Tag: Coaching

  • Alumnus Leads ‘Yoga and Leather’ Class for Bikers

    Prepared by Kristi Evans, Northern Michigan University 1401 Presque Isle Ave. • Marquette, MI 49855-5301 • 906–227–1015 © 2019 by the NMU Board of Trustees. NMU is an equal opportunity institution.  July 10, 2020 After falling from a roof and injuring his back, NMU alumnus Greg Ormson (’99 MA) found that yoga delivered both pain relief and a new vocation. He…

  • ACOLYTE OF TRANSFORMATION: Fire and Medicine Deeply Interfused

    “And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit,…

  • How bikers and yogis can get their zen (and their maintenance) in yoga and on the bike.

    Thank you to Om Yoga Magazine for covering Yoga & Leather (May 2020 issue) on how bikers and yogis can get their zen (and their maintenance) in yoga and on the bike. Teaching yoga in a Harley Davidson Motorcycle dealership in the American South is not common but OM published this story of an uncommon…

  • Yoga and Leather: bikers get their zen on

    Bikers: Covid-19 has paused everything. It’s a gift given to us, a rare break in normally busy lives to think about things and even make plans to do something new. “Yoga and Leather: Yoga for Bikers,” is for you. This is not gymnastic yoga where your goal will be to nail a handstand or accomplish…

  • OM Yoga Magazine writes how Bikers and Yogis get their ZEN ON. Where? At Superstition Harley Davidson

    Thank you @omyogamagazine for sharing (May 2020 issue) how bikers and yogis can get their zen (and their maintenance) in yoga and on the bike. Teaching yoga in a Harley Davidson Motorcycle dealership in the American South is not common. What is common is your willingness (Om Yoga Magazine) to publish a good story when…

  • EXCERPT: setting the table to release old-fashioned hierarchies and mobility obsessions

    An entry point to yoga often begins with quiet meditation or breathing exercises. We set our intentions and enter into our dedications with mindfulness. Through active imagination, we create positive mental space enabling us to move in every direction. We may practice with others, but each yogi sets the table for their yoga banquet according…

  • EXCERPT

    The land was drunk on money and the illusion of freedom fired the Westlanders’ imaginations. Yoga’s eight limbs twisted in the creative chaos of post-modernism and strange ideas whispered in the wind. Gurus saw it all and wondered where the surf boards came from. They didn’t understand what had happened to their movement and some…

  • EXCERPT

    In shadow and in light, we yoga, and our teachers observe. Together we’re co-creators in a new architecture – a yogatecture – and celebrate moments when a yogi gives shape to an old blueprint written on a banana leaf. Everything is prepared as I enter yoga class where the nexus of a new identity is…

  • Social Distancing and Sacred Space

    And here’s an example of how we use this space for renewal. Dave Swenson, brother of my long-time friend Lee Swenson, couldn’t gig tonight for St. Patrick’s Day, so he did a 40 something minute concert from the porch of his home in Iowa and streamed it to people in the US and afar. This is…

  • YOGA FOR BIKERS: maintain your bike, maintain YOURSELF too

    See you at Superstition Harley Davidson Jan. 8 and Jan. 22. Stretch Ride on Jan. 26. Check Superstition Harley Davidson events page on Facebook or their Website for current information on all events.