When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, […]
Dear Coach Ilg, Just read the two weeks around the ‘508’ in Oct ’04 in DL….what a f^&%%$ing MASSIVE chi hit. Just had to say, keep walking the walk. Talk minus action, is zero. Humbly Simon Ash
Ananda applying with Padmasambhava focus, her chi in the Iron Temple during a set of my Staccato Technique� DB Curls supervised by yours truly. Those of you who have known Ananda since her pre-WF and SUNRIDER herb Journey, quickly realize the astonishing Transformation in her Body. I know the degree of Transformation within her Mind […]
dear coache’, a moment? “To find a Buddha,you need to find your nature.Whoever sees his natureis a Buddha.” –The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma i taf this picture of my daughteris a very g(o)od example…she sees…. love,student dansan Student Dansan,when your baby Buddha girl grows up, you be sure to tell her that ol’ Coach ilg […]
Coach- Plowing my way through a book called The Creators, a world history as seen through the lens of creativity. In a section on ancient Greek sculpture and the importance of the athletic ideal, I came across this quote from Socrates: “No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical […]
Coach Ilg, on the summit ridge of Agassiz Peak last week, after a record 61 minute ascent (!) of the 12,250′ peak, wearing “Kahtoola’s” a type of running shoe ‘crampon’. Combined with the 27 minute, 3,000′ descent over technical steep terrain,Coach uses WF and yogic internal techniques to transform the sheer pain of such ‘workouts’ […]
Student Shel learning a “Performance Pranayam” from Coach’s Ilg and Ananda during a WF Intensive last year. Instead of training like a typical runner would for her Honolulu Marathon, Shel cranked out cross training in only the way a WF Warrioress can! Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, Strength Training, and of course, the SUNRIDER HERBS! Let’s see […]
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