Wholistic Fitness

WELCOME TO ONLINE TRAINING!!!!!:

Mike Singer of Seattle, Washington…

his Application opened the Temple Door and i am pleased to announce

that New Student Singer will begin his Basic Online Studies under WF Teacher Sheader…

on behalf of the Many Finders who have helped Pave The Higher Fitness Way before you,

i wish you well on your Practice, Noble New Student Singer!

You took the Jump into the REAL PRACTICE of ONLINE STUDY and all of my Teachers

are Here Now to Serve you…in-Joy!

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Dear Coach Ilg,

Thanks for the thoughtful response to LB about coughing.� I have to admit, that when I�started training two years ago, I had my share of “ailments” from sitting at a desk too long.� When Haku gently suggested that there were likely internal reasons for much of what I then perceived to be problems, I had my doubts.� I’ve now come to understand how much our inner dramas do have a bearing on our physical health.� And as you suggest, going deep to just be with the symptom is a great way to begin to understand it.� For me, it was going deep and finding muscle tension that I wasn’t releasing and then finding that it wasn’t the physical act of sitting in a chair…it was how I felt about sitting in that chair that was having an effect on me.� I hope that LB is open to your wisdom in DL as there is so much that we can learn by paying attention to what our bodies are trying to say.

Namaste,

Michael

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Dear Buddha Eyed Teacher,

thank you for sharing.

as All Ways i learn under your Dharma Helm.

i bow,

ananda

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Coach Ilg,

Thank you and Ananda for coming to Chicago and holding a power yoga class.� It was excellent and inspiring.� Many thanks, and come back soon!.

Jim

PS:� Perhaps your class was too inspiring as I jumped in with traffic on Michigan avenue and tried to draft some cars.� Anyway, the rollerblade back was terrific � wet shirt from yoga workout, cooling night breeze and a wonderful bike path. Many thanks.

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Coach Sheader

Training was pure joy this week (sounds corny I know, but that�s pretty much how I feel anymore most of the time). ST was not painful; I think the shoulder has almost healed. Surprisingly, overhead movements are not painful, nor are push-ups. Man I am a wimp on the high rep squats…completed the set, but breathing like a freight train. Regarding the first half of the �Om God workout, I loved this workout and yes I was gasping for air.

Keeping meditation simple, with no expectations other than bathing in my true nature.

Getting the yoga flow going again.

Continuing to eat light and fulfilling the earned sustenance.. weight is down to 182 from 210. I visualize 165.

Regarding my previous comments about reconciling daily life with awakening, I found this passage during some reading and it helped. I love the analogy of doing flips on the tightrope.

“you are aware of the constant Spirit� in you , and you are also aware of the movie of life, the ego and all its ups and downs. You still feel pain and sorrow, love and joy, but they can no longer convince you of their importance�you are no longer, the victim of� life, but it�s Witness. In fact, because you are no longer afraid of your feelings, you can experience them with greater intensity. The movie of life becomes more vivid and vibrant, precisely because you are no longer grasping or avoiding it, and thus no longer trying to dull or dilute it. You no longer turn the volume down. You might even cry harder, laugh louder, jump higher. Choiceless awareness doesn�t mean you cease to feel; it means you feel fully, feel deeply, feel to infinity itself, and laugh and cry and love till it hurts. Life jumps right off the screen, and you are one with all of it, because you don�t recoil.

If you are having a dream and you think it�s real, it can get very scary. Say you are dreaming that you are tightrope walking across Niagara Falls. If you fall off, you plunge to your death. So you are walking very slowly, very carefully. Then suppose you realize that it�s just a dream. What do you do? Become more cautious and careful? NO, You start jumping up and down on the tightrope, you do flips, you bounce around, you have a ball�precisely because you know it isn�t real.”

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I have spent 10-15 hours a week on the bike these last couple months and it feels like a ticket to the deconstruction of reality (what I thought was reality). Practicing awareness�observing the same things playing out every ride with other cyclists, honking drivers, weather, etc�and also observing new things, noticing smiles, taking the chance to wave at people, feeling the rain.� Hard to explain in words.

My dog, Tao, who was with Lesa and I for 16 years passed away 2 months ago. She had been struggling for awhile and when we could see it was time we took her in and helped her die comfortably. I haven�t tried to describe it to anyone, even Lesa, but as I talked in her ear at the time of her death and hugged her, IT WAS HAPPENING TO ME. I could feel the life pass from her, watched the eyes go blank and the mucous run from her nose and I wasn�t imagining it happening to me, IT WAS HAPPENING TO ME. �Prior to that moment, I had been going through the motions of waking up from the dream and seeking what I thought I should seek. After that moment, an irreversible, inescapable process �began�like falling or jumping from a cliff.� There is no turning back. So much bullshit that seemed important I now laugh at. I truly feel like a warrior now�

Namaste,

Online Warrior Tim B