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Apr 24th 2026

Philadelphia Workshop

Apr 24th - Apr 26th 2026

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Philadelphia Ashtanga Yoga
Penllyn Blue Bell Pike
Blue Bell
PA
USA

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Author, Yoga Teacher, YouTuber
🚀Next Workshops: Mexico, Miami, Singapore
🌟Online @omstarsofficial
📚 Accessible Ashtanga
🌴Shala @miamilifecenter

Flexibility is so much more than bending the body.

Flexibility is so much more than bending the body. It is tempting to measure progress by the shapes we make, but yoga was never really interested in how far we can fold or how deeply we can twist. The heart of practice lies in the capacity of the mind to soften. When the body yields but the mind remains rigid, dogmatic, or absolute, something essential has been lost. All the effort poured into āsana becomes a kind of empty ritual if it does not loosen the hardened edges of our inner landscape.

The true challenge, and often the most uncomfortable one, is to release our grip on duality. Yoga invites us to shift the lens through which we see the world, to step out of the narrow corridors of right and wrong and into a more spacious, compassionate field of understanding. This kind of flexibility cannot be forced. It asks for humility, patience, and a willingness to recognize that our first perspective is not always the whole truth.

When the mind becomes flexible, the world opens. We begin to see from a more holistic and inclusive paradigm, one that honors complexity instead of collapsing it into absolutes. This is the quiet revolution at the center of yoga. The body bends, yes, but the mind learns to expand as well.

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Mysore Season @miamilifecenter
January and June 2026

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Wednesdays at 1 pm EST for Yoga Drills live on @omstarsofficial

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Next workshops:

Merida @sadhakyoga

Seattle @yogashalaeverett

Guadalajara @asanayogaexperience @puntoyoga

Singapore @yogaedition.sg

Hong Kong @pureyogaofficial

Shanghai @pureyogaacademy

Cairo @osanafamilywellness

Beirut @sarvamyoga

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Retreats

Bali @radiantlyalive.ubud
March

Norway @nosenyoga
August

Greece @soulsparkretreats
September

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Photos @casadamiana
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In an age where everything is available with a cli

In an age where everything is available with a click, it’s easy to forget that true learning doesn’t happen through information, it happens through transmission.

Yoga isn’t something we collect; it’s something we receive. It lives in relationship, between teacher and student, between effort and surrender, between the one who remembers and the one who is ready to listen.

In this episode of the Yoga Inspiration podcast, @timfeldmannyoga and I explore the sacred thread of teaching that runs through the lineage of yoga, the living current passed from heart to heart. A teacher is not an entertainer or a performer; they are a channel, a mirror that reflects your highest self back to you. The student, too, carries responsibility: to show up, to listen, to trust the method, and to remain open when it would be easier to resist.

We talk about the difference between knowledge and wisdom, between Google and guru, how information can guide the mind, but only presence can awaken the heart.

This is the essence of yoga as transmission. It’s not about authority; it’s about remembrance.

The teacher holds the flame until you are ready to hold it yourself.

Tune in wherever you listen to your podcasts. Link in bio!

#KinoMacGregor #Omstars #YogaPhilosophy #AshtangaYoga #SpiritualPractice #DharmaTalk #GuruShishya #YogaJourney #PracticeAndAllIsComing #YogaCommunity #YogaLineage #InnerWork

Woven into the very fabric of life is an unbreakab

Woven into the very fabric of life is an unbreakable thread that ties each being to the eternal. Every moment of awareness, no matter how small, is a reflection of the boundless field that sustains existence. The ancient teaching is both a revelation and a promise: you are not separate from the infinite; you have never been. To know this not as belief but as lived reality is the beginning of awakening to the yogic understanding of being itself.

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Mysore Season @miamilifecenter
January and June 2026

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Wednesdays at 1 pm EST for Yoga Drills live on @omstarsofficial

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Next workshops:

Merida @sadhakyoga

Seattle @yogashalaeverett

Guadalajara @asanayogaexperience @puntoyoga

Singapore @yogaedition.sg

Hong Kong @pureyogaofficial

Shanghai @pureyogaacademy

Cairo @osanafamilywellness

Beirut @sarvamyoga

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Retreats

Bali @radiantlyalive.ubud
March

Norway @nosenyoga
August

Greece @soulsparkretreats
September

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Photos @ifilmyoga
#kinoyoga #yogalife #yogateacher #ashtanga #ashtangi #ashtangayoga #omstars #yogasana #ashtangayoga #yogateacher #miamiyoga #padmasana #yogadrills #omstars #kukkutasana #urdhvakukkutasana
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Is surrender really still a thing in yoga? Yes.

Is surrender really still a thing in yoga?

Yes. No. And it’s not what you think it is.

Most people hear the word surrender and imagine collapse: giving up, quitting, losing agency, or handing power over to someone else. But in yoga, surrender has nothing to do with passivity or abdication. It is not about allowing another human being to dominate your will, nor is it about dismissing your own intuition.

The Yoga Sūtra describes surrender as Īśvara-praṇidhāna

Īśvara comes from the root īś, “to rule, to own, to have mastery,” and refers not to a person but to the innermost guiding principle, the unconditioned, omnipresent reality behind all things.

Praṇidhāna comes from pra (“toward, intensely”) and nidhāna (“to place, to rest, to offer”), meaning to place oneself fully into, to devote oneself, to deposit or to surrender with clarity and intention.

This kind of surrender is not the erasure of effort. It is the refinement of effort. It is the recognition that we can show up with sincerity, do the work with devotion, and still understand that we cannot dictate the outcome. The practice asks us to give what is ours to give and then trust that what we cannot control will still unfold with its own intelligence.

Surrender, in this sense, is not passive. It is awake and alert. It is the moment when striving loosens and a wider horizon comes into view. We begin to understand that transformation does not happen because we force it into being. Transformation arrives where dedication and grace meet and the ego steps aside just enough for wisdom to move through.

Cultivating the state of surrender requires effort and practice. But what does this really look like? This is the paradox that every practitioner eventually encounters. We roll out the mat, breathe, do our work and, then, we are asked to release our tight hold on the result. Yoga teaches that the fruits of our actions are never fully in our hands.

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This video was filmed in beautiful Bali, where we will be leading a 2-week, 50-hour Ashtanga Yoga training in Ubud—and there are only a few spots left.

March 3–15, 2026 @radiantlyaliveyoga @radiantlyalive.ubud

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