Wholistic Fitness

I devote this DL Meditation to WF Student Andrew Baker…

may all of you enjoy and thank you for reading!
now…PRACTICE!!!

OM SO TI,

coach ilg

ps; remember, you can click on the photos to enlarge them

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Our Issues are in our Tissues.
– contemporary Hatha Yoga saying
we may think we are being True People until our tissues are compressed and we realize how much shit we’ve stored in our muscles, connnective tissues, and the Layers of Mind. – Coach Ilg performing his very Steep, very Direct, very Effective form of Structural Bodywork he calls, “High Performance Bodywork�” upon WF Student Alex in the Temple Zendo last summer. PROFESSIONAL BODYWORK NOTE OF CAUTION: Do NOT try this at home!!!

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Gustav Jung
Temple Manager Ananda, performing Pranayams at 11,500+.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
– Helen Keller
one of Coach’s schematics of basic Hatha Yoga subtle anatomy during an Intensive

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
La Ventana, New Mexico.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
– Winston Churchill
Coach performing Bakasana on sandstone natural arch, Sedona, AZ.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
– Emily Dickinson
photo contributed by Lisa Goldsmith.

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STUDENT S. TAMES HER HYPEREATING (EATING TOO FAST, EATING WHEN NOT PHYSIOLOGICALLY HUNGRY)

Beloved Coach;
SUNRIDER�: all herbs taken……..SUNRIDER sunshine sunsalute—-fun in the sun(rider) ! the herbs are WORKING!

Yesterday’s intake: 2 cups of CALLI BEVERAGE� and an organic yam before my workout. An ILG SUPREME shake, avocado and chicken for lunch after exercise. A few raw walnuts and a half of grapefruit. invited to colleagues for dinner. Dinner—-one cracker and some brie cheese. Salmon on white beans, carrots and salad with spinach and beets and goat cheese–one small piece of bread. 1 glass of wine — Dessert was a small slice of chocolate mouse cake and tea.

All eaten with NON DOMINANT HAND� Assignment intact!

and… i ate slowly at dinner and was the last one to finish.

One bite,
fork down,
chew slowly.

– Blessings, Student S.

COACH RESPONDS!

Student S!!!!!!
i am Soooooooooooo stoked for you!!!!!! What a long way you have come!!! Amazing just how efficient is our NATURAL ENZYMATIC BREAKDOWN when we actually stop LUNGING and SWALLOWING our food unconsciously and instead SLOW DOWN, and allow our NATURAL MASTICATION to occur! We don’t need ANY PILLS or anything; we need to SLOW DOWN and CHEW!!!!! APPRECIATE!!!! you got me so psyched on your progress of natural eating that you inspired this spontaneous Haiku.
i devote it now to you:

one bite, fork down, chew (5)
silent appreciation (7)
Nutrition is God! (5)

namaste,
coach