yogalifestyle 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
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
August 14, 2026
The Breath: Gateway Between Body and Mind

By Tim Feldmann Chale vāte chalam cittam – nishchale nishchalam bhavet When breath moves, the mind moves – when breath is still, the mind is still. Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā 2:2 ...

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Category: Practice
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
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