Lifting Up Into A Handstand from Tittibhasana with Kino MacGregor

If you’re looking for yoga videos that will show you the perfect way for you to start your yoga journey then Kino MacGregor’s yoga channel is perfect for you! Whether you are new to yoga or an advanced yoga student you will find a full yoga library with all the yoga postures that you need to develop a complete yoga practice. Yoga is more than just a physical practice yoga is a lifestyle that includes living a peaceful life. Living the yoga lifestyle is about yoga practice, inner peace, yoga diet and being a good person on and off your yoga mat. Kino is a yoga teacher, author of three books, international teacher, writer, blogger, online yoga class teacher, IG yoga challenge host and much more. She co-founded Miami Life Center and Miami Yoga Magazine as well as produced six Ashtanga Yoga DVDs. Practice yoga, change your world one breath at a time. Kino believes that yoga is a vehicle for each student to experience the limitless potential of the human spirit. You don’t have to be strong or flexible to begin the yoga practice, all you need is an open heart and the inspiration to practice yoga. Unroll your mat and do the practice!

[ramachandrant]

Unbelievable tutorial kino... It's highly motivated to

[danthemanholt]

This hatha yoga demonstrator had a really good talking style where you could feel this stillness in his slower speech tempo, and you felt in the moment as he was doing it. It wasn't tiring or low energy like other tempos, but I didn't see his physical yoga demonstration, but I did see his meditation and visualization demonstration which was really good. You appear to be the best in body movements and explanation of body in the world.

[skyeberspace]

This is a great breakdown... Just the inspiration I need to bounce back from my hip operation... slowly, mindfully practicing 'ahimsa to self' of course! What if you lack the upper body strength in the transfer of weight fwd? Build up a shelf for the head so it becomes a bit more like sirsasana?

[dimensionyoga]

it is said when michaelangelo was painting the sistine chapel, looking up and painting for countless hours, this made his head and cervical spine somewhat stuck/fixed in this head back and looking upwards position for years, wherein he also had to read all letters and books in that position also. thanks for all the vids

[danthemanholt]

This type of speed yoga is very good. Also a slower type of yoga that's calming but with the same level of body movement quality and focus also has it's benefits. It's like hot and cold energy. I'd say the speedy type of yoga is good for overall conditioning and the slower type of yoga is to get better prepared for meditation, it's also good for beginners, and it's also good for those that need to go back and refine their movements as when they go fast they miss working certain body areas.

[jasonliu]

what a wonderful demonstration . you are amazing.

Please show Tony Yu, my friend while you are in HK next year.
I will do all I can to accompany him to your work shop there.
Regards,
Jason

[danthemanholt]

You'd do side twists for both sides. For pushups when you get really good at them do finger pushups, then one arm pushups, then with advanced do handstand pushups but first just do pushups only, then do both if you're advanced enough. Later do finger one hand pushups. Pullups are good too if you have a bar, have someone hold the legs for beginners. A neck bridge routine is also really good moving on all angles. Plyometrics are great for rapidly developing joints when advanced in calisthenics.

[yogatrina]

Hi Kino. This is very helpful. Thank you.

[FayeWolf]

Kino, I stumbled across this video and you about 4 months ago and honestly just wanted something to keep my flexibility going. You have totally gotten me hooked on your very helpful techniques into yoga positions and I just wanted to say thank you. I can now lift myself up and just about get straight legs :) Need to practice dedication and persistence and find a way of not giving up so quickly now! Any ideas? Wish I was joining my sister at Wanderlust now. But am 1000's of miles away from USA.

[danthemanholt]

You stretch with every movement like this in all of the different regions. It's also good to do basic calisthenics like full body squats and pushups (or half pushups which you can do on your knees with a pillow). People don't teach it right and you may not allow it but a good crunch/situp/leg raise/side twist set in that calisthenic routine is good too. You would do just 1 set to failure for each exercise.

[deekaphayoga]

when you say hooking toes to your upper wrist, do you need to engage the toes a lot in order to get the grip before releasing and lifting? Thank you KIno... still trying hard on those lifting techniques!! Transfer weights is not as easy as it looks like!

[danthemanholt]

Each exercise would be spaced from 1 to 6 minutes apart. With 4 max repititions do 6 minutes apart from the next repitition range, for 8 to 12 max repititions do 3 minutes apart from the next repitition range, and for for 20+ max repititions you can do 1 minute apart from the next repitition range. You can also do one legged full squats when you're advanced, but keep a strong hip posture where your back is straight all the way down with heels planted on the ground even with full two legged.

[bongapendo]

That is so cool. Thanks for the tutorial. :)

[danthemanholt]

Do this before the yoga stretching routine as you don't want to work the muscles after stretching since those stretching muscles are sore, and if you do that then you'll injure your muscles. You always want to stretch the muscles afterwards, same with doing weightlifting as you want to do yoga afterwards. You can also use a thick rolling pad on the whole body to loosen up the muscles with slow breathing. I'd recommend to do calisthenics twice a week 2-3 days apart from eachother with yoga daily.

[Javierdza]

That would be really helpful for some of us!

[danthemanholt]

You'd have to see it done as I don't haven't seen your slower videos but when going slower you talk with a calming rythmic pace to get a good mental energy going. You don't want to be sluggish when you're doing this and you still focus on the quality of the movement, you do the main key moves when you do this to condition the mind for it.

[inhabitantofearth]

thats so cool! :) im still trying to learn how to kickup into a handstand without the wall. it's still kinda scary.

[deekaphayoga]

Thank you very much. I will work on it... it will be a long way until I can at least 'transfer' my weight! x

[danthemanholt]

Such as what do you do for your feet when they get sore?

[danthemanholt]

Hold the stretches at the points that they challenge you. There's good pain and bad pain, you want to feel the good pain unless you've mastered the movement to where there's no pain. If there's bad pain you're doing something wrong.