GREGORY ORMSON

spirituality

  • Snippets from YOGATECTURE

    With the inhale, exhale, and hold, I’m moved to completeness. I learn that my place, my contentment, is anchored in the link that is welded into me by yoga. These simple moves are a stunning antidote for worry. They have become my spiritual DNA, lodging in my soul and energizing my spine. I fasten to…

  • Snippets from YOGATECTURE

    Breathing into the body leads to calmness of mind and a moment of stillness. When coupled with asana, yoga looks like movement into wider shape shifting in space. But these moves are designed to enable perspective shifting while intentional breath and movement relax the mind and open a pathway for a return to source. This…

  • Snippets from YOGATECTURE

     Asana becomes joyful and effortless when it is an expression of gratitude. In movement, our attitude is ingrained into muscle memory and our lives change. This is the premise of japa yoga; cellular shape aligns with thought and intention. Our bodies absorb everything our minds present. When stress is perceived in the mind it is…

  • True Presence in Asana International Yoga Journal.

    True Presence in Asana International Yoga Journal.

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  • 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.…

  • Starting Yoga Teacher Training

    I’m starting a yoga teacher training program this Saturday in Pine, Arizona. It’s been five years since I first walked into a yoga room in Hawaii, and during that time, I’ve learned from many teachers practicing at 12 studios in four states. I’ve also been fortunate to attend three yoga workshops outside of regular classes,…

  • Truth Force on Your Mat (Article #yogainspirational no. 54) Thank you Asana Journal

             

  • 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…