Gregory Ormson is a registered yoga teacher and a bhakti musician. He has written over 100 articles on yoga published in 23 national and international magazines and yoga sites, and is the author of Yoga Song both audio and paperback.
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Toward a Yoga Presence:
What is often called “presence” in yoga is not a fleeting mental state. It is a disciplined relational stance. Presence can be practiced whether we are in a room with others or alone in our homes. The relational state of presence cannot be taught, it cannot be rushed, it cannot be summoned by instruction; but…
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Slow Burn of a Yogi’s Becoming Milestones to 800 Hot Yoga Classes
Photos below from this slow burn of a yogi’s becoming; the teachers and leaders for 100-800. In yoga tradition, the therapeutic of mind, body, and spirit forges the slow burn of a yogi’s becoming: connections move the yogi to relinquishment where they learn to get out of the head, and move from their center moment…
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At the Edge of Pain Yoga, Breath, and the Art of the Turn
After years of back injury and persistent pain, I found myself practicing yoga at the edge of pain. Through spinal movement, breath, and restraint, I began learning how to remain and find a way to do more than endure. Over time, it reshaped physical capacity and the way stress is met in everyday life. Originally…
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The Body Remembers
In “The Body That Remembers,” a father confronts pain, lineage, and limits as yoga becomes a discipline of return. What begins as an attempt to fix a failing back opens into a reckoning with inheritance carried in fascia, breath, and memory. Across encounters with his son, histories of labor, and the refining heat of tapas,…
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Becoming the Breath a Journey Through Yoga’s Inner Weather
Om Yoga Magazine January, 2026 We’ve all walked into a yoga room feeling less than whole: sluggish, stiff, and unprepared for anything resembling transformation. I did recently; my body ached, my mind was scattered, and my motivation was a thin flame. And yet, somehow, yoga did its efficacious work and I turned from ordinary person…
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Hawaiian Landscape and Transformation A Yoga Story of Meditation, Writing, and Hope
The story of one man’s emotional healing and personal transformation through the power of yoga—his bending, rising, and breathing—is connected to a unifying “yoke” and the intention for a common humanity. A day after moving into my Hawiian apartment, I was on my back, in pain, lying on a hard wooden floor. Out of desperation –…
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UNIVERSAL LOVER by Fantuzzi a short clip my cover
short take with guitar tuned in DADGAD, on Universal Lover, a song by Fantuzzi, from a campground in Upper Michigan.
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Who Moved the Yoga Mat
https://www.ommagazine.com/who-moved-the-yoga-mat/ Who Moved the Yoga Mat Along the way, yoga takes over and changes people. We bend, stretch, breathe deeply, and pose moves our bodies to more flexibility and efficiency, increased balance, bodily awareness, and a host of other well-documented physical benefits. Along the way, the mind improves too as we enter the land of…
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Hawaii, Yoga, and the Afterword
Ω Thirteen years ago my yoga song began on the island of Hawaii, the newest and southernmost rock in the Hawaiian archipelago. I watched Pele pour her passion in hand-to-hand combat with ocean waves in a torrent that rocked my reach and stretched my learning. My heated engagement with truth force took place in a…
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WE CANNOT FIND LOVE, IT IS NOT LOST
I hear the deep discordant murmurs, and they drive me back to source to recall oracles of love. I hear that love is the only attribute that yearns to, or can be, the fixative to our desert wandering. The proof, you ask? I have it. A friend and scholar bringing me food when I was…
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A Snake Tale To Tell Lightening Strike into Renewal
CHINESE YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE AND I HAVE A SNAKE TALE TO TELL While studying at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi, I took a day trip to see The Red Fort, a 265-acre complex built in 1546 for the fifth Mughal Emperor of India. Afterward, I stopped at a roadside market to…
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dare to be dope
Someone working below the surface wrote. “A life truly lived constantly burns away the veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our truth.” dare to be dope and get into yoga as an intensive course in illusion busting; its teachers and leaders are reformers and gurus. The best ones serve…
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