12
Dec
2013
12
Dec
2013
kino macgregor
Why Every Yogi Is Forever A Student
Sometimes the way forward is blocked because all that is known is based on the past. To truly learn something new requires surrendering your notions of what is possible and impossible. Trusting a teacher to lead you to this new and sometimes scary place requires a leap of faith. Old and treasured thoughts have to…
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12
Dec
2013
kino macgregor
Why Yoga Is A Spiritual Practice
If you come to the practice of yoga looking only for pleasure, yoga will eventually disappoint you. Sooner or later, you’ll get bored with the practice or you will experience pain or discomfort in a posture you previously found fun. The basic lesson of this centuries-old science of self-exploration is that if you heed the…
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12
Dec
2013
4
Jul
2013
4
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2013
4
Jul
2013
kino macgregor
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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4
Jul
2013
kino macgregor
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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4
Jul
2013
kino macgregor
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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26
Jun
2013
kino macgregor
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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