GREGORY ORMSON

Tag: yogasong

  • 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…

  • Check out my Royal Enfield with this day travel bag for motorcycle or bicycle

    I’m convinced of a product’s worthiness when I see comparisons between two or more with similar features. I’ve been in the market for a day bag to mount on my Royal Enfield Bullet 500. There are lots of bags out there, but they never appealed to me. I hadn’t found one that met my needs…

  • RESPLENDENT PASSAGES: Motorcycling to a Yoga Festival, Diaries in Soul Craft

    The grand American narrative of the open road is more compelling on a motorcycle. It captures the imagination of wanders and seekers because it looks like a story of independence and freedom. It’s not always true, but there is a universal search playing out in every riders quest for the open road, and that is…

  • SAGA OF A LOVE AFFAIR WITH RADIO

      The radio was on in my childhood home, always. A radio keeps songs alive – long after they’re hits – if you find the right station.  I was two years old when Harry Belafonte’s Banana Boat Song climbed the charts, but my hometown station played it for years where it lodged in my mind.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: Yoga Song on LANTERN AUDIO AUDIOBOOKS coming this month

    I’m happy to announce the impending release of YOGA SONG as an audiobook available on LANTERN Audio Audiobooks, Audible, and these distribution networks:  Kindle, Apple Books, Bookbeat, Audiobooks.com, Audiobooksnow.com, Downpour.com, Findaway, Google Play, Biblioteha LLC, Baker & Taylor, Follett Libray Services and 10 others, Hoopla, Kindle, Macklin Educational Resources, Overdrive, Kobo, Libro.FM, Nook Audio, Scribd,…

  • 500 A Milestone & Therapy for my Spine

    My first 26+2 teacher Mark Hough December 2012 @ Bikram Yoga Kona Hawaii; and my 500th session of 26+2 with teacher David King @ The Foundry Yoga, Tempe, AZ March 28, 2023. In between there were many others, and classes in vinyasa, yin, javamukti, and other yogas, but for my spine I choose 26+2 which…

  • AMERICAN RIDER MAGAZINE, covering the diverse motorcycling world with style and substance

    American Rider Magazine, covering motorcycling with style and substance.  Two of my friends have really taken the motorcycle writing and photo game to a high level. Pictured on the cover is Oliver Touron, photomotojournalist extraordinaire, sitting on a Harley in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oliver wrote the lead story, “American Rider: Riding Harleys in…

  • ON JOINING the 400 CLUB 10/27/22

    400 sessions of the 26+2 yoga series known as Bikram Yoga. Each class is 90 minutes in a hot room, a yoga style that builds mental and physical willpower. For ten years now, I’ve observed and experienced how this yoga changes people. The Tapas (fire) of Yoga First, it will get harder Then it will…