30
Nov
2010
Yoga Poses
The Body Doesn’t Lie
by Kino MacGregor The mind enjoys putting on a melodramatic show. From the thick plot of stress, anger, pain and loss, it proclaims that we are “just fine”, “coping quite well” or “not really bothered at all”. The body, by contrast, doesn’t lie for very long if at all. Its simple proximity to nature cannot…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
The Dirty Sounds of Silence
by Kino MacGregor Have you every noticed how noisy we all are? In the last twenty years, we have invented and now need iPods, iPhones, CDs, portable DVD players, louder motorcycles, super jet engines, walkie-talkies, reality TV shows, music videos and Starbucks. Silence is like a dirty word in the modern vocabulary. When you sit…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
The Hidden Key to Health
by Kino MacGregor Food is not who you are. It is a way you communicate with the world. You express things through food, through eating, like you do through any art form, but it nevertheless is not who you are at your deepest essence. Your eating habits are merely habits, not your life or your…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
Navigating Stormy Emotional Seas
by Kino MacGregor Emotional vulnerability seems to snowball at all the most inappropriate moments. When you’re feeling down the most insignificant comment can send you deeper into the darkness. On days when you feel torn open by life, your heart is raw, exposed, and injured. In this space everything hurts. Is it just chance and…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
The Silver Lining of Soul
by Kino MacGregor Have you ever walked into a string of extremely unfortunate events? Imagine that your partner leaves you for a younger, prettier, wealthier, funnier version of yourself the moment you feel deeply insecure about your body. Then the government slams you with $4,000 of extra taxes to paid right after you quit your…
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30
Nov
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
One Breathe at a Time
by Kino MacGregor This year’s political season in the U.S. highlights some of the most monumental achievements and pitfalls of the past century and inspires a renewal of the dream of peace, hope and change. Yet in such an atmosphere we must also ask ourselves where the realization of such broad specturm dreams is to…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
A Brave New World, Free from Fear
by Kino MacGregor If you believe everything you read online, hear on the radio or see on TV, then you’re probably convinced that we really are headed straight down the proverbial toilet bowl. But think again. Nothing you read, hear or see is absolutely true. News, although an attempt an objectivity, is nevertheless an account…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
Managing Your Vibration
by Kino MacGregor Is each individual on Earth responsible for their own life experience? Or are other people to blame when they are angry, tired, tedious, envious, rude, selfish and just down right mean? How do you make space for other people’s roll through the rollercoaster ride of life when it bumps right up against…
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30
Nov
2010
The Spiritual Journey
Having Faith in the Finish Line
by Kino MacGreggor There is a point in every marathon where no runner quits and there is another point where the majority drop out. The quitting point is painstakingly close to the finish line and, when measured in terms of percentage points, sits at approximately the last five percent of the race. The drop outs’…
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30
Nov
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
On the Language of Yoga
by Kino MacGreggor Yoga has an almost addictive quality to it. If you start doing yoga, it starts doing you too. The search for knowledge, wisdom and truth morph into numerous shapes and forms along the inner journey. When you enter the world of yoga sometimes you’ll even find a whole Indian performance awaiting you:…
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