Tag: #Gregory Ormson
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Toward a Yoga Presence:
What is often called “presence” in yoga is not a fleeting mental state. It is a disciplined relational stance. Presence can be practiced whether we are in a room with others or alone in our homes. The relational state of presence cannot be taught, it cannot be rushed, it cannot be summoned by instruction; but…
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The Body Remembers
In “The Body That Remembers,” a father confronts pain, lineage, and limits as yoga becomes a discipline of return. What begins as an attempt to fix a failing back opens into a reckoning with inheritance carried in fascia, breath, and memory. Across encounters with his son, histories of labor, and the refining heat of tapas,…
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Becoming the Breath a Journey Through Yoga’s Inner Weather
Om Yoga Magazine January, 2026 We’ve all walked into a yoga room feeling less than whole: sluggish, stiff, and unprepared for anything resembling transformation. I did recently; my body ached, my mind was scattered, and my motivation was a thin flame. And yet, somehow, yoga did its efficacious work and I turned from ordinary person…
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Rocky Point Motorcycle Rally, Puerto Penasco Mexico, Where Fantasy and Bikes Rattle the Sea
The 25th Rocky Point Motorcycle Rally in Puerto Penasco. Sound is sacrament Chrome is mirror Throttle is OM “Come along if you dare,” Amboy Dukes
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Pyramid Scheme: a date with Arizona’s mysterious pyramid tombs.
American Rider Magazine, the journal of the International Big Twin community, has published Pyramid Scheme: a date with Arizona’s mysterious pyramid tombs Arizona’s three pyramid-tombs, like the people inside, are mysterious, memorable, and majestic. You can find them in Quartzsite, Florence, and Papago Park in Phoenix. You’ll see great stops along the way: Dateland…
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Blog on a Yoga Mat
They (we, us) practice out of need, and their stories morph to create changed beings. It happens when a deep-reaching self-dialogue opens higher quality conversations connected to heart, discerned by conscious mind, and multiplied by soul. The unimportant fades as breath majestically leaves and then returns. Body postures blend into physical therapy, and the inscape…
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Conclusion (part V). Yoga, an Act of Surrender, Faith, Spirit, Sacrament, Ecclesia, Missiology, and Anointment
IN THIS series, I’ve treated yoga as a spiritual life practice and drawn comparisons between Christian and yoga spirituality. But of course, it’s also an individual practice with wide interpretation. Some practice yoga with no spiritual intention or awareness and I also affirm that perspective. In this series, I’ve maintained yoga is a spiritual practice…
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Part IV. Shavasana (death) A Gateway to Yoga as Spiritual Practice
After high school at 17, rather than immediately going to the university, I decided to work for a year to prepare myself. I found a job at a furniture store in my hometown where I thought I would deliver furniture, sell furniture, and take care of stock in the warehouse. It…
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Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist? Part I
— a five-part series by Gregory Ormson PART I Yoga and Christian Spirituality, a Starting Point Writing a series on comparative spirituality is complicated, but I want to do this and my motivation for doing so is my yearning to acknowledge the differences between yoga and Christian spirituality and yet communicate the core of our…