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  • 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…

  • Yoga Song, the audiobook – a soundtrack to your yoga journey

    Coming up on gift giving season, here’s an audiobook for your yogi so they can listen while driving to class. Yoga Song is an instrument of mass inspiration in 21 vignettes and five original songs. Hear my integrative description of the humble warrior pose in “Yogi, Heal Thyself,” or the excavation of emotion rising up…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Yoga and Play: a new way of being

    this essay explores how yoga and play meet in lived experience                               Her comment about yoga and play had me thinking differently about space and enjoyment. Playing doesn’t eliminate effort and the physical work of asana, but I think it can…

  • YOGA SONG review Amazon

    The first review of YOGA SONG by Mary is now published on Amazon. Thank you, Mary! If you have read YOGA SONG, please go to Amazon and add your review. From Chapter 7 “A Child Leads,” in YOGA SONG A toddler’s openness and enthusiasm mean they don’t distinguish between yoga or weightlifting, and they don’t…

  • Thank you OM Yoga Magazine for Yoga Song book suggestion

    Breath is yoga’s song and yoga is a breathed form of spirituality. Breath and yoga are threads connecting your soul to the world. It braids the yogi here and now to a light not bound by this world. Your breath in yoga is your yoga song; it is rooted within the body electric in a…

  • Our World is in Need . . . people are distracted, fractured, and busy.

    Our world is in need. People are distracted, fractured, busy, angry and vulnerable to emotional hijacking. When this happens, its hard to experience the joy of being alive because we lose touch with ourselves and others. Yoga meets this need by offering time for the busy to rest for a few moments, connect to our…