spirituality
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My Portable Home: Finding Refuge on my Yoga Mat (January 20, 2016)
New article today in Yoga International #YogaInspirationals#28 https://yogainternational.com/article/view/my-portable-home-finding-refuge-on-my-yoga-mat
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Yogi, Heal Thyself (article today in Asana Journal.
http://www.asanajournal.com/yogi-heal-thyself/
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New Ways to Cope #yogainspirationals from #motorcyclingyogig
I attended a senior yoga class at the West Hawaii Civic Center in Kona, Hawaii, taught by Andrea Hutchens. Afterwards, I asked students for a few comments about their experiences of yoga and aging. In just a few minutes, I heard enough to affirm, once again, that the ancient discipline and practice of yoga changes…
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Excerpt from Yoga Inspirationals, Day 29.
Think of standing on your mat in class holding Mountain Pose, and that your mat is the entire focus of your attention. In your mind, shift your awareness to the place where the soles of your feet make contact with your mat and pretend as if that place is all that exists. Your entire world…
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Excerpt from Yoga Inspirationals, Day 17, “A Yoga Parable”
THEY were fueled by energy drinks, but gross with anxiety and unexamined ambition. The land was drunk on money and the illusion of freedom fired the people’s imaginations. The ‘eight limbs’ twisted in the wind of post-modernism and creative chaos. And in that land, people learned diversity was a source for creativity and road…
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Yoga Inspirationals www.gregoryormson.com
My teacher speaks in clusters of daring “The way in is the way out.” It’s her graceful word rising from years looking at the blank slate over the Pacific, her lungs breathing deeply of this rolling mist. Her wisdom “the way in is the way out,” comes to me from her bloodline far to the…
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YogaInspirationals
It’s easy to imagine how yoga works when living near a boiling volcano. It flows like lava: heating, bending, and shaping. It reforms everyone, twisting them into their unique physiography. They collapse and then rise. Their gaze, a pyramid of discovery, moves from ground to horizon to sky. An ascent takes place. Energy is…
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Yoga Inspirationals
“Because breath is life, the art of judicious, thoughtful ungreedy breathing is a prayer of gratitude we offer to life itself.” B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life.
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Ghosts published in Turks Head Review 8/4/15
Ghosts
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Yoga Inspirationals
The movement became unpredictable, and while nobody could take credit, yoga unveiled a curtain and people awoke to radiance within. But Westlanders didn’t want gurus, they didn’t read books. But took to their mats and the world opened like many petals of the lotus in a soft rain. Ch. 17 Yoga Inspirationals