make sure you bookmark this precious WF-inspired ripple in our collective cosmic ocean each day for more gifts, more healing, and a whole ton of Transformation seeped with WF spirit and ritual…
Precious Student J; “I went to the store and bought a pair of pants. I went from x large to medium. Now that was fun! See you in the (Practice) cave!”
ilg calls this posture; Apresthresholdhellasana. ilg reckons this is what the common man is afraid of…spewing Sacred Spit after 51 minutes of Threshold uphill running through snow…yes, feeble ilg missed breaking the 50-minute barrier up the 2,029′ walls of snow by 1 stinkin’ minute. aaaaargh!!! That’s okay…in failure, we learn more than through success. Next week? If it still hasn’t snowed? I already have a different route selection that just may save me those few seconds to break 50-minutes. Such goes the Warrior Mind.
“It has been reported by several high-integrity sources that Coach Steve Ilg, devout Terra Firmer, was seen ACTUALLY DOING A WATER SPORT…lame as he was,
this represents another true example of Coach living this talk to explore your weaknesses, fears, and rise up to challenges…This establishment has already placed several
calls to HELL to see if, in fact, it was frozen over since a situation with ilg actually even NEAR water – save for fishing or tubing – is extremely rare!
this feeble lover of mountain rivers was repaid tonight…over the slowing skirts of the dwindling Animas, up to my waist in shadowed rapids, i stalked, caught, and then released a most beautiful 14.5″ Rainbow Trout on my flyrod, not 300 meters downstream from my front door…
Campfires are Upa Guru’s of Tapas….ilg has Taught – err, attempted to Teach – you all about Tapas through my words, sweat, and actions for the past 3+ decades. Tapas = Spiritual Sweat which results in Karmic Purification. See the log above? See the smoke? THAT is Tapas. in that wafting, seductive, mesmerizing dance of smoke lies perhaps that most vital Teaching of all warrior athletes, certainly of all yogis. Do you know what that Teaching is?
As Race Day nears, there is no more physiologic training effect that we can ‘gain’ in the last few
days…many will overdo these taper days out of compulsion, fear, lack of quality off/pre season training…
i designed the following Meditation specifically for the early days of a Taper Week…this Inner Silence Meditation sets an astral foundation of mental spaciousness upon which we will run Pre-Race Visualizations and Meditations later in the week…
Use it…please do not share with non-Members unless you ask me…thank you…this Meditation does carry a Transmission Effect from our Lineage;
INNER SILENCE Meditation
created by Coach Ilg specifically for Students of Wholistic Fitness®
anybody else need convincing that a steady diet of HP Yoga® will help ANY Warrior in ANY sport?…enjoy this personal-record setting account from one of my most stalwart HP Yogi’s here in Durango:
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