Category: Yoga
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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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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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Blog on a Yoga Mat
They (we, us) practice out of need, and their stories morph to create changed beings. It happens when a deep-reaching self-dialogue opens higher quality conversations connected to heart, discerned by conscious mind, and multiplied by soul. The unimportant fades as breath majestically leaves and then returns. Body postures blend into physical therapy, and the inscape…
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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…