UPDATE: SUNRIDER HERBS the official nutrition of Wholistic Fitness and High Performance Yoga by coach ilg 8/23/02 “I have to say again how pleased I am with my Sunrider products. My wife and I start the day with a cup of Calli tea before she goes to work. She likes it very much and says […]
Namaste Noble Warriors! �There are many who are merely Hatha Yogis without the knowledge of Raja Yoga. {They are} simply practitioners who do not get the fruit of their efforts.� – Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 4;79 Recently an influx of �intellectuals� having been coming to my yoga classes or signing up for Wholistic Fitness online training. […]
Motivation For What Lies Within Namaste Noble Warriors! Enthusiasm – or dedication – is known as �Alolya� in yoga. It is considered a critical quality to progress in Yoga. Emerson, a great Western poet whom studied of things Eastern, coined one of my favorite quotes, �Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.� When working with […]
Of Rumi, Abyss�s, and Student Sweetness… Namaste Noble Fitness Warriors! – �We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.� – Rumi When i would climb […]
Of Student Quotes, WF Dharma Points, and One Smart Finch… Hey Coach, I’ve been dedicating my daily zazen to your friend Stephan may he find peace where ever he is now. And thank you so much for your DIRECT LINES forum. I read and re-read them daily. They are food for my practice. Namaste, gassho, […]
Of Vegas and Laulya “energy moves in waves. waves move in patterns. patterns move in rhythms. a human being is all of those: energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. we are the dance.” – gabrielle roth In yoga, there is a quality known as Laulya. It means �fickleness� and is considered a primary deterrent to success in […]
Beautiful Wholistic Fitness Warriors – i�m tapping this out to you from the 23rd floor of the Venetian resort in Las Vegas. what a dump this place is. kidding. outside the window, above the well known glitz of the Stardust, the Mirage, the This-And-That my eyes are attracted toward the seductive shoulders and summit of […]
WHAT ABOUT NOW? A Tribute To Stephan Beautiful Body/Mind Fitness Warriors… I had planned, and was penning, a piece about family fitness, based upon my first Family Reunion up in Pismo Beach this weekend. Coming home, i got word that one of my best friends and spiritual fitness mentors, Stephan Frease, had been found dead […]
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