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Finding Your True North Through Yoga – Baron Baptiste : 991

Oct 27, 2022

Baron Baptiste, a renowned yoga master and author, shares insights gained from over 30 years in the field. He emphasizes yoga's potential for inner transformation beyond mere fitness. The conversation explores the integration of Eastern wisdom with Western fitness principles, showcasing how personal growth ties to body awareness and mindful living. Baron discusses the significance of sequencing in yoga practices, the importance of hydration, and encourages self-empowerment rather than reliance on gurus. His transformative approach can shift perspectives on health and well-being.

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Yoga Pioneers

Baron Baptiste's parents were yoga pioneers, opening the first yoga center in San Francisco in the early 1950s.
His father, a former bodybuilder, integrated Eastern and Western physical culture principles.

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East Meets West

Baron's father transitioned from bodybuilding to yoga, integrating Eastern mindfulness with Western physical training.
He believed in optimizing the human body, potential, and mindset.

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Yoga's Westernization

The Westernized yoga we practice today blends traditional yoga with gymnastics and calisthenics.
This fusion originated in Mysore, India, where Krishnamacharya integrated British gymnastics into his teachings.

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… you’ll learn how a yoga practice can be a vehicle for inner transformation. This conversation looks past the popularity of yoga as a fitness trend and into its deeper potential for human development. You’ll also learn how yoga can be a way for you to explore your whole being—from physicality to emotions to thinking.

“A yoga practice often can be the missing ingredient for people,” says renowned yoga master Baron Baptiste. “Often I hear, ‘I added yoga practice to my routine and regimen, and it just shifted everything for me.’ It's a very different way of working your body, mind and breath integration.”

Baron devotes his own life to the study and practices of human development. For more than 30 years, he’s facilitated education through yoga principles and teachings.

His power vinyasa yoga— The Baptiste Methodology—includes the physical (asana), meditation (dhyana) and inquiry (niyama).

“Iyengar was one of my primary teachers,” Baron says. “One thing I borrowed from him is the rigor to a body alignment—a True North Alignment.”

Baptiste Yoga is a systematic approach made up of 53 poses, or asanas, that are linked together by connective momentum and consist of five classical pillars: Drishti (gaze), ujjayi (breath), bandhas (foundation), tapas (heat) and vinyasa (flow).

More about Baron Baptiste: Baron began to seriously study yoga at age 12. As the son of two of America's yoga pioneers, he’s got a great life story that highlights the transformative power of yoga. He trained extensively in all the major traditions before beginning to teach yoga in Los Angeles in the late 80s and creating Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga in the mid-90s. He’s worked with celebrities, Olympians and professional athletes. He founded the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute that reaches people around the world. Baron’s also a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, Emmy-award film maker and public speaker.

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