4
Jul
2013
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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26
Jun
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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24
Mar
2013
Ashtanga Yoga
New Blog – Are your Arms Really Too Short to Lift Up?
When you’re new to yoga and see an experienced practitioner hoist their body in the air it looks like magic. When you try and then your body feels absolutely glued to the ground, it’s easy to get frustrated. I still remember the overwhelming feeling of impossibility that I faced when I first started to lift…
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24
Mar
2013
Ashtanga Yoga
New Blog – Give Yourself Permission to Fail and in that Space you Will Succeed
Everyone has something that pushes them to the edge of their limits. Almost every yoga practitioner has experienced a posture that brought them to the edge of what they believed was possible for the body and the mind. When this happens there is nothing to do but try, let yourself fall and ultimately transform yourself through the…
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21
Feb
2013
Ashtanga Yoga
Total Surrender: One Week of Practice in Mysore
Blog by Kino MacGregor My second week of practice in Mysore was one of the most confusing weeks of practice in the last ten years. After two days off thanks to a New Moon on Sunday and a restful week of Primary and Intermediate before that I felt more rested than I had in years….
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6
Feb
2013
Ashtanga Yoga
February 3, 2013 Conference with Sharath in Mysore
These are my notes from this last Sunday’s conference, rough and unedited. I tried to keep up with everything that Sharath said and type exactly what he said with as little paraphrasing as possible. I type pretty quickly on the iPad and I just hope I wasn’t too distracting to people around me. There are…
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9
Aug
2012
Ashtanga Yoga
New 3-Part Beginner’s Ashtanga Yoga Online Course with Kino
http://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-ashtanga-yoga-power-breath-and-control/
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1
Jun
2012
Ashtanga Yoga
Spiritual Profile of K. Pattabhi Jois by Kino MacGregor
published in Yoga Magazine, UK, June 2012 Edition Click Here to read the article.
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17
Jan
2012
Ashtanga Yoga
Interview with Kino MacGregor in Tokyo, Japan
Interview with Kino MacGregor in Tokyo, Japan
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4
Jan
2012
Ashtanga Yoga
Kino McGregor – A True Master Preserving Astanga Yoga and the Traditional Teacher Student Relationship
http://www.namasteyall.org/archives/3688
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