Our medical industry has created a bijillion dollar per year highly lucrative money-making scheme around the unquestioned and quite fashionable disease of clinical depression (or at least ADD or ADHD OR HDTV or, well whatever, get begets get. garbage in? garbage out!). On the other hand, not does one dollar ever go toward clinical elevation. […]
“In walking gracefully and gratefully upon sharp stones,two things might help;do not resist the sharpness,andcarry well the mantra.”– coach ilg note:in the Wholistic Fitness Personal Training System, it is traditionally important to return some sort of toughness to the naked foot. The prevailing addiction to shoes is a (weakened) root cause of most dis-eases affecting […]
Dear Mr. Triscooter,The goal of WF is to experience and behold the self. Every workout is an opportunity for me to experience the moment and through that to live nobly. I’ve observed that becoming fit and gaining control of my body is a basic need and a step towards the final goal of enlightenment. Attaining […]
this DL came to me while riding home late last rainy night after teaching Yoga. i was pedaling fast to get through a sketched out construction area. nearly got through it when, for the umpteenth time in my life, along came a car addict who felt obliged to scorch through the narrowed 25 mph construction […]
People and interviewers often ask me how i created Wholistic Fitness. my response comes quickly, “I just Listened.” energetically, i quickly feel their dissatisfaction with my answer swell in the silence that i am quite content to simply let emerge in the birthpangs of our conversation. see, most of us reach a pivotal fork in […]
Not unlike finding the “power alley” when lowering and exploding a barbell down and up with control and elegance during Bench Presses in the Iron Temple, learning to do an ultra light and symmetrically powerful Chaturanga Dandasana (Four-Limbed Staff Pose… aka; Yogi Push Up) relies upon Conscious Practice. One reason why i created the HP […]
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