Yoga

  • 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

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  • Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope part I. 2:22 (Navajo) Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope  part II. 3:01 (India) Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope part III. 7:01 (Earth)

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  • Yoga’s blueprint, passed originally by word of mouth, then written on banana leaves and now shared by books and digital media, is steeped in an elegant heritage which admonishes the yogi from seeds of an encounter with self. This deepening with self is born in stillness and realized in the mind, body, and spirit. It’s

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  • Phoenix area video for THE WORLDWIDE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN’S RIDE 2020

    #dprdapperchallenge 2020 – Phoenix riders for men’s health See our Phoenix area video under my IGTV tab and watch for clips of yoga for health and riders We’re asking all our friends to share this video and share widely by liking, and promoting it with this hashtag: #dprdapperchallenge Putting the fun in fundraising for a

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  • מאת Gregory A. Ormson.  A writer and yogi from Israel asked to translate my yin yoga article for publication there. The copy below is it for my Hebrew reading friends. Yoga writing now published in five languages. כתבה  שהוא  פרסם  בפייסבוק ב- 27 ביולי 2020 למתבונן מבחוץ  yin yoga  נראית תירגול קל ופשוט אך זה ממש

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  • Yogis embody asana and rejoice in the periphery turned central. Their melody in motion forms a new identity through the habit of engagement with particularity and universality. In every moment, yogis come to know they are a beautiful grey, a crush of salt and pepper. Surrendering to moments that bend and shape, yogis open as

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  • Prepared by Kristi Evans, Northern Michigan University 1401 Presque Isle Ave. • Marquette, MI 49855-5301 • 906–227–1015 © 2019 by the NMU Board of Trustees. NMU is an equal opportunity institution.  July 10, 2020 After falling from a roof and injuring his back, NMU alumnus Greg Ormson (’99 MA) found that yoga delivered both pain relief and a new vocation. He

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  • Inversion

    Yoga’s inward move is the great inversion of energy and attention. This inversion of heart is fully accessible to every yogi from the first timer to the decades-long yoga practitioner. It appears as if nothing is going on and therefore not as impressive to the outside world as inversions like a hand stand; but the

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  • “And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit,

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  • Bikers: Covid-19 has paused everything. It’s a gift given to us, a rare break in normally busy lives to think about things and even make plans to do something new. “Yoga and Leather: Yoga for Bikers,” is for you. This is not gymnastic yoga where your goal will be to nail a handstand or accomplish

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