GREGORY ORMSON

Tag: alignment

  • Run to the Rez 2024: Running Against the Wind

    Run to the Rez 2024: Running Against the Wind

    Read the full text below as published in Arizona Motorcycle Rider News   Run to the Rez 2024: Running Against the Wind The 21st annual official Run to the Rez 21st annual Running Against the Wind run to the rez rally. From the beginning, this motorcycle event has honored military veterans. Saturday’s program at Burdette…

  • The Ghosts Are Full Here As The Hungry Half Moon Rises

      And so am I, full with the imprints of time and memory. I am rich in soul, yet I’m hungry for more. It’s not a feast I want, I keep my appetite for all things in moderation, but I want what singer Sam Garrett wants, “More life, more blessings; more peace, more unity.” It’s…

  • Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist?  Part II

      — a five-part series by Gregory Ormson Part I ONTOLOGY explored the place of divinity and humanity in yogic and Christian philosophy.  Part II BREATH Yoga and Christian Spirituality Within Their Creation Narratives In both Christian and yogic traditions, a divinity emerges from primordial dark and emptiness – or a watery void – and…

  • An Arizona Motorcycle Ride on the Road Less Traveled in Flavor-Flaves of Dirty and Sweet

    An Arizona Motorcycle Ride on the Road Less Traveled in Flavor-Flaves of Dirty and Sweet

    Motorcycle riders focus on the tangible elements or the things we can plan, see, and do. As creatures of habit, we take the main road, but any road will get us out the door where we may discover that all roads – even the pock-marked and dusty trails that we curse in between the splatter…

  • Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist?  Part III

                   –a five-part series by Gregory Ormson  Part I ONTOLOGY explored the place of divinity and humanity in yogic and Christian philosophy.   Part II BREATH explored yoga and Christian spirituality within their creation narratives, including a brief look at breath or prana.   Part III LOVE turns attention to “what…

  • Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist? a five-part series

      Introduction To be a well-informed yogi, it’s important to recognize how yoga grew from a spiritual environment that included scriptural components, ethics, a devotional aspect, and a governing religious goal. Anyone who has been to India, the seedbed of yoga, quickly notices its spirituality is deeply embedded in the cultural fabric, one could accurately…

  • Teen Mental Health Workshop at Mesa Public Library Main Branch Monday, October 9th

    STRESS is real. It affects all of us. In this workshop (open to the public) I’ll provide tools for handling stress in a one-hour workshop. The steps are: rhythmic breathing practice, posture movement with ease, and guided meditation with music. “My program is built to treat the physiology of stress – felt in the body…

  • Six Gears and a Mountain Ride –  Mechanical Breakdown and Communication Rescue

    A Riders Share Owner’s Story Nobody wants a mechanical breakdown – ever! But think of your bike out with a renter and he is a thousand miles out on the ride. Worse, the nearest repair facility is over 100 miles away; and your bike and renter are stranded on a remote mountain road. You don’t…

  • Thank you India for International Yoga Day and sharing yoga with the world

    On International Yoga Day last year, Rochak Press of India Published Yoga Song. For sale on Amazon India at 1,417.92 rupees it looks odd and sounds expensive for people in the Earth’s most populated country, but a rupee is 0.012 U.S. dollars (India’s population recently passed China at 1.42 billion). Even with a robber baron-sounding…

  • Yoga Song – listen in for free

    With your Barnes and Noble trial subscription you can now get Yoga Song as an audiobook for free. Driving this summer, listen in to this high quality Lantern audiobook in five songs and 21 chapters for an integrative description of the Humble Warrior Pose in “Yogi, Heal Thyself,” an excavation of emotions rising up during…