Podcast Episode 28: Kino MacGregor
Meet Kino MacGregor, one of the most celebrated Ashtanga yoga teachers in the world, in one of her most candid and revealing interviews yet.
Meet Kino MacGregor, one of the most celebrated Ashtanga yoga teachers in the world, in one of her most candid and revealing interviews yet.
In this episode of the Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast, listen as Mark Darby describes his time with Guruji, how working from a soft place helps us find bandhas, and why he’ll never stop teaching.
It’s hot as hell standing outside that afternoon. We’re in Mysore, India and waiting to be ushered into the shala for chanting class. That’s when I first see her – Laruga Glaser. I’m a hot, sweaty mess – while she’s as stunning as every Instagram post I’ve seen of hers. And I’m in awe.
“At the heart of Ashtanga is vinyasa – a synchronicity of breath and movement … the breath initiates the movement and then movement and breath flow as one.” John Scott
A Conversation with David Keil: “I’ve dug a hole, it’s deep enough … Let’s move on, there’s more. And it’s not in a direction that leads to more postures, it’s the deepening of the experience of doing.”
It’s hard to ignore a certain synchronicity over the course of both space and time and a collective dharma or purpose that spans generations. Nothing really begins or ends, it just continues. And so must we.
To grow, we simply MUST be willing to move into places, risky and bold, and stir the insecurity, waking the frightful beast.
As much as I hate to admit it, pain has a lot to teach us. Just ask today’s guest, teacher Tim Feldmann. He’s certainly had his fair share to deal with.
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This is what it means to practice Yoga – it’s not an optional, mood based, circumstance based faith. It’s a grueling, confusing, painful battle-against-all-evidence-to-the-contrary faith.
Sharath Jois – grandson of the legendary Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, son of Saraswathi Jois, director of the KPJAY Institute, and the current holder of our lineage. And yet, if there’s one thing I have learned as his student it’s this: Sharath would not want this podcast to be about him. It’s about the yoga. For Sharath, it’s always about …
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