Wholistic Fitness

Ananda preps for her 2,000′ Cardio Yoga excursion: A WF Warrior(ess) is a very rare, and extremely endangered human species. Unique in Kali Yuga, this type of yogi is a very highly skilled Practioner of yoga within all the physiologic capacities. Not one. All. All One; Push Nothing Away. Wholistic Fitness�; America’s Native Yoga�.

Namaste Noble Warriors!
Might wanna put this into your “Cardio Yoga; Temples To Explore” file. It’s called the A.B. Young Trail. Location; One of the most beautiful places on Mother Earth; Oak Creek Canyon. This Canyon, a National Scenic Byway – only 28 miles long – connects the towns of Sedona (elevation about 4,500′) with Flagstaff (7, 200′). Go to Mile Marker 383. Park in a turn off across the highway from Bootlegger Campground. Or, if you want to eat something at the Junipine Resort Cafe after your workout, go ahead and park in their parking lot, that is what we did yesterday. Their Gardenburger is fantastic, as is their trout caught right in the creek beside you. Practice some Rock Hopping Yoga across Oak Creek. Depending on the time of the year, this maneuver could be either easy or epic. Watch for Blue Herons stalking the Rocky Mountain Trout whom live here. We saw a magnificent Blue Heron yesterday! After crossing the creek, scout about on the opposite hillside until your Awareness locates a deliciously sinewy trail hugging the lower mountain above the creek. Find the Trailhead sign (see second photo). Look up. Yep, from where you stand it’s a 1.6 mile, 33-switchback, 2,000′, two climate zones Cardio Yoga workout that will deliver you from the lush riparian waterscape gurgling next to you now to the top of the Mogollon Rim whereupon only osprey and raven dance the air. So, reach down, grab your mula bandha, do a few rounds of Bhastrika Blows, tighten your shoelaces, and launch yourself upward. If you want, you can do your best to beat your ol’ coach’s time of 37:52 (aka; Hauling Ass) or you can hike it like Ananda did and focus on mantra instead of performance…who cares? so long as there is an ongoing attempt to chain the Wandering Mind and ExcuseFull Ego onto a Sacred Sweat Anchor, then you will find the Source of your Highest Self.
The view halfway up, looking downstream toward Sedona. Oak Creek Canyon functions, energeticaly, like a chunnel of Pranic Chi from the heights of the Sacred Peak into the vortices of Sedona. You’ll feel different here. So along as you apply your Yoga Practice upon the steep trail, you will find your yoga and due to the energy confluences here, you will have a heaven of a time whatever intensity playground you desire to play with! Have i ever Guided you otherwise, yet?
In every human there is a BattleDance between our Heart and our Mind. An endless tug of war between knowing our Truth and enjoying the comforts of the Outer World. Many people would love to Practice, yet only a few will Walk The Steep, Direct Path of their Soul in this lifetime. “I don’t have the time,” and their Fear of the Unknown are the two main reasons why, i have found, that people do not sustain the constancy of their Practice. In WF, we apply the notion of “My Workout Is Everywhere,” in order to begin to See and Feel differently. This brings about a Transformation that does not require the modern man to renounce, only begin to organize appropriately their time, energy, and possessions. Most people think that money will bring Wealth. I say, be the thing you Love doing and Wealth arrives. Once you have Wealth, if money comes, it is like icing on your Lifetime Cake. Do not get into the predictably ignorant death posture of entering the Bardo with money and possessions yet no Wealth. If you do, it is likely that even at the First Pre-School Level of the Bardo, you will meet your flimsy Sense of God and see Her just shaking Her Head, “Nope, you STILL didn’t get It, did you? Lots of Stuff, yet no Inner Wealth…Go Back Again…” Then, the next Thing you probably won’t remember, is struggling like hell out of somebody’s womb, getting turned upside down and slapped, and things probably won’t get much better from there until you decide to Wake Up! Why not do this, Yogin? Beginning today, work on Wealth first, then money. How do you become Wealthy in the truest sense of your Soul? 1) Start Practicing, and 2) begin Disciplining your habits and appetites. Make your environment more conducive (perhaps that just means reading DL each day, or creating a meditation/yoga place). Make your physical body as fit as possible. Doing this will take the rest of this lifetime. Make it as fit as possible in ALL the physiologic systems; endurance, strength, mental poise, suppleness, and agility. Get on the Secret Herbs or at least learn how to eat Cleansing and Empowering whole foods so that your Mastery over food, sleep, sex, and sensual pleasures becomes more lean and controllable.

I came up with these Insights as a Training Effect from my run up a mountain yesterday.

Without the purification of sweat, the strength of Insight is as weak as your ignored fitness component. Thus, Oh Mighty Warrior, train thy weaknesses to find thy strength.

Train unconditionally to become unconditionally whole.

Bec(om)e a living embodiment of Wholistic Fitness.

A WF Warrior is an endangered human species; a very highly skilled Practioner of yoga within all the physiologic capacities.

Not one.

All.

All One; Push Nothing Away.

Wholistic Fitness�; America’s Native Yoga�.

I will See and Feel you within your own Sweat and Silences…
om mani padme hung

the mountain yogi, coach ilg