24
Oct
2025
kino macgregor
Turning the Wheel Within: The Four Noble Truths as a Living Path
Inspired by the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11) One of the most frustrating instructions I ever received in a meditation class was deceptively simple: Close your eyes and quiet the mind. I remember thinking—If I could do that, I wouldn’t be here learning how to meditate. Like so many others, I was searching for peace amidst…
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10
Oct
2025
kino macgregor
Abhyāsa: The Sacred Art of Returning, Practice, Repetition, and Inner Cultivation
Abhyāsa and Bhāvanā, The Heart of Practice What does it mean to practice? Not just once not just when it’s convenient or inspiring but again and again across years across seasons across the full arc of a life. The ancient yogis gave us a word for this abhyāsa. It’s a term rooted in the Yoga…
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30
Sep
2025
kino macgregor
Understanding the Ashtanga Yoga Opening Invocation: Etymology, Meaning & Inner Alchemy
The Hidden Meaning of the Ashtanga Invocation The yoga community is like one big family, not united by fancy poses but by a shared love for this ancient practice. Whether you’re new to yoga or have practiced for years, the real essence of yoga is not in perfection but in presence. It doesn’t matter what…
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12
Sep
2025
kino macgregor
A Supported Practice: Finding Balance Between Yoga and Strength Training with Wade Oakley
For many years, the yoga world carried the idea that yoga is all you need. But what happens when your practice alone is not enough to keep the body healthy and supported? Injuries, hypermobility, or the physical demands of teaching can reveal the need for something more. In a recent episode of the Yoga Inspiration…
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17
Jul
2025
kino macgregor
How Yoga Teaches Us to Stand Up for Justice Without Losing Our Peace: Lessons on Kṣānti, Compassion & Righteous Action
The world is burning, sometimes literally, often emotionally. Injustice surrounds us, from the personal to the planetary. We see it, we feel it, and we sometimes suffer under it. As yoga practitioners, how do we respond? How do we stand up…for ourselves, for others, without losing our center? How do we remain anchored in the…
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4
Jul
2025
kino macgregor
Dharma Talk: Why We Think It’s Important to Keep Practicing Ashtanga Yoga
And Why We Hope You Keep Practicing Too Dedicated Ashtanga Yoga practice is a powerful journey worth pursuing, even decades after your first class. Reflecting on more than 25 years of practice, we’ve discovered profound reasons to stay committed, which we captured in a recent series on why we are still practicing Ashtanga Yoga. Ashtanga…
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23
Jun
2025
kino macgregor
Dharma Talk: The Discerning Eye of the Yogin: Becoming Connoisseurs of Spiritual Knowledge
We are, by nature, discriminating beings. We develop taste — for art, food, fashion, architecture. We learn to tell what is real from what is imitation, what is durable from what is fleeting. We become connoisseurs of culture, cuisine, aesthetics. So what happens when that same discriminating capacity is turned inward? This is what yogic…
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3
Jan
2014
kino macgregor
Join the September #BasicYogaMix Challenge with Kerri and Kino and buy the Video Course HERE
#BasicYogaMix Challenge with Kerri and Kino
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3
Jan
2014
kino macgregor
Second Series Book Announcement
The Power of Ashtanga Yoga II: The Intermediate Series: A Practice to Open Your Heart and Purify Your Body and Mind
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12
Dec
2013
