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OM Let it find a way to you
“Wowing” It’s what a listener in Vermont wrote. Yoga Song, the audiobook, is not just speech, not just chant, not just song, but a way to let OM find its way to you; an integrated presentation of yoga as a healing force-factor multiplier for body, mind, and spirit. Click below to hear Yoga…
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Conclusion (part V). Yoga, an Act of Surrender, Faith, Spirit, Sacrament, Ecclesia, Missiology, and Anointment
IN THIS series, I’ve treated yoga as a spiritual life practice and drawn comparisons between Christian and yoga spirituality. But of course, it’s also an individual practice with wide interpretation. Some practice yoga with no spiritual intention or awareness and I also affirm that perspective. In this series, I’ve maintained yoga is a spiritual practice…
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Part IV. Shavasana (death) A Gateway to Yoga as Spiritual Practice
After high school at 17, rather than immediately going to the university, I decided to work for a year to prepare myself. I found a job at a furniture store in my hometown where I thought I would deliver furniture, sell furniture, and take care of stock in the warehouse. It…
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Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist? Part II
— 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 Yoga and Christian Spirituality Within Their Creation Narratives In both Christian and yogic traditions, a divinity emerges from primordial dark and emptiness – or a watery void – and…
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Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist? Part I
— a five-part series by Gregory Ormson PART I Yoga and Christian Spirituality, a Starting Point Writing a series on comparative spirituality is complicated, but I want to do this and my motivation for doing so is my yearning to acknowledge the differences between yoga and Christian spirituality and yet communicate the core of our…
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Can Yoga Spirituality and Christian Spirituality Co exist? a five-part series
Introduction To be a well-informed yogi, it’s important to recognize how yoga grew from a spiritual environment that included scriptural components, ethics, a devotional aspect, and a governing religious goal. Anyone who has been to India, the seedbed of yoga, quickly notices its spirituality is deeply embedded in the cultural fabric, one could accurately…
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Yoga’s Symphony of Movement: The Soulful Urge to Let Love Fall
When you engage with yoga, you are fastened into a deep and wide song; it’s yoga’s symphony of movement, one steered by the way of breath and meditation, shaped by the forces of Hatha and time. Neither you nor I can remain in a yoga session or meditation session without breath and patience, but when…
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Your Yoga and Breath . . . a way to unfold
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed I am false -Rainer Maria Rilke At times in yoga, locked in with heightened attention and awareness of emotion in motion, we catch glimpses of our story in every breath in and breath out. Fully present and coming…
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Camel Pose from the Inside
If you view a photo of someone doing a pose called camel, you’ll notice it looks uncomfortable and it is. Along with it, you’ll frequently see a list of physical benefits that happen over time when doing the camel pose. I’m certain that the combination of the backward-bending camel, alternating with forward bends healed my…
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UME Studio and Gallery hosting breath-brain-body workshop Sept. 8 in Eau Claire, Wis.
Get your EVENTBRITE tickets here for Breath, Body and Brain (B3) workshop with Yoga Song author Dr. Gregory Ormson. Ume is pleased to welcome Dr. Gregory Ormson to our new studio space located at 407 Wisconsin St, Eau Claire, WI. The Wisconsin native, author, educator, musician and celebrated motorcycle yogi is visiting Eau Claire and…
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The Yoga-Bike Connection from the Wausau Daily Herald
Former NTC instructor Motorcycling Yogi Greg Ormson writes ‘Yoga Song’ (wausaudailyherald.com) Yoga Song: Dr. Gregory Ormson: 9788182539594: Amazon.com: Books
