Want to stay in touch with elephant? Get 10 free articles a week: subscribe free to our Best of the Week newsletter
or get our popular Daily Wake Up Call. Together, we can make mindful independent reader-created media powerful!
Submit a story.

About: Kino MacGregor

Website
http://www.miamilifecenter.com
Profile
Kino MacGregor is one of a select group of people to receive the Certification to teach Ashtanga Yoga by its founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India. The youngest woman to hold this title, she has completed the challenging Third Series and is now learning the Fourth Series. After seven years of consistent trips to Mysore, at the age of 29, she received from Guruji the Certification to teach Ashtanga yoga and has since worked to pass on the inspiration to practice to countless others. In 2006, she and her husband Tim Feldmann founded Miami Life Center, where they now teach daily classes, workshops and intensives together in addition to maintaining an international traveling and teaching schedule. She has produced three Ashtanga yoga DVDs (Kino MacGregor – A Journey, A Workshop; Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series; Ashtanga Yoga Intermediate Series), an Ashtanga yoga practice card and a podcast on yoga. Her next book, The Power of Ashtanga Yoga, is set to come out in the spring of 2013 from Shambhala Publications. As a life coach and Ph.D. student in holistic health with a Master’s Degree from New York University, Kino integrates her commitment to consciousness and empowerment with her yoga teaching. She has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga Mind Body Spirit, Yoga Joyful Living, Travel & Leisure Magazine, Ocean Drive Magazine, Boca Raton Magazine, Florida Travel & Life Magazine, Six Degrees Magazine as well as appearing on Miami Beach’s Plum TV and the CBS Today Show. Find her at: kinoyoga.com.
Subscribe to feed
Kino MacGregor's Feed

Posts by Kino MacGregor:


Confessions of a Loved & Hated Ashtangi.

by on Feb 5, 2013

People love and hate me. I am, after much deliberation, okay with that. I’m a bad Ashtangi. I wear small shorts and mascara. I’m not a natural blonde. I color my hair and blow dry it, even while in India. I’m also vain and I love beautiful and sometimes expensive things. I’ve been called an [...]

5 Tips for a Great Start to 2013. ~ Kino MacGregor

by on Dec 30, 2012

As the page turns on 2012, and the world has not ended in a cataclysmic Hollywood style disaster, it is time to set our gaze on the inevitability of next year. Future oriented thinking can take you out of the present moment. If you are someone who likes to plan and control the stream of [...]

The Journey to Mysore, India: Lighting the Sacred Fire through Ashtanga Yoga.

by on Jul 22, 2012

Nine hours in a tiny seat to a cold European airport; two hours in a layover where you stumble from coffee to cakes, another fourteen hours on an airplane bound for Bangalore and finally, a four-hour taxi ride through cows, honking, Indian traffic, rickshaws and pollution, lead you to a small South Indian city called [...]

The Responsibility of a Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga Teacher.

by on May 26, 2012

What does it take to be a really good Ashtanga Yoga teacher? I love Miami. I love the sunshine, the sandy beaches, the open vibrancy of the people and the flashy sense of style. Since I run a yoga center on Miami Beach, I get to see many people move in and out of the [...]

Bandhas in Ashtanga Yoga: the Difference Between Uddiyana Bandha & Kriya.

by on May 1, 2012

One often misunderstood difference is between uddiyana bandha and uddiyana kriya. The first is from the navel down to the public bone and the second is a purification practice that can only be done on exhalation. Watch the clip to see the difference.

A Cheap Trick:
Handstand, Backbends & the Deeper Dimension of Yoga.

by on Mar 26, 2012

The gravity of what happens underneath the physical through the practice of yoga is something that is incredibly hard to explain in words. It borders on the ineffable because the magic of yoga happens exactly when you touch the divine within yourself.

The Lesson of Third Series: On Burning Through Ego & Pride.

by on Feb 16, 2012

The practice of the Ashtanga Yoga Third Series is not something to be taken lightly or to play around with.

It is a devotional practice that burns through some of the deepest blockages that exist in the human mind and body. It is a practice that contains the essence of Ashtanga Yoga and one not to be taken for granted.

Principles of Twisting: Marichasana C with Kino MacGregor

by on Jul 31, 2011

The Ashtanga Yoga method purifies the internal systems of the body, clears emotional and psychological blockages and frees the student to experience a new depth of consciousness within themselves and their lives. When you begin the practice there are a series of simple movements in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series that will help you tap [...]

Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga – New DVD with Kino MacGregor, Greg Nardi & Tim Feldmann.

by on Mar 27, 2011

Owning and running our yoga center on Miami Beach gives my husband and I the chance to experience a full range of yoga students. We have the dedicate group of Mysore Ashtangis who rise before dawn to practice in a candle-lit space before joining the legions of worker bees at their offices. We have the [...]

Facing Doubt in the Practice of Yoga.

by on Jan 25, 2011

On Sundays in Mysore, India at the New Shala in Gokulam there is conference with Sharath where all the students of the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute gather to ask questions and listen with open hearts. When Guruji used to teach at the Old Shala in Lakshmipuram he had conference every day except Saturday [...]

The Best Things in Life are Free.

by on Dec 20, 2010

The glowing heart of the sun rises and sets each day and belongs to no one. The Earth is cut up into segments of private property and national boundaries but no one owns the deed to the whole planet…except maybe all of us collectively…unless we just have it on loan from future generations. Nations carve [...]

Yoga Air: Enjoy the Ride.

by on Nov 15, 2010

I travel all the time. On the rare occasion I get an upgrade, but most of the time I don’t. Luckily I’m small and flexible enough to be able to curl myself into a moderately comfortable sleeping position in any airline or train seat, a blessing that I count on every intercontinental flight. No matter [...]

Ashtanga Yoga in Denver.

by on Sep 27, 2010

Even though I travel all over the world there are still parts of the U.S.A that I have never visited. I always wanted to see Colorado and this Fall I was schedule to have my first visit to Denver. But then the yoga center that originally was going to host me had a terrible fire [...]

Fearless Resolution

by on Sep 26, 2010

There are moments in life that define us and determine the degree to which we are willing to allow the vital essence of our being to dictate the direction of our path. It can even feel like life is spent waiting for these pivotal moments that lead us down the road to discovery. The connection [...]

Discover the Present Moment.

by on Aug 4, 2010

Sometimes a day in the life of a yogi is plagued by fear of the yoga postures that claim to lead toward inner peace. Yet this ironic dichotomy is exactly how yoga teaches practitioners to find that elusive state of calm. Since yoga asks you to learn peace of mind it also demands that you [...]

Healing Injuries with Yoga.

by on Jun 30, 2010

Can you feel gratitude for your injuries? It is not the physicality of hatha yoga that transforms, but the state of presence cultivated by a conscious effort to heal the body and train the mind that heals. It is actually higher awareness itself that brings about great changes in practitioners’ experience of reality. One of [...]

Oprah + Yoga + Kino + TV?

by on Jun 8, 2010

Have you ever wondered why there isn’t a TV show about Yoga? Bravo has a contest for everything from cooking to hair salons to house wives. Every channel has its own reality show, from the Food Network to the HGTV to Fox. It’s time that yoga gets a chance to inspire a whole new generation [...]

Real Yoga. ~ Kino MacGregor

by on Jun 3, 2010

Training the Mind to See the Abundance of Greatness
. The daily practice of yoga gives us ample ground to test out the hypothesis of an infinite universe. When you see an accomplished practitioner achieve masterful feats of asana, that doesn’t mean you cannot go and accomplish the same thing. Yet it can sometimes be exceedingly [...]

The Key to Happiness through Daily Yoga Practice.

by on May 1, 2010

Stepping through the looking glass of life. The iconography of the yoga world transports would-be practitioners into an idyllic scene of blooming lotus flowers and gently flowing estuaries. The promise of sincere yoga practice is that this paradisiacal realm of inner peace will one day be attainable for all practitioners who commit themselves fully. Yet [...]

Ashtanga: the Yoga of Purification.

by on Apr 14, 2010

Working Through Physical & Emotional Discomfort in the Practice of Yoga. “The practice of yoga is a slow retraining of our bodies and minds to make ourselves comfortable with the scary places inside and outside of ourselves.” Yoga purifies the mind and body…by asking you to develop deep self-knowledge. When you unite with the deepest [...]


55 queries in 0.769 seconds.