillamsstudio.com
NAMASTE NOBLE WARRIORS!
thank you for your patience with me
recently...a visiting Student was here in LA with me
training for and magnificently competing in the MALIBU TRIATHLON
on Sunday. look to DL for a specific report from that event.
well, most of the in-studio film footage for WholisticFitness.com 2005 version
has been shot (see above).
so am i!
thank god for SUNRIDER herbs! like CHI TUGBOAT, those herbs have been pulling
me through workshops, travel, filming, crazy business stuff, coaching, and a whole ton of Practice...
more on that soon! i have a ANNOUNCEMENT to make that might excite some of you
ULTRA DISTANCE CARDIO WARRIORS out there!
in the meanwhile, here are a few morsels of recent Temple activity, enjoy and
be inspired!
love endlessly,
coach ilg
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AN HONORABLE DL READER ACTUALLY ASKS PERMISSION TO USE ONE OF MY QUOTES!
Hi Steve,
I have been reading your 'direct lines' and was admiring your quote:� "There are no rights or wrongs to personal fitness training, there are only consequences of your determination."� May I share this with my personal training clients?� Feel free to check out our website, my bio is listed in the fitness section.
Thanks for your continued inspiration and passion.� Its nice to know there are others out there that are passionately driven to personally excel and to inspire others!
Namaste.
Amy Freeman
Fitness Director
Eugene Swim & Tennis Club�
www.estc.org
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A MASTER STUDENT RETURNS TO THE TEMPLE:
�steve,�
recently i received a lovely voicemail from ananda asking me to check in and, as requested, i am doing so.� my life continues to full of challenges/opportunities for growth and i do my best to meet them with erect�posture and low, soft breath.� i have not been an active online student of yours due to economic reasons but�that time has passed and�the student is again ready for the teacher to appear.� i want to commend you on the magnificent work that you continue to do,� TBT is wonderful and�DL has�helped to keep me on the path so many times.� i strongly recommend that�my more athletic patients purchase TBT; �i assign readings and teach ST and yoga�direct from the book and they are able to refer to it when they are exercising on their own.�
ai imawa!�
konryu blair lyon
Richard Lyon
konryu@earthlink.net
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WOW!
anada's photo of you in bharadvajasana variation on the sand.....
{DL 9-18}
beautiful-powerful-calm-loving-content-firm-direct
intense-balanced......WOW!
i bow to both of you for that beautiful moment....
thank-you,
student dansan
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FOR ADULTS ONLY: ANOTHER RJ RANT:
Ilgbro,
I�m watching the news tonight in my gym as my twins were playing with me and all the speed agility cones and a �breaking fitness study� comes on TV.� Lo and behold a �new� study is out that you don�t need fancy HR monitors to judge quality and safe heart rate fitness levels�you just need to exercise to the point of difficult conversation.� $%#@!*& ILGBRO! What the fuck breaking news is this?� Where did these moron researchers come from with such �ground breaking research� and what media idiots would actually run this story on CNN Headline News?!� We�ve been telling people this basic shit for years!� My God�only in America man!
Just rantin� rj
Ron Jones, MS
Atlanta, Georgia
ACSM Health/Fitness Instructor
Licensed Corporate Wellcoach
www.ronjones.org�
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COACH's PRERACE COUNSEL:
Noble Student Mackel-
pain is momentary.
quitting is forever.
there are ten thousand ways to quit while on that bike segment.
there are also ten thousands ways to CRUSH that bike segment.
the Tribal Breath
breathe
tailwinds into your every stroke.
head bowed,
your feeble coach ilg
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AND>>>THE STUDENT'S RESPONSE:
Coach,
There are ten thousand ways to race smart
there are also ten thousand ways to love your coach.
Namaste,
NWSM
September 18, 2004
coach ilg in bharadvajasana variation. photo by Ananda.
RESOLUTIONS
Emptying Your Mind
* Today, I will strive for a state of empty mind and
generate more space for goodness to come to me.
* Today, I will surrender my need to make assumptions.
* Today, I will relinquish my need to prejudge.
* Today, I will empty my mind of doubt.
* Today, I will empty my mind of anger.
* Today, I will empty my mind of hate.
* Today, I will empty my mind of fear.
* Today, I will empty my mind of guilt.
* Today, I will empty my mind of shame.
* Today, I will surrender the need to control.
* Today, I will meet force with softness.
* Today, I will choose to redirect toxic energies that are
wielded toward me.
* Today, I will surrender my need to predict conclusions.
* Today, as I open to the utmost emptiness, I will remain safe and whole,
and I will be thankful.
* Today, I will surrender myself to the Infinite.
- Joseph Cardillo, BE LIKE WATER.
contributed to Coach Ilg for DL by WF Student MG.
WF Student MG preparing to BE LIKE WATER before the MALIBU TRIATHLON.
photo/ilg
High Performance Master Yoga Class
with Steve Ilg
Steve Ilg, "The World's Fittest Human"
Steve Ilg is an elite athlete who has competed in several different sports, including extreme skiing, road cycling, orienteering and various forms of multi-sport competitions. In 1983, while mountain climbing, he fell 50 feet and broke his back. Instead of ending his athletic career, it only temporarily slowed him down. After healing himself through unconventional means including yoga and Eastern philosophy, he went on to some of his greatest achievements by winning five national and international championships in four different sports. Ilg now runs a Yoga studio in California, where he teaches "Wholistic Fitness".
His new book "Total Body Transformation: A 3-Month Personal Fitness Prescription for a Strong, Lean Body and a Calmer Mind" will be available. He is the author of several books, including �The Outdoor Athlete�, and Be-Good-To-Your-Body Therapy�, and is published in 13 languages.
Woman�s Athletic Club
626 N. Michigan
Chicago Illinois 60611
For reservations:
312-944-6123 ext.138
Sunday, September 26th
6:00-7:30pm
High Performance Yoga Master Class for Yoga teachers and advanced students.
�Enlightenment is not in some distant, far away Realm...in fact, the transformation toward our Enlightenment begins again and again within our daily life."
September 17, 2004
*
Regarding Wave
The voice of the Dharma
the voice
now
A shimmering bell
through all.
Every hill, still.
Every tree alive. Every leaf.
All the slopes flow.
old woods, new seedlings,
tall grasses plumes.
Dark hollows; peaks of light.
wind stirs the cool side
Each leaf living.
All the hills.
The Voice
is a wife
to
him still.
- Gary Snyder
{contributed to coach ilg for DL by WF Student Steven Blondeau
Winder, GA}
* photo by Ananda
of coach ilg on top of a Utah volcano doing the Ai Imawa Posture;
Touching Far Away Things With Our Minds.
September 14, 2004
"There are no rights or wrongs to personal fitness training,
there are only consequences of your determination."
- Coach Ilg
Namaste Noble Wholistic Fitness Warriors!
�coach ilg enjoying a sandy perch in bakasansa and wind and sunset.�
Ananda and i have found ourselves back in LA after yet another chakra empowering
HP Yoga Summer Retreat at Red Mountain Spa
promise your Higher Self
a vital experience;
do whatever it takes to join us at our retreats...i make sure HP Yoga retreats
are what Yoga (Union) are all about...things like...
�ascending a rock cliff made from petrified sand dunes in Snow Canyon on 'Nalanda' �
sweating up petrified sand dunes...
and
� Father Sky, Mother Earth pose...one of the Ai Imawa Taoist Yoga Postures �
finding silence among non-petrifed ones...
and...
well...
just stay tuned for more on our Summer HP Yoga Retreat on
DIRECT LINES...
the original Voice
from the originator
of the nation's original form
of transpersonal fitness training...
WHOLISTIC FITNESS�, baby!
Don't settle for just 'studio yoga' or
conventional personal training...
Be brave,
Be Wholistic
instead of imbalanced.
Ain't nothing like WF...
live life fully; live a Wholistic Fitness Life:
Strength
Cardio
HP Yoga
Meditation
Whole Food Nutrition
&
Conscious Lifestyle Principles.
WHOLISTIC FITNESS is
America's indigenous form of YOGA: Union of Body/Mind/Spirit!
Brought to you by a mountain yogi
and
Carefully cultivated to fit your lifestyle...
since 1892!
books, dvds, cds, and Online Training; our real Temple for your Transformation!
"There are no rights or wrongs to personal fitness training,
there are only consequences of your determination."
- Coach Ilg
(photo's by Ananda. do not use without permission of Steve Ilg.)
September 10, 2004
Field Notes #2
from our
HP Yoga Summer Retreat at Red Mountain Adventure Spa
report filed by ilg, most photos by Ananda
A cluster of red boulders in an arroyo near Hidden Pinyon Trail
remind me of inner obstacles that must be eroded away through
lifetime spiritual Practice...
my HP Yoga Classes, Teacher Trainings, and Lectures are nearly over...each
have been met with teary eyed fans, tired armed warriors, autograph seekers,
and the smiling eyes
of the newly converted who have been touched by the unmistakable and
utterly unique chi of HP Yoga...in between classes and lectures, i retreat into
the red desert on foot or on bike to slip again and again into my soul,
whencecometh the Power, the Higher Source of the sacred Teachings and
Energies that come through my feeble abilities...i know this much,
to touch others, to inspire others to sweat and be still everyday...
i must
sweat and pour myself into my solo silences and Practices
as authenticately as ever...
even moreso...
otherwise,
i am not a genuine Protector of the Dharma
i am not a Teacher of Yoga...of union of ALL the DANCES available
to the human experience...
testing my meditation skills 30' up a route called, "Bat's Meow" rated 5.7+
when the climbing rope falls between your legs, you are so alive, so sincere,
so fully focused...so human!
Ananda, my everfaithful Assistant and partner, has seen once again a Shift in her
body and her mind during this Retreat. Here she is bouldering on The Breakfast Nook,
Snow Canyon.
Red sand, nearly as fine as dust
lava rock, black as pitch, indelible residue from a volcanic era
and
red rock cliffs, giant monoliths which soar into cobalt skies
urging me to climb them, meditate with their sun baked silences...
it is all i can do but thank God for Wholistic Fitness so i
can Dance my Breath among such extreme miracles of
Mother Earth and Father Sky...
may your Practice be strong and sincere today
we wish you were here with us...
love endlessly,
your feeble coach ilg
September 08, 2004
Field Report from HP Yoga Summer Retreat At
Red Mountain Adventure Spa,
Ivins, Utah
by Ananda
i bow in wow
of the majestic red canyons
and the lava flows that i
am so blessed to be viewing from my
room here at Red Mountain Spa.
�Each room at our HP Yoga Summer Retreat at Red Mountain comes with a hec of a view. photo/Ananda�
How nice it would be if you were All here
to share in this heavenly retreat where
fitness and health, serenity and gratitude are
served daily.
��The Fitness Dome� on the grounds of Red Mountain Adventure Resort. photo/ilg�
Coach and i arrived on Labor Day Monday,
practicing Compassion for all those folks on the Highway
driving back to LA from where ever, caught in the muck of
�i thought we would miss this traffic, dear.�
As we were driving by Vegas and into Utah,
i could feel the energy change. The desert Pran
ever present calling me back to my newly introduced
playground. The Purity of the moment brought tears
to my eyes. Ahhhh.....
So kindly we were welcomed here at Red Mtn.
Just in time for dinner. Yum! i �taf� there�s nothing nicer
than relaxing to a delicious meal served with love.
� "Sweat is not different from Spirit." -Coach Ilg. Tuesday�s HP Strong Flow in full sweat!
photo/Ananda.�
Tuesday was Coach�s HPY Strong Flow class where
both new newcomers and seasoned practitioners sweated to
the internal heat purifying their body in Steve�s fun, inspiring,
challenging yoga class. Ribbons where given out to Charles from
PA for �Best Effort�. Max received the �Great Attitude� ribbon and
Betty from NY was gifted a HPY water bottle and Prayer Flag for
consistency. She was here last year to participate in Steve�s classes.
Keeping the WF tradition, the afternoon brought a bike ride up Snow Canyon
(a stunning, white colored mountain squeezed between red cliffs).
Breath taking. oh, i�m not referring to the view, though it was, i�m
referring to the breath it took to get my bike up those hills!!!
A warm-up for what was to come this morning.
As i took my �cardio child�s pose� resting during a water break,
next thing i knew, Coach had me babysitting his cross-bike, Nalanda,
while he took off with my mountain bike and was soon calling my name,
waving his hands from the summit of a near vertical, red petrified sand dune.
How he loves to play.
Speaking of which, he�s calling me now....just back from his private consultation (see
photo below)
and ready to go rock climbing in the alpenglow of a setting desert sun.
More Updates From Our HP Yoga Summer Retreat soon! Keep your
Practice your Strong!
Namaste!
Ananda
ps; for those of you keeping up on Coach�s �swimming� lessons, he has made it across the Jr. Olympic pool without drowning and... without �water wings�!
� Coach in private consultation with devoted Student Lisa from PA
who returned to Red Mountain specifically for the HP/WF DIRECT CHI HIT.�
September 04, 2004
NOW PRESENTING ALL THIS WEEK:
September 6-13
at Award Winning
RED MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE SPA
Ivins, Utah
www.RedMountainSpa.com
Steve Ilg
and
HIGH PERFORMANCE YOGA
"High Performance Yoga; Because elegance during difficulty is beautiful."
Come experience lectures, yoga classes, workshops with the only Senior Registered Yoga Teacher to ever
compete in Five World Championships in four different sports. Enjoy rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking,
and what is most fun of all? Watching the nation's ultimate 'mountain yogi' trying to...swim! Come sweat, splash,
and soar ever upward Noble Fitness Warriors!
photo; dorit thies
for many more great pictures of Coach visit and peruse:
http://www.doritthies.com/index.php
�Dance, when you�re broken open.
Dance, if you�ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you are perfectly free.�
- Rumi
��� offered by WF Apprenticeship Teacher Ananda, shown above with director/producer Wayne Williams on the set of WholisticFitness.com productions. WholisticFitness.com will offer the equivalent of over 30 DVD's on ALL aspects, disciplines, and sacred teachings of WF! coming next year! ���
3 QUICK QUESTIONS TO COACH
3 QUICK ANSWERS
Q) Dear Coach, i never see you eat. do you really just live on those herbs and still do all that stuff you do?
A) No, the rumor that i live entirely on herbs is unfounded. i also eat New Mexico Green Chile.
i eat the herbs, from SUNRIDER, as 'jet fuel' for my body.
i eat the green chili, specially ordered from Albuquerque, is 'jet fuel' for my soul.
{ to blast off on the same "jet fuel" as Coach does just look left margin and sign up for a SUNRIDER membership under a WF Teacher of your choice. For the chili, go to;
http://www.sweethots.com/
tell 'em Coach Ilg sent you!}
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Q) Where is the best place to integrate Zazen Practice in daily life?
A) On a Kawasaki z1000 in between the thousands of cars on the 405 in LA, during rush hour(s). that is, truly, engaged zen. if you doubt me, c'mon out and we'll ride together...you will see.
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Q) Dear Coach, i want a tan like yours.
A) Then be prepared to accept Skin Cancer as just a valid Way to exit the Stage than any other.
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dear 'feeble one',
You are a Master Teacher and Protector of the Dharma.
thank you for honoring me and our work two-gether.
i bow humbly, deeply...graciously
Ananda
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Overheard after a HP Prop Workout at the HP Yoga Studio,
"Wow, you are a mother of that many kids? That alone is your workout, not this."
"Oh no, I HAVE to do this {the HP yoga classes} so I can be a better 'mom' to my kids."
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FOR OUR LA NOBLE FITNESS WARRIORS
Noble Student Steve Mackel, endurance athlete extraordinaire with Coach at a local booksigning for TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION
Coach,
This weekend (Monday) is Run 2 the Top of Mt. Baldy. This race is Approximately 8 mile run with a 4000 foot elevation gain. Beginning at 6,000 ft. elevation. The first mile is paved roadway followed by 5 miles of steep narrow dirt roadway. The next mile, a narrow "catwalk" trail that hugs the mountain side: the final mile, the steepest, is above the timber line. The finish line is atop beautiful Mt. San Antonio (Mt Baldy) at 10,064 feet. Go to:
http://www.lawquip.com/sc/run2top.html
It could remind you of the mountains you come from, just not as high but overlooking our wonderful zooapolis, LA. I got to say it is beautiful up there early in the morning. Anytime under 1:35 is moving. You get stuck behind people and can't pass because it is to narrow with steep drops. HPer's, Yogi B, Laura, Larry and others will be, hopefully, eating my WF dust. It is a time to breathe and feel the earth under us as well as the sky above us. And all this is after a high intensity triathlon workout on Sat. Gotta love it! Love to Sweat, Sweat to Love.
Have a great retreat :)
Namaste,
NWSM
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Dear Steve,
Thank you. You hit the nail on the head. As i have said before, i am always yours. These have been tough times but your thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated. i want to order two more FEAR AND FITNESS CD'S. Best of luck on your trip.
Love , Kendo
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ACTUAL CYCLE SUMMATION INSIGHTS FROM ONLINE STUDENT D:
Section C. Yoga
8) Any standout reactions in this discipline of HP Yoga Practice?
Yes, a small amount. Baby steps, baby increases. As you know, the hips are oh-so-tight � I don�t know when it happened that I could not sit cross legged. I�m not even close to getting knees on the floor. As a teenager, I used to lie on my back on my bed and hook my leg over my head and under the bottom edge of the headboard. A full split. But I digress.
One major frustration: since I am still far from being able to get my leg through from downward dog to lunge position, it makes me crazy as I am always behind a beat or two from everyone else, and it breaks my rhythm, my flow, my breathing.
9) What has been a transpersonal effect from the Practice?
Of all the {WF} disciplines, I like the yoga the best, as I find it the most kind and forgiving, while still challenging me to my edge. Lots of edges. It also reminds me of ballet, as the quiet but intense focus is like doing a good barre and focusing on the perfect leg or foot movement or position, pushing to do a higher extension or faster bourree, but while holding an elegant posture. It feels familiar. And I like the stillness and meditative elements. When I�m not thinking of things I shouldn�t be (actors, underwear, etc!), I hear things I might otherwise miss. Like one night when Steve said during savasana �if you had nowhere to go, who would you be� - yikes!
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STUDENT QUESTION TO TEACHER ANANDA:
"Dear Teacher,
Why do we consider FAILURE so GOOD in WF?"
Teacher Ananda:
" I�m not sure I have the �right� answer, but on page 66 of TBT Steve quotes Melville:�He who has never failed somewhere, that (wo)man cannot be great.� For some thing to be �right� would indicate some thing
could be �wrong�. In WF we �TAF� (think and feel), therefore, there is no need for right or wrong answers. i invite you to start using the phrase �taf� in your correspondences regarding our WF work together. Perhaps it might even find it�s way into your daily Practice.
September 02, 2004
Namaste Noble Warriors!
"...Just walk beside me...
and be my friend."
A gathering of WF Online Students sharing the Ai Imawa Postures at a WF Retreat in New Mexico.
(Okay, so Student Luke's faithful canine companion, Spooner {center}, is not exactly an Online WF Student. Yet.)
Photo/k. faulstich
My Teachers always encouraged me; "Steve, your Soul's Path is what matters most in the phenomenal world, so stay true to your own Path and watch how the Angels arise."
Well another Angel has risen in my life; Janiss Garza, Editor in Chief of All Spirit Fitness ezine.
Check out the FANTASTIC article on WF and its feeble originator in the latest issue. Thank you Janiss...you HONOR my lifework.
go here to read the two page article with photos by Wayne Willams:
http://allspiritfitness.com/library/features/Ilg-Wholistic-Fitness.shtml
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Now, onto more endlessly original WF Dharma...churned freshed each day within your sweat and mine,
within your silences and mine...ENJOY:
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"Four things matter most in the life of a Wholistic Fitness Warrior;
moderation of food, moderation of sleep, moderation of speech, and intensification of exercise."
-Coach Ilg
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"Your body is the Cross, your sweat is the Daily Prayer, and your overcoming of your negative tendencies is your love of God."
- Coach Ilg
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Hi Coach!
I don't even know what i would do if i had all those e-mails to deal with! My thoughts and Prayers are with you - i know you will get through them all - i just hope people aren't taking advantage of your kindness and knowledge!
I have to say that you helped me to create a better vibration withing myself to set forth out into the world - Thank You!
Love to you always,
mac
xo
http://www.mckenzie-westmore.com/
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"Wholistic Fitness to me is the one life style that seems to drive towards real "fitness". And I plan to get fit myself and then spend the rest of my life helping others get fit."
Karl Weiss,
Sloughhouse, CA
new Online Student under WF Teacher Sheader
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dear coach steve,
so nice of you to check in on me.
i am happy to report that all is well with me and my {condition Upshifted thanks to the Sunrider Herbs}.
i just returned from ny and enjoyed a fabulous 14 mile hike with vicki, my friend and hiking partner.
i was not consistent (while traveling} but i am back and following the herbs once again.
i have forgiven myself.
embrace the day as you always do.
your deeply grateful follower,
r
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Noble Students...
Student 'r's' last line there tends to make me nervous. it bears me repeating it again and again:
i seek no 'followers.'
WF is a Gift from the Divine...you and i follow the WF Path, not steve ilg.
i am re-minded of a Native American saying from my childhood;
"Do not walk in front of me,
for i may not follow.
Do not walk behind me,
for i may not lead.
Just walk beside me...
and be my friend."
in Service of Higher Sweat and Spirit,
coach ilg
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Hey Coach!
Imagine my surprise to see you on page 55 of the July/August issue of Experience Life. No mention of you -- just the photo. No photo credit -- looks like they use stock or freebies. Still cool to see ya!
Love, Anne
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Dear Coach Ilg,
Before you depart for your Chi Gathering {at www.redmountainspa.com}, I just want to send you a note of thanks. From DL to SR Missives and HP Yoga updates, your communications are such a tremendous support and motivator for this journey. Many thanks.
Student Wendy Cooper