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October 1, 2026
Kindness Is Not Permission: Boundaries, Discernment, and the Shadow of the Bully

By Kino MacGregor The Mirror and What It Really Reflects There is an old idea, almost a truism in contemplative circles, that what we see in others is what we ...

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Category: Culture
August 27, 2026
Kapotasana: The Complete Guide to Anatomy, Energetics, and the Inner Work of Ashtanga Yoga

By Kino MacGregor There is perhaps no backbend more iconic in the Ashtanga Yoga practice than Kapotāsana. For many practitioners, the very mention of the pose evokes a curious mixture ...

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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
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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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
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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Category: Practice
April 15, 2026
The Vinyasakrama Yoga

By Srivatsa Ramaswami I thought I should write about one of the unique features of Vinyasakrama yoga keeping the multiple 100 hr Vinyasakrama programs in consideration. My Guru Sri Krishnamacharya ...

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Category: Culture
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