Practice Archives

October 30, 2026
Should You Bring a Practice Sheet to Mysore-Style Ashtanga Yoga?

By Kino MacGregor The practice of Ashtanga Yoga is rooted in a unique method known as Mysore style, named after the small South Indian city where this tradition originates. Unlike ...

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October 13, 2026
The Practice of Seeing Clearly

By Kino MacGregor The Power of Perception: Learning to See Clearly Through Yoga Perspective changes everything because we do not encounter the world without interpretation. We see through the accumulated ...

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August 14, 2026
The Breath: Gateway Between Body and Mind

By Tim Feldmann Chale vāte chalam cittam – nishchale nishchalam bhavet When breath moves, the mind moves – when breath is still, the mind is still. Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā 2:2 ...

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July 8, 2026
What Compassion Looks Like in Practice

By Kino MacGregor Leadership does not only amplify our worst tendencies. It can also call forth our highest qualities. I often think of a moment I witnessed in Sharath’s shala ...

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June 22, 2026
We Become What We Repeatedly Behold

By Kino MacGregor The yogic tradition understood this with remarkable precision. The concept of saṅga, the company we keep and the environment we inhabit, is not treated as peripheral to ...

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June 8, 2026
Who Is Shaping You? Yoga, Leadership, and the Power of Influence

By Kino MacGregor Whether we realize it or not, we are always being shaped by someone. Teachers, leaders, public figures, friends, and communities influence how we think, behave, and move ...

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May 29, 2026
The Heart Discloses Itself

Yoga asks a question we must spend our lives answering: Who are you beneath everything that has happened to you? Not the triumphs or the wounds. Not the role you ...

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May 6, 2026
Śraddhā: Faith and the Path of Ashtanga Yoga

By Kino MacGregor When I first stepped into the demanding terrain of advanced postures under the guidance of my teachers in India, I did not arrive with confidence. I arrived ...

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April 29, 2026
The Integration of Opposites in Practice

By Kino MacGregor It is easy for the mind to fracture the world into opposites. This is its habit and its comfort, to divide experience into clean lines of right ...

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April 8, 2026
Utthita Parsvakonasana (Extended Side Angle Pose): Alignment, Benefits & Ashtanga Foundations

By, Kino MacGregor This foundational standing posture, often passed over in the eagerness to arrive somewhere more complex, quietly contains within it the architecture of the entire practice. The strength ...

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