Good day to you Coach, I thought I would share my first experience with you, of my first session of HP yoga. What an amazing experience! I must have spent more time in child pose than I did any other, yet I felt such an unbelieveable release. I never realized how constricted, and confined I […]
“i have found that Western Students are sometimes forget-full of their incarnations whenthey used to have to travel, often barefoot and through high Himalayan passes, distances of 40-60 miles at a timeto have Meeting and attain a Teaching (more often than not, just a grunt of disapproval) from their Accepted Teacher.”– coach ilg above photo; […]
Since 1982 coach ilg, pictured above during a DVD shoot with Wayne Williams, has attempted to teach a no-glitz, hardcore Path of Ancient Yogic Wisdom wrapped within the Sweat and Spirit of today’s modern fitness world. DVD’s, books, CDs, complimentary blogging and newsletters, and most of all. the Dharma Front Line of one-on-one personal training […]
Coach’s note; in the tiny Temple beneath the Sacred Peak, the last thirty days has been a Business Person’s nightmare;more Online Students than ever before have quit, complained, or otherwise stuffed their Online Studies into some egoic comfort zone appropriate to their Fear. WF Online Study is the Steepest and Most Direct Path to Transformation […]
After completing The Namaste II Program, I now realize that Wholistic Fitness� Programs are so full of subtle changes that though I might not see big changes each week, the accumulation of little changes over a long period will yield huge results. STRENGTH TRAINING INPUT:I feel I have a good flow right now in the […]
“Watch the Way you Walk,Watch the Way you Talk…if you do this steadfastly,the Window of Change will shake your visionyour mind will become at easeand the solitude of where you are who you are will make it nearly Soaringto let go of the Past.” – coach ilg in free counsel to a Seeker knocking at […]
Even Buddha died. His death was a teaching to shock the naive, the indolent, and the complacent, to wake us up to the truth that everything is impermanent and death an inescapable fact of life. As he was approaching death, Buddha said: “Of all footprints?That of the elephant is supreme.?Of all mindfulness meditations?That on death […]
“Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains,and the maker of canyons and pine mountains.All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars.”– Kabir the “clay jug” of which the Sufi Poet speaks is the yogi’s body…a traditional metaphor of the Ancient Teachers. i love this poem,which i have only excerpted […]
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