kinomacgregor 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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Category: Practice
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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Category: Practice
September 21, 2026
Pincha Mayūrāsana: Strength, Balance, and the Practice of Patience

By Kino MacGregor There are some postures that seem to yield almost immediately. You understand the mechanics, your body responds, and before long the shape begins to feel familiar. Then ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials
August 10, 2026
Pasāsana in Ashtanga Second Series: The Noose That Binds and Liberates

By Kino MacGregor Pasāsana (पाशासन) is the first posture of Intermediate Series in the Ashtanga Yoga method, and it announces the beginning of Second Series with unmistakable clarity. There is ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials
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