Wholistic Fitness

Namaste Noble Warriors!

“I want to have a balance between my inner being and my outer being as

well as a balance between my mental strength and my physical strength.”

-New Student Chen on why she chose WF as her Personal Training method.

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i KNOW i promised you a bunch of GREAT input from our newest crop of online students…and it�s coming…and it is great…and i can�t wait to share it with you for my email overflows with so much of your fantastic input about Wholistic Fitness and HP Yoga….but i just want to express something first…

IT�S SO DAMN FUN BEING FIT!!!!!

i know, i know, i�ve spent 20 years saying – in often convoluted and haphazard Eastern/Western ways – the same thing over and over again…but really…

i cannot BELIEVE that more people don�t enjoy simply breathing and moving in their bodies!

the Teacher, coach, husband, friend, business owner, healer, and feeble force that i can be is always so much greater after i have allowed my mind to mingle with my breath. the simple fact rings truer each passing year; i�ve got to make sure i give no great credence to any thought that has not yet been tempered by my breath and conscious movement.

i just got word that i am to be photographed for the cover of my new book on FRIDAY!!!! New York City first told me that i had until APRIL to get into shape…so i had just embarked on a Wholistic Fitness program to have my fat ass in PEAK shape come April. ilg would really show what a forty(one) year old could do using WF as a personal training system. i was stoked and began working out like i was once again training for a World Championship.

then – three days ago – the Publicity Department at Hyperion called. �We have to shoot you for the cover on Friday.�

�As in, THIS Friday?� i answered.

yes, this Friday.

thanks a LOT for the advanced notice!

so, i did what every other LA Fitness Guru would do in this crisis; i calmly but immediately arranged High Priority appointments with my Plastic Surgeon, Make Up Coordinator, and Computer Enhancement Specialist.

kidding.

but when you guys see me on that cover just know this: i had less than a week to prepare for it, okay?

hey, within the last 3 days i�ve lost 4 lbs and my muscles are swelling in size and my skin is growing thinner than turpentine! gotta love it, baby! it�s all in the mind, herbs, and….and staying hungry!

all i say is thank you GOD for creating Dr. Chen who created SUNRIDER HERBS which has Slim Caps, Action Caps, Sunbars, and Fortune Delight baby…the PROVEN WHOLE FOOD RECIPE for getting LEAN AS FAST AS POSSIBLE! stuff is incredible.

anyway, the point is, the past few days i�ve had to double up on my cardio workouts to drop some fat. in fact, the day i got the phone call i rode my mountain bike, Grunt, to the ocean and back over the Santa Monica Mountains. 3.75 hours. that�ll burn some bodyfat.

and as i write this mud is drying like plaster across my face. just cranked off an exquisite 11.2 mile loop in my Santa Monica Mountain backyard in an hour with Grunt. notice i wrote, �with� and not �on� Grunt. he and i were ONE baby! it may have only been an hour but it was an hour filled with mergence, transcendence, and inner peace.

so much magic arises whenever we are brave enough to cross the most Difficult of all Spiritual Thresholds (the front door…just getting OUT THE DOOR TO DO THE WORKOUT!). if we can summon that energy from within, then sure enough the Divine steps in, takes over, time slows, and inner space expands.

and magic arises.

Grunt and i spent Brahmamurti (sunset or sunrise) darting into and out from slits of sunset quivering within mountain shadows. Grandfather Sun nestled next to the ocean. Manzanita scratched at me as if to slow my witness to the miracle around. wave after ecstatic wave of fading sunlight illuminated scintillating shades of green. pausing briefly on top of �Shelby Ridge,� i gazed over Valley and ocean. both presented themselves with such synergistic grace the moment became for me an operatic twilight of becoming. intensity of foliage burst forth from all around – and seemingly within. such lusty pranic force shook me as if i were but prey caught in the jaws of the Divine.

President Bush needs to ride mountain bikes with me.

you know how many other people i saw during this hour?

four. four people.

and my whole ride took place within easy view of downtown LA…a city of several million. you do the math.

what exactly are people PRIORITIZING if it is not getting out into nearby nature and breathing and moving and dancing in their bones beneath red tailed hawks and sandstone cliffs?

watching �Joe Millionaire� and the Evening News?

let me tell you where the real News is; it�s not on the TV nor on paper from raped trees. it�s in the climbing path of thunder clouds, it�s in the molecular mystery of whereupon sweat turns into spirit. it�s in the centrifugal desire of heart over ego…that my fellow Peaceful Warrior, is where the true News can – and should – be heard.

just listen within. ride your bike. feel the barbell with your skin. breathe into a yoga pose. and listen – and don�t ever stop listening – within.

stop back here by Sunday. i�ll have posted the wisdom falling from the New Wholistic Fitness Students. they truly have some gems dropping from their souls.

i�ll also let you know how the cover shoot goes…and buy something from our Tribal Catalog, will you?

there are Plastic Surgeon bills to be paid…

thanks for choosing to Be Here Now,

i bow to you,

coach ilg

founder/Wholistic Fitness