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Gregory Ormson’s O-Rings – this is a place for work shaped by breath, motion, land, and listening. My life moves through many forms: writer, drummer and musician, motorcycle rider, teacher, yogi, but the practice between them is singlular and consistent . . . pay attention.

I am keenly interested in the polarities between inclusion and exclusion; and how a human being learns to belong to time, to landscape, to themselves and to the body’s own knowing.

My life and writing travels between northern lakes and desert roads, between discipline and improvisation, between the quiet labor of the page and the hot energy of the open road. Whether I am teaching, turning a sentence, striking a drum or chord, or riding into long weather, I strive to understand life’s coherence in a difficult and demanding time.

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  • To Breathe or Not to Breathe: Lessons from Yoga and Freediving

    To Breathe or Not to Breathe: Lessons from Yoga and Freediving

    It’s odd to think of yoga and freediving as complementary activities, for it’s accurate to identify yoga as bodily movement led by breathing and freediving as bodily movement while breath-holding. Yet yoga practice can help improve freediving by expanding lung capacity and improving tissue flexibility; and lessons learned beneath while moving under pressure can improve

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  • 24th Installment Yoga Inspirationals

    24th Installment Yoga Inspirationals

    24th Installment Yoga Inspirationals  http://www.yogitimes.com/article/peace-just-pause-present-now-accepting-practice-yoga Articles and links below with thanks to: TheYogaBlog.com, elephant journal.com, DoYouYoga.com, and YogiTimes.com June 26, 2015 elephant journal http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/06/relinquishent-how-a-trip-to-india-can-redefine-our-lives June 12, 2015 elephant journal http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/06/why-bad-prayers-are-good-prayers/ June 5, 2015 elephant journalhttp://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/06/yoga-and-the-place-of-soul/ April 12, 2015 Yogi Times http://www.yogitimes.com/article/yoga-covenant-agreement-vow-commitment March 11, 2015 elephant journal http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/03/how-yoga-makes-us-kinder/ February 21, 2015 DoYouYoga.com http://www.doyouyoga.com/why-yoga-should-bring-us-to-social-action/ February 15, 2015 Yogi Times http://www.yogitimes.com/article/who-moved-the-yoga-mat-practice January 6, 2014 DoYouYoga.com http://www.doyouyoga.com/4-reasons-teachers-should-use-touch-in-yoga/ December 27, 2014 elephant journal http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/12/the-yoga-pose-that-healed-my-lower-back-injuries/ December

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