Kino MacGregor

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Ancient Practice, Modern Application

As westerners, the search for meaning and purpose can sometimes be a lifelong endeavour. We tirelessly seek and experiment, attend expensive retreats and visit healers, read book after book and dive into workshops…

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Yogi Assignment: Seek Up

Yoga can be considered a seeker’s quest. To truly practice this spiritual science of the soul you have to yearn for depth. Yogis are not perfect beings. We are all human beings on the path to raise our vibration and seek up. In some ways yoga can be understood as voluntary evolution. Instead of running…

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Yogi Assignment: Ingenuity

I’m sitting on a train to Charlottesville, not because I chose to book the train but because when I tried to check into my flight last night, it had been changed to five hours earlier. My new flight was scheduled to depart at the same time that my last workshop in Philadelphia was ending—that wasn’t…

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The Story of Yoga: From Darkness to Light by Kino MacGregor

There are people and things that I still don’t understand. Sometimes I barely understand myself. It’s like there’s a puzzle inside my mind and heart and every day I get one more clue. At first I had no idea what the big picture looked like because I was so focused on the individual pieces and…

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Happiness, Self-worth and Spirit By Kino MacGregor

Self-worth is something that is innate. You don’t have to earn it. But you do need to wake up to the truth of it. Traumatic events leave scars in the mind (and sometimes also on the body) and these wounds can get in the way of recognizing your basic sense of worthiness. I carried guilt…

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The Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast

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The Mystery of Pain by Kino MacGregor

The body is a mystery. Despite all the marvels of modern medicine, there are some basic things about the body which remain unexplained. As a yoga teacher I work with a lot of bodies and I’m sometimes privy to a little bit of the magic of the realm of the body. Sometimes I’m so involved…

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Definition of a Yogi By Kino MacGregor

What does it mean to be a yogi? I ask myself this question over and over again. Is it about commitment to the practice? Well yes, but it doesn’t stop there. The decision to be a yogi only begins with the asana practice. The challenging poses of yoga are meant to be a foundation for…

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How Sangha Drew Kino MacGregor Away from the “Spiritual Desperation” of a Drug-Fueled Party Scene