Wholistic Fitness

WF TEACHER Q SPEAKS!!

My second ever Certified WF Teacher, Quentin “Sugiyukako” Vaughan.�
“i have been asked by Coach to share with you warriors more consistently here on DL. which for me and my so called “shyness” is yet another WF cliff. i have learned. with a brave, trusting and humble heart that is WILLING to Do the work i breath and say I am HERE!” – Teacher Q
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Coach,
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Teacher Q here now.
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i wonder….no, i KNOW that our students FEEL the CHI in the air of these amazing�times.
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since i’ve moved here from my birth home in NY almost 6 years ago, my journey has taken on what has till now seemed quite peculiar. as Coach says, and he is correct, yogis don’t give a hoot about time. i only add it here for continuity.
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this month celebrates 13 years cradled in the arms of this beloved warriors Path. although i must say rarely has it felted anything even close to what my EGO would call cradled. i could go on and on about the lessons and how the times have changed yet stayed the same, how the journey has been long and steep, yet just beginning. i’ll indulge just a little…
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back then, no one it seemed, but Coach knew anything about “plyometrics”. i was already a trainer and i never heard the term. i was the only interesting person Jump Squatting and doing Kin-hin walk around the squat rack in between sets. the only person keeping a hold of the bar after barbell curls(for explanation read TBT closely)�to tap deeper spiritual reserves. the only one pausing between reps to breathe fire into the soul as my muscles screamed at the EGO to stop! and the person waiting for me to finish looked at me like, “how long is this set bro?” not to mention bowing to them and the machine when i was through (another WF lesson). i was the only person bringing a wonder wheel to yoga class to pre crank mulabanda. not to mention riding my bike thru traffic to and from the class with what i call “NYC Mindfulness”….aka Pay Attention OR DIE!!
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and on and on the journey goes. (i’ll share more another time)
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back then the so called New Age was just exploding. seemed every 10 dang minutes a book or video was coming out about this new thing or that new thing. and your wild hearted Teacher Q tried them all. i’d ask Coach about each one. patient he was. you see, he too had seen and done most everything in his own journey. he knew. he’d say “cool bro….go check it out, let me know what you think and feel”. like many what i was REALLY looking for (and one of the purposes of this share.) i mean what i was R� E� A� L �L� Y searching for was..
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a freakin EASIER way man!!!
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YES!! YES!! i said it!! an EASIER WAY OUT!! i mean DAMN!! this path is tough. i mean even Luke Skywalker�got IT�after a scene or two. this is why when i read DL i can hear the thoughts beneath many of your words. me too!!
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i’d read some book where all i had to do was chant this chant, meditate this meditation, drink this drink, etc. secretly(though not so secret) i was wishing i’d find a short cut or hidden teaching that would catapult me to enlightenment. i’d do it and then i’d whip it out on Coach….TADA!! i am enlightened!! now stop all this crazy ass stuff and let’s relax get fat and pontificate our lives away;-)
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never worked. in fact i have a story about this.
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secretly(well not so secret) i went thru this course of new age spiritual training. with a very famous teacher. hundreds attended. soon after i went to Durango(which i called Degaba) when Coach lived there, for my Intensive. i told him of the course and my newly learned state of the art mental skills. to which he said “cool”.
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side note: if any of you come to an Intensive with Coach and you share something you’ve learned and he says “cool”, uh…LEAVE! cause he will test you to SEE if in fact you have said skills.
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so we are going thru a run up and down the forest trails. we were doing Mintues Are Forever with a minute recovery times. after about 45 mins or so of this i could see we were coming to the end of a trail. which i thought would be the end of this workout and or we’d turn around and go back. NOT. there at the end of the trail was a 200 ft drop straight down to another part of a trail. now this wasn’t an ordinary hill. actually Coach called it a hill, i called it a damn cliff! every inch was filled with bowling ball size stones!! not one bit of “ground” anywhere! so with no hesitation he just took off down the cliff. your teacher Q did a roadrunner styled HALT!!�my new mental skills said to me “HELL NO!” cause this wasn’t no fall and get a little boo-boo type of thing.if you fell on this thing by the time your ass got to the bottom there wouldn’t be nuttin left of you �i kid you not, it took me a half hour to climb down this hill! when i got down he just looked at me with the most loving look i ever saw. he never said a word.
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you see there is NO easy way. perhaps�i learned alot of cool stuff. it was like going to Spiritual Disney Land. i’d go on the spiritual rides, see cool lights, sounds, beings etc. have some magic cotton candy(wink, wink), and scream as i faked terror going around the loopdeloop. but then….but then sooner or later i’d be back in my car behind the wheel with spirit saying “ok….so where were we, oh yeah….your scared of death, don’t love who you are, afraid of losing, fearful of success, etc, etc”
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DAMN!! fake out again.
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inhale…..exhale.
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now.
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am i saying WF is the ONLY path? no. it is not. am i saying we are the BEST? no. these words are not given with that VIBE at all. it is simply to say, and you’ve all heard it before the only way OUT is IN beloveds. and there is NO easy Way!! if anyone tells you they can enlighten you in 3 Easy Lessons, run away!! this is FOREVER path. if anyone says they are in fact Enlightened, run the other way!! if they gotta say it….they ain’t IT.
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everything you need is within you, but you must be willing to go and find it….to take it. knock and you shall receive is very true, but knocking on the door of spirit is a moment to moment thing.
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so my beloved warriors who i adore with all of my being,
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JOURNEY ON!!
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train with courage and consistancy. train with love and light.
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The Coach and all the Teachers of WF are here for you endlessly.
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i bow.
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Namaste,
Teacher Q

{Teacher Q has openings for Beginning to Intermediate Level WF Students who wish to start Online Training. Application To Study is available on the WF Tribal Catalog at the website.}