GREGORY ORMSON

Tag: #sankalpa

  • My Portable Home

    “My Portable Home: Finding Refuge on My Yoga Mat” Published by Yoga International “Now it doesn’t matter if my yoga mat is on the bamboo floor of a polished studio in Hawaii, a beach in Mexico, or on a cedar dock over a Wisconsin inland lake. My place, where I find all that I need,…

  • RESPLENDENT PASSAGES: Motorcycling to a Yoga Festival, Diaries in Soul Craft

    The grand American narrative of the open road is more compelling on a motorcycle. It captures the imagination of wanders and seekers because it looks like a story of independence and freedom. It’s not always true, but there is a universal search playing out in every riders quest for the open road, and that is…

  • Yoga Song, the audiobook – a soundtrack to your yoga journey

    Coming up on gift giving season, here’s an audiobook for your yogi so they can listen while driving to class. Yoga Song is an instrument of mass inspiration in 21 vignettes and five original songs. Hear my integrative description of the humble warrior pose in “Yogi, Heal Thyself,” or the excavation of emotion rising up…

  • An Arizona Motorcycle Ride on the Road Less Traveled in Flavor-Flaves of Dirty and Sweet

    Motorcycle riders focus on the tangible elements or the things we can plan, see, and do. As creatures of habit, we take the main road, but any road will get us out the door where we may discover that all roads – even the pock-marked and dusty trails that we curse in between the splatter…

  • Thank you India for International Yoga Day and sharing yoga with the world

    On International Yoga Day last year, Rochak Press of India Published Yoga Song. For sale on Amazon India at 1,417.92 rupees it looks odd and sounds expensive for people in the Earth’s most populated country, but a rupee is 0.012 U.S. dollars (India’s population recently passed China at 1.42 billion). Even with a robber baron-sounding…

  • Yoga Song preface with music, “Sit Where You Are.”

    This preface to Yoga Song narrates the vision Gregory Ormson had when he expressed yoga as a song. The song, “Sit Where You Are,” co-produced by Randy Anagnostis, underlies the narration of this book, available soon on Lantern Audiobooks and many other platforms worldwide. 2:28 listening time. Underlying this text is the gentle chant and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Asana International Yoga Journal review of Yoga Song.

    Thank you Asana Journal    

  • 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…