STUDENT INPUT/OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY/SERVANTS OF PEACE ***“the goal of yoga is to merge the mind into True Self, and thus to be true to your Self in all thought, words and deeds”. Stiles -” Structural Yoga Therapy contributed by longtime WF Online Student Cerame of NY (Coach Ilg Clan) who is taking a Yoga Teacher Training […]
ANOTHER COACH ILG APPROVED WHOLISTIC FITNESS BLOG APPEARS! “Ripples make waves.”– Coach Ilg, 1983 I wish to formally welcome the CitYoga Sangha under the capable and approvedguidance of WF Certified Online Teacher, Chris “Kokanda” Roche (that’s him, rear row leftmost) to DIRECT LINES! No genuine wisdom was ever spoken without inner spacious as its cradle. […]
LOVE OR HATRED: YOU CHOOSE *** The King Milinda once asked the Buddhist sage Nagasena: �When someone is reborn, is he the same as the one who just died, or is he different?�Nagasena replied: �He is neither the same nor different.�.�.�. Tell me, if a man were to light a lamp, could it provide light […]
COACH GETS A CONTROVERSIAL “5TH” PLACE AT ARIZONA STATE ROAD CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS “Push yourself again and again…don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”– Larry Bird The final climb to the finish was a knee-cracking 16% grade of 500 meters before a small flat finish you see above. After 50 miles of racing into […]
CARING and RISING AWARENESS “In the way the Rising Sun erases all stars,so too does Rising Awareness erase all untruth and ignorance.”– Coach Ilg
Namaste My Noble WF WorldWide Sangha!Ananda and i have returned to our beautiful WF H(om)e Temple beneath the Sacred Peak after an absolutely mystical, magical, miraculous adventure trip through the Navajo and Hopi wilderness. We discovered a breathtakingly remote canyon that somehow holds over 200+ intense sport climbing routes on 5 major limestone walls over […]
Yogic Inversions and the Three Realities of the Genuine Human Beingi have two words for my students who wish to learn Adho Mukha Vrkasana (aka;”Upside Down Tree Pose”,”Handstand”); ‘No Walls’!Trees do not ” jump up” into maturity, do they? , nor do they use walls to grow magnificent and strong and balanced. either should you.develop […]
The Scars Of Attachment Often it is only when people suddenly feel they are losing their partner that they realize how much they love them. Then they cling on even tighter. But the more they grasp, the more the other person escapes them, and the more fragile the relationship becomes. So often we want happiness, […]
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