meditation
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Community Yoga & Bhakti Music at BuddhasBrewCafe with SAT SONG
Sunday, July 25, 3:00-4:30 at Buddhas Brew Coffee Cafe RESERVE your place RSVP gregormson@gmail.com (limit 18) Feed your soul and spirit with song, breath, and yoga led by Greg and Somi, musicians and yoga teachers forming SAT SONG in a blending of East and West in meditative moves and song. All Welcome! $15 includes a…
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The Diamond Speaks in Runes
And the Diamond Speaks in Runes By Gregory Ormson If my friends could get out of their summer houses, we met at the diamond to sharpen the angles of our wild fastballs. The guts of our dirty brown ball unraveled like a tongue, wagging at the glove skipping by, hurling past the catcher in angry…
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THE DIAMOND SPEAKS IN RUNES, in The Twin Bill December, 2020
A baseball story from a North Menomonie Oriole, 1966 and beyond. “The Diamond Speaks in Runes,” my story in The Twin Bill a literary baseball publication from New York. Thank you Scott Bolohan for suggestions and to Russell Thorburn who helped me turn a final phrase to its 9th inning close. I’ve learned the best…
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Babba, Gaia, Prana
Recorded with Audacity, Gregory Ormson lyrics and Washburn D-Series DADGAD guitar, played through Boss Acoustic Singer Pro Amp; keyboard by Randy Anagnostis on Yamaha PB125 with Focus Scarlet Gen 3 Audio Interface. One of several Anagnostis/Ormson original song collaborative pieces. VIDEO link https://youtu.be/NfClYOCX3xA
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Holding to Hope
My daughter returned from a study trip to Nicaragua several years ago and gave me this small painting from a local artist. Today, sunlight fell on it from behind so it appeared as if lights were on inside. In the moment, it reminded me of Lighten our Darkness: Toward an Indigenous Theology of the Cross,…
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DESERT BENT ANGLES – randy anagnostis and gregory ormson
Here, original music score, videography, and editing by Mr. Randy Anagnostis (photographer, videographer, musician). I read a short piece on the inner workings of sitar. Enjoy the wild Mustangs cooling in the Tonto National Forest’s Salt River in east Phoenix.
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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…
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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…
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YOGA SONG, 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…