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Gregory Ormson’s O-Rings – this is a place for work shaped by breath, motion, land, and listening. My life moves through many forms: writer, drummer and musician, motorcycle rider, teacher, yogi, but the practice between them is singlular and consistent . . . pay attention.

I am keenly interested in the polarities between inclusion and exclusion; and how a human being learns to belong to time, to landscape, to themselves and to the body’s own knowing.

My life and writing travels between northern lakes and desert roads, between discipline and improvisation, between the quiet labor of the page and the hot energy of the open road. Whether I am teaching, turning a sentence, striking a drum or chord, or riding into long weather, I strive to understand life’s coherence in a difficult and demanding time.

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Babba, Gaia, Prana

    Recorded with Audacity, Gregory Ormson lyrics and Washburn D-Series DADGAD guitar, played through Boss Acoustic Singer Pro Amp; keyboard by Randy Anagnostis on Yamaha PB125 with Focus Scarlet Gen 3 Audio Interface. One of several Anagnostis/Ormson original song collaborative pieces. VIDEO link                      https://youtu.be/NfClYOCX3xA

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  • “Clearing Space” or social distancing. YogaInspirationals from #motorcyclingyogiG

    Thank you @omyogamagazine April issue, for publishing “Clearing Space,” #yogainspirationals number 96. It’s appropriate to our situation as the virus is doing its best to make us do the work of the niyamas. In “Clearing Space,” I cite the writing of San Francisco based yoga teacher, musician, and leader @janetstoneyoga, who spoke of this work as

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  • First stretch ride of this year for bikers and yogis.

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  • Thank you to AZ Rider Motorcycle News (now in the 21st year) for your summary on YOGA & LEATHER: Yoga for Bikers in your October issue https://tinyurl.com/y6g5ak66

    See it here: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8041e482-b91f-40a8-bf08-bb36cb780cad/downloads/YogiG_Yoga-Leather_1019.pdf?ver=1570396386788 With appreciation for your summary of YOGA & LEATHER: Yoga for Bikers (Starting Oct. 9th) ” . . . to improve the health and wellbeing of motorcyclists.” Yep, that’s it! If ANY OF  YOU have interest in Yoga for Bikers, a program at Superstition Harley Davidson now in its third year,

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  • The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, 2019, Phoenix (the ride for men’s health)

    I took part in the world’s largest charitable motorcycle event for owners of classic and vintage styled bikes on Sunday September 29th, 2019. This event, called the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, brings together over 113,000 well dressed riders on sweet, small bikes raising 5 million dollars in 700+ cities for men’s health across 110+ countries. The

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  • Jesus, Yoga, and the Pure Consciousness of Healing

    Thank you BAD YOGI MAGAZINE for publishing yogainspirationals 75. Read and share. https://www.badyogi.com/blog/yoga-jesus-and-healing/

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  • YOGA AS COMMENCEMENT RITUAL

    Thank you #YOGANECT for publishing yogainspirationals number 74. https://www.yoganect.com/story/show/yoga-as-commencement-ritual/ During my seventh year practicing yoga I started learning the sitar. Immediately I realized it was a hard instrument to play and its technology is ancient: there’s a huge gap between frets and the strings which are painful on the fingers; the metal sitar pic winds

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  • YOGA AND LEATHER – new moves for riders and yogis

    Shipra Saraogi (pictured) at the Usery Mountain Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona. #MotorcyclingyogiG teaches yoga for riders (YOGA AND LEATHER) at Superstition Harley-Davidson in Apache Junction, Arizona. His classes demonstrate to riders how they might use their bike for a prop to stretch when taking a break from the road with the goal of  keeping riders

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