21
Dec
2011
Ashtanga Yoga
Burning through Obstacles (Samskaras) in Ashtanga Yoga. “Almonds,” Agni & our Attachment to our own Suffering.
Each moment we have the possibility of being fresh and new, but very often we live of our lives from a habit pattern established in the past. Once these patterns are established the flow of human consciousness gets organized into certain repetitive patterns. The Sanskrit word for these repetitive patterns is a samskara. These are…
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1
Dec
2011
Ashtanga Yoga
The Logic of the Six Day a Week Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga Method by Kino MacGregor
In the Ashtanga Yoga method it is recommended that you practice six days a week. Traditionally the six day a week practice was meant to be done in what is known as “Mysore Style”. In this method of practice you follow your own breath and movement not the guidance of a teacher leading a class…
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1
Nov
2011
Ashtanga Yoga
The Ritual of Vinyasa by Kino MacGregor
The origins of the Vinyasa system can be traced all the way to ancient Vedic rituals that used choreographed movements to consecrate sacred space. By designating the appropriate breaths, movement and gazing point for each posture the Ashtanga Yoga practice sanctifies the body itself as a temple for the direct experience of divinity. It is…
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31
Jul
2011
Ashtanga Yoga
Principles of Twisting: Marichasana C by Kino MacGregor
The Ashtanga Yoga method purifies the internal systems of the body, clears emotional and psychological blockages and frees the student to experience a new depth of consciousness within themselves and their lives. When you begin the practice there are a series of simple movements in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series that will help you tap…
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8
Apr
2011
Ashtanga Yoga
New DVD! Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga with Kino MacGregor, Greg Nardi and Tim Feldmann
Owning and running our yoga center on Miami Beach gives my husband and I the chance to experience a full range of yoga students. We have the dedicate group of Mysore Ashtangis who rise before dawn to practice in a candle-lit space before joining the legions of worker bees at their offices. We have the…
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2
Dec
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
The Inner Voice of Yoga
by Kino MacGregor Yoga teaches you to listen to your own inner voice. It is a process of awakening and attunement that defines personal integrity by the depth of each students’ connection with themselves. Through pain, pleasure, injury, ecstasy and bliss yoga invites practitioners to travel down the rabbit hole of personal discovery so that…
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2
Dec
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
Operation Lotus
by Kino MacGregor The experience of your first yoga class feels like embarking on a mysterious adventure into a whole new terrain. As your curiosity peers into the incense-filled hallways lined with Ganesh and Shiva the open-hearted calm beckons you to travel into your own sacred inner realm. The seductive power of yoga is an…
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2
Dec
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
The Impossible Becomes Possible
by Kino MacGregor The promise of inner peace does not come at a cheap price. You cannot beg, borrow or cheat your way along the inner journey. Whenever you strive to create a new way of being it is simply not a matter of flipping a switch. Instead you stand at the mountain of new…
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2
Dec
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
The Breath of Life
When we are born we breathe in, when we die we breathe out. The space between these two breathes holds the entirety of our life experience here on Earth. While the body that houses our spirit passes away, in some ways the light of our soul never stops burning just as the light of the…
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2
Dec
2010
Ashtanga Yoga
The Key to Happiness through Daily Yoga Practice
by Kino MacGregor The iconography of the yoga world transports would-be practitioners into an idyllic scene of blooming lotus flowers and gently flowing estuaries. The promise of sincere yoga practice is that this paradisiacal realm of inner peace is one day be attainable for all practitioners who commit themselves fully. Yet the “real” yoga often…
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