PRANAYAM; PART TWO: TIMELESS BLESSINGS OF THE ANCIENTS and The Importance of Low Volume/High Chi Nutrition {NOTE: This is the Second Part of a DL Exclusive featured 8*9; THE CURSE OF SPECIFICITY} “Verse: 63. Prana, Apana, Nada and Bindu uniting into one in this way, give success in Yoga, undoubtedly.Verse: 64. By the purification of […]
HOCKEY UP! Dear Coach,DL has been a best friend and training ‘partner’ for a long time…THANK YOU!hey, i know from reading DL that you are/were a big Colorado Avalanche fan…now that the Tour de France is over and the NHL is back up, AND the fact that Wayne Gretzky is gonna be the Head Coachof […]
RE: THE CURSE OF SPECIFICITY Dear Coach Ilg,can I say thank-you for two truly inspiring DL’s. Humbly Online Student Simon Ash***Dear Coach, Excellent words from the Temple in DL today, and fired, I TAF, by your efforts in the bike race. Thank you so much for walking the talk and sharing the dharma. Know that […]
THE CURSE OF SPECIFICITY//Skepticism// “Wholistic Fitness; because specialization is for insects.”– Coach Ilg/WF tee-shirt quote, 1986-89 Hatha Yoga Pradipika: II; 19. “When the nadis (subtle anatomical channels) become free from impurities, and there appear the outward signs of success, such as lean body and glowing color, then one should feel certain of success.” Above; Coach […]
Two Generations of WF Warrioress’sFrom Left to Right; WF Teacher Ananda, Renee our next-door WF Warriorette with her bike, Samantha and of course,the mascot of Two Tree Manor, Magdelena The Fawn. DL is attempting desperately to attain an exclusive interviewwith Renee, however she is always playing so hard that we cannot keep up with her! […]
ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAY; Coach’s Elegant Effort in Futility“Better to fail in originality than to succeed in mediocrity.” – Melville. Coach Ilg attacks the entire peleton (squint to see far left of photo) on the first of four separate attacks in an attempt to draw one or two brave warriors from the comfort of the […]
WF RACE WIRE REPORT; “Team WF Cranks!” Flagstaff, AZ – Wholistic Fitness race reports coming in from 9,600′ report Coach Ilg is currently in 4th place after this morning’s 6.54 mile, 2,000′ climbing stage heading into tomorrow’s 45 mile, 4,800′ final stage at Wupatki/Sunset Crater National Park. Coach, who was aiming for a top ten […]
GONE BICYCLE RACING…Yep, your ol’ Coach Is Still Getting Out There, mixing it up with all those damned sport-specific athletes…they are like cockroaches of convention. I’ll be out there with them, testing again and again, that what I Teach; WHOLISTIC FITNESS, baby!featuring the inner weaponary of World Class Fitness Warriors;HIGH PERFORMANCE YOGA and SUNRIDER HERBS!Long […]
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