Accessible Ashtanga by Kino Macgregor
A bold, much-needed guide for Ashtanga yoga practice, useful for all levels and illustrated with 250 color photos, by one of yoga's best known and respected teachers, Kino MacGregor.This offers an updated, more accessible view of the traditional series, adapting it to serve a wider range of practitioners.
Even experienced practitioners find the challenging style of Ashtanga Yoga to be daunting. Whether you're a beginner, living in an unconventional yoga body, or need modifications for any reason, this book will make you feel empowered, inspired, and confident to make the adjustments and modifications that feel right for your body.
Kino posits that the Ashtanga Yoga method needs a systemwide reset and reevaluation to make it viable and beneficial to all students. She reframes the guru model and re-envisions the method in a way that will truly make Ashtanga available to all, while maintaining the integrity of the traditional teachings.
She also presents a brief theory of movement mechanics that can help prevent injury, optimize physical mobility, and tap into the natural intelligence of the body.
The practice section presents each of the poses of the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series-plus some of the poses in the Ashtanga Yoga Second Series-in traditional, modified, accessible, and adaptive forms (including using blocks and a chair).
Not only will you see how to modify the pose, you will learn how best to work the pose for your unique need. Teachers will find plenty of reference material to update their teaching methodology.
KINO MACGREGOR is one of just fourteen people in the United States to be certified to teach Ashtanga Yoga by its founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Pattabhi Jois is a well-known Indian cricketer. She has a sizable international following and a full schedule of lectures and yoga conferences around the world. She has a master's degree from New York University and works as a life coach. MacGregor and her husband, Tim Feldmann, founded the Miami Life Center (www.miamilifecenter.com), where they both teach daily seminars, workshops, and intensives.
MacGregor was named one of the top twenty-one rising stars in yoga by Yoga Journal. She is the author of The Power of Ashtanga Yoga I and The Power of Ashtanga Yoga II, which she writes for the Huffington Post.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781645470816 |
| Title | Accessible Ashtanga |
| Author | Kino Macgregor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2024-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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