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Ashtanga Yoga
An Interview with Kino MacGregor that is not about her Shorts
“Yoga is not yummy. Those people who want you to believe it is- I want to smack them. Expecting yoga to be yummy is delusional. Ashtanga is not funyasa. ” ~Kino MacGregor That was my favorite moment from a weekend with Kino at Chicago’s Moksha Riverwest. The mood can get plenty serious after three hours of arm-balancing in…
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Jul
2013
The Spiritual Journey
Strength Lessons in Yoga from a Circus Trainer
My biggest lesson in yoga and perhaps in life has been strength. I was not naturally strong when I started but after 14 years of practice I started to feel stronger. I thought I could do a handstand with good balance and good alignment. I’m at the end of the Fourth Series of Ashtanga yoga…
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Yoga Poses
Have Faith and Jump Through
The mystery of lifting your body off the ground in the yoga practice is both seductive and elusive. When you can hold your body weight off the ground in powerful arm balances your confidence increases. But when you cannot find the way towards strength you hit a wall that feels insurmountable every time you practice. Rather than…
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2013
Ashtanga Yoga
ASHTANGA YOGA IN MOTION
Kino MacGregor maintains that she never was an athlete – no dance classes or soccer teams or tennis matches in her past. If you browse through this striking gallery of photographs taken by Rene Merino, however, you might beg to differ. Kino’s discipline of choice is ashtanga yoga, a kind of mind/body pursuit that takes a…
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