GREGORY ORMSON

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  • LET IT BE: When Your Yoga Becomes You

    Thank you BAD YOGI MAGAZINE for publishing #YogaInspirationals 76. One reference for this article is Science of Breath: A Complete Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development (1905). Yoga Publications Society. The book is out of print now, but I borrowed a copy last summer from Laurel Gyland Kieffer. It…

  • Jesus, Yoga, and the Pure Consciousness of Healing

    Thank you BAD YOGI MAGAZINE for publishing my 75th #YogaInspirationals. This one is not an easy read, and not many places wanted to take it. But the editor agreed with me that sometimes a publisher ought to also challenge a reader, and not just feed them simple cookie-cutter articles like so many we see today…

  • WRITING, LEADING, INSPIRING, March 7 podcast episode w/writer and yoga teacher motorcyclingyogiG

    In this episode of Here You Are Wausau (click link) Dino Corvino and I discuss writing and yoga, breath, ego, truth, ayurveda, teaching, and journaling along with people and places of Wausau. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leading-inspiring/id1078823496?i=1000431335481&mt=2 I’ll forever see you (Dino) as the weird kid eating chickpeas from a can in the UW Milwaukee student union. Click link and…

  • YOGA AND LEATHER – new moves for riders and yogis

    Shipra Saraogi (pictured) at the Usery Mountain Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona. #MotorcyclingyogiG teaches yoga for riders (YOGA AND LEATHER) at Superstition Harley-Davidson in Apache Junction, Arizona. His classes demonstrate to riders how they might use their bike for a prop to stretch when taking a break from the road with the goal of  keeping riders…

  • Conducting the Awesome: What I’ve Learned from 7 Years of Hot Yoga

    “Conducting the Awesome: What I’ve Learned from 7 Years of Hot Yoga” is live on elephant journal. https://www.elephantjournal.com/2019/02/conducting-the-awesome-what-ive-learned-from-7-years-of-hot-yoga/ This is my 11th article for elephant journal since September, 2014, and the latest installment (73) of what I call YogaInspirationals, a collection of my yoga writing published by elephant and 12 other national and international magazines,…

  • THE WATERS OF BABYLON: A PARABLE

       Once upon a time a mystical movement became water and moved from east to west. The gurus of this movement dreamed it would take root, grow, and change people in the new land. A bold vision drove their mission; they were certain and sure. The gurus taught students but were confused by them. They…

  • THE POWER OF OM: rediscovering the deep, abiding peace of coming home in a frantic world.

    Thank you OM Yoga and Lifestyle magazine (UK) for publishing my 72nd YogaInspirational, “Traveling OM,” December, 2018 Traveling OM By Dr. Gregory Ormson THE POWER OF OM: rediscovering the deep, abiding peace of coming home in a frantic world. “We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year old carbon…”  Lyrics from the song Woodstock…

  • Elevation by Breath

    In a lifetime practice, the yogi inhabits a ritual container where they are steeped in hours of wordless, focused being.  In a deep breath and release, the gathering-round is moved by that which has not yet had the luminous drained from its presentation; and in its sound, a mystery of centuries in the awful exhale…

  • Riding the Mountains of Apache Land – RUN TO THE REZ

    Thoughts on Run to the Rez by #motorcyclingyogiG For the second year, I attended the 15th Annual Run to the Rez, a motorcycle ride and rally sponsored by the San Carlos Apache. Its intention is to honor veterans and provide a glimpse of Apache culture to those of us not part of its nation. They…

  • Yoga Writing #72

    I remind myself that in spite of the surrounding maladies, I must manage to hope. I also counsel myself, and anyone who will listen, that the yoga we do is not just a hobby or something to fill up the time; rather, it is the door through which happiness and joy enter into an arena…