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Tim Fedlmann and Kino Macgregor DATE TRANSCRIBED: February 25, 2015 TRANSCRIBED BY: Liz Lawler PROJECT: Ashtanga Dispatch INTERVIEW WITH: Tim Fedlmann and Kino MacGregor DATE TRANSCRIBED: February 25, 2015 TRANSCRIBED BY: Liz Lawler PM [intro]: Hey everyone, it’s Peg Mulqueen with your latest episode of the Ashtanga Dispatch podcast. As Ashtanga’s most familiar and easily recognizable couple, Tim Feldmann and Kino MacGregor, couldn’t be any more different. Kino, at barely five feet definitely wears the pink shorts in the family. The youngest woman to receive certification to teach Ashtanga yoga, Kino just broke through another ceiling, by receiving the first posture of Fifth Series just this month in Mysore. Kino has made it her personal mission to introduce as many students on a global level to the Ashtanga yoga method as she possibly can. Live, in print, or in video, it’s safe to say, Kino yoga reaches millions of students a day, through books, blogs, videos, and of course, Instagram challenges. Then there’s Tim, who Kino has affectionately dubbed, the “Mayor of Mysore,” because of the way he always stops and talks to everyone. You’re more likely to find Tim chatting up philosophy over coffee than writing it up in a blog. And most of his selfies involve either a motorcycle or Kino, though preferably both. Truth is, Tim didn’t even realize the interview was being recorded, though it’s doubtful even if he had he would have changed a thing. You see as an accomplished dancer and acclaimed choreographer, Tim knows a thing or two about performance. He just doesn’t. He’s much prefer connecting with people and students personally, and in a very real way, like in the Mysore room. So, while Kino trots the globe, spreading her message, Tim stays closer to home, teaching at Miami Life Center, the studio they founded together in 2006 and he now runs. But here’s the thing I think you’ll realize as I did from this podcast, they are also very much the same. We chatted via FaceTime one early Saturday morning for them, late Friday evening for me, just after their practice in Mysore India with their teacher, Sharath Jois. They are both passionate about living a spiritual life and sharing this message and themselves, whether it’s on a screen or in the yoga room, with millions, or simply over coffee, or even over a phone call that turns out to be a podcast. Meet one of Ashtanga’s coolest couples, Tim Feldmann and Kino MacGregor. PM: So, I’m a little star struck. [all laugh] Is that terrible to admit? TF: No! KM: No! PM: [laughs] Although Tim, you know, you were the first person, the first to ever call me a “bad lady.” TF: Is that right? PM: Yes, yes. TF: Getting lots of that since? PM: Um, I’ve had a few, yeah. TF: But you also know that that is like an affectionate term in our line of, of work, right? PM: I’m hoping so, endearment? [laughs] TF: Yes. PM: So, how is Mysore right now? TF: Um- KM: Good. TF: It’s great to be here, lots of people, we are in the early batch, which is-, which I think we don’t like so much because we wake up at two in the morning. But it’s maybe the best, because it means that you don’t, you know, people at the seven o’clock shift, they wait for an hour, hour and a half before they get in. PM: Oh, wow. TF: And for [INAUDIBLE] kinda go straight in, so that’s, it’s kinda like. KM: There are some benefits about practicing early. PM: I cannot believe that I have the two of you together and it’s what time? KM: Uh… TF: Over here it is uh… KM: 6:15. TF: 6:15. No, 6:45. PM: 6:45, it’s late! TF: We’re on shala time here, so it’s half an hour, 27 minutes ahead. PM: Watching the two of you and your schedules, and knowing uh that the two of you kinda do something that is pretty amazing and that’s you hold a home base, plus you have a global following. TF: Yeah, she’s still like, a little jealous about my Instagram amount of followers but… PM: I know. TF: Work it baby, work it, you’ll get there. PM: [laughs] Oh my gosh, you are funny. How did you guys meet? TF: Do you want the short version or long version? PM: I want whatever version you’ll tell me. KM: The long version’s in my book. TF: This is the long version-, this is the short version. The short version is we met in Trivandrum airport on the way down to practice with Lino in the end of 2002 at Christmas. And we were the luggage band and Kino, she walked over to me and she said, “are you doing that uh, yoga thing?” And I said, yes. And I said, is it your first time here? She said, yes. I said, follow me, baby I know everything… [INAUDIBLE] PM: [laughs] TF: Not that, but something like that. I said, I know where to get a taxi. KM: Yeah, I said, do you wanna share a taxi? TF: And we shared a taxi and we were in one of these old Indian Ambassadors, which looks like Persian nightclub inside. And uh, that was when the disco bells started ringing. KM: [laughs] PM: I like this version. How long ago was that? TF: Uh, that is uh, 14-, 12 years ago. PM: Wow. TF: We’ve been together fucking 12 years, man. KM: We weren’t together right away. TF: Then we had a half-, we met there and then we didn’t see each other for half a year. Then we have been together since, but… PM: Wow, and like I said, the two of you seem to be, to me, so different. KM: Yeah, yeah. I think we’re [INAUDIBLE]. TF: Yes. KM: Like, Tim likes home remodeling a lot. TF: And I like to comb my hair. PM: [laughs] And you’re not at all funny. Oh my gosh. So, how does it work though? I’m gonna tell you, I was talking to uh, David and Stan and they were talking about um, David was actually saying that he can’t imagine having a partner who wasn’t an ashtangi. And that you know, that kinda makes some of the crazy stuff, hours that you keep and those sorts of things, understandable. On the other hand, I wonder how you do it, having the two of you. I mean, it seems like you’re lives are so busy that it must be so hard, you know, to be in different places a lot and trying to juggle studio and you know, Instagram and travel schedules and all of that stuff. KM: I would say the hardest thing was when we were trying to do everything together. And we were trying to like, come to a consensus on every single decision and that sort of thing. PM: Yeah. KM: I think that was the most difficult and since I think that was a big, probably learning process for us, at least it was for me. And I would imagine also for our relationship, just to understand that like, you know, that it’s good for us to have our own sort of areas of economy and areas where we’re not needing to, like come to a consensus to just move a little bit forward and make decisions. So to have those distinct areas, I think is really important, or has been for us. TF: I think when we opened up Miami Life Center together, when I moved to Miami, the first five years, we ran it together. We founded it originally together with Greg Nardi and then, after three years about, he left and then-. But those five years, we ran it together. And I think what we realized was that we want very different things from this. We’re working this whole yogic paradigm very different. I think it would be fair to say that Kino is more interested in a mainstream approach and I think, correct me if I’m wrong Kino, like, Kino’s genius lies in that she is able and willing to implement mainstream mechanics into this ancient form of spiritual conquest. And I think I am not as interested in that at all. Coming from a background in the arts, I never really enjoyed so much even these promotional periods we had to go through. So, coming to yoga, I was not interested in that. And I think we clashed, we banged head on that for a while. And then after five years, then I left Miami Life Center for two years, and Kino ran it and didn’t have to ask my like, oh, can we you know, can we sell pink shorts in the yoga shop? You know, and stuff like that. And then, Kino, in the meantime, got so really, really busy her Kino Yoga was really, really kicking off. So, then it made most sense for her to focus on that and she was trying to figure out what the heck to do with Miami Life Center and I thought well, maybe this is interesting for me to come back and take a look at that and kinda recreate what I had always wanted it to be. So I teamed up with my friend Matt Tashjian and we have been running it the last year and a half, pretty much without Kino.
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