QUALITY OF SLEEP Zen monks sleep, sit, eat, and speak peacefully because they have done the Inner Workouts to train their Mind. * Dear Coach, i like your books. Question: Why can’t i sleep at night? – a fan from WA Dear Fan, The sound of your insomnia is the sound of your undisciplined mind. […]
WW Walks His Talk to his growing SUNRIDER CLAN! Hey there, So we start another year. I wanted to touch base with you and tell you first what is going on with me, my health and my Wholistic Fitness� path. I’d also like to ask you to tell me what is going on with you. […]
“Grasping is the source of all our problems. Since impermanence to us spells anguish, we grasp on to things desperately, even though all things change. We are terrified of letting go, terrified, in fact, of living at all, since learning to live is learning to let go. And this is the tragedy and the irony […]
KEEPING UP WITH COACH: MY PERSONAL TRAINING STATS FOR JANUARY, 2005 “Called or Not Called, God is Present.” – Carved in stone over psychologist Carl Gustav Jung’s door “Don’t die wondering and look good naked.” My two personal training goals which gave birth to formal creation of Wholistic Fitness over 25 years ago. Above; still […]
“The Highest health is Heaven within.” – coach ilg http://www.ronjones.org/CurrentComments/SundayIceChi.html {Ron Jones is a long time associate of Wholistic Fitness, and teammate in ultra cycling with coach ilg. his website is another Noble Work of Karma Yoga by a devoted teacher of the chi.}
COACH’s SUNDAY SERMON: DUHKHA AND KARUNA – SPARKPLUGS OF TRANSFORMATION “I have been taught that the Peaceful Warrior looks at the world through compassionate eyes that sees the suffering of all beings. I designed WF to help us feel our life more fully; be it painful or happy, poor or rich, ugly or beautiful…at least […]
MASTER STUDENT EXCHANGE: KUMBHAKA SEDUCTION i facilitate Master Student Abu’s pranayamic insights {Notice to the conventionally trained: this stuff is not a Barbell Curl exercise description; DO NOT ATTEMPT without guidance by a pranayamic teacher! – Coach Ilg *** ABU: I�m definitely not certain that it is not just a shift in Awareness � it […]
SPIRITUALLY DEAD; PHYSICALLY LIVING, STUDENTS HAIKU, and INPUT *** Dudjom Rinpoche was driving through France with his wife, admiring the countryside as they went along. They passed along cemetery that had been freshly painted and decorated with flowers. Dudjom Rinpoche�s wife said: �Rinpoche, look how everything in the West is so neat and clean. Even […]
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