Wholistic Fitness

If you have recently found an inexplicable – often subtle – Lightness of Being, you got the recent Shift from our Lineage Deities…

Most Noble Sangha,
come Close.
upon last night’s August Moon, a powerful astral Shift was completed upon our Tribe. even if you are one to doubt Deities, still listen.

writing carefully here as All has smiled in symbiotic synthesis as validation. a most precious dawn, this one, from which my keyboard taps out this Missive Impossible.

this recent Shift has been a doozy from the Lineage WF Deities – a categorical vibrational upload positively affecting all sincere WF Warriors.

understand: the lineage of WF is and remains a Path of Transmission. essentially you either “get this shit” or… you tend to make fun of it, get fed up with it, dilute it to fit your egoic or intellectual comfort zones, watch it from outside the heat of its Fire, or become generally annoyed by it…like an itch that won’t go away.

the itch…

that Itch? it is Divinity Herself scratching into our collected veils of avidya (spiritual ignorance). this Divine Itch in us has been going on for a long, long time. not caring to inflame the itch, we ignore it. the Itch of Wholeness. that nagging feeling that, “well, sure i am good at making money or racing bikes or (fill in the blank), yet, it really bugs me that i have yet to give up what i am good at and focus on (fill in that nagging blank).”

that is why Whole-listic Fitness has (once again) entered your soul’s life: to inflame the Inner Itch toward Balance and Wholeness until – this lifetime or a next one – you decide to inflame it and keep it inflamed until you recognize the Itch for what She is; the Itch to tame Kundalini; the Cosmic Fire of Enlightenment.

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as a sponsored climber, i turned down three Himalayan trips. i did not contribute to the waste of natural resources inherent to high-caliber, Himalayan mountaineering expeditions which have – socially and litter-all-ly – irreversibly polluted that precious h(om)eland. ilg refused to use oxygen to climb the high Himalaya. climbers with lesser resumes went instead. for me, there were mountains here on Turtle Island enough to climb. the genuine aspirant does not use external means to lower mountains down to their level. instead, the true aspirant deepens the details of mastery available nearby. there is no need for expensive, heavy-on-the-earth external travel. the real mountains, the Highest Summits lie inside!

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WF is not an intellectual nor a flamboyant Path.

“Coach, when is your next retreat?” comes the frequent question.

the going is tricky here. too many “yoga retreats” and “spiritual gatherings” are only a hypocritical waste of precious gas and a polluting of Mother and Father. why fly to some snowless, summitless island to pamper pretentious Practice and studio yoga pomp? blech. is not the humble fabric of our daily Meditation and Solo Practice go(o)d enough?

with Hanuman like, blue-collar loyalty to the Dharma, WF trusts in YOU to see through the fancy brochures and franchised glitz. WF only teaches what matters most in the long run; doing the DO. doing the sweat. doing the sitting still without inflated sense of specialness. doing the devotion to our weaknesses, imbalances, and addicted negative patterns as if they were our inherent religion. our Prayer; to recognize and feed our native hunger for Daily Sweat; to satisfy our often hidden thirst for Contemplative Silence.

several of you, stalwart in your meditative discipline of Wholistic Fitness, have communicated powerful insights recently that seem to stream directly from a Divine Portal into your pores. at least one of you (in NYC of all places) Realized the Ajna Chakra blueprint Gifted from the Deities to us who Listened. Such Divine Uploads are the Way spiritual progress occurs. we trudge and trudge and grovel along for months, many times wondering, “Why does coach make me fold my stiff, cold legs into this horrible meditation posture?…nothing special is ever going to happen…” So close we dance each day to blowing off that most powerful Discipline of the Wholistic Fitness system; Meditation. then, like a massive flock of migratory birds in double diamond flight formation, we witness and enter a phase of Great and Many Blessings. Abundance! We begin to See differently, from a Higher Perspective…until, as inSightful Online Warrior Shishya Singer writes, “…even the (Higher) Perspective dissolves.” the Signs Dance and everything,
everything,
everything jumps with more meaning, more alacrity…even in the grip of an old, rusted barbell or the glide of wind across face during a Cardio workout.

suddenly the Flash; all IS go(o)d! all IS perfect just as It IS!

as Mary Oliver writes in one of her many brilliant poems about such an Awakened moment after struggling with motivation,
“Keep looking.
Behold, how the fist opens with invitation.”

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PART TWO; c(om)ing to your lodge wherever you are, tomorrow.

May your Practice be Blessed with inSight…

There ain’t nothin’ on this Plane(t) quite like WF, baby!
And
there sure as Heaven ain’t no other Two Legged Being quite like a WF Warrior;
tried and true to the Path of Sweat-based Soul Development…

ilg loves thee

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photo 1) Thousand-armed Avalokiteshavara, one of ilg’s most often prayed toward Deities for help in attempting to Protect, Serve, and Bring the Dharma into the world through the vehicle of personal fitness development.

photo 2) Hanuman, the fiercely loyal and unflinching warrior servant of Ram and Sita. last night in my HP Yoga class, we opened with this Ready-To-Serve-At-Any-Moment posture. it is a go(o)d one to Practice and contemplate.