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Accessible Ashtanga

An All-Levels Guide to the Primary and Intermediate Series

by Kino MacGregor
Shanna Small
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​​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.

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    August 27, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780834845572

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      • ISBN: 9780834845572
      • File size: 42931 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from July 1, 2024

      Omstars yoga TV network founder MacGregor (Act of Love) integrates her long history as a yoga practitioner with the work of body liberation in a book that respects yoga's history and complex lineages while gracefully reshaping aspects of the practice. Her recognition that yoga can be made accessible for all bodies through student-centered approaches was inspired by her own knee-replacement surgery, which made her consider the barriers--visible and invisible--that have historically made Ashtanga yoga's benefits inaccessible to a wide audience. Ashtanga is typically a vigorous and continuous sequence of poses and breathwork, but MacGregor demonstrates how to make it inclusive. The 250 color photos show the author in full asana sequences as well as models demonstrating how to modify or individualize the poses for newcomers or people with physical disabilities. VERDICT This valuable addition to the literature on inclusive fitness is a carefully conceived and well-laid-out guide to Ashtanga yoga. It encourages practitioners of all levels to view yoga as a key to unlocking their bodies, changing a practice that might previously have been closed to them because of their race, gender, class, ability, or size.--Emily Bowles

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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