Wholistic Fitness

CELEBRATE SIMILARITIES! � WF: SOUL RIDE FOR HUMANITY � 3 CLASSES OF ASPIRANTS � TWISTED SAGE BLOG GOING OFF!

Dharma Blessings to the profound Wholistic FItness inspired Teacher Ko clan over in Indiana…check out the GREAT STUDENT FEEDBACK today on Teacher Ko’s blog and you tell me if Ripples Don’t Make (Wholistic) Waves, baby!

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WF; The Soul Ride For Humanity
A weakening, not strengthening, of the human Consciousness has been going on for thousands of years. The yogis know this current era of spiritual decline as Kali Yuga. This era is going to get worse before it gets better. The decline shall continue due to the obvious addiction to comfort and entertainment by today’s UnAwakened, non-Practicing human. Our diluted genetic pool is drained by UnAwakened, non-Practicing Humans giving birth to too many other humans without themselves first reaching moderate Levels of Spiritual Attainment and Wisdom. Thus, the vast majority of the current human population now falls into the most dissipated form of spiritual aspirant; Adhama Adhikara, which Swami Sivananda describes below.

Back in the human’s more Enlightened Era for instance (during the time of Vedic and Upanishadic inner-partying!), the Path of Yoga did not even require the moral and ethic ‘comandments’ of the Yamas and NiYama. Why? Well, back then, people actually retained ‘common sense’! Aspirants sought out the most generous, fierce, and balanced Spiritual Teachers of their day, emptied their cup, and took study under These Teachers of Yoga. The aspirant understood fully the importance of and honor of upholding personal and societal harmony.

Nor did our Ancient Spiritual Elders require gruelling yoga poses to help re-focus our dissipated powers of concentration. We used to be able to sit Full Lotus unflinchingly in both body and mind fairly easily! In fact, Yoga used to begin right with Meditation (Dharana) into exploration of the Blissful Natures of Mind (Samadhi). Hell, today’s SUV-driving, cell-toting Man cannot but hold concentration for a few paltry seconds! So mired in Moha (delusion caused by the Outer World) that today’s Man has become naturally infertile so that babies will not be born from this poor, dilapidated, unConnected, stressed out Man. So, what does this Man do? Create synthetic Fertility Pills to force a child from within their stressed out systems! Meanwhile, the Awakened look down from a Meditative Perspective upon all this human mellow-Drama, shake their heads, open their Hearts, and do their best to Practice Compassion and LovingKindness. “All Karma is God,” teach the Masters. All karma is God.

� “Welcome to your first Yoga Class lesson as given by the Ancients; first lesson; while maintaining an elegant padmasana, draw steady concentration to the rising, transition, and falling breath without allowing your concentration or body to fidget. Please continue this study without interruption for the length of one incense stick.” Can you see why the Yoga Masters had to change things around for today’s “Modern Man”? Aren’t you glad i created WF instead of this Hard Core reliance upon the GENUINE YOGIC MASTERS? I thought so. Photo by Ananda of Coach Ilg in Meditation, early morning, Two Tree Manor beneath the Sacred Peak.�

By and a Way, the Yoga Masters have thus assigned a different, more physically centered marga (Path) for this tragic, modern Man. They are now attempting to Teach us spiritual fitness, through a set of Messengers, by getting us to first discipline their dissipated mind through attention to physical fitness training.

Enter; WF. Created in 1982 for the Modern American as a stylized form of Yoga, originated by the Ancients. Feeble Messenger of the WF Marga; Steve Ilg.

Go(o)d luck, ilg! (Can you Hear the Deities chuckling?! I do, all the time!)

My spiritual Teachers helped me created WF to, “help curb the Dissipated Desires of today’s Man (Their Words…took me a long time just to figger out what They were saying!). I was Instructed to find a way to counter today’s entertainment-addicted society. Thus, WF is so designed to get people re-stoked about prioritizing InnerAttainment over Entertainment.

It’s been a quarter century of me pulling into the Headwinds of the Outer Directed World and attempt to package WF to affect large numbers of Seekers. I have yet to find the Key to touching the Masses. Perhaps, one day, you will write that Blog, you will write that Number One Bestseller based on the WF Teachings, you will contact people in the “Entertainment Business” and get WF Teachers or Teachings circulating on the television…perhaps, just perhaps, you are the One, not me, to deeply help Contain the Dissipated Man?

May all Beings know the vital importance and Endless Joy of Awakening through some sort of Wholistic Fitness. This is what i pray today.

Enjoy your herbs, work on Containment over Entertainment, and most of all, May Your Practices be strong, sincere, and full of fun Insight to help you and all of us ever, endlessly HIGHER!!!

Om Mani Padme Hung,

coach ilg
founder/Wholistic Fitness Personal Training System since 1982

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Three Classes of Aspirants

by Swami Sivananda

“Yoga is the royal road to freedom from misery. It treats of the four great principles: misery, its cause, freedom from misery and the means. The practice of the methods prescribed in Yoga leads to the cessation of all miseries and attainment of eternal bliss. Practice from today. Never miss a day. Remember each day brings you nearer to the end of earthly existence as human being. You have wasted many days, many months and many years. You do not realize it because you have drunk the liquor of Moha {Coach’s explanation; this word means, delusion, such as buying into the notion that who are you is a limited ego personality instead of a self whose very nature is transcendent}. Therefore, you do not understand the real cause of the miseries of this earthly life.

The cause of this misery is Avidya {Coach’s explanation; ooof, this is the Big One; spiritual ignorance. It is the main affliction of the UnAwakened that keeps him or her locked into Samsara or the endless cycle of birth, life with suffering, death, and rebirth}. When the sun of discrimination arises within, the Purusha {pure Spirit/Awareness} realizes that He is distinct from Prakriti {nature; that which lacks Awareness}, that He is independent and unaffected. Yoga gives you a most practical method of bringing about this exalted state.

According to Raja Yoga, there are three types of aspirants – Uttama, Madhyama and Adhama Adhikaris. To three classes of aspirants Raja Yoga prescribes three kinds of Sadhana {Spiritual Work}.

To the Uttama Adhikari (first-class aspirant) Raja Yoga prescribes Abhyasa and Vairagya. He practices meditation on the Self; he practices Chitta-Vritti-Nirodha (restraining the modification of the mind-stuff) and soon enters into Samadhi. This is practice (Abhyasa) sustained by Vairagya. To the Madhyama Adhikari (middling aspirant) Raja Yoga prescribes the Kriya Yoga – Tapas, Svadhyaya and Ishvarapranidhana. Tapas is austerity. Egolessness and selfless service are the greatest forms of Tapas. Humility and desirelessness are the greatest forms of austerity. Practice these through ceaseless, untiring, selfless service. Practice the three kinds of Tapas mentioned in the Gita. Disciplinary practices like fasting, etc., also come under Tapas. Svadhyaya is study of spiritual literature and also Japa of your Ishta Mantra. Ishvarapranidhana is self-surrender to the Lord and doing all actions as Ishvararpana, as offering unto the Lord. These three form the Sadhanas of the Madhyama Adhikari who enters into deep meditation very soon and attains Kaivalya Moksha. To the Adhama Adhikari, lowest kind of aspirant, Raja Yoga prescribes Ashtanga Yoga or the eightfold Sadhana – Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi.”

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EPILOGUE
It is one of the most difficult parts of my SvaDharma is gauging the Level of WF Online Training for a newly accepted Student (Shishya). I mean, i could kill somebody within days, if i am not careful! Damn, i nearly killed Ananda yesterday during ‘mountain bike yoga’! (see DL; 9*30*05)

Once i accept a Student, i become pregnant with the spiritual, physical, and mental care and feeding of that One Who Is On The Path Of Awakening. One day, perhaps, the Outer World will realize what we’ve been doing for the past quarter century over here in WF…perhaps one day, we Staff Teachers may even get paid what they are worth…something like combining the worlds best personal trainers with a spiritual teacher with a naturopath with a therapist with a physical therapist with an expert herbalist with a champion athlete with a yoga teacher. In the meantime, a WF Teacher can be in your corner, 24 x 7, for..uh…$3/Day. If you have not yet hired your own WF Teacher to help be your genuine Life Coach (WF has been around long before that word or profession was even around)..then, sign up today. Things will be changing in the coming year, so right now is a great time to join the world’s original Online Training System; Wholistic Fitness.

Here is how i train my Staff Teachers to gauge their Online Training of you…first and foremost, we WF Teachers must determine, by our experience, which classification of studentship a new shishya falls into. Once that judgment is made, then we designed a lifelong series of WF Programs, changed every four weeks, to equalize the natural weaknesses and karmic circumstances (we all got ’em, baby) as we g(r)o(w) along.

The following Teaching by Sri Swami Sivananda encapsulates the same vein we Teachers of WF use with you. Then, depending upon your Abhyasa and Iccha Shakti (i trust you have been doing your DL reading so you know these words…like WF, even DL is a systematic approach to Teaching), you start getting the volume and intensities across the mental, physical, and spiritual spectrum all monitored by us (I oversee ALL my Staff Teachers work with their students).

You already got what it takes to become an Online WF Student…it’s just a matter of you jumping into your weaknesses and transforming yourself through them. That is why i coined the term, Noble Fitness Warriors. It requires Warriorism to detect, overcome, and be transformed through our natural lazy habits and negative tendencies.

got it?

Go(o)d. Then fill out an Application to Study today on the Tribal Catalog, and we’ll hook you up on the Path of Transformation through WF. Don’t wait. Tomorrow you will another day closer to the Bardo Entry. Life is precious, don’t waste it by wasting your training and Practice time on superfluous teachers and teachings. you deserve World Class training, especially at $3/Day. I TAF your Transformation is a bit more important than the cost of what…a latte? a Dunkin friggin’ doughnut? c’mon Warrior! RISE ABOVE! Pick up your DharmaSword and starting cutting your negativity away and climb with us toward the In-Lighten-ment available to you through the necessity of lifestyle fitness.