Wholistic Fitness

Please enjoy the debut issue of HOMEGYM MAGAZINE featuring coach ilg

HOMEGYM Magazine, a beautiful and noble offering for Fitness Warriors, is now available at most major bookstores…i would LOVE it if you would subscribe to this magazine to help the lift-off of this new venture designed to ultimately not to turn people on, rather to turn them inward! i was one of the first editors and contributors of ROCK & ICE MAGAZINE when that mag was nothing but an idea of scattered papers littering the den of George Bracksieck’s home near mine in Boulder, Colorado in the late seventies. So, i figure there is no reason why HOMEGYM MAGAZINE cannot eventually achieve the same longevity and quality that did R&I.

Here is what my publisher wrote me the other day;

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Good morning Coach,

Got confirmation from Barnes and Noble today that Home Gym Magazine has been
on sale officially since Dec 21. It’s also available at 500 plus bookstores,
newsstands and specialty fitness stores as listed here

HOMEGYM MAGAZINE distribution lsit

Thanks for your help.

Happy New Year! Charlie

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Now, for those Noble Warriors of you that are interested in why i choose to write for only a few magazines these days, i must turn you toward the Sacred Scriptures.

Buckle up, most Fitness Warriors will get dropped over this headwall:

In this case, Verse 40 of Chapter 4 of the HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA was the main reason why i chose to write for HOMEGYM MAGAZINE. This Sutra states:

“Some people are confused by the agamas, some people are confused by the nigamas and logic. They are bewildered, not knowing how to be liberated.”

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Huh?
Precisely.
In our current yuga (spiritual eon) which is the yuga of Kali (eon of spiritual darkness and ignorance), people are confused quickly by the ancient shastras (authoritative treatises on spiritual philosophy and practice). Our confusion and quick tendency towards the recent spike-on-the-graph of such in-sane mental dis-eases as A.D.D. and Fitness Warrior’s who tend to shy away from anything requiring depth of contemplative study and extrapolation is due to the de-evolution of our inner-attainment fitness. Essentially, as more and more parents who themselves have not done depth of inner work and spiritual understanding plop out more and more humans, our species continues to de-evolve spiritually.

the Ancient Masters realized this would happen by seeing it in Their Divine Meditations which eventually produced scores of Sacred Scripture and Teachings; each one designed to ‘hit’ aspirants in each of the yugas. This is why the Vedas, for instances, seem to be so mystically poetic when compared to the nuts and bolts of other Scriptures such as Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It’s an incredibly fascinating journey to comparatively study the various Scriptures knowing that each was written, intently, for future people in future yugas which must deal with different inner and outer challenges.

Fast forward to the late 1970’s and a little feeble mountain yogi re-incarnated as steve ilg feeling a tremendous and ongoing Divine Download of CHI from the Ancient Ones. As a karma yogin, i knew i needed to spend my life giving Service before Self and then, selfishly, i knew the necessity of my Love for Outdoors and Sweat.

Realizing that an intellectual Path of spirituality often gets mucked up by Religion, and knowing that people are essentially unwilling to involve themselves in sadhana (consistent personal spiritual practice), i figured that i would create a Personal Fitness Path as a cloaking device for imparting Dharma. Though, after 25 years of producing volumes of WF Dharma, people are still more interested in newspapers and TV and now, iPods, than Sweating and Sitting Still. That’s okay; that’s my SvaDharma acceptance of attempting to produce a Dharma Path in Kali Yuga.

So, why HOMEGYM?

Easy; just as Shiva must teach Shakti and as Shakti must teach Shiva…i am using the opposite aspect of being “America’s Outdoor Athlete” to tempt the modern man whose time is not spent barefooted among the Pine Siskens or skiing within the white winds of eternity toward the re-installment of such precious waves of reality that feed the Souls of all men in any age.

May All Beings In The Human Realm Awaken To The Necessity Of Life As Sadhana…

oh, and please pick up an issue of HOMEGYM MAGAZINE, another unlikely Dharma Vehicle of your crazy wisdom coach…

Working from the inside,
your loving coach