GREGORY ORMSON

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  • NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: a poetry/song series the last 8 days of April. Poem/song number, 1 “Whale Song.”

    Russell Thorburn and Gregory Ormson have worked together for over a decade writing original poems, prose, and music. Much of it happens in spite of distance and isolation. The eight songs/poems posted over the next 8 days of April will close out NATIONAL POETRY MONTH for 2020. Russell Thorburn plays “Chelsea Hotel,” a composition he…

  • YOGATECTURE: building your house of truth

    OM Yoga Magazine has just released their March issue including the 85th of my #yogainspirationals. Thank you OM Yoga Mag.In the Phoenix east valley, this magazine arrives two weeks after publication in the UK. In each issue you’ll find yoga insights in these areas: OM Body, OM For Men, OM Fashion, OM Mind, OM Spirit,…

  • YOGA FOR BIKERS AT SUPERSTITION HARLEY DAVIDSON JAN. 2020

    Piano, photography, and videography by the talented Randy Anagnosis. He’s been an east coast marketer, recording artist, and now photographer for Superstition Harley Davidson. Anagnosis’ first CD was “Dreams,” c 1996, sold in hundreds of yoga studios. A second piano-driven album was “Full Moon Rising.” He also did a jazz album, “Thunder and Light.” Video…

  • BENDING: a reflection on sitar

    “There was something about the way he played his Stratocaster that made it seem otherwordly.” –Eric Clapton on Jimi Hendrix My sitar flows in 19 bands of light: their names are baaj, chikari, and tarab. Its journey to my hand is a mystery, but its music-medicine came to my doorstep from an old land, gripped…

  • Final tracks in late January for “Mescalero Territory,” by Russell Thorburn and Gregory Ormson

    Hear  “When I Get Back to Marquette,” and “Mescalero Territory.” Russell Thorburn, NEA recipient, is the author of four books of poems. His last book, Somewhere We’ll Leave the World, was published by Wayne State University Press. Currently he is producing and directing his one-act play Bomb Shelter for Black Box Theater at Northern Michigan…

  • MEN: Yoga’s Outliers

    Check out my 83rd published yoga article, “Yoga’s Outliers,” in the January, 2020, Om Yoga and Lifestyle magazine. Better yet, get the mag.  “Men are still the minority when it comes to yoga in the West. They are yoga’s outliers,” says Gregory Ormson. Read MORE below … “Yoga’s Outliers” is a featured story along with…

  • SAT SONG

    Over the last 15 months, Soumya and I have been practicing music of the soul by working on bhakti music, blending traditions of the East and West. Our band Sat Song (truth song) has a first event Thursday night in Tempe. We’ll perform for the 10 year Anniversary Celebration of the Arizona Interfaith Power and…

  • PUT YOUR BODY AT EASE TO TREAT STRESS

    Schedule change for November YOGA & LEATHER.  

  • You have a question about yoga and spirituality?

    I’m pleased to have an invitation from OM Yoga and Lifestyle (magazine) Colchester, UK, to be a regular contributor, specifically, the OM Spirit section dealing with the spirituality inherent in yoga. As a lifelong researcher of spiritual perspectives from around the world, I practice an ongoing evaluation of the esoteric. I’ve learned to be critical…

  • First stretch ride of this year for bikers and yogis.