Yoga Pose guide Archives

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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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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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 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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April 3, 2026
Pinchamayurasana: The Practice of Patience, Failure, and Inner Balance

By Kino MacGregor It took me two years of failure to finally stand steady in Pinchamayurasana. I fell more times than I can count, and each attempt revealed not only ...

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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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January 19, 2026
Vīrāsana (Hero Pose): Seated Heroism, Stillness in Readiness

By Kino MacGregor What does it mean to be a hero? On the yogic path, this question quietly reshapes itself the longer we practice. Heroism is not measured by dramatic ...

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December 11, 2025
Krouñcāsana: The Quiet Strength of the Crane

By Kino MacGregor There is a certain kind of silence that lives inside a bird with long legs. Here in Florida, herons and cranes move with a grace that seems ...

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November 26, 2025
Padāṅguṣṭhāsana: A Complete Guide to the Standing Big Toe Pose

By Kino MacGregor Padāṅguṣṭhāsana is one of the most unassuming shapes in the Ashtanga Yoga method, yet it holds the quiet power of a first teaching. The name joins pada, ...

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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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