Category: 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? Part III
–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 explored yoga and Christian spirituality within their creation narratives, including a brief look at breath or prana. Part III LOVE turns attention to “what…
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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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Teen Mental Health Workshop at Mesa Public Library Main Branch Monday, October 9th
STRESS is real. It affects all of us. In this workshop (open to the public) I’ll provide tools for handling stress in a one-hour workshop. The steps are: rhythmic breathing practice, posture movement with ease, and guided meditation with music. “My program is built to treat the physiology of stress – felt in the body…
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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…