GREGORY ORMSON

Category: Yoga

  • Our World is in Need . . . people are distracted, fractured, and busy.

    Our world is in need. People are distracted, fractured, busy, angry and vulnerable to emotional hijacking. When this happens, its hard to experience the joy of being alive because we lose touch with ourselves and others. Yoga meets this need by offering time for the busy to rest for a few moments, connect to our…

  • First-ever yoga class at Pelican Lake Campground for campers and visitors

    https://www.facebook.com/PelicanLakeCampgroundWI/photos/a.113286247634441/332773712352359 We held the first-ever yoga class at Pelican Lake Campground on this beautiful Sunday morning. Thank you Judy and Brittney, and the eight brave souls that showed up to do yoga at the campsite. It’s all for life, for health, and for the good things that make us keep on keepin’ on.

  • A small sample from Ch. 14 on yoga for bikers from the forthcoming YOGA SONG

     I glance around the outdoor deck and see the outline of my community. They are becoming new on a daily basis as they take up yoga. They acted on faith to get here, so I act on faith to teach as the practice of yoga meets them with its global and spiritual energy. It takes…

  • Yoga, the Sailing Forth

    Yoga, the Sailing Forth

    Yoga: the sailing forth, in OM Yoga Magazine by Gregory Ormson

  • Visitor to Yoga Class at SHD

    During the last class of spring/summer we were happy to welcome “Chuck-A-Dog.” Good energy in yoga, good energy wind in the face, good energy in yoga.  

  • Out-of-Body Yoga: get in on the last two sessions at Superstition Harley Davidson in April (at the most beautiful setting for yoga in Arizona)

    It’s no longer surprising when a first-timer says “This is the best thing ever. I feel like I had an out-of-body experience.” It’s not surprising because yoga fully anchors the physical body in the moment. If someone has not really been present in their body, but focused on what they are doing while forgetting about…

  • LONGING FOR CONNECTION

    Om Yoga Magazine, yoga inspirationals Gregory Ormson A couple paragrphs from the full text (below) written originally as: “Endowed With Longing for Connection.” Perfection in yoga may have been an ancient goal, and to aOchieve that goal many yogis spent time alone and in isolation; but I don’t know anyone with perfection on their bucket…

  • Stepping to a New Parade led by an Old Song

    Yoga teaches us to be still and live in a way formed by new dimensions from an old script. It levels our judgments and brings us to the healing ground of calm detachment while simultaneously counseling us through yamas and niyamas to say and do the right things. In the pressured spaces of post-Modernism and…

  • LET IT BE: yoga under the yoga tree

    By any measure, a photo of this tree is unremarkable. It’s my yoga tree, an uncrowded place I go to move, breathe, and sit in stillness. This spot brings together my past and present; my past represented by the baseball field a few feet away and the present in my grounding movement above the roots…

  • A Western Yogi’s Evolving Precis

    My yoga starts when I acknowledge the Western inheritance of the yoga tradition or some blended combination of traditions. Western yoga shares widely in the thread known as hatha, a tradition of opposing forces coming into balance and working together for the yogi’s mental, spiritual, and physical development. A scholarly treatment of ancient texts or…