Tag: Yoga Life
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The Body Remembers
In “The Body That Remembers,” a father confronts pain, lineage, and limits as yoga becomes a discipline of return. What begins as an attempt to fix a failing back opens into a reckoning with inheritance carried in fascia, breath, and memory. Across encounters with his son, histories of labor, and the refining heat of tapas,…
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Becoming the Breath a Journey Through Yoga’s Inner Weather
Om Yoga Magazine January, 2026 We’ve all walked into a yoga room feeling less than whole: sluggish, stiff, and unprepared for anything resembling transformation. I did recently; my body ached, my mind was scattered, and my motivation was a thin flame. And yet, somehow, yoga did its efficacious work and I turned from ordinary person…
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Reading Yoga Song on International Yoga Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLCLj3Nc_FE Yoga Song by Gregory Ormson is a beautifully written book that explores yoga as a transformative and therapeutic practice. The author presents yoga as a song for the soul, emphasizing its healing power and ability to bring harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. The book is structured into 23 lyric vignettes, each illustrating…
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Who Moved the Yoga Mat
https://www.ommagazine.com/who-moved-the-yoga-mat/ Who Moved the Yoga Mat Along the way, yoga takes over and changes people. We bend, stretch, breathe deeply, and pose moves our bodies to more flexibility and efficiency, increased balance, bodily awareness, and a host of other well-documented physical benefits. Along the way, the mind improves too as we enter the land of…
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Hawaii, Yoga, and the Afterword
Ω Thirteen years ago my yoga song began on the island of Hawaii, the newest and southernmost rock in the Hawaiian archipelago. I watched Pele pour her passion in hand-to-hand combat with ocean waves in a torrent that rocked my reach and stretched my learning. My heated engagement with truth force took place in a…
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WE CANNOT FIND LOVE, IT IS NOT LOST
I hear the deep discordant murmurs, and they drive me back to source to recall oracles of love. I hear that love is the only attribute that yearns to, or can be, the fixative to our desert wandering. The proof, you ask? I have it. A friend and scholar bringing me food when I was…
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Yoga Song the Audiobook
Yoga Song the audiobook is a reflective presentation of yoga as more than posture and performance. Ormson moves inside the practice and describes it as a discipined practice of attention. Moving between memoir, philosophy, and embodied insight, Yoga Song the audiobook explores how breath, restraint, and repetition reshape the nervous system and change the way…
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A Snake Tale To Tell Lightening Strike into Renewal
CHINESE YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE AND I HAVE A SNAKE TALE TO TELL While studying at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi, I took a day trip to see The Red Fort, a 265-acre complex built in 1546 for the fifth Mughal Emperor of India. Afterward, I stopped at a roadside market to…
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Yoga Song, the audiobook for your yogi
AUDIO BOOK FOR YOUR YOGI: Yoga Song is a melody of mass inspiration proclaiming to every yogi that their breath is their sacred song and the soundtrack to their journey of transformation. The 21 vignettes in Yoga Song speak to both the skeptic and the true believer. To those who believe yoga’s therapeutic power, they…
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Blog on a Yoga Mat
They (we, us) practice out of need, and their stories morph to create changed beings. It happens when a deep-reaching self-dialogue opens higher quality conversations connected to heart, discerned by conscious mind, and multiplied by soul. The unimportant fades as breath majestically leaves and then returns. Body postures blend into physical therapy, and the inscape…