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Gregory Ormson

Writer, musician, yoga-loving motorcyclist.

A BLOG A DAY TILL EPIPHANY

Once a day until December 6, Epiphany, I’m blogging a six point synopsis of my yoga writing from the last seven years. These blog posts are all arranged by: 1. The primary sentence. 2. The theologic and yogic summative word. 2. An explanatory paragraph.

Your respectful comments are welcome.

DAY SIX, December 6, 2018

     6. In savasana, space and time welcome the yogi for an anointing to the goodness of true self and true nature

THEOLOGICAL WORD: ANNOINTING

YOGA WORD, HEALING

Yoga’s internal work (the heat of tapas) teaches the yogi compassion for self; in savasana’s moments of rest, the yogi is anointed (bathed) in yoga’s healing tradition. This is not a cosmetic make over, but a weaving together of a timeless process which synthesizes everything up to that moment in a deep affirmation of life itself. Savasana is the yogi’s reception of yoga’s physical, non-physical, and metaphysical medicine.

DAY FIVE, December 5, 2018

     5. The subject and object of yoga’s missiology is self

THEOLOGICAL WORD: MISSIOLOGY

YOGA WORD: PRACTICE

In the container, at the confluence of yogi, guru, and healing practice, a drop of sweat takes one to self and self to God. The yogi – a vessel devoid of armor and ego – incarnates a healing curriculum in a generative engagement translated to a focused biology of belief and concomitant mind/body/spirit reshaping.

DAY FOUR, December 4, 2018

4. A path to community opens with the relinquishment of armor.

THEOLOGICAL WORD: ECCLESIA

YOGA WORD: COMMUNITY

Inside the yoga room, an awakened center is tutored in self-love and love for others. When this vital energy and passion is shared, the body (individual and corporate) is fed by pranayama. Status, hierarchies, questions of worthiness are irrelevant; there’s no rank, ruling system, or bureaucracy. The yogi joins as a witness to one common identify which points them back to an intimate connection with all.

DAY THREE, December 3, 2018

     3. Asana and pranayama bring the yogi to a sacramental remembering of self. This transforms both the seen and the seer.

THEOLOGICAL WORD: SACRAMENT

YOGA WORD: EMBODIMENT

Yoga’s alchemy, formed by movement and breath, is anamnesis connecting action and memory. The yogi lives into a sacramental dimension of existence by remembering – in each moment – their beingness as both immanent and transcendent.

DAY TWO, December 2, 2018

      2. The yogi comes home to their breath-centric core where they kiss the soul to receive their full inheritance.

THEOLOGICAL WORD: SPIRIT

YOGA WORD: BREATH

At the center point, breath is the building of consciousness. In heightened consciousness, jettisoning old scripts, the yogi constructs their story of renewal formed by inspiration. They learn their healing treasure is at the end of a long journey.

DAY ONE, December 1, 2018

  1. The yogi starts with release, surrendering into trust. This opens the heart’s core where ritual process prepares them to enter a state of true presence.

THEOLOGICAL WORD: FAITH

YOGA WORD: TRUST

In relinquishment, the yogi learns to open their heart and settle into the most important moment – – the one they live – this grounding in the present is conscious contact which opens one to engage the reality of their life. Surrendering into the moment, the yogi experiences it without filters. This is associative living, not escapist.  The move to trust is a lived symbolism, for the yogi simultaneously participates in their life while pointing beyond it.

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About Greg Ormson

My hustle is movement and muscle, writing on yoga, motorcycling . . . and more. Beyond that, just human being working lyric narrative, playing music, traveling, and breathing with intention. Like all of you, I'm stardust, I'm golden, I'm billion year old carbon.

Comments

  1. Bob says

    December 6, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Yoga word for faith is trust. Indeed.

    Reply
  2. Bob says

    December 6, 2018 at 10:01 am

    But how do we trust the Tao? Life doesn’t always work out. Suffering can prevail.

    Reply
    • Greg Ormson says

      December 17, 2018 at 3:46 pm

      Ah yes. Easy to say trust when one is not suffering. In Cincinnati, I met someone who told me she had suffered severe pain for years. She said its gift was that it revealed to her who she was. Nevertheless, to not trust is to push against or away from. Wouldn’t that make the pain harder? That is, to be resisting on two fronts rather than one?

      And . . . if the tao, or the way, or the will and wheel have it that we shall suffer; yes it will prevail. Back to the above and to your statement suffering can prevail. Yes, suffering will prevail, always. This does not depend on our perception, as buddah would have it, or our faith, as Christianity would have it. It is the way it is. What can one do?
      Nothing.
      Trust is all and is the only.

      Reply

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