17
Jul
2025
mysore
How Yoga Teaches Us to Stand Up for Justice Without Losing Our Peace: Lessons on Kṣānti, Compassion & Righteous Action
The world is burning, sometimes literally, often emotionally. Injustice surrounds us, from the personal to the planetary. We see it, we feel it, and we sometimes suffer under it. As yoga practitioners, how do we respond? How do we stand up…for ourselves, for others, without losing our center? How do we remain anchored in the…
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4
Jul
2025
mysore
Dharma Talk: Why We Think It’s Important to Keep Practicing Ashtanga Yoga
And Why We Hope You Keep Practicing Too Dedicated Ashtanga Yoga practice is a powerful journey worth pursuing, even decades after your first class. Reflecting on more than 25 years of practice, we’ve discovered profound reasons to stay committed, which we captured in a recent series on why we are still practicing Ashtanga Yoga. Ashtanga…
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23
Jun
2025
mysore
Dharma Talk: The Discerning Eye of the Yogin: Becoming Connoisseurs of Spiritual Knowledge
We are, by nature, discriminating beings. We develop taste — for art, food, fashion, architecture. We learn to tell what is real from what is imitation, what is durable from what is fleeting. We become connoisseurs of culture, cuisine, aesthetics. So what happens when that same discriminating capacity is turned inward? This is what yogic…
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21
Feb
2013
mysore
Total Surrender: One Week of Practice in Mysore
Blog by Kino MacGregor My second week of practice in Mysore was one of the most confusing weeks of practice in the last ten years. After two days off thanks to a New Moon on Sunday and a restful week of Primary and Intermediate before that I felt more rested than I had in years….
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6
Feb
2013
mysore
February 3, 2013 Conference with Sharath in Mysore
These are my notes from this last Sunday’s conference, rough and unedited. I tried to keep up with everything that Sharath said and type exactly what he said with as little paraphrasing as possible. I type pretty quickly on the iPad and I just hope I wasn’t too distracting to people around me. There are…
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23
Jul
2012
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Feb
2011
