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July 23, 2026
The True Meaning of Yoga Practice: Beyond Stretching Into Inner Transformation

By Kino MacGregor Beyond the Postures: Yoga, Ethical Clarity, and Spiritual Maturity How yoga practice cultivates inner awareness, ethical clarity, and spiritual maturity beyond physical postures. Yoga is more than ...

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Category: Culture
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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Category: Practice
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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Category: Practice
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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Category: Practice
March 3, 2026
The Source Is Always Within

By Kino MacGregor I am in Mysore now, a place that has been the home of yoga for me for the last twenty-six years of my life. Being here in ...

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Category: Practice Uncategorized
February 3, 2026
Samakonasana and the Practice of Listening

By Kino MacGregor For a long time, straddle and middle splits felt like the last unmapped territory of my body. I could move deeply in many directions: forward bends that ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials
January 5, 2026
Baddha Konasana and the Art of Sitting Well

By Kino MacGregor Sitting on the floor is an unfamiliar act for many of us. Raised in a culture shaped by chairs, cars, and elevated furniture, our daily movements rarely ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials Uncategorized
October 29, 2025
Prasārita Pādottānāsana: The Quiet Expansion of the Inner Sky

By Kino MacGregor The Sanskrit name Prasārita Pādottānāsana unfolds its meaning with the elegance of the posture itself. Prasārita means “spread out” or “expanded,” from the root √sṛ meaning “to ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials
October 16, 2025
The Sacred Staff: How to Practice Dandasana (Staff Pose) and Build the Spiritual and Physical Foundations of Yoga

By Kino MacGregor The word Daṇḍāsana (दण्डासन) is composed of two Sanskrit terms: daṇḍa, meaning “staff,” “rod,” or “stick,” and āsana, “seat” or “established posture.” The root of daṇḍa appears throughout Indian philosophical and scriptural literature. ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials
October 1, 2025
Parivṛtta Pārśvakoṇāsana: Revolved Side Angle Pose

By Kino MacGregor Etymology and History The name Parivṛtta Pārśvakoṇāsana unfolds like a teaching in itself. Parivṛtta derives from pari (“around, all sides”) and vṛtta (“turned, revolved”), suggesting the spiral ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials