Wholistic Fitness

The Power of Knowing cannot be detached from sweat and stillness. Period.
This is a shot of “Red Fox Deck” tonight at the Temple H(om)e of WF.
Much of my DL ‘inspiration’ comes from ‘inspiring’ (breathing inward) the tremendous Pran that permeates nights like this one beneath the Sacred Peak.

Yet,
being INSPIRED to write to you each day, take photos like these today…
that INSPIRATION
is
only often less than Half of the End Service that i provide…

the other majority
boils down to my Love for you,
my undying wish to Serve you on behalf of Brahman…
my longing to ease the ache of the suffering of our North American Tribe who are fat, unfit, and unWilling to
experience that most deepest and truest Sense of Self; honoring the abode of the body/mind vehicle…
and training wisely and intensely for each of our inevitable Bardo Entry.

my Willingness to sweat each day
to sit each day…
in order to stay empty enough to Receive Higher Teachings,
and then…to stop my workout,
take out my camera with frozen hands,
or, interrupt my own Meditation to jog down a Brahmanic Whisper
that i TAF might be of singular benefit to just ONE of you…

that, my Friends Along The Path of Awakening,
is the Real coach ilg…
for doing just that type of Appropriate Warrior Action
each day
for a quarter century
is my Standard for what a Coach does.
okay, so
i lose thousands of dollars each month
Serving for free;
yet i tell you;
it is not Free…
it is Karma Yoga; it is my Union Through Selfless Service…

Like icicles that drip from a snow laden roof,
our beautiful expressions of what we choose to express each day
is but a tiny pinpoint of our potentiality.
You and i are all fragments of the Same Divine Source…
yet we cling only to that shard of Self that we think ‘might just make it’ in the “Real World.”
we shut down the rest.
content to let the Enormity of our Potential to just…
melt
under the Fire of the Outer World heat and stress.

our Inner Light, our Sushumna, our Kundalini
lies submerged beneath our layers of ego…those clever little thin skins of sloth,
smooth talk,
drugs,
addiction to busyness,
addiction to entertainment,
giving into the resistance within us that does not like to sweat,
giving into the resistance within us that does not like to wake up early and sit still…

how LONG will you suffocate your Divine Light!?
how many LIFETIMES are you content to SLEEP WALK through?
one thousand, perhaps?
ten thousand, maybe more?

why is it that i try so hard for you,
today,
last week,
last year,
last decade
to IGNITE YOUR AWAKENING!?

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oh, trust me, i get it all the time;
“Coach! Wow, i just listened to (insert name of fancy TV Speaker/Yogi Star(lett)/”Doctor”/Fitness Expert here)
and he (or she)
is SOOOOOO INSPIRING…they reminded me of YOU!”

Let me make something as Clear as today’s sweeping snow across my face during my cross country ski..

Here

is

my

INSPIRATION:

i have heard all the famous, rich, fancy dressed Speakers of whom you speak…
i know all about how many Certified “Teachers” they have and how many people
whose “life they have changed….”

Bravo!

yet,
i still am only allowed to Teach that which i know by Direct Experience…
and
thus i say unto you…
Oh Noble Ones On The Path of Awakening…

inspiring others is easy; all you need is rehearsal (and a good PR/marketing/script writer doesn’t hurt).

yet,
i do not teach Inspiration
for i know that being inspired (taking an InBreath) is only – at best – halfway.

i do not Teach Halfway…

i Teach ALL THE WAY;
the WHOLE WAY
the
WHOLISTIC FITNESS� WAY…

and i know that Inspiration requires three other parts:
a pause at the top the Inspiration (antara kumbhaka)
an exhalation (releasing that which has been inspired),
and a pause at the end of the exhalation (puraka kumbaka).

that is why i have turned down several pivotal lucrative TV/PAID SPEAKING/INFOMERCIAL offers throughout my life…
because i KNEW i could INSPIRE people,
yet,
i have my hands absolutely full with just a handful of Students willing to take deep study – WHOLE STUDY – under me…
how could i POSSIBLY SERVE
HONESTLY,
AUTHENTICALLY,
ONE BY ONE
each of the millions of people that i could easily INSPIRE?

go ahead and pay the big bucks; buy the 8-DVD SERIES of some INSPIRING TEACHER…
go for it…

yet
it will fall short…
unless that Teacher is willing to Teach you
one
on
one:

Teacher/Student
Master/Disciple
Guru/Aspiriant

that is the Way
the only Way
rung through the eons
that genuine Transmission
has been achieved.

Essentially,
the Sweat and Stillness
must be done by you.

The rest is just more GUNK
layered like fast falling snow
upon your already accumulated MASS
of
intellect,
trivia,
ego,
opinions,
judgments,
and
belief structures.

my humble Teaching to you today?

Make sure your Spirit that has been Tickled
is aligned with
and guarded by
your
gut deep Sweat
and
Stillness

It’s easy to be inspired,
it’s a lot harder
WORLD CLASS HARDER
to
act upon that inspiration
with Fitness of Body
across the physiologic realms (wholeness)
and
to Engage the Practice of Lifestyle Equanimity (balance).

just pace yourself; regardless of how high gloss comes the Inspiration:

“There are none so righteous as the newly converted.”

that is all,

i trust your Practice upon your own Will…

i love you
it shows
and
you
show me
and that is what makes our WF Tribe
so
utterly
AMAZING
in Kali Yuga…

namaste Noble Ones,

coach ilg

text and photos by coach ilg