Wholistic Fitness

PRANAYAM; PART TWO: TIMELESS BLESSINGS OF THE ANCIENTS and The Importance of Low Volume/High Chi Nutrition

{NOTE: This is the Second Part of a DL Exclusive featured 8*9; THE CURSE OF SPECIFICITY}

“Verse: 63. Prana, Apana, Nada and Bindu uniting into one in this way, give success in Yoga, undoubtedly.
Verse: 64. By the purification of Prana, and Apana, urine and excrements decrease. Even an old man becomes young by constantly practicing Mula Bandha.”

– From the Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Light On The Forceful Yoga) written by Svatmamarma Yogin long before the advent of rubber sticky mats, OM T-shirts, $600 meditation chairs, DVD’s, and even..imagine this… before ‘Yogilates’!

WF never tries to re-invent the ‘wheel of Dharma’ for monetary gain. We respect, bow to, and trust the Ancient Wisdom. What we DO know how to do, is to translate and then actively mold that Peerless Ancient Wisdom of the body/mind/spirit into today’s modern society.

The Pradipika’s eternal wisdom about developing internal fitness was authored around the mid-4th century C.E. That’s right, 4th century, bucko. Now, let’s get to work…INNER WORK, shall we?! As a society, we have fallen waaaaaaay off the back of the brilliance of developing our inner-space. Sure, we can pat our intellectual selves on the back as we shoot off expensive rockets into outer space, junking up Father Sky as millions of humans are starving to death right down here on the ground. Yep, that’s really smart and Appropriate Action, eh?

Until each of us takes responsibility for exploring our Inner Space before we make the conscious choices to have kids, tell other people what to do, shoot off rockets or bullets (same thing), we are bound to make futile and damaging choices in our actions. The current state of our planet, both environmentally and politically, is an apt reflection of our collective laziness and unwillingness in Self-Cultivation. WF has been at the front of Western Fitness modalities since 1982, doing our humble best to get people to use the beauty of personal fitness as an Inner Spaceship to become self-real-ized. Few listen. Fewer even care.

You do.

Thank God for you. I mean that.

I swear, i TAF the WF Sangha will emerge as the Warrior Keepers of the InnerLight once the Outer World blows itself up or whatever it is bound to do! Please, keep your WF Practice strong, okay? Your devoted Practice is needed far more than you may think!

EATING LIGHTLY; THE PRE-REQUISITE OF PRANAYAM:
Above photo: i am in mid-stomach bar stroke during Nauli (stomach cleansing). Not as easy as chomping ROLAIDS…and that is Just The Point! Very quickly, the yogi realizes that overeating is a sin against the body’s beautiful and endless spring of energy known as Prana. You simply cannot eat a lot and develop the Prana at the same time; they are two categorically different Energy Systems; food and prana. Prana is the far, far, FAR more powerful of them.

This obvious, yet nationally abused requirement for deeply nourishing yet low volume nutrition is precisely why students of WF use my fully integrated 3-Stage Approach to using the SUNRIDER Herbs. We use the Herbs to Cleanse/Drop Fat in stage one. We Empower the Cells in stage two. Then, in stage three, we surround our skin, body, mind, and environment with innocent, healthy lifestyle herbs, skin care, and household products. My 3-Stage Approach allows the yogin to FEEL, often for the first time in their life, the exhilarating difference between air and ether, the difference between sucking air into their bodies unconsciously, and actually ‘eating Pran’…that is, becoming nourished by the Life Force element that is omnipotent.

Athletic resume aside, I do not know how far i could have come to healing and erasing the pain from a smashed pelvis without SUNRIDER. Just the thought of these beautiful herbs disappearing from my personal and professional life makes me cringe at the notion of once again being forced to buy into and eat the paltry crap and confusion of mainstream foods. My purification of pain and the empowerment of cellular fitness, would go rapidly backwards, i am certain.

…like brushing your teeth for your stomach…
in this shot, you can make out the hard-won “Stomach Bar” critical to developing Nauli. See the edges of my stomach? what i do next is isolate and then ‘roll’ the Stomach Bar; up and down, right to left, left to right. This creates a fantastic feeling that shoots an energetic cocktail of Prana and Apana all around my stomach and relative organs; clearing them from stagnating matter and toxins. Nauli is like brushing your teeth for your stomach. Every being needs to do it. The Ancient Wisdom seems to be working for me; i ‘ve not seen the inside of a doctor’s office since age 14 when my mom last took me. Oh wait, i felt guilty once when i was like 18, so i went for a ‘check up’. Jesus. They freaked me out; took a ‘muscle biopsy’ because the doctor ‘was concerned’ (sometimes aka; needs to make another payment on his Porsche). Results came back, they wanted to friggin’ take me in and cut me up! Fucking vampires, i tell you. Modern Medical System is the number four killer of people in the U.S. Number Four and killing more more people every minute of every day. To this mountain yogi, the only go(o)d thing about a modern hospital? The cool cats in the ER. Now, the ER is where you want Western Medicine; not the Lifestyle side. For the Lifestyle side, you want to listen to the yogis, the guys and gals who are cranking fit well beyond 100 years old.

Caduceus is the official name of the medical profession’s symbol, yet many doctors do not even realize that this is a yogi symbol; the intertwining lines of Serpent Energy are Ida and Pingala Nadis (left and right nostril energy lines) where they cross over the ‘staff’ are the gearing mechanisms of internal subtle energy known as ‘chakras’ and the main staff itself is the ‘sushumna’ the “Most Gracious Channel’ that i describe as the axial freeway for the Kundalini (latent cosmic power lying at the root of the spine). The wings on top of the Staff symbolize the “Great Pranic Bird of Uddiyana”…the Flying Upward Breath which must be developed to enkindle the internal heat and reverse the downward flow of apana. Hilarious, don’t you think? The symbol of Western Medicine is a yogi symbol! Hilarious!

Next on DL i will give you the precise passages from the Pradipika that, if learned and supervised by an experienced Teacher, can turn your physical body into what it truly is; a Vehicle of Light and Energy.

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oh, and to those who know who you are:

here at my humble Temple,
we know you are reading DL from outside the WF Tribal Firelight and then using my stuff without asking my permission..
we know you are writing books and articles for monetary gain…
so be it…
i ain’t like others running around suing people just because they lack Wisdom, Respect, Years of Practice, and CHI!
i leave it up to Lord Shiva;
it’s your karmic consequence, not mine.

besides, the true WF Warriors who study in the Online Temple?
Hey, we know that DL is just the tip of the iceberg, baby!

may this entry inspire your Practice and be of Benefit to all people,
namaste,
coach ilg

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{Note; due to an steadfast and increasing amount of virile Snakes lodging themselves within my vulnerable Temple, i must be honest (Satya) and tell you that DL may not long be able to exist as a complimentary offering from myself. It’s a sad thing; greed and lack of Trust in a Teacher… it destroys the most powerful Vehicle on the Planet; the Sangha. I’ll will keep offering for as long as possible, in this you can all-Ways trust. Now, however, might be a wise time to join the Online WF Temple before i am forced by the UnAwakened to close my humble, yet powerful Temple Doors.}