Wholistic Fitness

Namaste Noble Warriors!

�First Yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and mind. Lastly, it leads the sadhaka (spiritual athlete) to peace and unalloyed purity.�

– 16; What is Yoga

Light On Pranayama

B.K.S. Iyengar

As faithful readers of DL have read, i have just completed my coaching with recently crowned Master WF Student, Sean Madine. This was Sean�s 4th Private Intensive in my 8 years with him. Unless you yourself have studied WF with me personally, you will realize how wise Sean is for spacing out his private intensives with me over such a span of years. You see, Sean does his h(om)emwork. He meets with me, and i plant physical, mental, and spiritual seeds during our Intensives. Then, Sean goes back to Colorado whereupon he resumes his online WF studies with WF Teacher Grant Couture in Canada. Sean has been trained well. He knows the depth and dimension of Wholistic Fitness. Most students consider WF like other personal training systems and try to grab too much too soon. Their learning is shallow. They will probably never earn a Master Student Inka. They will give up due to impatience or lack of will or trust in this Path. That is okay. Mine has always been a High Performance Path for spiritual Finders, not Seekers.

Sean is the epitome of a WF Master Student. He has changed not just his entire mental and physical fields, but he has also done what it take to make significant lifestyle changes – difficult ones – in order to stop dinking around on the periphery of the spiritual punch of WF and jump into her Heart. Now, Sean�s own heart center has opened into its natural sanctuary of compassion and tremendous love and power. And, if you don�t think his physical fitness and sport performance has not been positively charged, then you are way off the back. You see, Sean has mastered his egoic appetites and is now bounding toward Enlightenment as a result of his clearer cells and more focused mind. It took me nearly 5 years of patiently waiting for Sean to accept SUNRIDER herbs into his life. He is, by nature and occupation, a scientist…thus skepticism over rides trust in most of Sean�s choices which is fine. Now, however, after three years of saturating and cleansing his body with herbs, meditation, strength training, cardio, and HP Yoga…Sean is lean, focused, fun of light hearted Joy, and his heart…oh his heart…it is opening like a lotus blossom indeed! so beautiful. wow. i love sharing this Path. it�s amazing. just ask Sean.

But you gotta want it. And you have to trust in the science of WF. For instance, 8 years ago I planted the initial seeds of Sean�s future spiritual work by this deceptively Western-looking gym training movement:

�* Perform 3 sets of 1:00 of Jump Squats, really working from the Glutes…think Glutes, not thighs! Pinch the Glutes! Explode upward! Yep, i said THREE SETS of 1 minute!!! go!�

Many of you WF Students have come to know my infatuation for prescribing Jump Squats and other similar tortures for my beginning students.

Why?

Because i know that if the Student stays with this Path, those Jump Squats will eventually mature into something far more deeper, more mature, and more spiritual. Here is what Sean�s �Jump Squat� history has evolved into…remember, this is 8 years of dedicated WF training. This is from my adjustments to his most recent program that i finished today:

�* Grip the right side of Mula Bandha for a few breaths, then the left side. Then switch back and forth rapidly and repeatedly until you can start griping or reaffirming the seal of Mula in a clockwise direction as if securing a drumhead throughout her urogenital triangle. Continue for up to 2 minutes with Uddiyana engaged.�

Doesn�t sound like Jump Squats, does it?

But it was the years of Jump Squats that developed Sean�s energetic fitness (specifically his nadis, tattwa, and pranic field) so that Jump Squats could be transformed into this deep, inner work.

I will now give Sean�s Master Student Name:

Abuddhivira.

Means; �non-intellectualizing hero� and symbolizes Sean�s challenge to control his tendency to over intellectualize (especially while on the sharp end of a rock or ice climbing rope). The name also represents his recent spiritual breakthrough that has begun balancing his pranic field between his intellectual energy (vijnana) and his heart energy (anahatana).

WF is Light Years ahead of conventional personal training. It is Light Years ahead of conventional sport performance training. Become a part of a truly deep Path…something that you can sink your spiritual teeth into. You can use WF for getting a great body, sure…but our gig is not about the body.

It�s about Awakening.

Sign up for formal Online Training today. If you are already an online student? Isn�t it about time to schedule a Private Intensive?

Don�t waste this precious lifetime. Go for Enlightenment…

why not? you got something MORE important to do?

what?

work?

c�mon Noble Warriors! Rise Above….our world needs genuine spiritual athletes to lead the Way Higher! Let�s work together on ourselves for the sake of all beings…

that is what true fitness, at least to me, really means.

i bow to you,

coach ilg

founder, Wholistic Fitness Personal Training