Dear Noble Coach Ilg, The DL never fails to blow me away. Scott’s metaphor of walking into your house with dirty feet is brilliant–and sharing it with you was brave. Because I have been to and was totally rocked by the spirit power in your clean and sacred temple/h(om)e, the visual was right on. It […]
coach Ilg, I bought your book a few months agao and have been working my way throught he exercises and all I can say man is wow.� You have really taken me up to the next level, I have been practicing martial arts since I was 14 and I haven’t felt a training high like […]
Hi Coach Ilg, I love your workout and follow it spiritually. I’m not a natural yang guy (more a long distance runner metabolism), but I see the greatest results in my life from your Cosmic yang workout program (2nd of 3). Like you say, I’m developing power in my personal and spiritual life that is […]
Coach, A strange thing happened�as I clicked the ‘send’ button yestreday. I was delivered a message, it came from somewhere, into my computer, through my mouse and into my heart and mind, It said “You just walked into Steve Ilgs house with dirty feet”.� With great concern for my dirty feet, very humbly and compassionatley�you […]
“Workout from that part of you that was you before your natural Light began to dim by too much thinking and not enough playing!” – coach ilg � “It’s strange to me that people find it hard to workout. For me, the hard part comes when i know i need to recover and have to […]
“If you can’t change the world/change yourself.” – lyrics from The Lonely Planet, ‘The The’
Coach, I saw your insight on Lance Armstrong and was quite compelled to chime in, if I may. I think it is very unfortunate what Lance has sacrificed enroute to being such an incredible bike racer, he has sacrificed his family. Yes, being a champion bike racer must be great, but at the loss of […]
“There is very little value in teachers’ certificates. The value is in the teacher’s way of approaching teaching.” – B.K.S Iyengar Early morning meditation. Tibetan incense fills my home, moving in waves across space like a manifestion of my pranayama practice. Breath makes for the frontier of my day. Body moves with alacrity from teaching […]
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