GREGORY ORMSON

Tag: SOUL

  • Asana Journal Parable of Unmaking

    https://www.asanajournal.com/a-parable-of-unmaking/    

  • Yoga Temple Workshops

    On Sunday, Feb. 11, we’ll hold the second of three YOGA TEMPLE workshops at MOTTO YOGA in Queen Creek (Power and German Rd). I hope to see you

  • YOGA TEMPLE WORKSHOPS: Embodying the Healing Grace of Yoga

    I hope many of you can steer your way to attend one or all three YOGA TEMPLE workshops at MOTTO YOGA.   TITLE: YOGA TEMPLE: Embodying the Healing Grace of Yoga WHAT: An integrative workshop series exploring Christian and Eastern thought / tradition. Workshops will embrace: asana, pranayama, philosophy, and experimental movement. WHY: To address…

  • DESCRIPTION OF MY WORKSHOPS AT MOTTO YOGA

    TITLE                           YOGA TEMPLE: Embodying the Healing Grace of Yoga   WHAT             An integrative workshop series exploring Christian tradition and yogic tradition. WHY                To address spiritual dimensions inherent in yoga. WHO               Anyone with questions about spirituality, faith, belief, and yoga.…

  • Snippets from YOGATECTURE

     Sandpaper reshapes and refines wood by friction and pressure; and when rubbing sandpaper over wood, one sees fine particles fall away and the sandpaper gets hot to the touch. This is how asana and pranayama work together to kindle an inner fire by movement and pressure.

  • YOGATECTURE

      Thank you to Asana International Yoga Journal for publishing this 56th Yoga Inspirational.

  • Moves of the heart are the hotline to all stories

                                I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed I am false. –Rainer Maria Rilke   Fluid yoga, going to six years, continues remaking and each remaking is connected to another. Born in water, I am dragonfly, now rabbit. I shift to camel, fish, or embody an…

  • THE LATEST SCENE IN THE PLAY FAILS TO CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING

    MUSIC from an Internet radio station plays in the background. Tablas and harmonium weave a soft melody. Sometimes a flute or sitar joins the song, and it pours over me like waves from the Pacific. It’s compelling to my ear. I try to concentrate on my pose, but sometimes I wander and follow the music.…

  • Below the Frost Line

    When you engage with yoga, it will slowly render the surface-self transparent to its underlying divinity. It will build a foundation well below the frost line. Yoga will not be televised, its moves are not dictated by chart, table, or graph; yoga will not whiten your teeth, but you will be astonished in moments of…

  • Marquette, Michigan, August 2016

    Marquette, Michigan, August 2016