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Kino MacGregor is one of those rare teachers who has gone very deep down the asana route.
She is currently learning the 5th series of Ashtanga Yoga which is the equivalent of performing an athletic feast worth of many gold medals at the olympics, and she is a pleasure to talk to.
What is Special About Kino
Reading "Sacred Fire" I feel like her life unfolded as a fairy tale. I wish I had gotten into yoga so early. She started traveling to India in her early 20s.
But it was not all fairy tale.
She also had to take a lot of heat from the "yoga police". Sometimes for wearing shorts!
She has been bashed and criticized for her outreach and for trying to expand the circle of people she reaches with her passion, which is yoga. And we talked about that too.
Today the Miami Life Center is a vibrant street front studio on 6th street in South Beach. It is always filled with yoga practitioners and a warm energy. There are great instructors always present, with assistants. They also have workshops going on all the time.
Kino's extraordinary ability in asana and how to teach it results in large numbers of students joining her wherever she goes.
And the best part about Kino is that she comes with Tim [Feldman], who is also a very advanced and serious practitioner and her husband. Together they created the center. I hope to have Tim on the podcast soon as well.
What We Talked About:
- Her beginnings with yoga... Her first class
- Kino meets Govinda, her first teacher of Ashtanga
- Her first trip to Mysore
- Meeting Tim and the love story
- The hardships of a long distance relationship
- Her first Vipassana Silent Meditation 10 day retreat, and her second...
- Discovering body image issues around her legs and hips. I could relate.
- Opening the Miami Life Center - It was NOT easy
- How she deals with haters
- The stereotypes around women being flexible and men stronger - Not necessarily true
- What took Kino a very long time to understand
