Wholistic Fitness

RED EARTH H(OM)ECOMING; Coach Prepares For His Next Ashrama (Stage of Spiritual Life)

It has been said that “Yogis must move to keep themselves whole.”

On this day, just passing Mother’s Day is the Appropriate Time for
me to share with you, My Faithful Sangha:
Time has arrived for me to return h(om)e
to my true Mother…Mother Earth.

Nearly ten years ago, i left my Beloved high mountains and red deserts of the Southwest
to honor the Instructions of my own Teachers. They told me to come to the Big City to Serve and
Protect the Dharma. If i did so, i would be a more full human being, i would gain required spiritual and energetic
development, and, it would make me a more Compassionate and effective Teacher.

Scared, alone, and moneyless, i left behind all my families; genetic, animal, geologic, and spiritual.
i entered the Bardo of LA with my bicycles and a laptop. i caused major grid-lock as i attempted
to park my U-Haul in Westwood at a friends apartment. The transition was utter culture shock; i went from the enormous spaciousness of rural New Mexico to the intersection of Santa Monica and Westwood Boulevards!

*i take my Teacher’s words seriously. i left the pure mountain air and all i love to come to LA
and teach the Dharma to whomever would listen. Above: the actual sign on my front door in LA.*

on that U-Haul, and eventually to the apartment walls in my three different
places i have lived in LA: i taped the following unknown quote

“Sometime you will have to leave
to return to the world outside
these hushed havens.
Sometime you will have to leave,
but the spirit will never leave you.”

yoga is adaptation to change.
change i did. as best i could.
i came carrying only the WF Teachings upon my naked body,
i came only to Serve and learn.

…it’s been a helluva trip! on a professional level,
sure, i am sad that i was not strong or smart enough to make WF as popular as say,
TaeBo or even a ThighMaster.
oh, i have had astonishing opportunities to ‘sell out’ WF. if i harbor any pride in my tired, polluted bones,
it is that through it all, regardless of the amount of media exposure and money promised to me,
i remained Fearless in my protection of these Sacred Teachings of America’s Yoga; Wholistic Fitness.
thus, our Temple of WF shall remain humble…at least for now. So be it; for we are a rare Warrior Breed.

on a personal level, i have learned this:
“Life is Change, yet Love is Endless.”

Yes, Ananda will be by my side. i am far, far beyond privileged to share the next phase of my EarthWalk with this Radiant Princess of the Pran. This remarkable Being has had an amazing number of Outer World choices she could have made here in LA… that she remains so devoted to the Path of WF and my feeble nature must be Divinely Assigned. i am only a simple Mountain Yogi. so Blessed are the Graces and Difficulties of my life.

So, by this date, next month, Ananda and i will be living at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks, our neighbors are the
bears and foxes of the Kachina Wilderness. Our Work will sing to you with renewed Birth from the whispering, sometimes
wild winds among Ponderosa pines and charged with the spiritual amplitude created by our Sacred Earth position.

i have placed our new Temple precisely where my Teachers told me, within an Energetic Triad that will EMPOWER my Practice
like never before and create our tribes Next Step Higher together: the New WF Temple will radiate her Triad Astral Strength from between the yang High Snow Crystals of 12,000′ Mountain peaks, Sacred Vortices of Sedona, and the massive yin energy of the Grand Canyon. Where our new Temple is lies within the Balance Point of Mother Earth’s Yin and Yang Elements. Oh…
it’s potent, all right…
in case you haven’t guessed yet?
Ananda and i are moving to Flagstaff, Arizona..known in Native tongue as, “Kinlani.”

* one of the 12,000′ “Snow Crystals” that Ananda and i will soon look at across the ski road from our new h(om)e. A red fox lives beneath our back porch *

There should be no fear from my faithful LA Clan; Our plans include keeping a North Hollywood apartment to return to LA one week per month to continue our work with private students, teaching workshops, media projects, Sunrider meetings, train, etc.

nothing has changed
except our physical location
therefore,
Trust
and
as ever
Keep Your Solo Practice Strong…i have given you many Tools…
and, just wait till you see what i have planned for the next Step in WF!

when i get rePlugged into my Mountain Yogi Power Spot, look out baby! For our Temple’s Work shall ring like a Himalayan Tibetan Gong with newfound spirit and clarity from Kinlani; the Land of Red Earth and Summit Snows.

your feeble Messenger of a Tremendous Path,
coach ilg

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