Kino MacGregor, an amazing Ashtanga Yoga Instructor teaching out of the Miami Life Center in Miami Beach, Florida, explains how to view our physical limitations. She does a great job outlining how to meet ourselves where we are, in the now, on a physical as well as on an emotional level. It is the suppression of feelings and pushing the body far beyond its capabilities that causes emotional suffering (often leading to obsession) and injury.
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Lavender
10/28/2014 10:36:40 pm
First of all, props to Kino for sharing her passion and knowledge of ashtanga yoga. She deserves a lot of credit and respect for what she's doing. I understand there are lots of people who object to her image, but I don't have a problem with that at all. My issue is more of her hypocritical manner when talking about "ahimsa" or the principle of "not harming." She talks about this at length in her book and in interviews. But check out this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F80lyRHxNDg) where she totally contradicts herself. HelloYoga in Japan did an interview with Kino on September 29, 2011. Around the video's 13:00 to 14:00 minute mark, she says she doesn't consume meat bc she loves animals and abides by ahimsa, therefore she's vegetarian. Then around the 16:42 mark, she talks about how she loves shopping and how many beautiful shoes she's bought on her trip to Japan. I guess she has no problem with how the leftover skin of animals killed for food is used to make beautiful shoes...as long as she doesn't actually consume the meat herself. Rather hypocritical, if you ask me. Or maybe all those shoes she bought are made of pleather. Somehow I doubt it.
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