Wholistic Fitness

PART ONE: Ancient Peaks, Ancient People



this is a story about an ancient ‘Sky City of Gold”*, an ancient People, ancient voices on an ancient volcano, a contemporary Native Teacher, and a key into why WF is so different, so powerful from other personal fitness trainers and their ‘systems’ and their ‘gadgets’. want to know the real juice of Steve Ilg? you’ll have to get yourself here, breathe here, suffer here, linger here among these ancient peaks and people for long decades… if you do this, you’ll change. you’ll See. you’ll Feel what the ancients felt; Everyday Sacredness, baby. Everyday Sacredness. photo of Acoma Pueblo by steve ilg. (since you are accustomed to what ‘civilized’ cities look like (smog, pollution, zero Feng Shui, et.al), your eye might have even lost its capacity to see what a ‘Wholistic Fitness city’ looks like…look closely at the right hand portion of the picture…see it? ahhhhh…THAT is what a natural city with a natural population growth with a natural, organic food and childrearing looks like! nearly invisible, right? now, you are returning h(om)e!



kiva ladder, kiva wall. Acoma Pueblo, the oldest continously inhabited city on Turtle Island (aka; United States of America). People have been living on top of this 400′ sandstone monolith since 600 B.C. i come from here…i am but a feeble messenger from this enchanted, empowered land of a people who lived, breathed, and cherished Everyday Sacred Fitness. today, only 30 native Acoma Puebloans live year round on top of this 400′ sandstone monolith. up here, there is no running water. no electricity. the foods the Puebloans eat? same as their ancestors; dryland famring from the 7,000′ fields below their Palace In The Clouds. the average age of an Acoma Puebloan is 93. their average fitness? it is most probably superior to yours, for they live the Ancient Way; the way of common sense which involves exercising for their food, their living and cherishing their humility while living The Great Mystery. there is no record of depression on this mesa top. there is no record of plastic surgery either. photo/steve ilg



sandstone and mud wall nearly hides the 11,301′ mountain yoga studio of “Dohglizhii Dzil” Translation: “Turquoise Mountain”…later named “Mt. Taylor” by the White Man. if you ask me, i TAF (Think And Feel) that the native name, not the Anglo name, should remain on our maps and in our words. Dohglizhii Dzil is the venue of one of my most favorite multisport competitions and one i helped popularize back in the day; the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon. This beautifully brutal 75-kilometer event races from the forlorn Route 66 town of Grants, New Mexico to the summit of 11,301′ Mt. Taylor and back again using four different sports; road cycling, mountain running, nordic skiing, and snowshoeing. i have done this event 5x and have finished on the podium 3x. and you wonder WHY Wholistic Fitness is so different? so powerful? c’mon, Noble Fitness Warrior! lay aside your damned excuses and rationalizations and JOIN our TEMPLE OF TRANSPERSONAL FITNESS! join WF Online Training today! Who are you trusting to take into your death? Who are you trusting to take you deeper into your LIFE!?!! we live the CHI in this Path! you will need a Spiritual Fitness Teacher for your dying…who are you trusting to take you into the Bardo? if you are not training to die consciously, gracefully, elegantly…then, what ARE you training for? these ancients were not afraid of death; for they knew the Bardo Realm…that is why i come here…to learn from a People who are not afraid to die consciously. photo/steve ilg



There were, until John Wayne came here, only three secret ways up to the top of this mesita. the “405 Freeway” version was this “Stone Staircase.” you can see, throughout the eons of ancients traveling up and down this narrow sandstone corridor, hand and foot holds cut into the ‘soft’ sandstone by generational wear. you too, if you come here, can place your own hands and feet into the Ancient One’s own PathWay. you will feel their CHI…you will KNOW the Sacredness that needs to percolate throughout your daily life. photo/Ananda.

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PART TWO: Ancient Peaks, Ancient People

Coach Talks With One Of His Teachers, G. Pinto…A Navajo-Dine

About the 4 Sacred Peaks and Ancient Voices and a Lifelong Goal of Coach Ilg.

*the Spanish Conquistadores, came to this very peaceful city and, under Onat�, murdered over 900 Acoma Puebloans within a half day. Why? They thought that the glitter of the mud and straw buildings twinkling in the sun on top of the mesa was literally, “a city of gold.” like today’s society, it is Greed that still murders, still severs our Higher Connection to Peace, Harmony, and Genuine Spiritual Power. When we will learn? Well, ask yourself; what are YOU doing to be the Change You Wish To See?