Wholistic Fitness

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Our Protector of the Dharma:

Our Beloved Teacher Shares WF Teachings

at Barnes & Noble’s book signing of TBT.

a WF Field Report from Ananda, Coach Ilg�s Assistant

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I wish you all could have witnessed your gifted Coach

last night. He was – as he calls it, �Hooked Up,Baby!� to the �Main Source�.

His brave Heart and loving Soul shot Zen arrows into an

audience of inquisitive listeners which expanded to sixty people as

Coach kept delivering his powerful teachings:

“If you think you came here wanting to get to know me…let me tell

you now, it ain’t gonna happen. See, to know me,

you’re gonna have to Sweat with me! You’re gonna have to Move with me! You’re gonna have to UnderEat with me! You’re gonna have to Sit in silence with me!�

Did you just take a Breath?

Yeah, well, so did everyone else, because Truth is Pran and Pran is UniVersal.

Collectively, we can feel when the Pran is High, when the Pran is Pure,

when the Pran is Present and that’s how i felt in that go(o)d moment.

coach delivering the WF Dharma to an evergrowing crowd

The evening started out with about 15 people comprised of

HPY yogi’s, personal trainers, friends, clients, and new faces. Soon, all thirty seats where filled. WF student, Mackel drove from Pasenda, WF Teacher “Q” came right from work, and like the seagulls that didn’t want to be seen during the day with Jonathan Livingstons Seagull, but at night would venture near the beach to hear him speak the Dharma, seekers and feelers of the Chi started to huddle around the perimeter. Even coffee mug toting people in the Science Fiction aisles that had never felt a barbell beneath their grip seemed entranced by Coach�s bullet like delivery of WF teachings. It was a delightful sight to take in.

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“People want to feel go(o)d, feel God,” and if there’s anybody that can have people feed God in their bones, it is y(our) humble Coach. Yes, the WF Five Fitness Disciplines where touched upon. Yes, every time the Tingsha Bells where rung we practiced Breath & Posture (see �Beeper Guru� in TBT).� Even i�shyly demonstrated “Staccato Technique” as i was Coached. But the true�teachings that evening�where about the Protection of the Dharma (Sacred Duty, �the righteous path�) and our�Spiritual evolution in this lifetime.�That, “It’s not about being comfortable, it’s about�probing our weaknesses and strengthening them. It’s about learning to control the 24 inches from our hand to our mouth before we take�into our bodies something that is of questionable nutritional value. That we must train ourselves to sit alone in a room with the fluctuations of our�Afflicted Minds.�Brush our teeth or open a car door with our non-dominate hand. Sit on the floor with an elegant spine instead of sitting slouched over in a chair. Cultivate everlasting Joy in our life’s instead of being�attached to happiness, which is only a momentary experience.”

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Did you just take another Breath?

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If you didn’t, reread that paragraph again, let it soak in…and remember the Source and where�IT was speaking from…a podium (and that’s not “THE PODIUM”) at the back of a Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Los Angeles, a far way away from Coach�s beloved Southwest Rocky Mountains.�

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It takes a lot of courage and faith to stand in One’s Truth, but through El Coache’s Intensity, love, humor, compassion, devotion,�chi, he touched the Souls of Many, whether they where conscious of it or not. i felt it.

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As a Yogin, i know feelings of Pride�are ego centered, but i admittingly share with you all that i was proud of our prophetic�Coach and blessed to be a WF student/teacher of what i “TAF” (think and feel) is a True Path for Self Cultivation and Transformation.

To get your autographed copy of TBT, Coach requires you to get close to Mother Earth!

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On behalf of Wholistic Fitness, thanks to All who came to listen to Coach Ilg and to buy his amazing book, TBT. Gratitude�to those of you who already have the book and still came to support your Teacher. To WW, you�re the best, baby!

To Nancy, the B&N book signing Coordinator, blessings for your contribution of time and energy. In her words, “the evening was a success. The percentage of books sold was extraordinary compared to other book signing events recently held.”

And…to those Seagulls who dipped there toes in the Ocean, what are you waiting for…jump in and as Coach says, �Just begin, again and again.�

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may All Beings benefit from the Work we do on ourselves.

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Om Shanti,

Ananda

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