After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things. When you do re-enter everyday life, let the wisdom, insight, compassion, humor, fluidity, spaciousness, and detachment that meditation brought you pervade your day-to-day experience. Meditation awakens in you the realization of how the nature of everything is […]
Namaste Coach, whoa…2 days in a row, have practiced the 20 min. nap after the mid-day meal. it definitely is a sweet treat after arising between 4:30-5:30 for the past 3 mornings to practice Zazen. yesterday it was challenging to relax at first as i was mid-stream of my ‘work’ and i knew i was […]
“The Intent of lifelong Ritualis to become abeautiful beggarofthe Divine.”– steve ilg, after an early morning crust-skiing workout into Early Morning Ritual, March 5, 2009 WF Beautiful Beggar Asanatry this to test your current beautiful beggar capacities;• right now (there is rarely a better time than ‘Right Now’) drop down into your yogi squat. breathe […]
“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, […]
Learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well. Meditation is the road to enlightenment.– Sogyal Rinpoche confused […]
Although it looks like i am practicing Zazen, which all WF Online Students are taught normally within their first year of studies,here i am actually practicing Deity Yoga…also known as an essential practice of Anuttara-yoga-tantra. To oversimplify the practice:essentially, after one has attained a certain degree of EkaGraha (mental one-pointedness) through precursory disciplines such as […]
i recall a Dharma story about either Shankaracharya(wow, that was a m(om)ment…i can’t believe i spelled that right from the top of my feeble head! thank you, Brahman!) i’m gonna hatchet the hec outta this DharmaStory, so if any of you know the REAL version,let me know in the SanghaLounge under the DL Cave, thanks. […]
New Cover! my latest book, PRANIC JUNKIE, has received a steady inrun of 5 stars among its readers! Have you ordered yours and how about as a gift for that spiritual warrior in your life? click here to order a signed copy;PRANIC JUNKIE *** Coach,your PROP CLASS was ABSOLUTELY A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! i am speaking with C. […]
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