GREGORY ORMSON

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  • Thank you India for International Yoga Day and sharing yoga with the world

    On International Yoga Day last year, Rochak Press of India Published Yoga Song. For sale on Amazon India at 1,417.92 rupees it looks odd and sounds expensive for people in the Earth’s most populated country, but a rupee is 0.012 U.S. dollars (India’s population recently passed China at 1.42 billion). Even with a robber baron-sounding…

  • Stepping to a New Parade led by an Old Song

    Yoga teaches us to be still and live in a way formed by new dimensions from an old script. It levels our judgments and brings us to the healing ground of calm detachment while simultaneously counseling us through yamas and niyamas to say and do the right things. In the pressured spaces of post-Modernism and…

  • A Western Yogi’s Evolving Precis

    My yoga starts when I acknowledge the Western inheritance of the yoga tradition or some blended combination of traditions. Western yoga shares widely in the thread known as hatha, a tradition of opposing forces coming into balance and working together for the yogi’s mental, spiritual, and physical development. A scholarly treatment of ancient texts or…

  • Thank you OM Yoga Magazine (UK) for publishing “Yoga as a life-altering gift.”

    Inspired by the breath training and yoga practice of Magnus Carlsen, eight time world Grand Chessmaster (a story from The Best American Sports writing of 2020), I found connections between Carlsen’s practices training for chess matches – that can take up to a week – and my experiences with freediving, motorcycling, and yoga.   From…