Snippets from YOGATECTURE

Gregory Ormson is a musician, yoga teacher, and biker. He plays music with Sat Song and teaches yoga for motorcyclists’ (Yoga & Leather) at Superstition Harley Davidson in Arizona.

As a free diver in Hawaii, he learned the importance of breath management and has translated that into teaching Yoga-Breath, Breath of Life workshops accompanied by Sat Song.

He’s traveled widely – starting in India - to study world religions and other non-formal spiritual expressions. His doctoral degree at the Chicago Theological Seminary focused on religious interpretation and the power of touch in ritual healing environments. He blogs on yoga, music, motorcycling, and landscapes under #MotorcyclingyogiG.

Gregory is a regular contributor to OM Yoga and Lifestyle magazine and in the last four years has published over 95 articles on yoga in 16 national and international publications and journals.

In 2017 he won the Lyric Narrative Non Fiction Award from Eastern Iowa Review for "Midwest Intimations," and in 2016 won Indiana Review's contest for 13 word stories. His nonfiction has earned finalist mention in New Millennium and The Bellingham Review.

Dr. Ormson is an alumnus of The Chicago Theological Seminary; Chicago, Illinois; The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; La Crosse, Wisconsin; Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan; and Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. Connect with Greg on his website where he writes on yoga, music, motorcycling, and the Midwest.

https://gregoryormson.com
Twitter: @GAOrmson
Instagram:#motorcyclingyogiG

His yoga articles have reached millions of viewers through social media and have been translated and shared in Portuguese, Tamil, French, and Spanish.

They can be found in the following links and Magazine hard copies:

1 “Changing My Story: 365 Days of Yoga,” The Yoga Blog
2 “You’re Not Alone on Your Savasana Cloud,” elephant journal
3 “Yoga and the Unconscious Mind,” The Yoga Blog
4 “Understanding a Yoga Teacher,” The Yoga Blog
5 “Aligning and Refining,” elephant journal
6 “Your Practice, Your Inventory,” The Yoga Blog
7 “Your Breath, Your Center,” elephant journal
8 “Silence and Your Practice,” The Yoga Blog
9 “Ego, Injury, and Your Yoga,” elephant journal
10 “Will You Yoga 30 Years from Now,” The Yoga Blog
11 “Finding Your Mantra,” DoYouYoga
12 “Becoming Your Own Life-Changing Quote,” The Yoga Blog
13 “The Yoga Pose Rabbit that Healed My Back,” elephant journal
14, “A Yoga Parable,” Yogi Times
15 “Yoga’s Touchy Subject – Touching,” DoYouYoga
16 “Who Moved the Yoga Mat,” Yogi Times
17 “Yoga and Social Responsibility,”
18 “What is a Kind Yogi,”
19 “Yoga’s Covenant: The Promise of Change,” Yogi Times
20 “Yoga and the Place of Soul,” elephant journal
21 “Why Unpolished Prayers are Still Good Prayers,” elephant journal
22 “How Yoga Helps Us Release,” elephant journal
23 “Peace: Just a Pause Away,” Yogi Times
24 “Three Stages of a Yogi’s Transformation,” Do You Yoga
25 “Sweet and Messy Yoga: Like a Thump-Ripe Mellon
26 “Health and Joy, Why Not Us?”
27 “Yogi, Heal Thyself” Asana Journal
28 “Your Portable Home” Yoga International
29 “The Missing Link,” Asana Journal
30 “The Year of the Monkey and Yoga’s Counter-Cultural Mathematic,” elephant journal
31 “Asana Back to the Innocent Age,” Asana Journal
32 “Storage Wars and Yoga’s Emotional Rescue,” Asana Journal
33 “Sphinx Pose: To Rise in Righteousness,” Asana Journal
34 “Namaste: Nexus of a New Identity,” Sivana Spirit
35 “Making Heroes” Asana Journal
36 “The Immigrant Asana,” Asana Journal
37 “Five Tips and One Requirement for Coaching Yoga,” Seattle Yoga News
38 “Lessons from Yoga and Freediving,” Asana Journal
39 “Your Beautiful Feet,” Asana Journal
40 “Coaching Up: Yoga for Newbies,” DoYouYoga
41 “By a Thread,” Asana Journal
42 “The Bridge Within,” Asana Journal
43 “Release into Savasana,” Asana Journal
44 “Gifts from the Core,” Asana Journal
45 “In the Midnight Hour: How Yoga Brought My Soul Back,” HelloYoga
46 “Teaching Yoga: It’s Not About You,” TribeGrow
47 “Finding Your Depth,” Asana Journal
48 “The Honorable Yogi,” Asana Journal
49 “Enter the Master, Enter the Child,” Asana Journal
50 “What You Give to Yoga,” Yogi Times
51 “Truth Force on Your Mat,” Asana Journal
52 “Yogatecture: The Elegant Arc of Change,” Asana Journal
53 “A Parable of Unmaking,” Asana Journal
54 “True Presence,” Asana Journal
55 “Yoga Teacher Training: Encountering Self,” TribeGrow
56 “How Yoga Ruins our Lives” elephant journal
57 “Yoga Teacher Training: Revelations Encountered” HelloYoga
58 “Tradition Trumps Trendiness,” Asana Journal
59 “Slow Down and Breathe,” Asana Journal
60 “Mantra for Me and You,” Sivana Spirit
61 “Yoga Tips: 6 Easy Ways to get the Most out of Your Yoga Class,” The Health Orange
62 “Intention: Your Golden Egg for Change,” Sivana Spirit
63 “The Real Power of Savasana,” Sivana Spirit
64 “Transforming the Emotional Body,” Asana Journal
65 “The Delight Song of a New Architecture,” Sivana Spirit
66 “Embraced by Joy and Bliss,” Sivana Spirit
67 “Namaste: Nexus of a New Identity,” Sivana Spirit
68 “Yoga Script for Health and Joy,” Sivana Spirit
69 “Armor On, Armor Off: The Psychology of Yin Yoga,” Sivana Spirit
70 "Fixing our Backs, Riding our Bikes: common benefits of yoga have everyday applications." AZ Rider Motorcycle News
71 “Fixing our Backs, Riding our Bikes: common benefits of yoga have every day application to motorcycling." AZ Rider Motorcycle News and Entertainment
72 "Por que Precisamos de yoga mais do que nunca.” Why We Need Yoga Now More than Ever. www. boayoga.com.br/por-que-precisamos-de-yoga-agora-mais-do-que-nunca-gregory-ormson
73 “How Many Limbs are Required,”
74 “Making Contact with Yourself and Your Practice,”
75 “Yoga and Spiritual Questions,”
76 “Your Yoga Mat: Dimensions of Healing,”
77 “Nine Ways you Give Back to Yoga,”
78 “Conducting the Awesome: What I’ve learned from 7 years practicing hot yoga,” elephant journal
79 “Traveling OM: rediscovering the abiding peace of coming home in a frantic world,” OM Yoga Magazine (UK)
80 “Yoga, Jesus and the Pure Consciousness of Healing,” Bad Yogi Mag
81 “Yoga as Commencement Ritual,” Yoganect
82 “Let It Be: When Your Yoga Becomes You,” Bad Yogi Mag
83 “The Way to Sacred Being,” Bad Yogi Mag
84 “Yoga: A New Road for Bikers,” Yoga Magazine (UK)
85 “Conducting the Awesome,” OM Yoga Magazine
86 “Yoga and the Pure Consciousness of Healing,” Asana Journal
87 “Rough Road? Breathe . . .” HOG Magazine
88 “Silence and Slow Time,” OM Yoga Magazine
89 “Conducing Heat to Cleanse the Self,” Yogi Times
90 “Yogatecture: Building Your House of Truth,” OM Yoga Magazine
91 “Yoga’s Outliers: Men” OM Yoga Magazine
92 “Teaching Yoga: It’s Not About You,” TribeGrow
93 “Jesus, Yogi” Asana Journal
94 "Seniorgrams from the Successful," pending
95 Why We Need Yoga Now More than Ever
96 “Clearing Space,” OM Yoga Magazine
97 "Yoga and Leather: Getting your Zen on the Highway," OM Yoga Magazine