Wholistic Fitness

– Coach gets a kiss beneath the Sacred Peak from WF Devotee Shel during her Two Day Private Intensive that resulted in yet another profound Shift for Shelli’s spiritual Journey. This DL is dedicated to her.

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Our Fitness devotion must come from our whole heart. It is not enough, contrary to popular thought, to just run our Fitness Pursuits like we run so many errands. We must also give our thoughts and our Everyday Actions to our Fitness Pursuit. The entirety of WF Study is for this – to accelerate our cellular vibration Higher so that we may Appropriately Act (WF Lifestyle Principle #3) and respond to our Daily Challenges from Eagle Medicine.

{During a MTB ride, i took a break and clinic’d the Ai Imawa Taoist Healing Postures with Student Shel upon some volcanic cinders. When i asked her to strike her favorite Ai Imawa Posture for a pic, she replied, “Wow…watching you flow through them make it seem like all the Postures were just One.” Go(o)d answer! She finally settled in for Calming The Dragon, a challenging “yang” posture in the series.}

What is Eagle Medicine? Well those of you that have read and practice the Teachings in my “Ai Imawa” book know that Eagle Medicine is Illumination…A Soaring Level of Consciousness that provides a High Perspective to our varied dance of drama and difficulty.

We cannot possibly stop thinking or acting our Fitness. We must see, as i have Taught you many times before, that our Highest Workout is Everywhere. It’s right now; in our posture, our breath, the tension in our toes, and the width and sincerity of our smile. When we carry our Workout into the Moment, we live from with a different, a Higher, point of view. We are inDeed Eagles…soaring far above the predicable masses so mired in their ungracious addictions to various sensual comforts and entertainments.

{Top: i force Shelli into a Bardo Realm approaching timberline while Yak’traking up the Sacred Peak. This type of Herculean, Heart Pounding, Leg and Lung Searing Torture is vital for the genuine Yogin who does not simply leave the notion of “yoga” to asana. Bottom: Shelli, who was very intimidated in the Descent of the steep snow, was given a powerful WF Mountain Yogi Transmission and soon enough, she was soaring with Eagle Medicine down the challenging slope, hootin’ and howlin’ like any perfectly sane 51-year old girl should!}

We must take the same thought for our spiritual fitness as we do now for our material fitness. We must reMember with our natural ‘tapas’..our innate burning desire to Rise Above with spiritual fervor for that Inner Wealth that will Guide, Comfort, and Embrace our final exhale as we leave this Life and enter our Bardo Gym.

When our fitness devotion is sincere, we will not complain about a Proven Path of Transformation. For those of us cranking along the Path of WF, that means that We will do whatever it takes to get on and stay on the herbs, on the Online Training, on the Svadhaya of Direct Lines.
{Coach rekindles Shelli’s Inner Child by returning her to a long forgotten Joy of Movement…ice skating! her smile did not leave her face for hours!}

Wavering is not tolerated on a genuine Path of Yoga. Do or do not. But never waver. To waver is to die in sloth. Do not waver in Cardio, Strength, Asana, Meditation, or Food Mastery. Just Begin…and when you fall (which we all do) then, Begin Again and Again…Endlessly Again. Falling is not wavering. Falling implies Upward Movement. It’s wavering and indifference and lack of constancy that is perilous to Eagle Medicine.

Thus, we must first root from our mind the false notion which fools us into thinking that material fitness (including fitness of the body) is the greatest reality of our short life here. Material needs are not the foremost importance in our life. This realization will ring as Clear and Strong as a Ponderosa Wind when we come to know – through Direct Experience – the yoga of nature…when we come to know through Abhyasa (constancy of Practice) the biggest fact of all; there is no “i”…
there is
only
One.

All
One.
{What makes Shelli such a great Yogini? It’s not because she is a Certified Yoga Teacher. it’s not that she has nailed with gymnastic finesse all the advanced yoga postures. Not even close. However, what makes Yogini Shelli a tremendously skilled Practitioner of Yoga is her tapas; her Burning Desire to Learn the Higher Path. Here she is, minutes before leaving the WF Temple H(om)e…scouring my bookshelves, writing down titles of books for her own Svadhyaya…this type of desire for INNER-ATTAINMENT, not entertainment, is why Student Shel is gonna kick ass in the Bardo…}

I devote this DL to my cherished and beautiful Student Shell…who has been here studying with myself and Ananda for two days of Intensive WF Study. So, do not take my feeble words…i am only the Teacher, the Guide…ask the Students like Devoted Online Student Shel who has been through hell and high water with her WF Studies…you ask her what a genuine Path of Yoga has provided in inner wealth for her life, her relationships, and her eventual Bardo Entry.

How BAAAAAD do you want it, baby?!?!

As BAAAAD as a 51-year young Spiritual Warrioress named Shel?

Only you know the answer to that one…

May all Beings be Happy and KNOW the causations of Happiness…

namaste,
coach ilg