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  • Slow Burn of a Yogi’s Becoming Milestones to 800 Hot Yoga Classes

    Slow Burn of a Yogi’s Becoming Milestones to 800 Hot Yoga Classes

    Photos below from this slow burn of a yogi’s becoming; the teachers and leaders for 100-800. In yoga tradition, the therapeutic of mind, body, and spirit forges the slow burn of a yogi’s becoming: connections move the yogi to relinquishment where they learn to get out of the head, and move from their center moment…

  • Yoga and Play: a new way of being

    this essay explores how yoga and play meet in lived experience                               Her comment about yoga and play had me thinking differently about space and enjoyment. Playing doesn’t eliminate effort and the physical work of asana, but I think it can…

  • Our World is in Need . . . people are distracted, fractured, and busy.

    Our world is in need. People are distracted, fractured, busy, angry and vulnerable to emotional hijacking. When this happens, its hard to experience the joy of being alive because we lose touch with ourselves and others. Yoga meets this need by offering time for the busy to rest for a few moments, connect to our…

  • TAPAS from YOGA SONG Coming June 21, International Yoga Day

    Chapter 11, Tapas New Year’s Eve resolutions are often made with an eye toward immediate results but without a long-term vision that includes commitment to a future that is different. Not even three full weeks into the New Year, New York University published a story stating that 90 percent of New Year’s Eve resolutions are…

  • YOGA SONG arriving in two weeks on International Yoga Day. Small sample from “Transforming the Emotional Body,” chapter 7

    In yoga, we respond to the yoga song that our body is singing, and since we occupy the best position to define and transform our emotions, we use this knowledge – when getting in touch with our emotional bodies – to rewire our lives and release negatives. Yoga teachers rightly say your yoga song might…

  • From the Epilogue to YOGA SONG

    Years ago, and far from the waters of Hawaii where yoga first tumbled me, I set out on a solo three-day vision quest in a barren land that Wyoming residents call the Red Desert. Before my quest began, I spent two days training in the Lakota way. Once I walked into the desert I would…

  • YOGA SONG a story in 23 lyric vignettes

      Yoga Song is a story of transformation and redemption in 23 lyric vignettes from Gregory Ormson with a foreword written by Dr. Yogananth Andiappan of the Andiappan Yoga Colleges. Yoga Song’s author states there’s a song at the center of all time, being, and structure. There’s also a song in the center of yoga,…

  • From YOGA SONG coming in 30-days on International Yoga Day

    Many years ago, and far from the waters of Hawaii where yoga first tumbled me, I set out on a solo three-day vision quest in a barren land that Wyoming residents call the Red Desert. Before my quest began, I spent two days training in the Lakota way. Once I walked into the desert I…

  • YOGA SONG: a lyric narrative of transformation and redemption, coming this summer from Rochak Publishing

    When born-to-be-wild biker Gregory Ormson (#motorcyclingyogig) moved to Hawaii, he was sidelined by debilitating back pain and couldn’t enjoy paradise. Dipping a toe into yoga, he discovered a healing road that reformed his mind and fixed his spine. Ormson’s yoga writing and publishing (#yogainspirationals) led to Yoga Song. From YOGA SONG Yoga equips us to…