Wholistic Fitness

“GOD DAMMED” NAVARATRI INSIGHTS FROM COACH: A Gift of Autumn Leaves Before I Leave…

below are just a few of the dozens of Practice Insights from my Sweat and Stillness
sessions that i feverishly attempted to scribble down for you
during this year’s Navaratri.

this special time of year has been immensely beautiful for me…as the Veil between the Inner
and Outer continued to thin throughout this time, i found myself ReConnecting with
old, old Brothers and Sisters…some, like my old San Luis Valley bro, Jerry Duran*, i had not
communicated in Words with for over a decade. When i did during Navaratri, it was
VIBRANT and PUNGENT with synchronicity. For instance, when i was speaking Dharma with
Jerry, he said,
“Holy shit, ilg…the moment i picked up the phone with you a HUGE HAWK came and landed on
a fencepost, not 18′ feet away from me! He is just sitting there…LOOKING STRAIGHT INTO ME!…
he ain’t moving, bro! I have looked out this window for years…i have never seen this before!”

fun stuff, like that…allWays seems to be quite vivid during Navaratri!

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ON PRAYING:
“Pray not for Assistance External from you,
better to Pray for Practical Assistance within…
Pray for more Uddiyana strength,
Pray for deeper Ujjayi texture,
Pray for both nostrils (nadis) to be more consistently balanced..
these are the important Tools of Transformation.”

ON PAIN:
“You gotta really work the Conscious Breath into
ALL your painful regions.
Such regions are known as Granthis in the Ancient Guidebooks (Scriptures).
With Abhyasa, the Pain will Shift into something more manageable…
then you must gather Strength by directing this manageable Granthi
by purifying it through the nearest chakra, nadis, or erasure via one of the
five essential winds (yayus).”

ON GRANTHIS (psyschoenergetic blockages):
“Granthis are super dense concentrations, portals of undigested intensity.
the Chakras nearest the Granthi will start processing the multilayered
content of the Granthi. Be Ready and may your have the Guidance of an
experienced Teacher at this point! The Journey of Awakening begins here:
you will find keys to your Past (which, you will find, is not ‘past’ at all!) and your Future
via your present ability to endure Conscious Attention (Dhyana) through
the Purifications of the Granthis.”

ON PAIN SOURCE:
“If you knew how Simple the Act of Healing your Pain was,
you might be disappointed at the obvious lack of drama and the
immense amount of blue collar sweat and focus that is required to
Self Heal. This is why most UnAwakened give their Power over
to an external “healer” who then “treats” those who are too lazy
to do the gut work of meditation and consistent Practice (abhyasa).
feeble ilg says, Prioritize Your Intuitive Self Reliance.”

ON “GOD DAM” EDGES!
“Sometimes, the painful Edge that i all too quickly
approach in my asana postures is so searing,
so damned tight and restricted, the pain so blinding,
that i utter, “God DAMN!”…
that is when Brahman told me today,
“That is precisely right, Oh Noble Yogin Who Bravely Looks Within,
your tight, painful restrictions are just that; ‘A God Dam.’
These blockages, leftover from many lifetimes when you were too scared
to look within and bravely wither them away with your Conscious Breath,
are literally dams that are blocking Me…
whenever someone utters, God Damn, they mean just that; there is a Dam
that is Blocking the Go(o)d from flowing. You are doing well, Steve,
keep Practicing and…keep Teaching honestly what I tell you.”

do you have a “god dammed” friend? someone who doesn’t commune with the Divine Go(o)d?
sad, huh?
feeble ilg says, “Be even MORE compassionate to your God Dammed Friends, for they are…just that;
Dammed from feeling Go(o)d…and that is very, very sad inDeed!”

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anyway,
may your own comprehensive of the Thinning Of The Veil continue well past
this years Navaratri and spill with Abundance into each aspect of your workouts and daily
life…

i am taking Ananda up to Taos for a couple of days…we are going to do the Lake Peak Duathlon,
an old Mountain Yogi workout of mine high, high above Santa Fe, then off to experience the “Aum” of
Taos Mountain; a legendary and quite palpable energy vortex beneath the Sacred Peak of Taos Mountain…
and if you yourself have not been to Northern New Mexico during autumn…
uh…
do so before you die…

life is short
fitness is vital
to
enjoy
the Quality of the Short Time
we have
two-getHer!

eat an herb
and
enjoy the DL Archives
and enjoy the other Coach Ilg-Approved Blogs on the Internet
until i get back…
and..
as ever,
you will feel me Coaching you
whenever you choose to CONSCIOUSLY SWEAT and SIT IN YOUR STUDIED SILENCES!

love beyond the Beyond,
happy Post Navaratri!

namaste,
coach ilg

* Need a CUSTOM BUILT bicycle frame with more CHI and ARTISTRY than you is available anywhere in the nation? How about getting yourself a Duran Frame? Jerry built me a custom mountain bike frame which resulted in one of the most amazing Vehicles of fun and inJoyment i have been Blessed to have; Nanisimo…my Duran MTB! I raced Nanisimo (means; Living Thing) for 3 years on the Colorado Mountain Bike Racing Circuit. These days, Nanisimo is ‘retired’ and i tool him around Flagstaff, where his Unique Look and Spirit captures the eyes of this Bike Crazy Town. i love Nanisimo very much and deeply wish you would Jerry make you your own Living Thing. here is his Website; just tell him; Coach Ilg sent you!

http://www.durancycles.com/

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I bow to you all each day in the wee hours and breath in and breath out. Check out Wholistic Fitness� Direct Lines from Coach ilg. It will set you on the right path, not the easy path, but the right one.

Sabbe sattaa sukhi hontu

thOMas

author of a Coach Ilg-Approved Blog at:
http://www.warriorsamoht.blogspot.com/

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KARMA
Whatever is happening to us now mirrors our past karma. If we know that, and know it truly, whenever suffering and difficulties befall us, we do not view them particularly as failures or catastrophes, or see suffering as a punishment in any way. Nor do we blame ourselves or indulge in self-hatred.

We see the pain we are going through as the completion of the effects, the fruition, of a past karma. Tibetans say that suffering is �a broom that sweeps away all our negative karma.� We can even be grateful that one karma is coming to an end. We know that �good fortune,� a fruit of good karma, may soon pass if we do not use it well, and that �misfortune,� the result of negative karma, may in fact be giving us a marvelous opportunity to evolve.
– Sogyal Rinpoche

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NAVARATRI EFFECT: STUDENT ALEX LINES UP HIS WF INTENSIVE…
Dearest Sensei
I send you much CHI and Prana today. Quick Note. You are really tuned into to your Sangsha. I was going to write you about these mean looking contraptions that you were exercising on in a August DL. Lo and Behold, on yesterdays DL there is Beautiful Ananda working out on the rock rings. Coincidence? I prefer to believe it is an Auspicious sign for this humble grappler who is about to embark into the new fitness world of CLIMBING/BOULDERING. Below is the list of of activities I wish to be trained in.
1) CLIMBING/BOULDERING!!!!!!
2) Yoga
3) Meditation
4) Any outdoor activity (MTB, Hiking, Trail Running) or a visit to the Iron Temple
Sifu, I wish to train my mind and spirit to break this ego fixation to the physical world. I do not wish to transcend this physical world, but to be wholistically in the here and now and yoke with the UniVerse. Gracias, to Coach and Ananda. I dedicate the sweat of todays yoga practice on the beach to the both of you. May the Atlantic ocean carry my love and chi to the both of you.
Love and Honor Alex
P.S. Could you please save two of the Navaratri Mala Beads. I wish to purchase one for myself and one for my soon to be fiance when I am at the h(OM)e temple.