spirituality
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#YogaInspirationals @ gregoryormson.com
YogaInspirationals #37 “The Immigrant Asana.” Thanks Asana Journal 5/31/16 I’m sympathetic to the plight of immigrants. They’ve been in the news a lot lately, and many of us have watched their difficult journeys on television. Like others, I’ve noticed their sunken eyes, their thin frames, the wrinkles on their brow. They’re tired and don’t have…
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SPHINX POSE: To Rise in Righteousness
Click on link below to read full article in Asana Journal. http://www.asanajournal.com/sphinx-pose-to-rise-in-righteousness/ #YogaInspirationals no. 35
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CONSCIOUS CONTACT – an excerpt.
When I was training to be an alcohol addiction (5th step) counselor, I learned the phrase conscious contact. The trainer said that if an alcoholic truly made contact with themselves and with God, they would probe the deeper meanings of why they drank alcohol to excess. He emphasized that the honest scrutiny…
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Yoga Inspirationals #34 Asana Journal
STORAGE WARS AND YOGA’S EMOTIONAL RESCUE http://www.asanajournal.com/storage-wars-and-yogas-emotional-rescue/ A reality TV show on the Arts and Entertainment channel is called, “Storage Wars.” In it, a group of bidders look for five minutes at the contents of abandoned and locked storage units, but they can’t go into them. After competitive bidding, the winner is declared the owner…
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A Parable of Unmaking, Asana Journal 3/14/16
A Parable of Unmaking
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DRUMS: The Language of Time (an excerpt).
Five days ago, I went to a drum circle attended by about 50 people. It brought me back to my essay in progress. Drumming takes place through the night until a last tired thumper wanders away in the fog of exhaustion. Their fully-charged reptilian brain shifts to the goal of finding their tent. Some can’t…
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Yoga Inspirationals #31 Asana Back to the Innocent Age
Link: http://asanajournal.com/asana-back-to-the-innocent-age Asana Back to the Innocent Age On an overcast February day, my move toward balasana (child’s pose) began easily enough; “breathe into your truth, breathe into your center,” my teacher said. The words moved me like someone taking my hands and gently walking me backward into a calm refreshing lake. I would have…
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Latest article in Asana Journal
The Missing Link On Feb. 3, 2014 my first yoga article was published in TheYogaBlog. Now, nearly two years to the day, the 30th is published in Asana Journal. Thanks for reading folks, and please pass these on. You may not do yoga, but perhaps someone you know does or maybe someone you know is…
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The Year of the Monkey and Yoga’s Counter-cultural Mathematic (today in elephant journal).
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/01/the-year-of-the-monkey-yogas-counter-cultural-mathematic/ #YogaInspirationals New Years’ Resolutions shot to hell? Pfffuf… so what. Yoga time means a reductive mathematic, a Gandhian core and a shamanistic strategy. That may mean taking a moment to swing through the trees.
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My Portable Home: Finding Refuge on My Yoga Mat
From Yoga International #YogaInspirationals JANUARY 20, 2016 BY GREG ORMSON In my twenties, I was the leader of an eight-member music group that toured through India for four months. Landing in Bombay, we took the rail south to Trivandrum, where the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and Arabian Sea merge. Going north…