Wholistic Fitness

“At what LEVEL are you REALLY WILLING to play the Game?”
– Coach Ilg


I allowed Ananda to photograph me in the early morning hours, while deep in the Pranic Interchange of my Top Secret Temple Teaching; the Rock Vinyasa® – an Early Morning Practice that can heal ANY lower back pain and open ANYONES tight hips. Currently, the Rock Vinyasa® is available only to WF Online Teachers and Students. i am working on a choreography of it suitable for Non Online Students as well.

the Gems fall rapidly and frequently from this Feeble Conduit of Something FAR FAR FAR more powerful than i…this Temple reSounds with the Voices of the Ancients stylized for today’s Western Fitness Warrior…

buckle up Warriors; the Dharma Arrows are FLYING in this DL:

okay, you’ve read all the scriptures, listened to all the CD’s, thumbed through the magazines about spiritual growth…BLAH, BLAH,BLAH.

you’ve taken a few yoga classes, joined the gym, picked up the Dalai Lama’s latest book…BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

you are still stressed.
you are still not meditating.
you are still scared to die.
you are still “more content to compensate for your negative tendencies than to train them,” as WF Teacher Ananda says.
you are still addicted to comfort than you are willing to attack your comfort zones.

i’ll say it again, Oh Noble Yogin:
“At what LEVEL are you REALLY WILLING to play the Game at, huh?”

You want to know the ONLY thing worth getting stressed about in your life?

It’s this:

Getting in your Practice.
that’s it, baby.
Getting in your Practice.
NOTHING MATTERS MORE THAN YOU “DOING THE DO” TO GET IN YOUR WORKOUTS: Both Inner AND Outer Ones!!!!!
PRIORITIES YOGIN!!! PRIORITIES!!!
LIFE IS SHORT!

{Photo above by MTB National Contender, Ben Sullivan, who is also a HP Yogi. Ben caught me nearly falling off my bike with exhaustion at 10,400′ near the Abineau Trailhead after 17 miles and 4,000′ of climbing…DO THE FUCKING DO!!!!!}

i have been willing to awaken in the wee hours, create an Intuitive Self Healing Yoga and Meditation program, and DO THE DO to get it DONE.

people ask me how the hell i healed myself from a fractured spine and smashed pelvis to regain WORLD CLASS fitness…
“You don’t want to know,” i feel like telling them…”how about reopening every few minutes an open wound by dragging rusty barbed wire back and forth across the oozing flesh for over 13 years?” That is how much Pain i have been willing to accept as PURIFICATION to Self Heal…

people don’t want that shit…
people just run to surgeons to hack out the Pain…
then are willing swallow drugs to mask and numb ANY SPIRITUAL COMMON SENSE STRAIGHT OUT OF THEM…
what these people don’t realize is that doctors can take away more than mere Pain; they can take away SOUL.
medical prescriptions designed to take away Pain also snag something else far more important: Your SPIRITUAL FIBER!
submit to external crutches for your Pain and Challenges;
and guess what?
you are gonna COME AROUND AGAIN and AGAIN until you DO THE DO!!!!!

here is what my Teachers taught me:

Warriors Rise UP
where the common man falls.
see, everyone falls.
i fall.
even Deepak Chopra and the high and mighty Dr. Phil fall.
i promise you that much.
you probably won’t actually SEE them fall (their Marketing Agents won’t allow it).
yet, they do. usually in the form of sidestepping around their Challenge Zones.
sidestepping to prevent falling is a form of falling.
just ask any mountain biker or tele skier, baby.

point is:
falling down is part and parcel of the human condition.

what matters is RISING UP.
each day.
in Every Way.

a real life Yoga Question for you:
are you willing to change your occupation and lifestyle to equalize the time/effort spent working for MONEY
with the time/effort spent working for YOUR Self Realization?

“Hmmmm,” you are thinking right now, “Good one, el coache…uh…lemme get back to you on that one, okay? See, i’ve got a family, and a fancy job, and well, i know you try really hard to fit in my Practice around my JOB,
BUT
you gotta understand…”

oh, i understand.
i understand also what Ramana Maharshi said, “If you spent a fraction of the effort that you give to making money to spiritual work, you would be Enlightened in a few years.”

Sit with that one.

{another movement from my Rock Vinyasa®…most of my asana fitness pivots on opening up the knots in my ankles and wrists; i have been working on opening my wrist vents for the past 15 years. miniscule gains. most people would give up. i remain determined. it makes me a better Teacher for you.}

WF Online Student Shel writes;
“Your past DL’s have been SIZZLING HOT!
I hear you loud and clear…….it has never occurred to me in the way you put it, that the only thing worth stressing about is getting my workouts in.  Shift in perspective here for me. And SHIFT happens…….”

The above photos are movements from my Top Secret Teaching; The Rock Vinyasa; an Early Morning Practice that i have refined since the days of my broken back. It will cure ANY lower back pain and open ANY tight hips…
it’s coming soon in a form suitable for you…
my Noble WF Sangha…

stay tuned and keep sweating and sitting still…
and keep asking yourself:
“At what LEVEL are you REALLY WILLING to play the Game?”
– Coach Ilg