Wholistic Fitness

Namaste Noble Warriors!

�Fitness must the be entire focus of one�s life if one wishes to live it well. You must be able to find fitness everywhere and you will, because it is.�

– coach ilg

Life in LA is amazing right now. Least, to me it is. But then again, i don�t read newspapers or watch �the news� on TV because what the outer directed world calls �news� is not my choice of news. What makes news to me, is a new opening in my external hip rotator that i have been steadily and sweatily working on for years and years.

What makes news to me is that i nearly fell over in front of my students during zen last Sunday because my legs fell asleep during the sit because i had ridden my mountain bike too close to the zen session. (But i�d rather fall over in front of my students and be true to multi disciplined fitness than some zen-specific monk that can�t even friggin� do intervals on a mountain bike!).

What makes news to me is seeing a student Rise Above their conditioned fear patterned onto them from parents that guilted them into �believing� a particular thoughtform that has absolutely no basis in present reality.

What makes news to me is that right now, in LA, on any given day i can enjoy a mountain bike ride down to the beach or fire up to the snow and rip some tele turns in stunningly perfect corn snow while shirtless, baby!

It really is fantastic, this Brahmic creation we call life.

Today, enticing her to ditch her work (and of course, i mine) I took Ananda up skiing. Ananda had not been skiing in 7 (yes, s-e-v-e-n) years (yes, y-e-a-r-s).

Personally, i can�t imagine ANYONE not skiing for seven years. That is very close to being a sure recipe for mental disorders of unfathomable depth. If you don�t ski, you go insane, that much i can promise you.

Fortunately, Ananda is a very high Yogini.

And, a HP Yogini at that. You know what that means, don�t you? That means that yes, even after seven years of not skiing, AnandaMayiMa CRANKED like she had not missed a day! Her fall line was as tight as a (i�ll leave the metaphor dangle according to your chakra Level) and she pressured her feet into her turns like she was steppin on the accelerator of a Porsche,baby!

That is what WF will do to a person; keeps us at the top of our game, any game, forever it seems.

See, WF is the full package baby. In this Path Of Balance, we don�t miss a trick: WF brings you the HP Yoga, the herbs, the gym, the cardio, the meditation chamber. Then, with bewitching finesse, WF draws those elements into our lifestyle, to make sure we are breathing and standing, sitting, walking with consciousness and Higher intent.

Today, between between high speed chairlift rides that included a panoramic blue sky punctured only by agile battalions of soaring ravens, Ananda and i enjoyed classic spring skiing. The snow being soft, nearly soupy yet not too grabby.

Today, i also enjoyed the benefits from a WF lifestyle…i was able to just rip the double diamond ski runs – on my cross-country skis – from top to bottom. Like Watergate revisited, baby…i was SHREDDIN� dude! Love it! It is sooooo fun to be fit in many ways!

Fitness must the be entire focus of one�s life if one wishes to live it well. You must be able to find fitness everywhere and you will, because it is. Fitness is in the way you walk, you sit, you eat, you stand, you converse, you think, you work…it�s everywhere…just Look!

Sure;

You might have to sacrifice high paying jobs for less time-intensive ones so that you can go skiing whenever you like.

Sure,

you might have to drive a Geo Metro to save money to do so.

You ready?

Sure;

You might have to wake up earlier to meditate. You might have to move, you might have to ride a bicycle to work, you might have to order SUNRIDER herbs instead of beer, you might have to become divorced or to marry in order to Rise above your ego comfort zones.

You ready?

It all depends on your willingness to Rise Above.