Wholistic Fitness

STUDENT INPUT! “It’s Nice For A Coach To Be Coached!”

“After browsing your entire book and now, only 17 pages actually read (‘Total Body Transformation’), I felt compelled to contact you at once! Here is why;

I teach my clients, the general public and anyone who is willing to listen the same principals as you, I am in love with and Distribute Sunrider as well, and it is so freakin’ amazing to be inspired again to take my practice deeper. In not so many words, It is so nice for a coach to be coached!

Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you!
Melanie Wierenga
Edmonton, AB”

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STUDENT SINGER SINGS HIS OWN PRASIES and INSIGHTS FROM TODAY’s DL

WF Online Student Mike Singer has turned on other Seekers to the Wholistic Fitness Temple just by his own Transformation. Noble Student Singer has been an Online Student of WF Teacher Haku since October, 2004 and lives in Seattle.

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Noble Ilg,
I read DL this morning with a big inner smile, because so much of what you wrote in your response to Vikram resonated with what I wrote in my Cycle Summation to Coach Haku late last night. I tell you this not because I’m proud of how “wise” I’ve become, but because I think it’s important for a teacher to know that his wisdom is successfully making the mysterious and precarious trickle down the training hierarchy to his student’s students. You talk about Appropriate Action and the “three levels of motivation.” I thought I’d share my thoughts on the subject from my Summation, which seem like a nice echo of your own:

“It’s not a matter of using my mind to externally motivate my muscles from without to push Push! PUSH! like you see most guys doing in the gym
it’s more a matter of moving my awareness down deep INTO my muscles and moving energy into every fiber from WITHIN
moving energy into every fiber by BEING every fiber. A nice way to eat. A nice way to move. A nice way to live.”

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“I always find it odd that we humans have to set aside time to “practice” what other animals just do naturally. I’ve learned an incredible amount about yoga and life by watching my girlfriend’s cats. Can you imagine a cat going through an entire day without doing “yoga?” I watch them, and I’m in awe. Of their breath. Of their posture. Of their mindful movement, mindful stillness, mindful eating, mindful sleeping. No multitasking here. Every moment of every day their presence seems connected to a naturalness, and infused with a divinity, that I can only describe as exquisitely “right.” There is much for them to learn as they grow, but little for them to unlearn. Not so with us humans. And so
my yoga practice is where I go to retreat away from the societal, familial, and self-imposed burdens that hide me from me. I breathe, I move, I breathe again. And after a few minutes, an hour, I find that I’m not so much changed by the practice but REVEALED like a sculpture carved from stone. And if I look carefully as I roll up my mat, I swear I can sometimes see a little pile of chiseled stone on the floor. There’s an interesting meditation in here somewhere, I think: Roll to the right, rise from Savasana, and walk out of the room. Pause, and visualize the yogic janitor sweeping all the little piles of accumulated baggage into a dust pan. Where does he take it?”

and in response to a question Coach Haku posed to his students about the difference between right and wrong:

“Right is dharma, wrong is adharma. But it’s all relative and depends on the context. The big picture? To work in accordance with the ‘divine will’ is right. To work in opposition to the ‘divine will’ is wrong. But what is this ‘divine will’ anyway? THAT is why we should meditate, practice yoga, etc. To gain for ourselves an experiential (as opposed to intellectual) understanding of what ‘right’ is in the largest possible sense of the word. It’s easy to watch a cat’s natural tendency to be ‘right,’ to align itself with the divine will. It’s far, far, more difficult to BECOME a cat.”

And that…is why we practice. Thanks for the continuous flow of inspired and inspiring thoughts….

Onward!
Humble Student Singer