Wholistic Fitness

Well, OBVIOUSLY i spend my precious Friday Nights in LA hotlife/nightlife writing to YOU!

well, okay, maybe not ALL of my alter-ego LA ilg do i share with you.
i’m saving dat shit for my REAL MONEY MAKING BOOK after all my fitness and spiritual training books fall flat on their face!

Westerners ALWAYS go for what they have been conditioned to believe is COOL instead of realizing that the COOLEST thing is to be FULLY REALIZED!

anyway, here is a tiny peek (peak?) at a day in the LA Life of your mountain yogi…and make NO mistake! it is VITAL for mountain yogis to be able to drop into and flow with Big City Life.

why?

Vairagya, baby! one of the FUNDAMENTAL underpinnings of a yogi’s life;
Non-Attachment!

precisely why my Teachers sent this ol’ mountain boy into the Big City; twice! for a total (thus far) of over 12 years!

how many ‘mountain folk’ are WILLING to do THAT type of spiritual work?

compare that number with how many ‘mountain folk’ are so quick to make fun of people from LA (or NYC, or???)

Wholistic Fitness is a VERY STEEP Path; it forces you to at least LOOK AT (and at best honor) those judgments and latent conditionings that we hold so tightly, hiddenly, and falsely!

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Yesterday i rode my bike.
a long way.
4.5 hours
65+ miles
5,000+ vertical feet of climbing.

today i gave Bodywork.
without my asking, the moment my LA Tribe knows i will be Teaching a Master Yoga Class, quickly come the emails and text messages from my very-fast-on-it LA Sangha;
“please, PLEASE schedule me for bodywork while you are in town!”
what can i say? i have smart students. they know a good Shift when they see one;
and if i get my hands (and/or feet) on them while i am in town?
they Shift!

after my final Bodywork appointment today, i sat in the hot tub and chatted with the most fascinating people that are soooo skilled at, well, People Skills; Los Angelenos!

then, i about fell asleep, yet instead,
did a Solo Practice…mostly meditation/pranayama.

here is what our North Hollywood apartment kinda looks like when i Practice at night…

then, with the sweet, soft spring wind tickling the Ficus Tree outside my 3rd story sundeck, i ate.

yes, you heard it here first; i DO ACTUALLY CONSUME MORE THAN MERE “FUMES” as some of my associate Bloggers have reported!

first, i eat my CORE NUTRIENTS:

here is the funny thing about this shot…
my Crazy Wisdom Students will actually spend valuable time trying to identify the various herbs and pills in this photo. they will, YOU will and you KNOW IT!
and…
what’s more?
you’ll be pissed when i refuse to tell you the ULTRA SECRET HERBS that you cannot recognize! (sorry, also saving THAT SHIT for the book mentioned above!)

then…
came my DIETARY NUTRIENTS:

okay, so i buy pre-cut, pre-packaged veggies!
it’s better than the damned frozen Pepperoni Pizza that my ego WANTED me to buy!

yup, that’s it! okay a handful or so of chips and salsa.

one day, the Outer World is gonna wonder,
“Jesus Christ, how did that whacko ilg character do all that hard core training and performance on so little calories!?!?”

if they DO ask that question,
maybe one day they will read the DL Archives and find this entry and hundreds of others like it that act as a Finger Pointing…
to the Ancient Scriptures.
and one guys unswaying Will to continue to Test The Authencity of the Sacred Scriptures by
his
own
Sweat…

ooh, gotta go.
i feel the need to throttle my z1000 down Ventura Boulevard and see what kind of fun to get myself into!

om so ti,

the neon mountain yogi