these 3 stalwart WF Nutritional techniques have transformed many student’s whole approach to careless, unconscious, and unskilled eating…using them during Thanksgiving Meal will send big messages of dharma to everyone!
still walking the talk…you can tell it’s ilg’s season! i just get fired up in Autumn and my training stats and sadhana reflects it! NOTE: DO NOT ATTEMPT to replicate my physical training stats and low caloric intake…
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i posted this pic from the Boulder Daily Camera, February, 1987 on my Facebook page and instantly got some precious responses..
Below, is an Actual Training Exchange with a beautiful new Online Student…which i will call “AM” in this exchange…are you thinking about becoming a WF Online Student with me this winter? tell you what: if you are reading this Here Now; email me at steve@wholisticfitness.com right now with the word, “Tonight” typed into the Subject Line…i’ve got a massive discount for you due to your devotion…
Student AM:
At the moment my Work has been very demanding, and at the same time as I told you in a previous mail, I am preparing to jump from the corporate plane, and to practice being the master of my own flight. I believe now is the most important moment to start this Wholistic way and I am happy to have you on my side…
El Coache, I am writing because I could use a little help or even just a short pep-talk. I have been struggling for what seems like years to get back on the right track. I am 206 and 22% BF if my scale is to be believed. A couple of years ago (when I did my first snowshoe race) I was 185 and 12-14%. Not great but better than where I am now. I don’t care so much about the raw numbers but they are discouraging. I am a bit overwhelmed by work, stress and anxiety as I have mentioned previously and if I listen to my body I am tired and feel out of it most of the time. I know I need the exercise as a stress release and to lose the excess weight so missing it only adds stress. When I do exercise, I am discouraged by how far I have slipped back. My cardio fitness is a distant memory it seems and I even have anxiety about that as I seem to read every day about very fit athletes dropping dead during a ride or run. Meditation is proving elusive as well. Not sure what to do with the limited time I have. I know my problems are minor in the grand scheme of things but I can’t seem to get out of this rut and it’s depressing. Any perspective, advice, anything would be appreciated. Thanks for all the help you’ve given me over the years…
Noble Sangha!
it would not be too far a stretch to compare the Energetics of Enlightenment with the Enlightenment of Fireworks…each July 4th – which is a big one for me – i reflect upon this analogy. it might just help keep us tracked on our simple Practices in this Path of Wholeness because, like a wick which leads to a bottle rocket…it’s the small things which matter most for the Big Bangs in our spiritual life…c’mon…enjoy the pics from our clan’s 4th and my attempt at yet another Bridging of Eastern Enlightenment Sciences with Western fitness modalities…
There are many factors which continue to make WF/HP warriors shine so brightly…we’ve got bombproof immunity resistance and surreal recovery due to our Cellular Fitness Nutrition (which is my next Kiva Call coming up!) and we’ve got a world-class method of steadfast training across the physiologic spectrum courtesy of our exclusive Five Fitness Disciplines and Four Lifestyle Principles… one mental training weapon that has been in the WF Quiver for decades unchanged is my PRE-EVENT MEDITATION. Here it is below for Members Only…so, sign up for that next Race and use this Meditation each day of your Taper Week…
with Blessings of (W)holy Sweat,
el coache
surfing through the ‘quagmire of confusion’ when it comes to Nutrition – particularly ‘cleanses’ – can be a pretty rough ride unless you’ve got the proven, safe, effective Wisdom of WF as your Path. the thing about “going on ‘cleanses’ is that it sets you on a roller-coaster approach to cellular fitness which is precisely what you DON’T want to happen! what is needed is a consistent, appropriate BALANCE between cell cleansing and cell empowerment. EQUANIMITY of body, mind, and spirit begins with cell fitness. pic of ilg ‘Colorado Surfing’ by Kathy Faulstich
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from 12-1 pm i’ll be speaking on
“Sacred Effort: Journey of a Wholistic Fitness™ Warrior Athlete”
at the Durango Public Library….free!
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