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Kino's Yogi Assignment Blog

8 Feb 2018

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Presence

Have you ever felt caught in the midst of paralyzing fear or panic? I have and it’s not fun. Sometimes the world suddenly starts closing in on me and I lose the ability to breathe, think clearly or even move. I have been trapped on my kitchen floor for minutes (if not hours) in the…

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30 Jan 2018

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Self-Love

Let’s talk about beauty and self-love. Maybe I’m sensitive about this topic, but why does it always seem like messages to love yourself and see yourself as beautiful come from tall skinny people with the perfect body and the perfect life? It’s like “they” sit on some perch of infinite possibility and “we” sit down…

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28 Jan 2018

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Study

In Sanskrit, study is called svadyaya and includes the paradigm of spiritual self-inquiry as well as the devotional study of sacred texts. Svadyaya is a crucial part of the spiritual path because it not only denotes an in-depth study of key philosophical foundations but it implies a particular mindset in the heart of the student….

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21 Jan 2018

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Maitri, Loving-Kindness

I’m sitting in bed enjoying a lazy day. It’s a rare morning for me where I neither travel, practice or teach. But today I’m a lazy yogi and enjoying it! I reached out to you, my community of yogis, for inspiration for this week’s Yogi Assignment and I was absolutely overwhelmed by the response. Not…

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14 Jan 2018

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Sukha, Ease

There is not a direct line to growth. It’s a curvy, twisted path through the heart. You might not think you can get any stronger, you might think you’re all alone, you might feel like you’re about to collapse but then you find it, the strength that was always there. Faith and hope lift you…

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8 Jan 2018

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Healing

As many of you know, my outside cat named Cleo has been in the animal hospital for the last two days. You might know her as the sweet kitty who often hangs out by our front door. My husband is allergic to cats which is why she has to stay outside and only come in…

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31 Dec 2017

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Commitment

This has been a difficult year with intense highs and intense lows. Things have happened that I never imagined possible and some of it nearly broke me, but through Grace alone I kept on going. Both my father and my father-in-law crossed over—may they rest in peace, they are missed and loved dearly. Despite my…

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26 Dec 2017

Ashtanga Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga—Accountability, Acceptance and Action in the Arena of Sexual Appropriateness and Hands-On Assists by Kino MacGregor

As a victim of the most heinous type of sexual assault, rape, at the hands of a yoga teacher, it both saddens and alarms me to read of the accusations of inappropriate touching in hands-on assists by my teacher, the late K. Pattabhi Jois. Let me start off by saying that I believe the victims…

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24 Dec 2017

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Hope

Hope is defined aHope is defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen, a feeling of trust; refraining from despair and capability of not giving up. But how do you find hope amidst what feels like a hopeless place? Sure when things are going your way and everything feels…

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17 Dec 2017

Ashtanga Yoga

Yogi Assignment: Patience

I am not a naturally patient person. Most likely that’s because my mind moves at super fast speeds processing different potentialities and buzzing with new ideas. Yoga has taught me patience, but I still don’t much like the waiting game. I am all too human sometimes. I get attached to things working out how I…

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