Asana Journal

  •                –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

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  •   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

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  • 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

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  • Audio version contains one new chapter and five original songs in a  recording of 21 chapters Ch. 1 The Sailing Forth Ch. 2 Yoga: A Breathcentric Community Ch. 3 OM Ch. 4 Yoga: A Melody of Motion Ch. 5 Yoga: Work, Play, Worship Ch. 6 Making Heroes Ch. 7 A Yoga Parable Ch. 8 Finding

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  • 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

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  • BREATH IS YOGA’S SONG, IT’S ALSO YOURS. “I have never associated yoga with song, but I’ve practiced yoga with music for the past 25 of my 85 years. What a beautiful union that really gets you in the flow. I wish all the world leaders would read Gregory’s Yoga Song which could result in an

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  •                               Her comment had me think about yoga as play in space. Playing doesn’t eliminate effort and the physical work of asana, but I think it can lighten the mental aspect and open a sense of joy in us that may

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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