GREGORY ORMSON

Category: Writing

  • The Ghosts Are Full Here As The Hungry Half Moon Rises

      And so am I, full with the imprints of time and memory. I am rich in soul, yet I’m hungry for more. It’s not a feast I want, I keep my appetite for all things in moderation, but I want what singer Sam Garrett wants, “More life, more blessings; more peace, more unity.” It’s…

  • Culture Wars, Walt Whitman, Yoga and You

    Walt Whitman remains America’s greatest poet of healing. His close-up witness to the tragedy of the Civil War, coupled with his robust faith in the American creed led to his majestic and compassionate poetry. I believe it was his — and is my preference — to always err on the side of compassion vs anything…

  • Do We Love Women? Let Us Speak of the Ways, O Man (Published originally on July 25 by The Good Men Project)

    A consciousness raising exercise for men. Grounding your reasons for loving women July 25, 2024 by Gregory Ormson Leave a Comment In her 43rd Sonnett, Elizabeth Barret Browning counted the ways she loved her lover. Her love, she wrote, was beyond the reach of the soul and yet inclusive of breath, smiles, and all of life. Her sonnets penned…

  • My Portable Home

    “My Portable Home: Finding Refuge on My Yoga Mat” Published by Yoga International “Now it doesn’t matter if my yoga mat is on the bamboo floor of a polished studio in Hawaii, a beach in Mexico, or on a cedar dock over a Wisconsin inland lake. My place, where I find all that I need,…

  • SAGA OF A LOVE AFFAIR WITH RADIO

      The radio was on in my childhood home, always. A radio keeps songs alive – long after they’re hits – if you find the right station.  I was two years old when Harry Belafonte’s Banana Boat Song climbed the charts, but my hometown station played it for years where it lodged in my mind.…

  • On the Turning of 2023

    On the turning of 2023, I’m saving that which is worth saving: the worn memory of pine trees and family, the old song where the days are longer and nights are stronger, the heirloom scrapbook with imprints of ancestors in cracked bindings and faded pages. It’s easy to forget such things as life slip slides…

  • 10 Principles for Teachers from 30 Years of Teaching

    Undergirding all communication is attitude to learners. Read about this and 10 Principles for Teachers (ready to receive). Most of my teachng was not in yoga, took place in three college settings and diverse subjects: speech, writing, employment skills, English, film study, best sellers, sociology, philosophy, and theology. In my classrooms, I had students from…

  • An Arizona Motorcycle Ride on the Road Less Traveled in Flavor-Flaves of Dirty and Sweet

    Motorcycle riders focus on the tangible elements or the things we can plan, see, and do. As creatures of habit, we take the main road, but any road will get us out the door where we may discover that all roads – even the pock-marked and dusty trails that we curse in between the splatter…

  • Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist?  Part III

                   –a five-part series by Gregory Ormson  Part I ONTOLOGY explored the place of divinity and humanity in yogic and Christian philosophy.   Part II BREATH explored yoga and Christian spirituality within their creation narratives, including a brief look at breath or prana.   Part III LOVE turns attention to “what…

  • Tour Arizona on a Harley, rent from riders Share – the motorcycle Air B&B

    Need to go south and rent a Harley for your riding fix? Get this one through Riders Share. use this coupon for a discount on me I’m a former MSF rider coach for Hawaii and a motorcycle journalist published in Thunder Press, American Rider, HOG Magazine (now The Enthusiast), and AZ Rider Southwest. I taught…