Practice – Omstars

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 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
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
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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Category: Practice
March 20, 2026
What Remains Through Waking, Dream, and Sleep

By Ashutosh Agarwal Lately, I’ve been trying to deepen my understanding as I study texts from Kashmiri Shaivism. The Spanda Kārikā says: “जाग्रदाद्वविभेदेऽपि तदभेदे प्रसुप्तवत्…” Even though waking, dream, and ...

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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
November 14, 2025
Pārśvottānāsana: The Path of Precision and Surrender

By Kino MacGregor The Sanskrit name Pārśvottānāsana unfolds its meaning with quiet symmetry. Pārśva means “side,” ut evokes intensity or upward direction, and tāna comes from the root meaning “to stretch” or “extend.” Although often translated as “intense ...

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Category: Pose Tutorials
October 27, 2025
Astrology – Mother of Sciences and Religions

Astrology: The Mother of Sciences Astrology is dubbed the mother of sciences. The act of measuring, calculating, and tracking the heavenly bodies helped transform the early stargazers into prototype empirical ...

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Category: Culture