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  • AMERICAN RIDER MAGAZINE, covering the diverse motorcycling world with style and substance

    American Rider Magazine, covering motorcycling with style and substance.  Two of my friends have really taken the motorcycle writing and photo game to a high level. Pictured on the cover is Oliver Touron, photomotojournalist extraordinaire, sitting on a Harley in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oliver wrote the lead story, “American Rider: Riding Harleys in…

  • ON JOINING the 400 CLUB 10/27/22

    400 sessions of the 26+2 yoga series known as Bikram Yoga. Each class is 90 minutes in a hot room, a yoga style that builds mental and physical willpower. For ten years now, I’ve observed and experienced how this yoga changes people. The Tapas (fire) of Yoga First, it will get harder Then it will…

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  • Camel Pose from the Inside

    If you view a photo of someone doing a pose called camel, you’ll notice it looks uncomfortable and it is. Along with it, you’ll frequently see a list of physical benefits that happen over time when doing the camel pose. I’m certain that the combination of the backward-bending camel, alternating with forward bends healed my…

  • A Rider, a Monster Truck, and a Friends Last Ride

    In May, before leaving Arizona on a 6000 mile summer trip, I bought a toy “monster truck.” I planned to use it in  commemoration for a deceased friend when a few of us would meet near Lake Superior. Our friend loathed monster trucks and saw them as an American hyper-egoistic association with vehicles and a…

  • Road Mishaps put a halt to Wind in the Face

    An obstacle in the road sent my Road King to the HD hospital. Bull Falls Harley Davidson in Wausau to be exact. DANG, . . . just the way it goes sometimes.

  • Peter White Library’s “Author’s Reading Virtually Series.” Theme: health and wellness

    I’m delighted to be included in this series of Authors Reading Virtually from Marquette’s Peter White Public Library. Professor Jonathan Johnson is a friend of mine and teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University. He’s published widely to high accolades for over two decades with books in multiple genres. I will join him…

  • From the Epilogue to YOGA SONG

    Years ago, and far from the waters of Hawaii where yoga first tumbled me, I set out on a solo three-day vision quest in a barren land that Wyoming residents call the Red Desert. Before my quest began, I spent two days training in the Lakota way. Once I walked into the desert I would…

  • YOGA SONG publication on June 21, 2022 International Yoga Day

    Gregory Ormson’s forthcoming book, Yoga Song, will be published on International Yoga Day, one month from today, summer solstice – Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Comments from readers: “Your articles interest our readers and that’s why we allocate pages every month in our magazine. Your view – and writing – of yoga practice is amazing.” Joe…

  • LONGING FOR CONNECTION

    Om Yoga Magazine, yoga inspirationals Gregory Ormson A couple paragrphs from the full text (below) written originally as: “Endowed With Longing for Connection.” Perfection in yoga may have been an ancient goal, and to aOchieve that goal many yogis spent time alone and in isolation; but I don’t know anyone with perfection on their bucket…