24
Mar
2013
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
24
Mar
2013
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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24
Mar
2013
21
Feb
2013
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
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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15
Nov
2012
15
Nov
2012
15
Nov
2012
yoga
Core Strength in Navasana
Whenever I teach a Guided Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series class, there is one posture is almost universal in its ability to test the limits of strength: Navasana, Boat Posture. It demands so much core strength that when repeated five times, it feels like a mini-marathon right in the middle of a very long practice. In…
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22
Oct
2012
yoga
Your Sadness is Your Joy.
The darkness is the light itself—not a pathway that leads to the light, but the essence of the light itself. The beautiful postures of yoga are not an end, in and of themselves. The real teaching of the path of yoga is to use asana as a way to gain perspective on deeper life patterns….
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