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Gregory Ormson

Writing, yoga, music, and motorcycling from #motorcyclingyogiG

About Greg

 

Greg writes essays on yoga, wilderness, music, and motorcycling. He collaborates with Russell Thorburn to write  songs of rock legends and his writing takes a deeper turn in yoga, where it all begins with inquiry and ends with another breath, another inspire – ation.

Staying alert to catch expressions of the mystical he chooses to embrace the edges by following that which is not trending as a path to mindful equanimity.

Greg’s writing and aesthetic influences were formed by the Social Gospel Movement of the 1920s, the grittily structured Chicago realism of Carl Sandburg, essays inspired by the paleontological work of Loren Eisley, the poetic outlook of the Romantics: Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the sharp quill of Shakespeare, along with the rebellious and generative New Yorker Walt Whitman.

He marvels at the work of Maya Angelou, Anna Akhmatova, Rumi, Rilke, and a host of Indigenous writers,  following their paths through spirited wind tunnels, places of bones, soup lines, landscapes and inscapes.

He’s curious about ocean life, lava, and the number of rattlesnakes per mile in the Arizona desert. He finds hope for writers in lava. As it bakes in the sun, lava appears barren and hard. In time, the rock is transformed and yields food. Flowers will bloom, bees will pollinate, and humans will find a way to make tequila from blue agave.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in English (writing track), December 1999
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan
Doctor of Ministry, May 1988
Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois
Master of Divinity, May 1983
Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio
Bachelor of Science, May 1977
University Wisconsin – La Crosse, Wisconsin
Certificates:  200 hr Yoga Teacher Training, Gilbert Yoga, Gilbert, AZ; Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (T0EFL) Edifici Mediterrani, Barcelona, Spain; Mediation, Beginning Negotiation, Fund Raising, Hospital/Crisis Chaplaincy (CPE), Fifth Step Substance Abuse Counseling, NEA Emerging Leader Academy, Wisconsin Technical College System certifications: TEFL, Communication, Speech, Employment skills, American Motorcycle Foundation Certified Rider Coach, Member The Author’s Guild, and Poets and Writers.

EXPERIENCE

Northcentral Technical College Wausau, Wisconsin, Communication Instructor August 2000 – May 2012
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America June 1983 – July 1997
Northern Michigan University Office of Communication and Marketing August 1997 – December 1999 Writer of Presidential and Provost Speeches, Alumni Magazine articles, Faculty Staff Newsletter, News Releases, Commendations for Foundation Board.
Sports, business and feature journalist for the following: The Mining Journal, Marquette, Michigan; The Marquette Monthly, Marquette, Michigan; The Business News, Appleton, Wisconsin (publisher). Creative nonfiction writer of yoga, motorcycling, travel, music, cabin essays.

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