Greetings Coach Ilg, well,CV count revealed 5 hours 30 minutes last week thanks to 60 minutes of good snow shoveling and a 2-hour xc ski ‘drop-everything’ adventure. This week is revealing it’s own rhythm which appears to be altogether different. early morning solo asana has been slightly off since Saturday. my best ‘insight’ with this […]
“Why do we Sit Still in Wholistic Fitness training?… …in order to remove the darkness of conditioned egoic layers.”– coach ilg in siddhasanaMeditation is one of the Five Noble Disciplines of Wholistic Fitness, since 1982 *** If you are sitting, and your mind is not wholly in tune with your body—if you are, for instance, […]
i pose with Andrew “Mountain Bantu” Frost…recipient of my 2008 Most Improved Yogi Award and sponsored athlete courtesy of a handful of WF Warriors who stepped up to provide Online Study for Andrew’s upcoming ascent of the perilous “Denali Diamond.” Andrew will be sharing his WF Journey with us as he trains and prepares for […]
Dear Coach, I am so glad to hear from you. I have been thinking and wondering this week; “Am I doing this right?” “I must not know some of the etiquette and requirements for this journey.” And indeed, your note confirms that I am missing some things! Thank you! I so want to do this […]
“…yogis that skip daily Pranayam for the sake of “Meditation” run a very dangerous and real risk of imbalanced Neural, Nadic, and possibly Kundalini Awakening and many other physical, mental, and energetic dis-eases.” – coach ilg photo: your humble coach as few of you have seen me, immediately in my post-pranayama meditation. photo; Temple Files […]
Dear Coach; Thursday: done morning EMR + netiFriday: noneSaturday: done morning EMR+ netiSunday: done EMR and neti after work. • GOOD JOB!!!!! RE: I have taken MAP three tablets every morning, and Fortune delight atnight (not every night).Regarding SR starter pack, it contains Fortune delight and Vita shake,and the rest is somewhat irrelevant (vegetable wash, […]
With latisimus dorsi tendons once capable of 62 consecutive Pull Ups, i now spend countless hours in yoga postures attempting to undue the imbalance created by my Pull Up-specific strength from the 1980’s when i was a sponsored climber. Always remember, the pursuit of Wholeness is far, far more difficult to attain than sport- or […]
A private student experiencing genuine hip opening under the lovingly fierce feet of coach ilg in the WF Temple Zendo. photo by Ananda STUDENT:Dear Coach,In the process of pairing down various aspects of my life, I’m jettisoning my endurance-centric focus and am going back to the basics: breath, posture and more specifically, my hips. COACH:the […]
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