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DAY 17. Everything Changes: A Yoga Parable The people were fueled by energy drinks, but ripe with anxiety and unexamined ambition. The land was drunk on money and the illusion of freedom fired their imaginations. The eight limbs twisted in the wind of post-modernism and creative chaos. In time, yoga prospered and many realized the
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Link: http://asanajournal.com/asana-back-to-the-innocent-age Asana Back to the Innocent Age On an overcast February day, my move toward balasana (child’s pose) began easily enough; “breathe into your truth, breathe into your center,” my teacher said. The words moved me like someone taking my hands and gently walking me backward into a calm refreshing lake. I would have
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The Missing Link On Feb. 3, 2014 my first yoga article was published in TheYogaBlog. Now, nearly two years to the day, the 30th is published in Asana Journal. Thanks for reading folks, and please pass these on. You may not do yoga, but perhaps someone you know does or maybe someone you know is
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http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/01/the-year-of-the-monkey-yogas-counter-cultural-mathematic/ #YogaInspirationals New Years’ Resolutions shot to hell? Pfffuf… so what. Yoga time means a reductive mathematic, a Gandhian core and a shamanistic strategy. That may mean taking a moment to swing through the trees.
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From Yoga International #YogaInspirationals JANUARY 20, 2016 BY GREG ORMSON In my twenties, I was the leader of an eight-member music group that toured through India for four months. Landing in Bombay, we took the rail south to Trivandrum, where the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and Arabian Sea merge. Going north
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New article today in Yoga International #YogaInspirationals#28 https://yogainternational.com/article/view/my-portable-home-finding-refuge-on-my-yoga-mat
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RECIPE WRITE. Revise, annotate, put it down, parenthesize (it). Change the script, compose a new song, jot a saga, create a path, follow the crumbs, depict a vision. TRACE the arc, endorse the light, follow energy, create curiosity, register my stamp, Trust the way . . . Chart a course, chronicle a title, engrave my
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Yoga improves brain and bodily intelligence though its attentive repetition. It’s the discipline of one asana at a time. In the midst of each asana, our brains search to interpret the intelligence of our bodies and picks up the yogi’s growing ability to learn from the soles of their feet, from the twists of their
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Perhaps you’ve watched the A&E Network’s show, Storage Wars. In it, a group of people look for five minutes at the contents of a storage unit from its periphery, but cannot enter the unit. Then they bid to own the unexamined contents inside. The winner is the highest bidder, and his/her reward is ownership of
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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
GREGORY ORMSON'S Notes, Articles, Blogs, Vlogs Gregory Ormson writes from the ecotone, the vibrant intersections of landscape, spirituality, and physical presence. His essays and poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and print magazines. Author of *Yoga Song* and other works, Ormson blends lyrical observation with grounded reflection drawn from his Midwestern roots and global travels. He lives in Arizona and Wisconsin, seeking stillness where stories emerge like bears. 