March 31, 2005
MEDITATION POSTURE
The most essential point of the meditation posture is to keep the back straight, like �an arrow� or �a pile of golden coins.� The �inner energy,� or prana , will then flow easily through the subtle channels of the body, and your mind will find its true state of rest. Don�t force anything. The lower part of the spine has a natural curve; it should be relaxed but upright. Your head should be balanced comfortably on your neck. It is your shoulders and the upper part of your torso that carry the strength and grace of the posture, and they should be held in strong poise, but without any tension.
Sit with your legs crossed. You do not have to sit in the �full-lotus� posture, which is emphasized more in advanced yoga practice. The crossed legs express the unity of life and death, good and bad, skillful means and wisdom, masculine and feminine principles, samsara and nirvana, and the humor of nonduality. Rest your hands comfortably covering your knees. This is called the �mind in comfort and ease� posture. If you prefer to sit on a chair, keep your legs relaxed, and be sure always to keep your back straight.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
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i would like to give a HP Yoga Dharma Shout Out to the following Warriors who, within several hours of notice, shifted their schedules to come to my yoga class (oooh, what FUN we had, eh?) yesterday at Mark Blanchard's 'cave':
* Diana
* Peter
* Ananda
* Melissa
head bowed humbly to your Devoted Practice!
and keep enjoying DIRECT LINES!
love and sacred sweat,
coach ilg
{photo by Ananda of coach in the Tibetan style of �mind in comfort and ease� posture. coach has chosen an auspicious place to sit; the place of the natural sipapu within a volcano's caldera near St. George, Utah. powerful Mother Earth/Father Sky energy at such a place which helps inspire the sushumnic qualities and pranic properties during meditation.}
March 30, 2005
EMPTY THY CUP and ENTER THE ONLINE WF TRAINING TEMPLE!
coach ilg has trained state, national, world, and Olympic champions in cycling...coach himself has a world class cycling resume, yet, according to coach's words:"Most cyclists spend their entire lives pedaling in circles, never realizing
it's not circles they are after...
it's
Spirals...
Sacred Spirals which elevate them Higher."
- coach ilg
above; a coach ilg training partner, Mike Longmire, right on the wheel of his next victim, uses his CHI to nab yet another win in his multi-notched belt as he passes and drops the guy currently in front of him on the final lap.
***
Dear Coach,
It's MM here in NYC. I have been considering your offer to be an online student. I would love to take advantage of this oppurtunity, however I feel that I need to have a better understanding of how the training works. As I said do not want to commit and be unable to follow through. I have a lot going on but do relish the idea of guidance in the physical fitness aspect of my spiritual fitness. Could you give me a thumbnail sketch of the way it works? Any info is much appreciated.
M
Most Noble Fitness Warrior M!
hang in there...chatterings from your ego...lower chakra stuff...see Beyond their doubt, their skepticism...
i feel your Love behind your Fears...
and i feel you can sense the Light of WF Online Training, nothing else like it on the face of the current planet!
you would absolutely LOVE being an Online WF Student...we go Deep, Steep, and Direct.
you might last a few months
or a few lifetimes.
i will Work with you in Ways currently hidden from your more superficial modalities of training and racing.
you can keep your conventionally trained cycling coach...my Work with you is much Deeper and will only serve as a benefit to his work with you.
you will soon See.
there is no way you cannot follow through unless your egoic structures rebel so vociferously that you tuck your tail under you
and scamper back into the mundane, conventional world of training and rely only upon that.
yet, even if you do that,
the day will come when you are too old,
or too tired,
or too burned out,
or too injured,
or too old,
and you will desperately WANT, NEED
something MORE than what cycling now provides for you.
Most cyclists spend their entire lives pedaling in circles, never realizing
it's not circles they are after...
it's
Spirals...
Sacred Spirals which elevate them Higher.
if you choose to Jump into
WF Online Training,
i will set you up on a Practice that will Dance throughout your day, your workouts, and...
your RACING
like never before.
yet,
the Eastern component of this Temple Entry
and my Teachers
requires me not to say any more,
for
you must Trust in me as your spiritual Teacher,
who knows a little something about physical sports,
and empty thy cup
to begin the Inner Work...
all i can say more?
i know you are Ripe in your life for what i have to teach you over the next few years.
you have studied very well,
National Class well
in your sport...
yet,
i know that your body, mind, and spirit will benefit so greatly from our Work two-gether
in Ways you have yet to understand.
feeble ilg says,
JUMP, Noble Warrior!
love endlessly and re-guard-lessly,
feeble ilg
March 29, 2005
Dearest Los Angeles Buddha Eyed Ones,
i will be substituting for Carla's 12:00 pm tomorrow
at
Mark's Power Yoga in
Studio City
http://www.marksyoga.com/
would love to share some Sacred Sweat with you!
namaste,
coach ilg, ryt/uscf/cpt
WholisticFitness.com
photo/wayneswilliamsstudio.com
LOW BACK PAIN
"A key to victory in overcoming obstacles of any kind: Don't get fancy; just be consistent."
- coach ilg
Dear Coach,
Thank you for the information regarding HerbCal and Metabalance 44. I had been considering replacing other brands with these Sunrider products, and will plan to do so with my next order.
As you know, I am planning to begin my regimen of Fiber Tone and Vita Dophillus and will update you per your request. I have had a bit of a set-back with the emergence of an old lumbar disc injury, but am working very hard to deal with whatever emotional issues may have triggered it and am better now.
- SUNRIDER WARRIORESS K
Noble Herbal Warriores K -
get Sunbreeze on that lower back...trust me...Sunbreeze literally pulled me out from a wheelchair and through
a tremendously painful 13 years of chronic pain before my Great Shift through WF and SR.
after i fractured my spine and smashed my pelvis,
it required 9 years of yoga, meditation, energywork, and the SUNRIDER herbs, before i could do a simple Overhead DB Press like shown above.
without Sunbreeze (which draws the Healing Chi into an injured area) i could not have made it through those barbed-wire pain years. i had to
lather my lower back with it; my personal scent during those years? Parfume SunBreeza!
i thank Dr. Chen for SunBreeze. i cannot bow low enough to Dr. Chen's courage and devotion to bring these SUNRIDER Herbs to the outer world.
fortunately, most people will never have to face the decision that i had to make nearly every day for 13 years;
i had to choose each day through the pain; Sunrider or Surgery?
i chose spirit over surrender; i chose HERB POWER, WF, and INNER SPIRIT, baby!
Surgery can sever much more than mere flesh,
it can sever precisely what we came here to Learn; development of inner spirit, intuitive wisdom, and mental fortitude!
definitely switch your current herbal supplement over to SUNRIDER's Herb-Cal product; whenever the body is dealing with
neural/muscular pain look to minerals (not vitamins) as a Healing Source. increase intake of MetaBalance 44 to 3x daily. and
keep that SunBreeze on the inflamed tissue.
inflamed, injured connective tissue is dense; the nutrient service into these dense fabric of the body requires potent and
CONSISTENT nutrient saturation to 'flood' the dense sheath.
proud of you,
hang in there...
love,
coach ilg
March 28, 2005
"Bring the Dharma,
and you will feel the Dharma."
- Coach Ilg
Noble Worldwide WF Sangha...please welcome to Online WF Studies;
Michael Goiten of NYC!
Most Esteemed & Honorable Coache'.
Thank you so much for welcoming me into the temple.
It is a great honor for me, and I do so humbly, with head bowed, in honor of yourself, and the many superb students who have come before me. when I lived in Japan, they called me "Go-Ten", which either means "five points," "large mansions," or "five heavens.")
I'm completely convinced of the validity and beauty of what you are working to accomplish and the higher ethical and spiritual direction you are taking to accomplish it.
I am honored and thrilled to be able to become your Online Student, and will work hard to validate your belief in me.
Most Sincerely,
Namaste,
Michael Goiten
Dearest New Student GoTen
WOW, what a beautiful note!
i am CERTAIN you will contribute to, not just validate, the authentic power of my humble Path...WF is like the "little train that could"...we just keep
pluggin' away, forging a Higher Way into the Fitness Globule of Kali Yuga! you are a precious soul along my EarthWalk...i bow to New Student GoTen!
glad to have your footsteps in my Online Temple!
head bowed,
coach ilg
***New Student GoTen is what i call "Ripe" for the WF Transmission. He is already a SUNRIDER Herb Eater in the Ilg Downline, the most powerful in the Nation, and...
Along his spiritual Path thus far, GoTen
has just completed an initial meditation course in the Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, under the auspices of Rigpa, the international organization founded by Sogyal Rinpoche. I read extensively in the Tibetan Buddhist writings, and meditate twice daily (morning & evening) for at least 20-30 minutes.
Among his spiritual teachers he lists:
Teachers: Shakyamuni Buddha -
"To commit not one unwholesome act
To cultivate a life of virtue
To tame the mind."
Koichi Tohei - Founder of Ki Aikido. Showed me that the mind and the body were one, and that both needed to be trained.
Steve Ilg - Showed me that the fusion of the best of the East & West is possible, and that it can have quantum impact on the quality of not just your life, but on the lives of those around you.
Among his Training Goals for his Work in our Temple is:
a need to regain some measure of balance and resistance to injury. This was my initial attraction to WF; I wanted to get as fit as possible, with the esthetics coming secondary to that goal.
March 27, 2005
Dharmic Whispers; My Kinl�n� Mountain Yoga Retreat Notes
"Athletes, artists, dancers...To achieve highest states, one must open up the heart for the magic to exist...Old Souls...They are drawn to these activites. The young souls watch. As it should be. Run straight into it. DO not avoid it. This is the way of the true masters..."
- Mahanidrarishi B
Above photo: Yesterday: developing the artistry of what i call, "The Plyo Tele*" my own, unique style of 'yang style' style telemark skiing i am slowly evolving as the years pass. Maybe in another decade, i will actually have it mastered! Probably not, yet that is not the point of Mastery...the point of Mastery is enjoying and learning from the Process. I like listening to my own body, my own spirit and adapting my Practice of WF into the way i move and explore fitness and life. Fatiguing myself in the High Mountains by day, then, while others sleep, i meditate and listen to my Teacher's instructions and guidance. My Mahanidrarishi told me during one of our sessions at Kinlani, "Dear Steve,
Athletes, artists, dancers...To achieve highest states, one must open up the heart for the magic to exist...Old Souls...They are drawn to these activites. The young souls watch. As it should be. Run straight into it. DO not avoid it. This is the way of the true masters...Love, B"
Global Summit Talks should only be done while skiing, cycling, or hiking; unless the body and breath animate the intellect, there is no true human wisdom. Without a barrier of physical fatigue, we are not empty enough for our Inner Ear to recognize, hear, and in time, assimilate Dharmic Whispers. I am a mountain yogi; my spiritual self thrives in the rarified, unpolluted air, richly concentrated withPrana (Life Force). during personal retreats, such as the last few days at Kinlani, i experience - for me - paradigmatic shifts in my meditations. cross-country ski training, the highest caloric output sport of them all, numbs my intellectual mind via a high heart rate and technical precision awareness. like a beautiful aerobically induced mantra, my ego spills out of my psychology, withered from a blasted physiology, thus emptying me to receive Dharmic Whispers from my Teachers. {coach in full 'classical style' stride. photo by Ananda; special thanks to Flagstaff Nordic Center} - http://www.flagstaffnordiccenter.com/
Ananda points to a Hawk, beneath the 12,633' 'snow crystal' of Humphrey's Peak where i took Retreat to work with my Mahahnidrarishi. Just as the human body has neural plexus's (chakra's), so too, does Mother Earth.
A pivotal part of an individual's spiritual journey, is learning where, throughout the various stages of life (ashramas), is our h(om)e. Through the wise Guidance of our spiritual Teachers and through consistent Practice, the yogin learns to tune their body to where they are most needed, helpful, and/or in need of healing. teleskiing - cross country skiing down Alpine Ski Area slopes - is kinda like doing 20,000 Fast-Twitch Fiber Lunges, and, at 11,000'...this is superb Practice for a feeble mountain yogi like me! on my far right lies the Grand Canyon (talk about 'earth vortex's!) and below me, an ancient volcano seems to pull me into her tuft filled arms. photo by Ananda.
**
"So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future."
- Sogyal Rinpoche
{Coach arcs linked tele turns at 12,000+ off Kachina Ridge in the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona. Shortly after Coach's descent, the Park Service closed the immense snowbowl above him due to avalanche danger.} - photo by Ananda
"For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life."
- Sogyal Rinpoche
***
{WF Most Improved Winter Athlete of 2004-05; Ananda. Alpine Skiing, Skate Skiing, Classic Skiing, & Sport Snowshoeing were all mainstays of Ananda's Winter HP Yoga Practice...most of these sports were entirely new to her, yet her HP Yoga and WF and SUNRIDER HERB devotion totally paid off. Once scared stiff (literally) of a knee injury that kept her from enjoy the amazing brilliance and fitness of winter sports, Ananda used her WF Training to dance upon the winter landscapes like an snow angel set free from a fear-based cage. DL - free of charge since before the internet was invented - would not still be possible today without this faithful, beautiful Server and Teacher of WF. i bow to Ananda.}
* Stands for "Plyometric Telemark"
Dharmic Whispers; My Kin?�n� Mountain Yoga Retreat Notes
"Athletes, artists, dancers...To achieve highest states, one must open up the heart for the magic to exist...Old Souls...They are drawn to these activites. The young souls watch. As it should be. Run straight into it. DO not avoid it. This is the way of the true masters..."
- Mahanidrarishi B
Above photo: Yesterday: developing the artistry of what i call, "The Plyo Tele*" my own, unique style of 'yang style' style telemark skiing i am slowly evolving as the years pass. Maybe in another decade, i will actually have it mastered! Probably not, yet that is not the point of Mastery...the point of Mastery is enjoying and learning from the Process. I like listening to my own body, my own spirit and adapting my Practice of WF into the way i move and explore fitness and life. Fatiguing myself in the High Mountains by day, then, while others sleep, i meditate and listen to my Teacher's instructions and guidance. My Mahanidrarishi told me during one of our sessions at Kinlani, "Dear Steve,
Athletes, artists, dancers...To achieve highest states, one must open up the heart for the magic to exist...Old Souls...They are drawn to these activites. The young souls watch. As it should be. Run straight into it. DO not avoid it. This is the way of the true masters...Love, B"
Global Summit Talks should only be done while skiing, cycling, or hiking; unless the body and breath animate the intellect, there is no true human wisdom. Without a barrier of physical fatigue, we are not empty enough for our Inner Ear to recognize, hear, and in time, assimilate Dharmic Whispers. I am a mountain yogi; my spiritual self thrives in the rarified, unpolluted air, richly concentrated withPrana (Life Force). during personal retreats, such as the last few days at Kinlani, i experience - for me - paradigmatic shifts in my meditations. cross-country ski training, the highest caloric output sport of them all, numbs my intellectual mind via a high heart rate and technical precision awareness. like a beautiful aerobically induced mantra, my ego spills out of my psychology, withered from a blasted physiology, thus emptying me to receive Dharmic Whispers from my Teachers. {coach in full 'classical style' stride. photo by Ananda; special thanks to Flagstaff Nordic Center} - http://www.flagstaffnordiccenter.com/
Ananda points to a Hawk, beneath the 12,633' 'snow crystal' of Humphrey's Peak where i took Retreat to work with my Mahahnidrarishi. Just as the human body has neural plexus's (chakra's), so too, does Mother Earth.
A pivotal part of an individual's spiritual journey, is learning where, throughout the various stages of life (ashramas), is our h(om)e. Through the wise Guidance of our spiritual Teachers and through consistent Practice, the yogin learns to tune their body to where they are most needed, helpful, and/or in need of healing. teleskiing - cross country skiing down Alpine Ski Area slopes - is kinda like doing 20,000 Fast-Twitch Fiber Lunges, and, at 11,000'...this is superb Practice for a feeble mountain yogi like me! on my far right lies the Grand Canyon (talk about 'earth vortex's!) and below me, an ancient volcano seems to pull me into her tuft filled arms. photo by Ananda.
**
"So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future."
- Sogyal Rinpoche
{Coach arcs linked tele turns at 12,000+ off Kachina Ridge in the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona. Shortly after Coach's descent, the Park Service closed the immense snowbowl above him due to avalanche danger.} - photo by Ananda
"For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life."
- Sogyal Rinpoche
***
{WF Most Improved Winter Athlete of 2004-05; Ananda. Alpine Skiing, Skate Skiing, Classic Skiing, & Sport Snowshoeing were all mainstays of Ananda's Winter HP Yoga Practice...most of these sports were entirely new to her, yet her HP Yoga and WF and SUNRIDER HERB devotion totally paid off. Once scared stiff (literally) of a knee injury that kept her from enjoy the amazing brilliance and fitness of winter sports, Ananda used her WF Training to dance upon the winter landscapes like an snow angel set free from a fear-based cage. DL - still free of charge since before the internet was invented - would not stukk be possible today without this faithful, beautiful Server and Teacher of WF. i bow to Ananda.}
* Stands for "Plyometric Telemark"
March 26, 2005
LIKE TEACHER, LIKE STUDENT; SUNRIDER WARRIOR DIET ROCKS FOR DECADES!
Starting the WF Program including SUNRIDER herbs at this age (Brandon Freese, age 21)
allows you to enjoy the same youthful vigor and world level fitness two decades later (Coach Ilg, age 43)
fortunately, the immense potency of these whole food herbs will IMMEDIATELY start a regenerative
energy within anyone; regardless of age, fitness, or temperament. the key? just Begin. today; get on the HERBS and CRANK!
SUNRIDER PERFORMANCE DIET
***
WF APPROVED; SUNRIDER PERFORMANCE DIET
Dear Coach,
I'm going to be adding some things in my april order, please look over this and make sure it will be good
Morning: Ilg Supreme (vitafruit, vitashake, quinary)
����������������������� 6 herb cal
����������������������� 1 citric C
����������������������� 3 veros
����������������������� 1 beauty pearl
����������������������� 2 meteabalance 44
����������������������� 5 GOLDENSEAL ROOT
�
BEFORE RUNNING,YOGA, or LIFTING (8 SPORT CAPS, 6 ENERGY PLUS, NUPLUS)
AFTER RUNNING, YOGA or LIFTING (SUNRISE, NUPLUS)
Mid morning - CALLI with SUNNY DEW
DUring day: 2 sunbars, Fortune Delight with Vitafruit and 1 drop SunnyDew
����������� maybe another 2 VEROS if needed
NIGHT: 3 DANDELION ROOT
����������� 3 CONCO
����������� 1 BEAUTY PEARL
����������� 4 HERB CAL
����������� 5 GOLDENSEAL ROOT
CALLI NIGHT
(SOMETIMES another nuplus and quinary before bed)
��������������������� i LOVE HERBS,
brandOn
* brandOn,
you are soooooo ON!
I LOVE THIS WARRIOR HERB DIET! Your dietary food choices, when using this CHI SOAKED formula above, will likely continue to dance toward a natural harmony and non-supportive cravings will no longer be a part of your life. You will more than likely - and FAR faster then most people - become an Ahara-jayan or 'one whom has mastered food.'
i bow to YOU! no wonder you look so great!
may fitness warriors of all ages be inspired to follow your Devotion To Higher Health through Whole Foods!
namaste,
coach ilg
director/SUNRIDER International
ps; those of you that are seeking more digestive/elimination, fat loss, or cell cleasing; may wish to replace the Dandelion and Goldenseal Root with Slim Caps and/or Fibertone & Vitadophilus. consult your Upline Sponsor for more.
***
Still not FLYING toward Wholistic Fitness at the CHI and CELLULAR LEVEL via the Official Nutrition of WF; SUNRIDER HERBS?
Still not on Coach Ilg's "3-Phase Approach to the SUNRIDER Herbs?"
Better find a WF Teacher that you wish to Sponsor you through the SUNRIDER Temple Gates and enter the "Temple Garden of WF" today! WF Warriors follow the world class body/mind fitness programs backed by the world class natural whole food and skin care of SUNRIDER. WF + SR = AWAKENING!
March 25, 2005
PURITY AND SERIOUSNESS OF INTENT; A Mountain Yogi's Trip Notes
Ramani Maharshi always asked his students to consider the qualitative difference between
intellectual knowledge and direct experience...
cycling into the snarling teeth of yet another late winter storm in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona
it is through my frozen toes and glazed snot that i find the middle course of my own Truth, no one elses.
by sometimes forcing myself to abide within my workouts, a complete harmonization of discipline and
naturalness permeates my daily life and helps keep intellect, ego, and sensual desires in check. the WF Warrior
always treads the Middle Path...the place of Wholistic Fitness where physiology and psychology merge with
humilty in a sea of daily sweat and, thus softened, can be wisely cultivated.
off the bike and into a run along the shores of Mormon Lake; a pair of bald eagles and
opsrey plied the snow choked sky
above me while geese, ducks, and even a gorgeous red fox kept my eyes sharp to the dance of Lila so
gracefully blessing my effort to get out and breathe and move. Here i find the solidarity of Thich Nhat Hanh:
"Do not think that the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth.
Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge.
Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times." 
Later that evening, after some SUNRIDER herbs, it was time to keep the chi non-contaminated by lethargy,
and get to the indoor climbing gym to switch physiologic stress and make today a true WF Triathlon; cycling, running, and climbing. Mastery of self can easily fall into an insipid philosophical bravado; i have found that fear and focus, when animated by sweat, moves me over such intellectual and non-direct spiritual obstacles keeping Enlightenment a possibility.
Here, i catch Ananda in a moment of what i love best about hard climbing; it requires focus to overcome fear! Such mind
over ego is the Highest use of the human intellect; not watching TV or reading 'news'papers! 
Some of my students think i am tough...that i teach a Path that can never be assimilated by the Mainstream. i do not care.
i created Wholistic Fitness as a Vehicle of the Inner Spirit, our innate Force of Life that we all must refine before we
can become Enlightened; never think that there is a shortcut through whatever you envision as Hell...each cell of your body
must travel through the deepest Root Fears that your ego tries to stuff away. As my Mahanidrarishi imparted to me after an excruciating Meditation Workout here in the High Mountains of Arizona;
"Steve,
� We are all just students and fellow travelers on this path. I am just finding out about these other aspects of myself...Self as opposed to self... SO patience is not an issue... We are all just learning from one another as we unfold our authentic powers.
�� Power, sex, survival are the desires which are being purified. The mind is tricky...oh so tricky... But there is no getting by the truth... As precise as math... And our suffering will lead the way. Our seeming mistakes, only lessons in our own refinement. Purity and seriousness of intent. The intent to realize Self beyond any cost, even if that means death. And it is most definately a death which is at hand...
Until the last breath...
It is rare to find one as serious as you...
In honor,
namaste,
B"
Never undervalue the Presence of Wholistic Fitness in y(our) life. Many of us have been struggling gamely through lifetime after lifetime to arrive at the realization from which the spiritual architecture of WF defines what matters most; this life is precious; do not waste it; use daily fitness as an inner vehicle for Soul Development.
enjoy your sweat today
and may Eagle and Fox
be absolute in your oneness of all things...
that is all,
coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness
special bow to "Vertical Relief" in Flagstaff, Arizona.
photos 1,2,4 by Ananada
March 24, 2005
Karl MacPhee; "Talking Is Healing"
Karl MacPhee
Hi coach,
I am glowing right now!!
I want to share with you why....
I just finished talking to a group of students and staff at my school today
about my journey through life, epilepsy, depression, anger and finally
spiritual fulfillment!!
7 years ago I was flirting with a life of hate and anger because epilepsy
decided to take over. I am now loving life, and passing on my story of how
I changed into a WF Warrior!! I've got the whole world in my hands!!
Namaste
Karl MacPhee
{above photo: my dog (Caper) and I enjoying the beautiful mountains in British Colombia last August.� I will do my best to get you a picture of the Total Body Transformation group that has just added 2 new warriors!! The wave is getting bigger every day!!}
coach ilg adds; "God i love this Work! Dharma Blessings to all who, like Karl, realize the Divine, joyful necessity of the difficulties and our lives...and how the transformation from a worrier to a Warrior can be SO FAST! We are Blessed who have arrived at an understanding that a lifestyle, multi-disciplined approach to fitness and eating Lightly is the Key to such body/mind/spirit transformation. There are no shortcuts. We all must begin Right Here, Right Now with the body we have and the power of our ability to choose between grasping or concentration. May all beings Awaken to the WF Understanding that, Our Highest Workout is Everywhere!"
�
March 23, 2005
NO RIGHTS, NO WRONGS - JUST CONSEQUENCES
"In the spiritual fitness Journey, there are no rights or wrongs.
There are only consequences to your choices." - coach ilg, THE WINTER ATHLETE
***
what are the consequences of your fitness and life choices?
entertainments?
or inner-attainments?
***
"How did you come to know
what you know?"
- an ilg coaching Koan
***
photo's by LA Times
***
Ananda and i are leaving for a few days; mountain yoga to be enjoyed in the Southwest pine scented snows...Mr. Mindfulness here has seemingly lost his digital camera so, i'll trust you all to keep your Breath low, your Posture strong and your imaginations dancing with your aspirations...
dare to dream
sweat to do...
in metta,
the mountain yogi,
coach ilg
March 22, 2005
"dear coach ilg,�
the morning practices�have been a huge help to me.� YogaToes� have opened the spaces between my toes and metatarsals, toilet yoga has resolved my lumbosacral and�iliosacral joint pain�and�neti wash and pranayama clear my head.� the morning practices prepare me for a centered, clear and grounded day.� thank you!
- konryu, CPT
Got Two Minutes? See The World
WF Teacher Haku forwarded this to me.
i converted it into a PDF and it kinda chopped up a couple of the photos.
if you have two minutes to wait for the download, a Heightened Perspective
might be gained. i particularly enjoyed the tremendous example of why
Yoga asana in India cannot be taught to North Americans in the traditional
forms, just check out the killer Malasana (Yoga Squat) that the two children
are in! Open Hips, and pain free lower backs begin by squatting close to the Earth
as a child and never stopping. I designed the HP Yoga Style to address safely the
biomechanical imbalances that are the training effect from our car driving, furniture
addicted society. then again, rats in your rice milk ain't so grand either!
enjoy the Dance of Shiva.
thank you Haku!
The%20World%20in%20Only%207%20Pictures.pdf
NATURALLY FIT!!!
Dearest Coach Ilg,
I just saw my picture on your DL. Thank you so much for your kind words!� I love your website!� I� was reading some of the entries and I am excited to learn more about your products ie. books, tapes, etc. and I'm excited to learn more about the Sunrider herbs!!!!!!� I didn't realize you had�videos out with your HP Yoga!!��I was reading your response to Brandon; the one that's turning 21 and was asking your view on alcohol.� I myself have delved into the dark world of drugs and partying.��I too am grateful for the experiences I've had in them as they have assisted me (now that I've made the journey through it) in appreciating the beauty of this world: physically, spiritually and emotionally for I know too well the "other side" where it can be very dark and lonely.
Thank you for your light and your passion that you share with all of us who are willing to listen and absorb...........
I will be in touch.
Namaste!!
Rebekah
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Dear Rebekah!
i was just sending this off to my SUNRIDER tribe...girlfriend...you have GOT to get onto the HERBS!
Get Coach Mackel to sponsor you into the "Temple Garden of WF"...SUNRIDER HERBS!
Glad you found your way back h(om)e to us! Here is the the SUNRIDER Update I just sent to my Downline,
which is the most powerful SUNRIDER Clan in the United States! check it out and see you in the Temple Garden soon,
herb pickin' and radiant with the CHI!
love,
coach ilg
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coach ilg in visvamatriasana. the mind cannot enjoy natural peace with a body that is stiff and stuffed with junk foods and chemicals. eating SUNRIDER herbs allows each breath to dance joyfully and lightly throughout the body and mind and spirit! people ask me how i can stand working out each day...i stare at them blankly and ask them, "How can you stand NOT to?" we gotta BREATHE and MOVE each day! Every day! Eating SUNRIDER makes us feel light, happy, and energetic to ENJOY working out in a wholistic way!
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Noble SUNRIDER Warriors!
help me welcome our newest herb eater;
John O'Flaherty of Cleveland, OH
who just joined SUNRIDER under WF Teacher Ananda's clan!
we look forward to hearing from John later as he is guided through
Phase I; Cell Cleansing under the capable guidance of Ananda.
Why is it important to share these herbs?
Because of letters like this one from one of our own Herbal Warriors:
"Sunrider, wow!: �The fat is finally coming off...I noticed my intercostals poking
out yesterday...the first time in years: �I can honestly say this is a
result of Sunrider. �As you remember, I was diagnosed with a significant
deficiency of testosterone and I exhibited all the symptoms of such: �
Exhaustion, poor sleep, irritability, increased fat levels, etc., etc. �I
decided to forgo hormone therapy and went with WF and Sunrider. �As of today
(it has been 3 months since my diagnosis), I feel like a new man in all
regards, especially with the fat losses."
I would like to honor both Ananda and newly crowned Director Joseph Sheader, another of one my WF Certified Teachers.
They both have built their downlines into generating over 3,000 SV per month! that means that they are not spending hardly any of their
own money on their SUNRIDER use because Dr. Chen's generous cashback bonuses each month!
The key to eating all the SUNRIDER herbs you want and using the best skin care on the planet for free? Teach people
to Switch Brands to SUNRIDER from the less superior food and skin care and household products that they currently use!
Set a goal of getting yourself and your downline to earn 500/SV points each month and within several months,
you are going to be very pleasantly surprised at the SUNRIDER Check you receive each month.
like i have always said, if you think you feel GREAT on the SUNRIDER herbs while paying for them,
you feel FANTASTIC when you can eat all of them that you want for free and then get even more cash back!
it is NOT that hard;
Share the Herbs (start with Phase I, since everybody needs to lose fat and achieve and maintain cellular clarity for energy),then
teach them to switch brands to SUNRIDER;
instead of cokes and coffee? Fortune Delight and Calli!
instead of junk food and inferior vitamin pills? SUNBARS and METABALANCE 44.
instead of killing animals for your make up and lotions; use the Kandesn Spa Line and Kandesn cosmetics!
..the list of Switches you can teach people to make are endless! need help?
that is what your Upline is for!
Ask us questions and keep sending in your testimonials on how amazing these herbs are! we are Blessed!
Onward, Upward, and Ever Inward!
Today, help Somebody you know eat Herbs instead of chemicals!!
Natural Body = Natural Mind! Break the addiction to chemicals in your foods, lotions, and household products!
Be a YOGI...eat Whole Foods, drink Whole Foods, don't put preservatives into you or on you! Stay NATURALLY FIT!
Namaste,
coach ilg, ryt/uscf
founder/wholisticfitness.com
author/TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION
director/SUNRIDER International
ps: be sure to bookmark and enjoy (free!) the world acclaimed:
DIRECT LINES; Daily Meditations From Coach Ilg
http://www.wholisticfitness.com/weblog/ilgblog.html
Warrior MacPhee:my passion for fitness has been sparked!
I managed to this picture of my wife (Jen) and I, 5 minutes before the start of one of our triathlons last year and I will do my best to get you a picture of the Total Body Transformation group that has just added 2 new warriors!!
- Karl MacPhee
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"Ripples make waves." - coach ilg
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Hi Coach Ilg,
I wanted to send you an e-mail to thank you for the Total Body Transformation programs. I am a personal fitness trainer in Edmonton, Alberta and have trained for triathlons and cycling over the last 4 years.
Just this year I have decided that training for one event is not exactly what I truly enjoy. What I truly enjoy in my heart is a variety of workouts, nature and my new passion for Yoga and meditation. One of my co-workers had recently purchased your book and was talking about it and I bought it that day, started the program and have loved every moment of it. I am in my second week of the Cosmic Yang program and have noticed some changes in my physique, as well as my passion for fitness has been sparked by the carrot of the next workout and the next program.
Initially, my wife thought I was crazy, but after noticing that I have been helping around the house more often, taking the dog for walks and enjoying the smaller aspects of life, she has decided to join me and has also started the Green Tara program this week.
I currently work at a high school as a strength and conditioning coach as well as fitness coach for students and staff. In the last 7 weeks I have had 7 teachers join in and are all loving the program. The students notice how hard I work in the gym and it carries over to their workouts!! I have also been asked by many of the staff/students to show them how to do Yoga and I have enjoyed helping people learn about matching breath to movement.
My philosophy is to lead by example and show one thing at a time to one person at a time and eventually we will have a society that cares about themselves and each other. I have always loved to ride to work, but now my wife and I have decided to sell one car so I can take the bus, run and bike to and from work. The students see me come in with my bike, walk off the bus or getting ready to run home and I know that one by one my example will be noticed.
My wife and I have also been eating almost exclusively organic whole foods and I am actually eating less food and feeling full longer throughout the day.
I am sorry for the long winded message but I wanted to give you an idea of how your program has helped here in Edmonton.
I look forward to the next workout and then the Frugal Realm!!
Thanks for your wholistic approach,
Karl MacPhee
Ross Sheppard High School
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
(780) 448-5000 ext 159
March 21, 2005
On Any Given Sunday; "TEAM WF" Tears The Legs Off Each Other
From left to right...where eagles dare; Steve Mackel, coach, and Brian Smallwood 17 miles into it and moments before the 9 mile climb up the fabled Glendora Mountain Road.
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My Personal Journal Entry From Yesterday:
just back from a 63 mile, 4,500' monster ride up in the San Gabriels...swear to God it looked like Canada;
snowcovered peaks winking at me from behind fog swirls, 300' waterfalls, rushing turquoise rivers dancing between emerald lakes...could not trust my eyes...
it looked like many sacred places i have been...
yet
LA
was not one of them...
until
today.
i bow in wow of Mother Earth...
if any of my students or fans take any Teaching from my Work it is this:
get out and breathe the thunder sky and wonderful world, so amazing in Her many disguises;
egrets dancing the skies, wind making love to tree studded slopes, mountains upon whose granite skins snow melts like childhood imaginations...
wherever you may go;
go gently
namaste,
coach
Brian, myself, "Sudhamahni" (my bike),Laura, and Andrew at "Hawk Vista." You can see part of the ride on the lower right of the picture. Cardio is in my world; Oxygen Therapy. It will flush out any dis-ease of body and mind. It just takes WILLINGNESS to get OUT THERE and DO IT, baby! Those totally phat WF Jerseys are for sale right now at the Tribal Catalog! Get one and feel the CHI
New Online Student Ash Facilitation; Word Awareness Guru
when i begin Work with a new Online Student, i see a mind/body palace of
opportunity which must, like a newly created garden, be tended gently,
mindfully, and in respect for the tremendous growth which lie ahead.
please, if you enjoy these sneak glimpses of actual Online Facilitations,
enter here and may all beings be helped by this sharing:
New%20Student%20Ash.pdf
coach ilg
March 20, 2005
DRUGS AND THE TRUE DOPE
"The true Dope is God's Dope. The true High is the Natural High which comes from living your life holding hands with the Divine Dance. Drugs dwindle our natural relationship with the Divine, Wholistic Fitness deepens it." - coach ilg.
This acclaimed photo of coach ilg in 1998 by famed Seattle based photographer, John Terence, freezes our "feeble coach" during one of his not-so-feeble moments near the Cascade Range in Washington. The spirit of Wholistic Fitness is so unique because its creator has dared to do a very special thing; live his life directly following only the Path of his Heart. Coach began his athletic life as a nordic ski jumper and never stopped jumping into the trust of his inner self. Coach encourages young warriors to use fitness and sports to sharpen their natural sense of Wise Discrimination when exploring the seductions of the Outer World.
Dear Coach,
I'm going to be turning 21 years old in just a few days, so you know what that means; even though I�m not really attracted to consuming any alcohol. I was wondering what your belief is on drinking alcohol on a daily basis or in moderation (maybe a drink or even a class of wine occasionally) while being on the herbs?
In Peace,
brandOn
Noble Warrior B!
you can read the WF stance on Alcohol and Drugs in TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION. Drinking or druggin' or partying will never get in the way of the SUNRIDER herbs. in fact, the more you do those things, the more you need the Herbs. what will eventually arise however, is that the herbs will get in the way of addiction to those things!
personally, i passed my 21st birthday by attempting to free solo 21 climbs of 5.9 or higher in Vedeauwoo, Wyoming. i have long used chronologic birthdays as nothing but a creative opportunity to challenge my mind/body fitness.
having said that, i admit freely that i am a product of the eighties...in fact, i was living in Boulder, Colorado the party town of party towns during the eighties! ilg partying stories still circulate in that town, i am sure. my particular constitution and ancestry (Germanic Barbarianism!) is not a wise one under the influences of chemicals; my love of high risk jumps to the forefront of my already feeble common sense and i transform into a veritable lunatic.
yes, my young warrior, i have done many of the Dances with Drugs and am not regretful in the least about any of my (pretty damn fun) experiences with the 'dark side.' in fact, my drug experiences and party lifestyle explorations has made me a much more understanding and compassionate teacher in my daily work with addicts and Seekers of a more Balanced Way.
what kept the guiding Light on for me? what saved me from developing an addiction to the very seductive charms of drugs and the partying lifestyle? simple;
my love of feeling Wholistically Fit.
there is NOTHING that i love more than waking up early in the morning when others sleep (or are hungover), merge into a sacred meditation, then getting out into God's Gift of Nature and playing! skiing, cycling, climbing...you name it, i cherish the places my fitness has allowed me to see and feel.
i guess i just hate waking up feeling like i can't Dance, you know what i mean?
i TAF that so long as you understand that Alcohol and Drugs deplete your natural Life Force and
dwindle in copious amounts our chance for Enlightenment, then that knowledge will produce Wise Discrimination.
as the Buddha said, "Moderation to everything...walk the Middle Path." That is precisely what WF and SUNRIDER produces; a glorious state of mind/body fitness that allows each of us, whomever we are, whatever our age, to enjoy the Dance of strength, cardio, and yoga. WF Warriors hover in the rarified Middle Realm of Fitness, enjoying versatility instead of specificity. We are an uncommon breed of Warrior. too much drugs and partying destroys the rare essence of our WF CHI!
Know this, young one: the true Dope is God's Dope of Dancing Each Day with the DIVINITY that IS you! Drugs destroy our sense of Divinity. WF and SUNRIDER amplifies it. Your body is God's Body incarnate; treat it with fun respect and delight in the development of it.
thus, i say, go have fun, in fact, go have a TON of fun on your birthday...yet use WF Lifestyle Principles 1,2,3, & 4 to keep your Light of Higher Awareness on!
much love to you, Birthday Boy!
namaste,
coach ilg
March 19, 2005
Nutritional Literacy�: My Guidelines For Moving Into Phase II; Cell Empowerment
by coach ilg
Question From Student:
�Are there rules of thumb ("rules of Ilg") I might use to help evaluate a person's readiness to move from Phase One to Phase Two?
� My Three Phase Approach to the SUNRIDER Herbs (Cleansing, Empowering, Maintenance) helps everyone achieve what used to be natural for us, a state of being/awareness that i have come to term; Nutritional Literacy�.
4 Considerations Toward Phase II
first i will address the basic things i look for when considering approving a SUNRIDER to move from Phase I to Phase II:
* morning bowel activity: consistency, timing, and texture of the morning bowel movement is my first 'rule' for considering a transition to Phase Two. purity and evacuative capacity of bowels is first and foremost factor in long term health.
* transit time; how long does it take for eaten food to become evacuated
* observations; in the Scientific Method, observation/data gathering is the first step. i rely on observing and questioning a new SR'r to collect data
* pattern shifts; in the Scientific Method, the recognition of patterns is the second step. i engage the same Method in my approach to nutrition.
What is Nutritional Literacy (NL)?
NL is the ability to continually and enjoyably 'read' the energetics of what is nourishing us; both "positive" and "negative", both "depletive" and "regenerative." NL allows us to judge for ourselves what type of occupation feeds our Higher Health and WellBeing and which jobs deplete our chi, or Life Force. Becoming Nutritionally Literate means creating, over time, an occupation, a lifestyle, environments, relationships, word choices, behaviors, exercise management, and of course; physical food choices. As you can see, my definition of NUTRITION is precisely, albeit virtually forgotten in today's world, in line with its truest meaning; That Which Nourishes Us.
My unique approach to the SUNRIDER Herbs helps each of us become Cleaner at a Cell Level; this is Phase One...
{MY SUNRIDER DOWNLINE RECEIVES FOR FREE THE REMAINDER OF THIS INFORMATIVE, TRANSFORMATIVE, PROVEN COUNSEL...are YOU ready to enter the SUNRIDER HERB TEMPLE...The Official Nutritional Path of WF? if so, just find a WF Teacher to sponsor you on the left margin and GET YOUR BUTT in here! GETTING ON THE HERBS is, i promise, the most powerful SHIFT you can do for your health, fitness, and CHI!...see you in the Temple Garden soon!
- coach ilg}
March 18, 2005
COACH ILG ATTEMPTS TO STEAL "JADE BOOK" FROM SUNRIDER!
captured mere moments before ilg began his fateful attempt to "borrow" the fabled 'Jade Book' from Dr. Chen's World Headquarters of SUNRIDER by startled onlooker, ww. story below.
TORRANCE, CA - Earlier today, authorities apprehended a mountain yogi, Steve Ilg, at the posh World Headquarters of SUNRIDER INTERNATIONAL who, according to witnesses became very docile after police shot him several times in the back as he was scaling the massive building. Ilg fell three stories, landing in a well manicured petunia garden in the shape of the SUNRIDER logo. Upon impact, Ilg jumped up quickly saying to a growing crowd of interested onlookers (unique in this area of LA), "I'm okay, I'm okay...i used to fall as a rock climber all the time on much harder surfaces....the bullets however, do not feel that great." Upon using "certain yogi meditation techniques" Ilg mysteriously dissolved the bullets and spoke disconsolately with officers about his prank gone awry.
"I was just trying to borrow the Jade Book from Dr. Chen's Museum of Chinese Herbology."
"The "Jade Book"?
"Yes, duh!? Don't you doughnut boyz know ANYTHING about good nutrition? SUNRIDER herbs are based upon ancient Chinese herbal manuscripts which reveal the Philosophy of Regeneration and give precise formulations, enhancements, treatments, and cultivation for the most superior, energy providing, and cell empowerment on the planet. Dr. Chen, who owns SUNRIDER, has access to the actual Jade Book, i KNOW he does...it's up there somewhere, and i am going to find it!"
The bewildered authorities, all fat bellied with cholesterol contents literally dripping from their eyes, were not impressed.
"If Dr. Chen produces his SUNRIDER products based on the Jade Book knowledge, why don't you just eat the herbs instead of stealing the Jade Book?"
The question seemed to stun the already stunned yogin.
"Well, i do eat the herbs...i have for 20 years..how the hell do you think i became bulletproof? jeeeezo! whatever...I dunno...i guess i am just attached to the notion of stealing a Jade Book from a Chinese Master!"
With that, the yogi sprinted off to his motorcycle and was last seen telemark skiing in the nearby San Gabriel mountains whereupon the whacky yet passionate herbal warrior was stalking a yeti saying to our reporter, "i KNOW i saw the creature up there on the north shoulder of Mt. Wilson! i see his footprints in the snow up here all the time! i WILL find him!" 
{Note; Dr. Chen's world renown, Chinese Museum of History and Herbology is open for private Tours, tuesdays through thursdays yet will be undergoing a renovation from April to July...the priceless pieces of art objects stemming 5,000 years ago in porcelain, bronze, furniture, jade, and more is NOT to be missed for the preeminent display of such attainments reveal without a doubt the honor, respect, and peerless effort that Dr. Chen embraces in his understanding of the scientific art of that which empowers the human spirit. You can also tour the facility's Botanical Gardens and glimpses of the unmatched processing of the worlds most superior whole foods and herbs are truly a precious gem of the world to embrace. visit www.SUNRIDER.com for more information. Coach Ilg is discussing with SUNRIDER corporate officers some very exciting possibilities in the near future for a closer working relationship between Wholistic Fitness and Sunrider. stay tuned DL for more!....and if you ain't on the herbs, yet...click on a WF Teacher to the left of this forum and GET INTO THE SUNRIDER TEMPLE!}
and now,
for something completely different;
an actual Question and Answer!
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Dear Coach Ilg,
���������������My Sunrider pack has arrived and contains something that I am unfamiliar with as they do not seem to be in your programme in TBT. May I enquire what the 'NuPlus' is, do I need it for Phase 1 of your programme. Can I also ask what I am do with the 'Quinary' that I have recieved, is this for phase 1 or for later.
�
Many thanks in advance for your help
�
Humbly
�
Simon Ash, Great Britain
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Noble Student Ash,
i have chosen to forward your letter to my SUNRIDER Sangha as the Ilg Downline is international in scope and i get this question every now and then.
fear not!
"NuPlus" is the precursor product of "VitaShake." Think of the two as the same. Here in America, the VitaShake is made from slightly superior formulation of herbs. It is a very amazing whole food herb powder that is deep and wide with a multivitamin/mineral, antioxidant, amino acids, and co-factors that make NuPlus and VitaShake a meal replacement.
In fact, this is why VitaShake (or NuPlus) is the backbone of my Ilg Supreme, the hallmark feature of Phase II; Cell Empowerment! Also, due to the immense nutrient saturation courtesy of VitaShake (or NuPlus), Dr. Chen made his amaaaazing SUNBAR's from the NuPlus...that is right, whenever you eat a SUNBAR, you are eating NuPlus!
this is why when my SR Warriors begin Phase II and start drinking the ILG SUPREME, their overall caloric intake goes waaaay down because they are, often for the first time in their lives, ACCURATELY feeding and nourishing and BALANCING their five major organ systems and overall physiology! SUNRIDER's eat less food, yet
uptake far more nutrients than the common food fed human. Encountering this new psychological terrain of not 'wanting' more food, can be quite disconcerting to most people...however, with our exceptionally trained staff of WF Teachers that usually oversee all my downline, we help people navigate this tricky inner terrain effectively and then, BOOM! They UpShift to to an exciting new Transformation and they are no longer slaves to food yet have taken a critical step in spiritual growth known in yoga as, Ahara Jaya or Mastery over Food.
The QUINARY is a herbal formula dating back to the Jade Book and is essentially, at least to me and my quality of life, priceless. The Quinary (the word implies "5") feeds directly the 5 Major Organ Systems of the body; two immune systems (respiratory and T-Cell), endocrine system, digestive system, and circulatory system. priceless, i tell you. you will see. just keep committed each day to doing your Phase I, and then i will move you into Phase II...so keep the NuPlus and Quinary in stock...we will use them in another couple of months (the shelf life is fine for both).
in Summary (please memorize and say to yourself when taking in these products so your body/mind Link is strong):
NuPlus is essentially the same as VitaShake. Both are multi and broad spectrum nutrient whole food body 'tonics' that can thankfully and far more effectively replace all vitamin pills, mineral pills, protein powders, and other bio-engineered non-natural supplements that only toxify the body with strange molecular configurations that the body must work very hard to reconstruct into something it recognizes. We SR Herb Eaters, release this alien stress on the physiology and enjoy whole food, natural plants that are packed with potent life forces still intact.
Quinary is an ancient prestigious herb formula that feeds and supports all five major organ systems. When eaten daily, any weak link in the organic system eventually becomes strong and that is when dis-ease is erased and true health care begins! Strengthen the Whole. Wholistic Fitness IS Sunrider Herbs.
Both VitaShake and Quinary are featured in Phase II; Cell Building/Empowerment in my unique 3-Phase Approach to the SUNRIDER HERBS; the Official Nutritional Path of Wholistic Fitness.
thank you for your question...and i will see you soon,
herb-pickin'
in the Temple Garden of WF...
SUNRIDER HERBS!
namaste,
coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness
director/SUNRIDER International
MEDITATION ON COMPASSION
"'You" means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and 'I' means to be aware of it in the form of I. �You and I are just swinging doors."
- �Shunryu Suzuki.
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As you continue to meditate on compassion, when you see someone suffer, your first response becomes not mere pity but deep compassion. You feel for that person respect and even gratitude, because you now know that whoever prompts you to develop compassion by his or her suffering is in fact giving you one of the greatest gifts of all, as you are being helped to develop that very quality you need most in your progress toward enlightenment.
That is why we say in Tibet that the beggar who is asking you for money, or the sick, old woman wringing your heart, may be the buddhas in disguise, manifesting on your path to help you grow in compassion and so move toward buddahood.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
March 17, 2005
"There is only one temple in the world and that is the human body. Nothing is more sacred than that noble form."
- Novalis, 1798
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one of our most requested photographs by DL readers. this is a Wayne Williams detail of coach ilg's physique shot when he was 42 years old. ilg's physique was created solely through Wholistic Fitness and SUNRIDER Herbs. "It's one thing to create art on a canvas or on clay...it's another thing entirely to create an artistic body then yet another thing to have that artistic body be capable of elite performance within ALL physiologic disciplines. My notion of a Warrior Athlete's body is one that is capable dancing the physiological extremes yet reflecting balance at all times." - excerpt from a FITNESS PLUS magazine interview with Coach Ilg, 1990, Boulder, Colorado.
"My paintings are created from moments: forms found in glimpses of self-realization. Images are fluid in experience and created in a process from within." (Artist's Statement)
"Steve most compassionate and devoted,
�I would like to dedicate this blessed day of practice to you...
(heavenly re~minder of breath, posture, honesty, awareness, and of course, open-heart connectedness!)...�so ALIVE!
as only you know --my dragons have had sharp claws... this is a god day, thank good!
�So beautiful one, �i �feel the�time�has come to play with something fierce... (this too is a fierce moment!) as�i ask head bowed, to send me the graciously acclaimed�PROP DVD....my spirit�would love a dance in a pond of new�sweat:
salty sweet sweat
falling into joyful smiles
rising from
creased brow concentration:
the edge-is�with-in.
�
i�think about contacting you much more frequently then i do, but it takes me some�time to drop a divine line... again, thank you for inspiring and sharing yet another glorious day!
�
love in the art of growing,
and with so much appreciation
Karen"
ps: If you are in Ventura, I have a�show at the Cafe des Artistes, 533 E.
Main St.�Just some stuff.
March 16, 2005
Coach's new HP PROP DVD kickin' Warrior Ass across the globe!
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
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Coach Ilg
I have tried to follow your teachings since the mid 80's when you appeared in Outside Magazine. Glad to
see you lose the Farrah Fawcett hair.
I just got your HP yoga DVD and it kicked my butt. I had to pause the DVD player several times and get into
child's pose. The challenge lies before me. I am 48 and at 6'1" 188lbs not in horrible shape but clearly
have a ways to go.
In WF you mention the "Ilg Supreme" but I could not find the recipe anywhere in the book.
Thanks
Ed
Dear Ed,
maybe you should grow your hair...gather Herculean strength! The "Ilg Supreme" is the main recipe of
Wholistic Fitness warriors for 20 years. It is made from the choicest SUNRIDER herbs. i will have an assistant
contact you to get you started on the herbs.
head bowed,
coach ilg
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Coach,
Received the HP Prop workout today, but haven't tried it yet.� All I can say is that the fact that you are grimacing on the front picture scares me.
- Student Feather
Student Feather,
it's good to be a little afraid...means you are feeling ALIVE!
treasure the sweat...live the spirit of WF!
love,
coach
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Dear Coach...
OMG!!!!
your PROP WORKOUT!!! i was up till 2am watching it.
OMG!!! what a freakin amazing accomplishment!!! dude....what the heck were you on!! the CHI was...IS...off the chain! i was just loving it. and the statements that come across the screen as you are working..... your humor and comedic timing is impeccable as always. PRICELESS!! talk it up? shiiiiiiiiit i'm a going to tape it to my freakin forehead!! as i did it this morning i screamed to the Gods within... I LOVE THIS WORK!!.
ST is now being replaced with Prop and HP Yoga Flow and Cardio and SUNRIDER Herbs. i am journaling the moments.
KUDOS my beloved "feeble" Coach...KUDOS!!!
i bow in love,
Teacher Q
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"Well sir, I did the Prop Yoga full workout with you last night. My, my, it is so interesting how you convert your little devils into spiritual power!
- Student Stiller, NYC
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My life has been enriched by WF in a such a short period of time. And the good news -- it's only going to get better!
with gratitude and blessings,
Peggy Hall
Yoga for Surfers
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Humble Ilgbro,
Feeble rj ordered my own neti pot and three powerblocks off yogapro.com yesterday!
Just watched the prop workout yesterday. Dude! Friggin' a modern day Jack LaLanne and you know for me this is the HIGHEST warrior compliment! My blocks are on the way baby! I felt so much chi I mixed up my standard gym workout beverage (5 drops Sunnydew in small bike bottle) and headed down to my humble temple of iron where skinny rj proceeded to MAX on his Olympic bench press and EZ-Curls...this is ALL TIME WHOLE LIFE MAX at age 45. I have a new client starting with me today that is barely over 50. She can hardly walk. My God Bro! In one hand strength training max outputs and on the other hand physical decay by choice...AWAKE feeble ones and move out of decay and into a life of physical culture!
From the iron temple of the South, rj
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Coach Ilg-
I've been doing your high-performance yoga videos every morning, and I feel a great deal fresher than I used to both mentally and physically throughout each day.
Thanks! Thanks! -Daniel
March 15, 2005
Rebekah Wasden; HP Yogini gettin' it done...within the OM!
Dear Coach Ilg,
I am so very honored that I was able to share and learn in another LONG OVERDUE class with you.� My cousin Jenifer and her friend, Jamin from Oregon�thoroughly enjoyed it!� Wish there could be more!!!��However, I�am appreciative in what I can get :)
Hope to see you again soon!� In the meantime, I will continue to enjoy your teachings and your knowledge that you share on your website.
Namaste!!!!
Rebekah :)
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March 14, 2005
Noble CK,
a testimony to the honesty, the integrity, and the utter compassion of those who choose to study in the humble
yet Powerful Temple of Online WF Training. Don't see this much in the Outer World.
- namaste,
coach ilg
Begin forwarded message:
Dear Coach Ilg,
�Saw your DL today - i apologise profusely�if i caused any offence to anybody by posting the poem re your Mt Taylor adventure. The reason that i posted the poem was that i thought that it epitomized your combined spirit on that undertaking. i also apologise if anybody thought that i was trying to make out that it was somehow written by me - believe me i am not capable of anything remotely as good as that! To me it was irrelevant who the author is/was as it is the spirit of the poem that is so profound and relevant to your combined efforts. And finally if i have misquoted TE Lawrence i apologise, (but since reading the comments by Chris i have checked various encyclopedias and they all give the version that i sent - however i think that Chris's version sounds better - and probably correct)!
Only my BEST wishes to yourself, to Teacher Haku, and all in the WF fraternity - it remains MY PRIVILEGE to be a part of this community.
�
namaste,
ranjit
March 13, 2005
Steve
I saw this on DL today:
"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."
I know that well and have two comments:
1) The author was T.E. Lawrence, otherwise known as Lawrence of Arabia.
2) He has a typo. The phrase near the end should be "for they MAKE act their dream..." Lawrence has a peculiar way of using the English language, and punctuation, like no other. The phrase "make act" is an example of that.
All the best
Chris - in Texas with Laurie riding "Hell Week"
SOME LOVE TO COACH...
Dear Coach Ilg,
Have read your Mt Taylor chronicles�- it is my very good fortune and honour to have found you and the WF path. You and your two WARRIOR companions are an inspiration for what can be achieved when�you truly have COURAGE in your SOUL. THANK�YOU.....
Your combined efforts are the embodiment of this poem;
"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by
night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the
day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the
day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream
with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."
-Namaste,
ranjit
* Noble New Student Ranjit,
i devote today's DL to the Higher Spirit Which Is Endless Inside of You
and Which Brought You to knock on my humble Temple Doors...
may all Beings Be Helped By Your Inner and Outer Workouts
within the mysteries unfolding of Wholistic Fitness.
today, you make my Heart Shine Down on all my fears, on all my pains...
today, you make me Begin Again and Again to be as Brave a Warrior as i can possibly be...
i bow to you,
feeble ilg
{photo 1: Student Ranji, who recently began Online Studies under WF Teacher Haku
photo 2: Coach Ilg cheers 508 Teammate and Warrior of the Mohave Wind, Roy Wallack as Roy nears the top of a 13 mile climb, still 180 miles until the finish. LA Times.}
March 12, 2005
THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: Part III
photo by ilg
Running in the snow (5)
Ice clinging to bearded chin (7)
Breath stops thought within (5)
- Love and Good Luck On The Sacred Mountain,
Online WF Student Featherman (Haku Clan)
after receiving the electronic 'baton' from Haku, coach ilg is nordic ski racing through a full on blizzard.
Elevation; 10, 400'
Place; halfway up the infamous, 32% "HeartBreak Hill" on Mt.Taylor.
Heart rate: 189 bpm (an ozone level of intensity quite capable of killing untrained men his age, he has held this HR for the past twenty minutes. he will sustain the same level of intensity for another forty minutes).
we now pick up his account:
***
Swirling snow...
Calm thoughts...
Intensity of effort has now delivered me my Heart Rate Yoga. My uptake and assimilation of data and Insight arises through each cell of my body as does an echo register unmistakable clarity. i am experiencing what the yogi's call, Citi-shakti or Powerful Awareness. i written about this in DL, yet now i am Vibrating with it! i am at a Higher Level of body/mind functioning, i have no choronologic age, i have no history, i am breathing myself into a snowy Sartori. All cylinders, spiritual and physical, are firing...
I erase any doubt, any tamasic quality of mind by way of my Breath and Posture Awareness; this first WF Lifestyle Principle is just as valid up here, pushing myself up his arctic mountain as it is when i am back in LA at my computer. Breath and Posture IS Awakening!
Mental posture is, to me, just as important as physical posture.
In yoga, our physical postures are only as elegant as is the elegance of our mind.
In endurance racing, the podiums are gained by those athletes who have learned to tame the circling vultures of doubt which feast upon the undisciplined minds of mediocre men, addicted to entertainment and comfort and sensual gratification. Here is what the UnAwakened Man does not realize; Comfort kills.
Endurance training is a temple.
A High Temple, of this make no mistake.
Endurance Racing, is the Highest Temple where you will find the Highest Priests of Perspiration, the spiritual juice of which a human is made; water. in WF, i call Sweat by her native name; Holy Water.
In the Endurance Temple, prayers can only be offered in the truest of religious action; effort not excuses, sweat not ceremony, perseverance not perfumed altars.
Hours and hours of being alone, face to face with the moment by moment confrontation of soul intention verses ego doubt.
"I am too tired today,"
"I don't have time today, i need to work..."
"I will do more cardio next workout, today i am too busy..."
"I can't finish this loop, i will take the shortcut home,"
"My knee hurts...my back hurts...i stayed up too late last night..."
When the endurance athlete gives into such ego thoughts two consequences occur;
1) podiums are not reached, and
2) spirit is smothered.
Being present to witness the ongoing Dance between Intent and Action signifies, as Sogyal Rinpoche says, "the linking of absolute and relative, sky and ground, heaven and earth, like two wings of a bird."
My tricked out combination of tiny racing nordic skate skis with custom cut climbing skins are working for me
like a gem...i am 'clatchety-clacking' up this insanely steep ski course like a stick insect waltzing up
your bedroom wall while you lie in bed wondering,
"How the hell does that Stick Insect do that!?"
Well,
that might well have been the surprised thoughts from the dozens of my
frozen competitors, as i tap dance
my way around their zombie-like apparitions, moving ever higher into the freezing white cold.
on HeartBreak,
it was not my sea level heart that was breaking,
it was all these mountain athletes that don't do YOGA, that don't do PRANAYAMA!
you don't need to live at high altitude to compete in those rarefied airs,
you just need to do Pranayama; The Pranic Tool of the Divine Air
screw all that textbook bullshit you hear about sea level athletes can't compete with high altitude natives,
here was Valley Boy, toxifed and withered by LA 'smuck' (that is what i call it; SMog + yUCK = SMUCK)
putting the Big Ol' Hurt on these mountain boyz!
one thing about living and training in LA smuck; it makes you tough like cockroach!
and here,
in this blizzard
on this mountain
i was a snowroach,
indestrucible
flitting upwards
snot frozen
eyelids sewn nearly shut by the freezing my eyelashes together...
i have pushed myself frequently to such a place...
because i use my life as training for the Bardo...
useless it was for me to scream at people to get out of my way,
the roaring wind was like felt stuffed into ice-caked ears.
more times than not, i was forced to pass other racers by taking an energy sapping
side trip through the softer snow off the race course.
i did not care.
there is only one thing more powerful to an athlete than Confidence Born From Training
and that is
CHI!
My passion for the summit blew me up HeartBreak Hill in top ten time.
Into and out from the SnowShoe Transition in 2 minutes then i was on my Atlas Dual Trac snowshoes,
running through the blizzard toward the 11,301' summit which
hovered 800 vertical feet above. Up the rising traverse sucking in
the perfume of pines and mesa ions elevating me into a Native American Dreamstate...
i love this country, i love my precious life, i love WARRIORS who do not abuse their bodies through
ignorance yet elevate their bodies into purushic vehicles, elegant Gifts wrapped with Gratitude for God!
"I" was gone...
only "The Witness" remained
Only my heartrate was beating faster than was the wind beating down upon the athletes turned mountaineers
in this ocean of cold.
Honestly,
i did not fucking care if i keeled over and died from my effort,
this was a far better way to leave the Stage
than dying stuffed into some pleated fucking sheets in some hospital bed with tubes sticking outta me...
fuck that shit!
As Chief Seattle said, 'It is a good day to die."
i deepened my resolve...i'm gonna race my GUTS OUT!!!
Tis better to burn out than to die apologetically like sheep, untouched and unmoved by the life they live.
i turn the corner onto the Summit Headwall affectionally named, "The Edge"
punching through a 14" snowdrift that was not there five minutes earlier.
onto the Summit Headwall:
Screaming Velocity
Wind punches and kicks at you, this was no longer a snowshoe race it was boxing match, and
suddenly the deep fiber fitness from years of strength training in the gym, another WF intradiscipline,
starting paying off again; i was passing non-strength trained endurance athletes right and left...
my glutes, fashioned from years of Jump Squats and Back Squats, motoring me up this near vertical ice patch
in the southwestern sky! THANK YOU, IRON TEMPLE!!!
i cannot see more than 4 feet..i hucker down low,
grateful for all i have learned about energy saving aerodynamics during cycling...
i am chasing pigment
i merge into the motion of my hips
gasping for air
this is not Elegant Stuff...
this is BARDO TRAINING!
this opaque, indomitable, confused intensity...
such are Divine Gates To The Next Life
35mph winds at the Summit...
i get a positive nod from the brave Paramedics who look and move like snowmen stationed there,
and then...
i nearly cry...tears from a little boy remembering his Wolf...memories cascade from my mental
chambers as i myself start cascading downward through the bleak freeze...
ectasy falls from my lips
sacred skies above
Southwestern love within...
the edge of what i know...
i am flying down from the Summit
snowshoes a whirling blur of chi, arms flying about to control my speed..
i am a Sufi Master! ... a Whirling Derivish drunk on the Divine Vibration...
i feel compassion for all those who do not compete, never race, never truly TEST their faith in
who they really are!
Hell hath no fury like feeble ilg on a descent from a high alpine peak.
i take a public moment now to apologize to all those
racers i used as breakaway slalom gates as i made my madman descent,
shouldering past them at high speed down the steep Summit Headwall...
sorry bros.
into the Ski Transition;
"Go Mr. PowerBar!' i hear...
one of the Norwegians that i must beat
is right there, next to me in the Transition...
i am a flurry of movement,
"Not today, mofo, not on this mountain..." i pushed out of the Transition and
into the Ski descent at warp speed, "Engage, Number One..."
the highly technical, hurly burly roller coaster descent
through blowing fields of white poetry, my ski's the pen, my focus the art.
i held off the Norwegian and had passed another somewhere else,
for i had moved our Team into third overall and first in our category.
my business had been taken care of,
yet two events still remained; Haku's Run Down, and Gram Man's Bike Down.
Into the cheering crowd at the Run Down Transition...i see
my Beloved Senior Teacher of WF Online Training was right there,
Braveheart was waiting for me...
i collapsed at his fleet feet in an anaerobic pile of snot, sweat, and God-induced glee...
"Go!" was all i could muster...
and he went..
but then, that is his story...
****
SCENE:
Haku Waits For Ilg at the Ski Down/Run Down Transition after hammering his Run Up in national caliber time:
Haku writes:
Bardo time...Go within, listen, cultivate awareness, dry layers off by the fire, hydrate, restore, feel... I feel him coming, no matter if the watch says he should be or not. I prepare.
Very soon I see Ilg coming down the slope thru the trees, totally tucked like he is approaching the lip of a ski jump ramp.
My �layers come off, chip exchanged, Steve has moved ahead two to three more places with a most elegant effort.
At this point spirit transcends safety. No brakes, come what may. Arms drive the legs. Lead with the heart. Hit the turns like a running a banked indoor track. Be light, let mother earth reel me down the mountain. Its play time.
Rolling hills the last mile or so..up hill against a headwind..this is where sincerity is tested. Legs are gooey yet pran is plenty...
ahead lays the transition as our brother Grammage prepares for the final decent into desert valley. It has been a most wonder-full day.
We are so blessed to breath upon the place, to challenge spirit with sweat. I bow to my team-mates, the organizers, this mountain. On this day it is the axis mundi.
��������
-haku
***
SCENE:
The Bike Down Transition, lower slopes of Mt. Taylor. Rain pelts Mother Earth. Up higher on the mountain, it is snow. Loudpeakers buzz the pinon air with ongoing updates of the hundreds of racers strung out along the course like a human Mala...
Gram Man writes:
Now this is where the guessing game begins.
How
long will it take for my teammates to complete their
disciplines, and when should I start warming up?
I had done this Quad with a another team in 2000 and was
left to freeze as I waited for a very long period of
time (many hours). Keeping in mind that there is no
form of communication at any of the transitions I was
left to estimate my transition time. After hearing
the treacherous weather ahead toward the peak, I had
severely underestimated my teammates' God given
abilities, skills and perseverance.
This is where I
made this interesting.
I had eaten and rehydrated and
tried to gather info from race volunteers with no
avail. I decided to setup my bike for a warm up and
dress-up. I was about 3/4 dressed when one of my
competitors had alerted me that Haku was waiting for
me at the transition. I quickly jumped out of the car
zippered up my skinsuit, pulled my bike off the
trainer, changed the my rear wheel, put on my aero
helmet and raced to the transition forgetting my
waterbottle. At this point Haku had been waiting
several minutes. He helped me with the chip and raced
downhill.
At this point the weather had taken a turn for the
worst. The slight breeze on the ascent now had turned
into a nasty headwind with violent crosswinds which
almost caused me to lose control of the bike a few
times. I managed to keep the bike upright and
continue chasing down my opponents with great strength
and determination. For I had let my teammates down
and had time to makeup.
I passed many of my rivals
along the way picking them up and dropping them. One
managed to catch my draft and I asked him to take a
pull. His response was "I am an old man". When I
asked him how old he was he responded "42". Then he
asked how old I was and I replied "47". At this point
I put down the hammer again attacking on a ascent that
had come upon us and dropped him like a bad habit. 
{Gram Man made up for a lack of concentration in the Transition
by absolutely hammering the Bike Down}
I raced to the finish as hard as my body and MY GOD
would allow and managed to save the day for my
teammates. All I can say is that my teammates were
beyond awesome!
I imagined that my teammates were going to be very
irate with me, and distant for I had let them down,
but instead I was met with congratulatory hugs and
smiles. They had forgiven my miscues for we had taken
3rd overall and FIRST in our age group only to be
beaten by the youth of the race. Praise God!
{Gram Man, ends with this note to me:}
Hope this works for you Steve.
Thanks again for inviting me. I had a great time and
I also enjoyed meeting and socializing with the
wonderful WF families.
You guys were awesome with your disciplines. If you
wish to try and retain the title and if you dare to
have me again it would be my honor to race with you
again! This time I will be waiting on the bike!!!!
God Bless!
Grammage
Team Mountain Yogi, embellishing "war stories" after their championship effort at
Coach Ilg's HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS "suite"! photos by Ananda
{At the Race Award Ceremony, Coach Ilg, shown here with Haku, offering a moment of silence
and gratitude for what Coach called, "The Most Important and Sacred Player Of The Day...
Mt. Taylor!}
{Back on the sun dried mesa of New Mexico, Coach points to where he is visualizing
his next event..to the top of the next podium!...
"Onward, Upward, Ever Inward!"
- Coach Ilg's WF Training Mantra
****
TEAM MOUNTAIN YOGI
Mt. Taylor Race Splits, Comparisons and Photos available at:
www.mttaylorquad.org
(on the overall, you will see the name of Gram Man (VERDERAME) in 8th place overall; that is Team Mountain Yogi.)
****
a signed Training Poster, an 8x10 glossy image of Coach Ilg's Ski Down (see DL; Mt. Taylor Chronicles; Part II) will be made available
for your Training Room on the WF Tribal Catalog soon. Watch for it and enjoy the CHI HIT everyday from the Sacred Mountain of Tsidool!
***
And now...
The Top Ten Reasons For YOU To Race Mt. Taylor Next Winter:
10. Haven't thrown up in a while
9. Read somewhere by some crazy mountain yogi that sweat is an karmic purification agent
8. Got life, so why not?
7. Have never actually raced while hypothermic
6. Like being humiliated where nobody knows who the hell i am or cares!
5. Lactic acid makes me loopy
4. Shaved legs for the Bike Portion makes cross-dressing easier to explain
3. Good excuse to visit the Cibola County Mining Museum and Auto Repair
2. Cheap way to fuel PowerBar addiction
1. Pure Pran - just can't get enough of it!
***
TRIBAL CHEEERS:
STOP SEARCHING and PRACTICE/GOOD LUCK AT MT. TAYLOR!
"We all have the karma to take one spiritual path or another, and I would encourage you, from the bottom of my heart, to follow with complete sincerity the path that inspires you most.
If you go on searching all the time, the searching itself becomes an obsession and takes you over. You become a spiritual tourist, bustling about and never getting anywhere. Following one teaching is not a way of confining you or jealously monopolizing you. It�s a compassionate and practical way of keeping you centered and always on your path, despite all the obstacles that you, and the world, will inevitably present."
- Sogyal Rinpoche
***
Coach-
Namaste! �I send you and the Mountain Yogi team much love and chi as you prepare to scale the sacred mountain.
Student Ludgate
***
Fucking Bro!� Read DL�s course report today�MY GOD!� Friggin� Haku�s run is fucking brutal!� I�ll send my FEEBLE chi which pales in the face of such brave warriors.� How in the hell will he �run� down icy golf balls?!!!!!!!!� Track spikes hell�feeble rj is contemplating baseball cleats for 2006!� Ooof!� Allow me to leave you with a favorite quote in view of the circumstances (and YES I KNOW you WF warriors WILL adapt and be flexible/yin while other �force� and in vain try to �defeat� Mother Nature):
"In warfare, there are no constant conditions.�
He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win."
--Sun-Tzu
Rock those mofos!
Humbled, rj
***
Dear TFO and Haku,
�
today i devote my Practice, which will include a chilly hour of trail running into�a sweaty session of HP Inspired Yoga, to you and your teammates.� sending Chi and Love your Way.� in-joy and Kick Ass!
�
below is a Haiku,�that was�written and given to me by John Singleton.� may it�Inspire you during your Journey tomorrow.
�
Gather Yogis Dance (5)
Snow Falls Gently, Still We Dance (7)
Heat�On�The Mat, Dance (5)
�
Love,
ko�
***
My Dear Coach Haku,
�In meditation last night I was provided with visions of you and your team mates smoothly hammering Mt. Taylor.� Flute music came to me as well.� In your honor, I will meditate and play my flute as Mindfully as possible�at the start of the race.� You will all�remain in my heart until the race finishes.
�
You must be focusing on the race, so don't feel rushed to complete my next cycle.� I can keep myself engaged until your return.
�
Watch for Ravens during the race.
�
Namaste.
�
WF Online Student Michael
***
Dear Coach,
����Forgot to mention it in my last email -- kick some tail this weekend!� Warrior Chi -- no doubt�all that contact with your team will feel its power! No need for me to wish you luck when you have WF!
Look forward to following the results this weekend.
�
With love,
�
WF Online Student Cerame (Coach Ilg Clan)
***
March 09, 2005
My Heavens!
Many new Seekers are knocking up my humble Temple Door since the "Mt. Taylor Chronicles" and the release of the HP YOGA PROP WORKOUT!
i will conclude the "Chronicles" tomorrow yet wish to take this moment to honor the curious group of onlookers now gathering about the WF Temple doors...this comes paraphrased from a submitted offering from Devoted Online Student Garrity:
�
****** Receive Ye Welcome At This Temple of Transformation *****
* Let the guest sojourning here know that in this Temple our life is simple.� What we cannot afford we do not offer, but what good cheer we can give��....We give gladly.
* We honor only the spirit derived from two Divine Sources; Sweat and Stillness
* We make no strife for appearance sake. Know also friend, that we live a life of labor;�therefore, if at times we separate ourselves from thee, do ye occupy thyself according to thine hearts desire.
* We will not defer to thee in opinion or ask thee to defer to us.� What thou thinketh ye shall say, if ye wish, without giving offense.� What we think, we also say. Truth hath many aspects, and that Love is large enough to encompass them all.
* So, while ye tarry here with us, we would have thee enjoy the blessings of a home, health, love and freedom, and we pray that thou mayst find the ongoing Blessings and the final Grace from a lifetime filled with the realization of the necessity of daily workouts and...Work-withins.
�� ....Peace
In my humble yet Powerful Wholistic Fitness Temple, "We honor only the spirit derived from two Divine Sources; Sweat and....
Stillness."
photos by www.waynewilliamsstudio.com
March 08, 2005
A MOUNTAIN YOGI IN WARRIOR MODE:
This Is The CHI That Give Birth To and Still Fuels
The Nation's Original Transpersonal Fitness Training System:
Steve Ilg's
WHOLISTIC FITNESS
A Path For Spiritual Fitness Athletes
May Your Practice Be Strong and Sincere today...
i bow to you,
coach ilg
COMING UP NEXT: The Conclusion Of The Mt. Taylor Chronicles!
March 06, 2005
THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES; PART II
THE SKI/SNOWSHOE UP...and DOWN
Warrior Ready; ilg begins the predawn shuttles to reach the upper part of the Sacred Mountain
written by coach ilg
11:30 am Ski Transition, Mt. Taylor. Elevation 9,200'. Air temp: 23 degrees. Wind chill; you don't want know.
1) Always be Prepared
2) Be On Time
3) Give 100% Effort
These three sage fundamentals of sport (and life) performance were taught to me by my first nordic ski coach, Olympian Mike Scott. I remember them at times like these, wrapped up like a human burrito in my Marmot sleeping bag, a most welcomed vestigial vestibule from my winter mountaineering years.
The wind shrieked and licked at my 14 ounce blue bag of down like an enraged sky monster. In mountaineering, when a storm forces you into bivouac, an anxious waiting game begins. Team adventure racing requires similar Practice of Patience. I had been cargo'd up to this snowy perch like a side of frozen beef since 6:30 am. I thought of my Sangha and did my best to apply what i teach during the long, cold hours waiting for the Hand Off from Haku. As the other athletes huddled around a nearby bonfire and army tent, chatting between chattering teeth, this WF Student used the 6 hours of freezing wind as a Pratyhara Gong; i went within = 45 minutes of Pranayama, 30 minutes of Zazen, 45 minutes of Tibetan Energywork supersetted with Yogic Subtle Anatomy Exercises. 20 minutes Chanting. 90 minutes of a stunningly beautiful ski warm up through ice-glazed pines filled with Raven Medicine.
{ilg; "Always Be Prepared"; my prep for my nordic ski helped produce the 3rd fastest time of the event - and the fastest sea level athlete time ever on the 11,300' peak!}
The rest of the time i spent preparing my equipment, and facilitating the Very Important Sport Performance Matter of Addressing Elimination Issues. In SUNRIDER Herb lingo, i was having my "Slim Cap" Moments...which, given the environment, was challenging. Often, getting the hole shot for the port-a-john is the most vital maneuver of the race!
Pride Is A Burden
Pride is not to be cultivated by a Master Student of WF, nor any yogi, for that matter. However, i felt guiltless in awarding myself significant and lingering morsels of Pride for being so clever in my Waiting Game strategy. My bowels were empty, my Pranic reservoirs were amp'd, my visualizations were diamond sharp, my physical warm up was pro level. yes, i thought to myself, i suppose growing older does come with the advantage of experience. as i continued in the etheric patting of my yogic back for my exceptional handling of Being So Well Prepared the thought suddenly hit me like a thunderclap...i felt the Disturbance in the Force...
"Oh shit!" my inner alarm outshrieked the wind, "HAKU IS HERE!!!!!! Get UP, get OUT, get your SKIS ON...quiver your SNOWSHOES YOU IDIOT! HAKU IS HERE! You are going to miss the Transition!!"
In Kishido, the Way of the Western Warrior, the Master says, "To delay preparation until a situation is emergent is the hallmark of the foolhardy. The superior warrior employs his superior skills to avoid a situation in which he will be forced to call upon them."
Pride is born from Ego and is thus meant to be destroyed by the yogin. It was indeed my Prideful thoughts that once again had caught me red handed with my spiritual pants down!
i could FEEL Haku...i could tell his arrival by pure CHI...i knew he was close to the Transition (well ahead of the loudspeaker's projected time) and i could also tell he was charging toward me like a Raven on a jet stream tailwind. Rapport with telepathic elements has flowed within the fabric of my spiritual life. Such telepathy is a training effect from quality, consistent, and well guided training Practice. Some yogis and saints, it is said, can transmit very High states of vibration by extrasensory influence. In Hinduism, such transmission or 'diksha', can be effected by a glance, a gaze, a touch, a word, an embrace, or other gestures.
The well known WF diksha comes through sweat and high heart rates. WF Students receive and know well the power of the WF diksha whenever we train...when our WF Tribe trains, we become One. It is our "NamaWay"! The formal WF Online Students get the most Powerful WF diksha then It descends down through DL, books, dvds, articles, etc. Well, Haku had clearly rung the WF diksha gong and here i was lolling about in my goose down bag like an intestinal parasite engorging myself on my Pride. God, after all these years...even after so many meditation sessions....even after many podiums...still...such...an...absolute...idiot! ILG!!!!ARRRGH!!!!!
I then Witnessed myself perform a stunning display, a cataclysm of multitasking. A testimony to my LA lifestyle?! Within seconds i had broken down my bivouac, shouldered my snowshoes, grabbed my ski's and poles and ran through the Transition Area bowling through the gathered flock of spectators and athletes like a prison escapee.
That's when something made me turn my head over my shoulder, and look down the Run Up Course... i saw him; WF Teacher "Haku" Sheader in all of his WARRIOR CHI. he was a living, breathing poem of pure warrior pran! "Damn, i have trained him well," went my endless Ego producing still more Pridefulness. Haku was a mere 40 meters distant and closing fast, yet...the moment stood as still as a frozen zen garden pond. Haku's celtic tawny mane flowed behind him, his arms driven high churning his legs manufacturing a foot speed up the final ice covered 18% headwall that was unfathomable. His speed up the icy slope sprayed a rooster tail of ice and snow chunks into an albino Rorschach Test against the depth of mesa and mountains.
In races, like life, all you really get are Moments. Just one quality Moment from hours of suffering is more than enough to fuel months of more training for the next race, the next Moment. The Moment i will remember most from here will be Haku's eyes. The Master's say that the CHI can be felt most vividly through the eyes. Still distant from me, yet each Haku Eye glared in sharp relief against all else and seemed to hover right in front me. This was no longer an athlete running toward me, this was a wolf, prey in sight, target secured, full chi ahead.
"Fucking Braveheart is coming!" i thought i heard someone shout! i could not argue the description...i dove headfirst into the marmalade slush of the Hand Off area, somehow clipped into my skis, and within a flicker of a heartbeat, Braveheart had already transferred the ankle microchip from his ankle to my own while gasping, "I mowed down five out of ten, there are five more ahead of you. Go," was all Sir William Wallace The Re-Incarnated breathed into me.
I went.
Up into the blizzard and now breathed my own breath, my own BraveHeart Warriorism up the steep, snowy, sensual slopes of Tsidool, a Sacred Mountain which i've known and loved my whole life.
Five competitors were ahead of me. Two were Norwegian cross country skiers. Some things never change in life. Chasing Norwegians through pine studded snow tracks is one of the constant themes of my Blessed and Cursed Life.
Yet today, feeble ilg felt the Mountains Gods within my spirit. I sensed they knew and appreciated my hard fought, daily battles to bring something of this Mountain Spirit to the Big City people.
Today, on this Sacred Mountain, feeble ilg was feeling,
not
so
feeble.
STAY TUNED FOR THE FINAL PART OF THE MT. TAYLOR CHRONICLES COMING NEXT ON DL!
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THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES
3 Racers,
1 Sacred Mountain, 
275 competitors ...
One Amazing Day Of Mountain Yoga...This is their championship story...
by Coach Ilg
Until we toe a start line, until we force ourselves into the limelight and perform against others who have
trained just as hard as we, our inner Sacred Essence...the very gut of who we are, the extremely concentrated spiritual
nectar of our consciousness remains untested, undeveloped. Humans need to compete to truly know
who the hell we are. Some say, "I am not competitive." Bullshit. You are a human being in a global Tribe called,
"the Human Race." Our very natures have been Divinely Designed to win, or at least compete nobly, within the Human Race. The Unawakened refuse to honor this Divine Design and thus grow fat in their bodies and lazy in their minds. Content, are these sheepish masses, to allow their souls to whither when all about them is God's glorious nature! I choose to Dance, not sleep.
In case you are new to DL or have been so stuck in the illusion of the outer world that you have forgotten what is the goal of the Human Race, let re-mind you; Enlightenment. Thus, to me, training, carving out the time to train, doing the homework of pre competition, and then doing what is required to get yourself to the Start Line surrounded by the adrenalin pulsation of hundreds of like-trained Warriors each out to beat the bolts off of you...this, Oh Mighty Armed Travelers of the WF Way, is vital to the spiritual development of what each of us must confront at our final exhale. Any other way of living is false, any other way of living is NOT living at all but is an addiction to comfort and violates the very nature of the Human Spirit
which is to Rise Above.
Though most of my life i have been a competitive athlete in as many forms of Brahman's sports and arena's as you are probably capable of imagining, these days, since moving to LA nearly 10 years ago, i don't race much. At least not at the Level to which molded my fibers. I, perhaps like you, am now Very Busy. LA will do that to you. A little over a year ago, several things, toxic things where happening to my Vehicle (body/mind) that told me i needed to refill the Sacred Chi, i needed to compete again. Ultra races are the best for InnerAttainment. I mean, the Skill Sports are fine, but they are not It.
Ultra endurance sports are It. They push you into the Divine Bardo and because of this there is no more effective Path for dying (and thus living). Not 'having the time' to train for the ultra events solo as i am accustomed, i imagined myself gathering a team of like-minded Fitness Warriors and apply my spirit beside theirs, and race. Soon, the first manifestation of this dream came to me through Chris Kostman, Race Director of the FURNACE CREEK 508. I did that race and with my teammates, we set a Course Record through absolutely hellish conditions. The LA Times covered our story and put me on the cover of the magazine pullout. The AfterGlow from Furnace Creek was so great, and my fitness level was so...21 years old again, that i thought, "Shit, i should get a team together to do Mt. Taylor." From that spirit-soaked dream of mine, came not only another Chi Filled Sanctuary of Higher Growth for me and a hand picked team...it also brought me my second Championship in as many outings since my retirement from sponsored sport.
Mt. Taylor, known as Tsidool in Tewan, means The Turquoise Mountain. Back in the seventies, a Nordic Ski Racer (leave it to us whackos) was living in Grants, New Mexico and needed a place to ski train. The only snow was located several thousand feet above the high mesa, only the slopes of Tsidool. Claude, his name, loaded up his bike with snowshoes and skis, rode up as far as he could, then ran and hiked to the snowline, whereupon he could ski and snowshoe. Thus began the notion of the best Winter multisport event in which i have ever competed; the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon. I have never done this event as part of a Team, yet i know Tsidool well. I have finished as a Soloist in the top twenty several times. You can read all about this four sport, 75 kilometer event at: www.mttaylorquad.org
I asked my old Motorola bike racing teammate, Richard "Gram Man" Verderame to do the Bike Up and Down; a 13 mile uphill time trial that sears your lungs and legs to smithereens. His duty was kickstart our effort by remaining in the top ten on the Bike Up, hand off to WF Teacher Haku Sheader, our runner. Haku was to blitz the pig sloppy Run Up, and hand off to me, waiting up on the upper reaches of the 11,300' mountain...i would do two events, the Ski and Snowshoe to the summit. Then, i would turn around, do those two events in reverse, hand off to Haku, who in turn would fire off the Run Down, and make a lightning fast hand off to Gram Man who would be perched upon his racing bicycle, ready to soar us home and to the top of the podium...that was our PLAN anyway...
here is the way it turned out in the words of Team Mountain Yogi themselves;
THE BIKE UP;
written by "Gram Man"
The Biking leg of Mt Taylor:
With the constant changing weather in this area
one of the most difficult things in preparation for
the biking leg was what to wear. Was it going to
rain? Snow? Hail? Will it be windy? Will it be
freezing? Will there be any Sun? Especially after
Fridays deludge and the approaching storms from the
west the decision was tough.
As it turned out the ascent toward Heaven started
a little cool-cold as the pace from the start was
constant powerful attacking and then the group size
was immediately pared down to about 20-25. After we
hit the TT mode and entered the climbing mode the
group was now down to about 15. There was one racer
way out in front by this time and no one took to the
chase. Instead the chase group now have been spread
throughout the mountain course. I was pushing myself
to the limits. I manage to stay pretty close
improving on my Personal Best by 3 minutes and
finishing within the top 10. I realized that my
clothing selection was just perfect as I finished with
minimal perspiration and did not overheat. I handed
the microchip transmitter to Haku who ran like a deer.
THE RUN UP,
written by Haku
"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
-Shunryu Suzuki
A reflection from the field..errr... trial, mud, ice, wind, snow, ice,CHI FEST!
There are few expressions of being that feel as truly human as running freely upon a mountain.
As with climbing, it is not about conquering the mountain, (how presumptuous) it is about conquering oneself. That, as the Buddha taught, provides the real victory.
Thus as I prepared the past several weeks for my fleet sojourn up and down the run section of the Turquoise Mountain to the moment the flying Grammage man came zooming towards the transition area I directed myself towards this approach. Merge...merge...befriend the sacred with authenticity not arrogance, draw strength from her slopes.
Racing in this context, with the common-unity of fellow fitness warriors about you draws this deeper. Racing is not about �beating� anyone it is about bringing out the best. It is a concentrate of what living deeply and authentically means. As in meditation, if brave enough to peer, you are enabled by pushing the edge to look into the abyss to see both where fear and struggle are hiding and effort and courage await to be unleashed.
Watching the time and more importantly feeling for Gramman�s approach I go thru my inner and outer warm-ups. I am well hydrated with my Sunrider herbs and Mountain pran. The sky is dark, its windy, its wet, its cold, its perfect. Before I hear our number called I sense �his pounding heart and shed my layers. (always wear one less layer than you think you ought). We make the chip exchange and its off. Running up and down a mountain is like a challenging asana..you don�t force it ya let go. Let the mountain move under your feet and pull ya up. I have nine or ten team runners ahead of me..some several minutes. Here is what is important. Not to resist discomfort, pain, do not seek escape from these. Simply embrace the difficulty as Coach Ilg says and they dissolve. Secondly, do not anticipate the outcome. Just go. Now. In other words, have FUN!
The 5th mile arrives soon. The incline steepens, snow pack and ice increase..I strap on the yaktrax mid-stride and change gears unleashing my inner miler from days past. I have moved by five team competitors. �I FEEL Steve�s fire up ahead...its powerful. Over the lip and there he awaits like frigging Tibetan Snow Leopard quivering with an oncoming pounce. Ilgbro flies off. The hard cold winds generated near white outs on the way to summit and down...I think the com trail coming off of Ilg must of have contributed to the effect!
NEXT UP: COACH'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SKI and SNOWSHOE UP THE SACRED MOUNTAIN IN BLIZZARD CONDITIONS!
Direct Lines; Daily Meditations From Coach Ilg
a karmic gift for Awakened Fitness Warriors since 1982
March 05, 2005
SNOW WARRIOR MACKEL HAS THE RIGHT STUFF...
Every friday and saturday night, my humble Helm buzzes with questions from the local LA WF tribe
with what training rides, snowshoes, ski events we are going to do on the weekend. check out
my Online Warrior Student Steve Mackel, an accomplished triathlete and coach from Pasadena
who went down hard on the snowboard a couple
days ago, yet the blood drawn?...just spiritual juice to inspire
his conviction to keep training that much harder!
here is what Steve wrote to me tonight in regard to training on the bikes tomorrow:
"Dear Coach,
My wrist is pretty sore but I plan on riding no matter what. Please let me
know what training ride is going off tommorrow. Attached is a picture. It hurt worse than it probably looks. What
you can't see is the left half of the goggle lens is cracked and my wrist.
I have to remember that I am 42 not 24 sometimes.
Love,
NWSM
how 'bout you, Oh Noble DL Reader?
you a Warrior or a wuss?
did you blow off your workout today? your meditation?
did you ignore your non-dominant hand assignments?
hey,
there it's not right or wrong to be a Warrior or a wuss...
there are only consequences.
karmic ones.
if you "don't like to run" because it makes you too 'tight' to be good at yoga?
WF and HP Yoga is NOT for you..
we USE yoga in order to strive HIGHER in our other fitness disciplines!
in the current issue of YOGA JOURNAL, in the "Ask The Expert" column,
some genuine Warrior who loves to run and do Krav Magra martial arts asked the
very famous yogi expert which yoga poses could help him...
you know what the acclaimed, best selling "Teacher of Yoga" told him?
get this:
"quit running!...just do yoga"!
jesus!
aaaargh!!!
what IS Yoga if not a UNIFIER of all things we love to do and
aspire toward!?!??!
anyway,
to check out a REAL WARRIOR YOGI,
you can check out
Student Steve Mackel's very cool, very inspirational website at:
http://www.eteamz.com/trithis
HAIKU OF THE WEEKEND
Noble Ilg �
If I may?
Clear sunlight dancing (5)
Ethereal breeze ripples (7)
Majestic saffron (5)
It was a nice vibe in Central Park.
Tom Carpenter, CPCU
Charlotte, North Carolina
March 04, 2005
SUNRIDER FEEDS A SUPPORTIVE CRAVING or...TOO MUCH HERBS!?!?!?
?
WF Online Teacher and SUNRIDER Leader Ananda cranking up the pine studded slopes at
11,000' above Santa Fe, New Mexico. Like hundreds of others who choose to TRUST in our Way,
Ananda's entire body, mind, and spirit
has been transformed from devoting herself to the Divine Duo of
SUNRIDER HERBS + WHOLISTIC FITNESS training!
photo by ilg
***
?
brandOn Freese;
at age 24, a shining example of what a WF and SUNRIDER herb influenced young man
can be...oooof, what if EVERY young man was exposed to WF and SR?!?! wow!
Dear coach ilg,
I have something interesting to tell you, today was my first day starting phase 2, as I previously told you I�m taking a lot of herbs. So, around lunch time I had my second ilg supreme at work, when I got home I immediately drank another ilg supreme then a 4th later that night! I couldn't help myself; it was the weirdest, almost addicting like feeling that attracted me to indulging in 4 ilg Supremes. It's like I just craved it, also I just a craving for evergreen, I had 3 today. I find myself just wanting to take more and more herbs... do you think this could be a problem? Please let me know as soon as possible.
lOve,
brandOn Freese
***
My Most Noble Young Herbal Warrior brandOn...
let me address your very entertaining letter on Four Levels.
please listen close:
Level One: Love
okay first of all, let's start with the most important point of your letter; Love.
i love you too.
the very expression of your love in your salutation is evidence to me that the herbs and just hangin' out around our
crazy Temple of Wholistic Fitness and Sunrider holds value toward the Opening of your Heart. for a young man like you,
that is very rare and
very, very needed in today's world.
know that, okay?
keep eating, please, the herbs if they help nourish your bravery in the areas of Loving, Understanding, Patience, and Compassion.
Level Two: Relax!
secondly,
dude...relax!
dude, most kids your age are addicted to junk foods, drugs, sex, or God knows what else!
i hate to tell you, yet,
consuming 4 Ilg Supremes per day is precisely what i did when i first got 'on the herbs' when i was your age!
i Intuitively felt an indelible URGE TO JUST CRANKING MORE AND MORE SUNRIDER into my body! i could TELL beyond a shadow of a doubt
that these herbs were FEEDING something very VITAL within me...only later did i realize that the herbs were directly infusing me with superDirect feeds of
pranic energy. all i knew was that i felt like SUPERMAN and, that SUPERMAN feeling has not left me in 22 years of eating SUNRIDER! why do you
think i am so crazy about getting people on the herbs, man!??!! they are the best damn things available on Mother Earth! God Bless Dr. Chen! So, anyway, relax!
Level Three: Feeding An Supportive Craving
you are experiencing a "Supportive Craving." It is a positive thing. At the intensity you are now feeling toward Phase II (Cell Building/Empowerment)
it may last anyway from a few days to a few months. after that, whatever weak link in your body's chi lines or organ systems will have been addressed
by the copious consumption of 4 Ilg Supremes per day and the intensity of your multi-Ilg Supreme per day craving will eventually boil down.
Though i normally reserve such Teachings for my Online Students,
you, my youthful Warrior,
have touched a chord in Coach's Anahata Chakra
thus i shall continue to Teach for such ears and eyes thus listening:
The other two forms of cravings are "Dispersive Cravings" and "Associative Cravings."
The former, as defined by Marc David, "is a desire for a food that drains our health and disperses body energy." Such cravings are usually emotionally ingrained and very difficult to break (until SUNRIDER POWER comes into our lives!). A very large Dispersive Craving of mine was Diet Coke. I would more than likely still be addicted to that crap if it were not for Dr. Chen and his bravery to get SUNRIDER available to all beings everywhere.
Associative Cravings are an external manifestation of our attachment to the past. We experience Associative Cravings when we identify with a food that has a rich, multi layered association of our past. Let me give you an example. Today, i went skiing. Up at the ski area, there were burgers being grilled on the outdoor deck of the ski lodge. Oh My God.
Every damned time i smell burgers mixed with the smells of snow, pines, wind, and the sounds of chairlifts and skiers swooshing down the slopes...
shietza!!!!!!!!!
have you ANY idea of how quickly this 43 year old body
transforms into the body of a 14 year old boy skiing at Purgatory Ski Area with my Ski Team bros
running gates
racing on the weekends,
hittin' on Texan girls on the slopes (though i had ZERO idea of what to do with one even IF i got hooked up with one!)
raising trouble in myriad ways in the Lodge...
i was a skier Punk and those gorgeous Colorado days just coming streaming into me
every time i smell a burger being grilled outdoors at a ski area...i actually start salivating for a burger!
that,
my young Herbal Warrior,
is an Associative Craving!
did i eat an burger today?
HELL NO!
yet,
just the smell,
just imagining the taste,
just relishing the memories of a youth unattainable ever again...
that my young friend,
is why i eat SUNRIDER...
it keeps me from indulging in the Past way that are no longer beneficial to my Higher,
Spiritual Growth.
and, eating SUNRIDER allows me days just like today
where i woke up early, did an Early Morning Practice of pranayam, asana, then
tele skied hard for 2 hours directly into a 2,500' vertical ascent up a spent Avalanche Path to a ridge overlooking the Mohave
and did three laps with Timari, a pro Mountain Bike racer and SUNRIDER eater, of a self created snowshoe loop (one lap for Shiva,
one lap for Vishnu, one lap for Brahman).
all on this:
one Ilg Supreme, Herb Cal, Citric C, Sunrise, Action Caps, Sport Caps, Beauty Pearls, and Veros
with 1 egg, 1 egg white, 1 corn tortilla, New Mexico green chile, and (later) one PowerBar.
i felt GREAT!!!!!! like i all-Ways do!
how calories did i consume today...uh, maybe 500?
how many did i expend?
uh...maybe 5,000!
the math doesn't add up, does it?
what i do everyday
for the past 20 years
baffles the Western Ph.D's in Nutrition...
"it can't be so..."
it IS so!!!
it IS...
SUNRIDER + WF!
Level Four: Five Problems From Drinking 4 Ilg Supremes Per Day:
1) The problem of explaining your SUNRIDER bill to your parents
2) The problem of explaining the roots growing out of your feet
3) The problem of explaining the sprouts springing forth from the top of your head
and
4) The obvious problem of becoming Enlightened by the age of 35!
the Buddha got Enlightened by age 39,
JC was born Enlightened it appears (and you KNOW what they did to Him!)
so,
you got some things to contemplate
my young Warrior of the SR and WF Way!
worry not,
i,
and the legion of worldwide WF and SR Warriors are right beside you!
SUNRIDER HERBS and SKIN CARE:
the more you use,
the better you feel!
i bow to you for in writing this response to you,
i feel more Alive
more Young
and
more than ever
committed to SUNRIDER HERBS...
the
Temple Garden of WF!
that is all,
coach ilg
March 03, 2005
BARDO REALMS/MASTER STUDENT ABU REACHES NEXT LEVEL
Race Across AMerica champion, Ron Jones (see below appearance), a WF devotee and teammate of mine,
executes a pro-level 'starfish' hand-up to a very dehydrated coach ilg as i hammer into the
growing night in Death Valley during our Course Record effort at Furnace Creek 508
ultra race. this picture, captured by the LA Times, epitomizes to me the astral relationship
that i hold with many of my amazing Online Students. it is only during Bardo Moments - the
Transition Realms - that my words and Teachings sing loudest to those who choose to listen.
Bardo Moments can be recognized by two factors;
1) Silence (the phenomenal world seems to 'drift away' and the moment expands as if in slow motion),
and
2) We are at our "edge"...
of the latter, think of doing intervals, sharp sensations during yoga poses, moments of doubt,
meditative absorptions, nature-inspired epiphanies, 'spot me!' moments in strength training,
family or self dying, becoming endangered or injured,
Bardo Moments occur when we are most unsure and yet must
Trust in that which we cannot control...
these are all the Spiritual Edges in which WF and my humble yet Powerful Teachings sing
their transmission loudest.
{Note to new DL Readers and Non Online WF Students:
better buckle up.
if you are used to the Ordinary Fitness World,
be prepared to FLY...for WF has been taking place
joyfully above the mainstream comprehension of 'personal fitness' since 1982:
please place what you are about to read into context...
Master WF Online Student Abu has studied directly under me for
a decade...
to many of your ears, what you are about to read will not fit into what you have been
inculcated to accept as 'fitness training.'
i say this to you; it is.
sure, it might not
sound like a coach instructing the proper breath and postural Awareness of how to do a Barbell Curl,
yet,
believe it or not,
just ask Abu,
that is precisely where i began my Work with him a decade ago...
the rapid ascent of his transformation through WF?
it is due solely,
and i cannot
say this more emphatically;
MEDITATION.
while most of my other Students and curious readers of DL
sleep,
Abu sits quietly within the chaos of his mind,
mentallly fishing
physicallly struggling gamely
for the Moment between the
Arising and Disappearing.
There ain't no other Temple quite like WF,
dat's a fact,
Jack!
May God(s) continue to bless my humble Temple of which your attention toward means everything...
- coach ilg}
Noblest Abu -
i have been training specifically for you and your next Step...
please forgive the lack of outward communication
please trust in the inward...
i shall now address the following:
Dear El Coache,
Just as a shinai wielded by a Zen Master crashes down on the skull of the
not-so-mindful pupil, the following passage from the recent DL smacked this
feeble soul hard. My interpretation is inserted with brackets.
�The Ku can be felt while hanging at arms length under the Altar of the Pull Up
Bar [or under the ice tools placed in the frozen waterfall] ...when your ego is
screaming at you to quit and go over to the Gravitron machine [top ropes or
home!]. Dangling there with withering arm strength, Doubt flings her arrows
into your Willpower. You return to WF Principle #1...you Breathe through the
Doubt and thus transcending it, experience a calm, powerful Void...the KU!
Whether or not you do another Pull Up [move above the protection into the
unknown] is beside the spiritual point. This is what most do not understand.
Why? Because most do not 'stand under' a Pull Up bar [stand at the edge and
peer over] ! They are all over there, gathered about the fancy machines like
sheep.
Those of you Practicing other WF Disciplines, experience Ku during intervals,
meditation, the edges of asana, and most easiest during pranayam. Ku, birthing
place of Karma, can only be experienced when we push ourself into a Bardo
State, a state of Transition where super high intensities of Doubt, Fear, and
Effort are transcended by our OWN Willpower...a Will-power uncluttered by
drugs, clinging onto outdated mental or emotional modes [clinging to the
outdated modes!!!!! Perfect description.] , comfort, and sloth. The WF Master
Student is a Warrior of the Clear Light with a Diamond Body!�
�
;-)
the initials, DL, have dual meaning;
DIVINE LIGHT; Daily Modalities From {the} Creator Inside
RE:
I have had few notable internal insights recently. Outwardly, I am beginning to
see others that I work with as mirrors of self. In conversations, it is
becoming very clear how rigid and sterile a strictly intellectual view of the
world can be.
� More than that, My Most Cherished Shishya,
those "rigid and sterile" intellectual views are egoic safety nets
created by centuries of non-Practitioners and passed on to generation after
generation so as to shield our True Magnificence from being what It yearns to be,
what It has been divinely designed to be:
BRAVELY FREE
and
FIERCELY GRACEFUL!
i want you to work on this:
smile at them,
see the Go(o)d in their eyes, however dimly light due to the lack of quality Dharma Teachers in their lives.
seek only Compassion as an altruistic training opportunity from - and a moral gift to - others during daily conversation.
cultivate Skillful Friendliness; make this your Personal Fitness Training and your body/mind and sport performance will
grow by leaps and bounds that you have not yet realized.
Smile often.
RE:
During these interactions, I frequently offer apologies to you
for the difficulties that I have created in our communication over the years!
� no apology is required.
years mean nothing in this Work.
in fact,
lifetimes matter little to the overall Scope of this Work.
just do this;
keep being Brave (everywhere and to everyone; think Love, Compassion, Understanding..
the rock and ice climbing will then Shift for itself.)
RE:
One discussion today was about lower back health. I am AMAZED at how many 20-
and 30-somethings in my organization have had or are going to have back
surgery. [Don�t mention this to RJ � it might set him off!! ;-)]
� oh Jesus!
i have an impressive backlog of absolutely hilarious RJ Rants!
i'm thinking now of my next book;
RJ RANTS
A Soliloquy From a Warrior Athlete
whaddya think?
RE:
The rigidity
of the lower spine must be connected to an intellect-dominated imbalance.
� you are learning again,
Shishya!
you will not believe what it is going to be required from you to break through this Granthi (psychospiritual knot)...
are you SURE
absolutely SURE you want to Clear this lower chakra stuff?
i ain't talkin' fucking crystal healing here...
it's going to change your life as you know it...both Waking and NonWaking Consciousness.
i have prepared you well thus far...
however,
if you are ready to Rise Higher,
you will now be introduced to other Teachers of mine..
you will meet Them and Their Teachings while others sleep.
Beloved Shishya Abu,
you have done the years of meditation under my guidance,
you have risked your life and limb by practically applying your meditation
during intense rock and ice climbing...
you have cultivated the inner dimensions of the basic subtle anatomy...
you have served the Steep and Direct Path of WF Online Training very well
for nearly a decade...
Time to Rise Higher has
in my feeble opinion,
arrived.
we must Go.
will you travel with me?
Side by side onto the next Level, Shishya?
RE:
Even though many read DL, thank you for the personal smack-in-the-head. I�m off
to RMNP this weekend to stand under my tools and to breathe through the doubt.
Begin, again and again.
in Clear Light,
--abu
p.s. When can I get my hands on a Prop DVD?
� if you placed your order,
then it has already been mailed to you!
i await your word...
go to sleep tonight by focusing on a small, flickering Purple Light
that will appear near the bottom of your eyelids as you fall asleep...
oh,
and
update me on your Veros intake and your be-have-or
within the Brahmacharya yama conduct.
your feeble teacher,
ilg
McCrash: Why WF Teaches Meditation and Concentration
"I don't why people are in such a hurry all the time, but they are willing
to kill for it."
- Steve Marlowe, LA Bicycle Comuter Warrior
(see page 220 of TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION)
Two Wheel Warriors like my training bro Steve, nearly die at the undisciplined hands of cell phone talking, burger-eating, makeup adjusting 'cagers' (car addicts) every day of his life. Me too. The above "accident" (aka; training effect from lack of Awareness) occured today at the intersection of my own bicycle commute route 3 blocks from my home.
It surprises me not in the least, that the two most dangerous places along Ventura Blvd to survive on a bicycle are located at two violent junk food dealers; "In n' Out Burgers" and "McDonalds." I recall once getting"buzzed*" by a SUV coming out of "In n' Out Burger", nearly driving into me and then accelerating away...the only thing i could see through the exhuast plume was her personalized license plate which read, "Namaste".
The ability to maintain focus and sensitivity in "mundane" daily life things such as car driving requires consistent practice in meditation; be it in the form of pranayama, zazen, or any of my Four WF Lifestyle Principles; Breath and Posture, Mindfulness, Appropriate Action, and Practice. And people wonder why i insist that Meditation must be integrated into any true from of personal fitness training.
Just ask the driver of the above car...
she would tell you...
if she could.
Noble Fitness Warriors,
save your own life and perhaps many, many others...
MEDITATE!
It is the 'glue' that fuses fitness into genuine personal health. 
Om Mani Padme Hung
and
May All Beings Awaken in this one precious life...
coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness� Personal Training
The Only Training System That Prioritizes Meditation As An Instrumental Part Of Personal Fitness
* Buzzed = Bicycle commuting lingo referring to the common 'sucking in' effect from passing cars and particuarly SUV's, and big pickups (like the one pictured above), which creates a vortex and sucks us into the car and all too often, under the rear wheels or rear bumper. I have had two dear and very noble friends of mine already killed by the Buzz, and it is common conversation in peletons about who recently got killed or nearly killed whle training. i swear, if i get killed by a cager out here in LA before i can return h(om)e to my Rocky Mountains and attend to the deepening my own Practice, i am going to be pissed! oh wait. i'll be too dead to be pissed. shit. of course i am making light of a very extreme sport; bicycle commuting/riding in big cities (hell, anywhere these days!). the whole key to Enlightenment is to die consciously, to in affect, transcend death which requires tremendous Meditation Practice during 'life' so that when we enter the Bardo Realms, our meditation training can capably carry us consciously into the navigation of the Bardo. if we die violently, as in a car crash, it would be very difficult - essentially impossible - to calmly enter the Bardo with elite consciousness as is prescribed by the spiritual training manuals and scriptures. in fact, many of the scriptures tell us that those who die a violent death are those who did not do the Inner Work of cultivating Compassion, Kindness, and Awareness in this or former lives. However, it is also taught that tremendous positive purification can occur at the moment of death, regardless of circumstance, if we enter it consciously and using a mantra or other technique(s) taught to us by our guru, or spiritual teacher.
March 02, 2005
The WF Online Training Temple Doors Swing Open For Ranjit!
**photo info footnoted below
Worldwide WF Sangha - Please Welcome to the WF ONLINE TRAINING TEMPLE:
Ranjit Bajaj
of
Hampton, United Kingdom (which is somewhere east of Sepulveda, i think...anyway, i am pretty confident parking is better there)
The 46 year old airline pilot who lists "spaghetti bolognaise with a fresh salad, desert consisting of tofee pudding with chocolate sauce," as a favorite meal, has entered our Online Training Temple under the mighty Teacher Haku Clan.
WHY HE KNOCKED ON OUR TEMPLE DOORS:
Ranjit has chosen WF Online Training because,"I like the approach that you take in integrating all aspects of living - not just looking at life in terms of exercise - that only works if you are a professional athlete."
Largest Dragon: "My diet varies between quite healthy and downright awful with a preponderance of processed foods when I am short of time of at work. Due to my job especially when I am away from home I eat at very odd hours. I would like very much to have more stability in my diet."
SpiritualGrowth: "Am trying to follow a spritiual path that comes form within rather than blindly follow other's ways. I have met and studied with various spiritual masters, but have always been somewhat disappointed at some point."
Teachers: My mother, My wife, My cat
Hear About: Got your book form my local bookstore
AnythingElse: I want to get back to former level of cardio fitness, but I do not want to become a slave to it as I used to be.
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how about sending Ranjit an email, welcoming him to the Steep, Direct, Temple of Online Training? Especially you all that read DL without joining the Online Tribe! Hell, you know national class runner Haku is going to kick his butt with cardio and something tells me those toffees of Ranjit's are going to decrease in relation to herbs! Send Ranjit a "you can do it" email:
rbajaj@btinternet.com
Ranjit, may all your sweat within our humble yet Powerful Temple be Blessed with
insight and used as fuel toward Enlightenment! Although hundreds have studied here before you,
it is your unique spirit that captures and inspires all of us WF Warriors ever Higher!
May all beings be helped by your Noble Choice to Study this Difficult Path...
i bow to you,
endlessly in your Corner,
coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness�
{a rare yet permitted and personally paid for photo of perhaps my most favorite - and auspiciously named - place for worship of all time; the San Estaban del Ray (The Light of Saint Steven) Sanctuario perched atop a 600' sandstone spire...the oldest, most historic Puebloan place of worship on Turtle Island (aka; United States) in the smallest nationality; Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. i come here often on retreat. in fact, i often feel like my WF Online Training Temple is like this ancient church; we are the oldest, original, pioneering essence of body/mind and East/West personal fitness training on Turtle Island...yet hardly anyone recognizes our humble, yet Powerful, Teachings of the Spirit!
So be it.
Amen.
photo by Tribal Permission; coach ilg}
Ilgbro -
I bow to your work Bro�I hope your new PROP WORKOUT DVD continues to ignite the chi in this country.� I read an article the other day in a financial magazine about how much money Hardee�s started making after they introduced their �Monster� burger that is 1,400+ calories.� (I found a USA Today link below basically saying the same thing)� They were criticized for introducing this type of food in light of the obesity epidemic but stated that they knew their customer base better therefore were better business people.� Their stocks soared on the NYSE and they made millions.� From a business perspective the article said they were highly successful.� From a chi perspective, they are killing people and taking it to the bank.� May your DVD do well and serve as a partial �counter attack� to the other senseless bullshit that abounds.
- Feeble, rj
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2004-11-15-hardees_x.htm (I will NOT eat this burger!)
March 01, 2005
THE SOUND OF OM 
WF Online Teacher and HP Yoga Teacher, Ananda, in a beautiful Malasana (yogi squat) experiences for the first time the ancient Exhale of Mother Earth at a secret geologic fissure somewhere in Arizona...here the very essence of OM is served at substratum velocity to the Sadhu who can nasally drink Pran in a most Raw and Potent form from deep with the bowels of Mother Earth! Ananda's chakral and nadic system are still attempting to process this immense CHI HIT, nearly two weeks later. Here is an actual exchange between Teacher Ananda and her Student Starling. photo by coach ilg. May all beings benefit from the continual presence and unconditional offering from DL since 1982 (please honor us by mention when using DL material...to date, literally hundreds have not...thank you). above text and photo by coach ilg
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Namaste, Student Starling~
i came across this beautiful description of OM, which i TAF
is more Appropriate and Higher than what i wrote in your WF Program.
Please use it were i have instructed you to in your Shivaya Healing Program
and whenever you feel the "urge to merge." The description is for your
under-standing. The sound and feeling is the depth of your prayer.
OM Namah Shivaya,
ananda
OM
Au - creation, birth, Brahma - fundamental universal vibration, the non-sound sound (no consonant
or vowel - it cannot be written), "vaka" starts at the perineum or just below the root chakra, and
becomes "uh" (as in "utmost")
Oo - life, preservation, Vishnu - sound rises up the back of the spine, curves up the back of the skull
becoming "oh" (as in "home)
Mm - termination, end, Shiva - sound rounds over the top of the head and ends in the heart
becoming "m"
The OM creates a connection between earth and the soul. The shape of the symbol corresponds to
the shape of the sound as it moves through the body. The lower the sound, the deeper the vibration.
"Amen is drived from "Om."
{Ananda has limited availability for both Private and Online Students...please apply at the Tribal Catalog on the home page of www.wholisticfitness.com}
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Enjoy,
Chris Kostman
Race Director/AdventureCORPS.com
Furnace Creek 508
WF APPROPRIATE ACTION: "H(OM)EWORK":
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ATTACHMENT TO FAMILY/KABIR/WUPATKI/DHARMATALK WITH WARRIOR TOBE; A FAMILY WF WARRIOR/CONSCIOUS KIDS
"Be strong, and enter into your own body: for there your foothold is firm. Consider it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere.
Kabir says: 'Put all imagination away, and stand fast in that which you are.'
800 years ago, the spiritual lineage of our Wholistic Fitness Tribe gathered in ancient ballparks like this one in "Wupatki" near current day Flagstaff, Arizona. I retreat often, regardless of how caught up in the outer world i may become, to sacred places like these, to taste the etheric residue from eons of Fitness Warriors who appreciated and tested their precious lives against the shape of each day becoming. i ran laps in this ballcourt, the only one of its kind in North America, and immediately merged into a spiritual landscape of chi filled indelible warrior energy. The ancient ones who built this mystical place around 1064 AD, often had to walk 10 miles - one way - to carry one pot of water home. What has our society lost in our ever accelerating desires for more and more addictions to comfort? Everyday sacred fitness. feeble ilg says; 'Question all that is comfortable in your life, and seek the steep and thorny Path. Everybody is scared of death, save for those who train for it.' Photo/Ananda
May your Practice be strong and sincere today,
coach ilg
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DHARMATALK WITH WARRIOR TOBE; Actual Online Training Facilitation
WF Online Student Toby Leeson, of Steamboat Springs, CO. I tested this mountain bike and nordic ski racer
very hard before accepting him as my Online Student. I needed to make sure he was not attached to
his racing just to get on podiums, but rather to use his training and racing for the Highest Podium of the
Human Race; Enlightenment!
Please enjoy a recent Online Exchange with this amazing Family Warrior of my humble, yet Powerful Way.
May it inspire your own Practice today and in turn, be of benefit to many:
Dear Coach Ilg,
I wish I had something profound to say about my practice today, but I
don't.
� please erase the word, "but" from your vocabulary.
anything that follows the "but" is usually the horses ass.
RE:
I am simply listening and feeling all parts of my body as I go
through Toilet Yoga, Neti wash, Pranayama, High Performance Yoga and Zazen.
� precisely where i want you.
do not expect profundity.
just practice sincerely
and let Rise what needs to Rise.
RE:
As I was sitting in Zazen this morning, at one point I had this sensation
of my mind losing itself. By that I mean, it felt as if my mind completely
separated from my body, thoughts and surroundings. It only lasted for a
few seconds, but it was very real.
� of course it was real...
the Mind exists everywhere...like an invisible number
capable of appearing anywhere.
what is unReal is over-identifying the Mind with the Body
your True Nature is Freedom...
your True Nature is the Awareness beyond the Mind
RE:
My mind snapped itself out of it
quickly as if it didn't want to be there.
� no, it was your Egoic Structures that snapped your Mind back to
its normal consciousness.
RE:
Very surreal feeling.
� replace surreal
with
"Real"
and you are getting It!
RE:
At other
times, my mind played games with me by coming up with bizarre thoughts,
some about sex (of course),
� the lower chakral energies will be the initial obstacles...buckle up,
it will be a long ride...much longer than all your longest MTB rides put together...
years of inner Work ahead to Transcend these attachments of sex, sensual pleasures,
sensual dualities, family, shelter, entertainment, body fitness, ego survival, etc.
Attachment to family is one of the chief obstacles enroute to spiritual liberation. Our families often come through us, surround us, yet, they are not our family; they are God's family. The Master Student of WF realizes this and cherishes every ounce of every day with their biologic family, always knowing that the biologic family is a microcosm of the Global Family. Cultivate politeness, respect, understanding, compassion, functional fitness, and spiritual growth within your own family and soon, the UniVerse starts reflecting that pure effort toward Higher Living in all that is seen and unseen. Photo of a WF Family; the Leesons out doing what nourishes their soul and makes a tremendously positive impact on their children. Parents that respect their bodies and Mother Earth/Father Sky can change the world for the better. Ripples, dear ones who choose to have humans, make waves. Family Warriors are the Highest of All Warriors, for their Practice must be constant in the reflective God-ness of their children's eyes and spirit. Practice well, Noble WF Parents; for you MUST! Our society is in need, dire need, of Conscious Kids.
RE:
some about fabricated dangerous situations,
others about daily stuff. These thoughts only continue for a few breaths,
as I bring my focus back to my breath. I really like going back to just
counting my breaths (as opposed to third eye chakra) and feeling the
passage of air in and out of my nostrils - it feels more centered and
steadfast than using the third eye chakra, contrary to what I said before.
� you are learning again, Grasshopper!...errrr...RockHopper in your case!
RE:
I don't know if this has to do with the cold that I had, or the herbs I eat
before going to bed, more prana flowing through me, or simply that the room
is too hot, but I have found myself recently waking up a couple of times at
night literally dripping with sweat. Not too comfortable to go to the
bathroom and then come back to wet, cold sheets. I seem to generate a lot
of heat at night, as my wife is usually in bed next to me cold and grabbing
another blanket as I sweat next to her.
� keep me posted on this NightHeat.
i cannot tell you more on this.
yet...
soon though.
just keep me updated.
RE:
I am amazed at how much stuff (mucous and particulates) that comes out of
my nose after a Neti wash. Feels good to get it out of there.
� GOOD!
get that mucous, phlegmy crap OUTTA THERE!
all those other racers are out there eating crap, putting in miles on their bicycles like that is really
going to help...
hell no! here is what helps:
being still, bravely cultivating what is most VITAL to singing your song on the bike;
your BREATH,
your Citi-shakti, and inner Clarity!
pure cells = pure speed on the bike!
RE:
This morning is the first that I have felt "normal" after my cold. After
doing the above mentioned routine, I showered, flossed and brushed my
teeth, washed my hair, shaved, hydrated my skin and drank an Ilg Supreme.
It feels like such a purifying process, all of it combined. Makes me feel
like I've been born again. Wow!
�
;-)
Welcome, Warrior Tobe,
to the REAL MAGIC of WF Online Training!
such simplicity,
such FAST TRANSFORMATION!
i bow to you,
Nordic Family Warrior!
Love,
Coach Ilg
** Toby will be racing toward more podiums this year using my newly released; HP YOGA PROP WORKOUT DVD. Wanna reach your OWN personal podium? order your PROP WORKOUT DVD today on the Tribal Catalog; EXCLUSIVELY from within my humble, yet powerful Temple Halls. Halls which still honor by sweat and vibrate with the Everyday Sacredness of the ancient Wupatki Warriors!