Living the Five Pillars Off the Mat
Baptiste Yoga doesn’t end when you roll up your mat. The Five Pillars are not concepts — they are tools for living awake. Breath – Regulate Your Energy Use Ujjayi to stay grounded in stress, emotion, and uncertainty. Heat – Commit With Integrity Tapas shows up as discipline, honesty, and follow-through. Flow – Adapt With […]
Gaze: Drishti – The focus behind every powerful movement
Drishti is the focus behind every powerful movement — the intentional placement of your gaze that directs your energy, steadies your mind, and anchors your presence. How to Practice Drishti (Step by Step) 1. Choose a single, steady point of focus.In balance postures, this might be a spot on the floor or wall. In seated […]
Flow: Vinyasa — The Art of Connected Movement
Flow is the essence of Vinyasa — the seamless linking of breath and action that brings you into presence. It’s not choreography.It’s the practice of rhythm, intention, and embodied awareness. What Is Vinyasa? Vinyasa means “to place in a special way” — movement coordinated with breath, intention, and awareness. In Baptiste Yoga, Vinyasa shows up […]
Heat: Tapas — The Fire That Transforms You From the Inside Out
Tapas is the internal heat of Baptiste Yoga — the disciplined, intentional fire that wakes you up to possibility. It’s the heat that sharpens your focus, burns through resistance, and reminds you that transformation isn’t an accident. It’s a choice. When you learn to work with Tapas instead of against it, your practice becomes a […]
Journey Into Power: A Path to Transformation
Level One: Journey Into Power is more than a training — it’s an invitation to wake up to what’s possible.Created by Baron Baptiste, this foundational program is the heart of Baptiste Yoga: a powerful blend of physical practice, meditation, and self-inquiry that calls you to lead yourself and others from clarity, courage, and purpose. At […]
What Is Baptiste Power Yoga? A Complete Guide from Baron Baptiste
What Is Baptiste Power Yoga? It’s a question I hear often, and the answer is this: it’s not just another style of yoga. Baptiste Power Yoga is a modern methodology—a practice designed to wake you up, strip away what no longer serves you, and reconnect you to your personal power. This approach blends physical asana, […]
Baron Baptiste on Resilience
Life doesn’t always go the way we want it to. We get knocked down. We hit walls. We face resistance. The question is not if challenges will come—it’s how you respond when they do. Resilience is not something you’re born with. It’s something you build. And the same principles that carry you through a tough […]
The Sacred Space Between
We live in a world of constant noise—buzzing phones, endless scrolling, and the pull of a million distractions. But the truth is, life doesn’t happen in the noise. It happens in the space between. The Sacred Space Between is what you enter when you put the phone down, slow down, and actually show up. It’s […]
Practice in the Pause
Pause doesn’t mean stop. It means presence. It means noticing when you’re drifting—and choosing to come back. The Sacred Space Between The pause is the space between breaths, between thoughts, between choices. Most of us rush right past it. We fill every gap with noise, with movement, with the next thing. But in that tiny […]
Stop Waiting, Start Living
So many people live waiting: Waiting for the perfect time. Waiting until they feel ready. Waiting until life slows down. But the truth is, life doesn’t wait. Your power, your possibility, your purpose—it’s available right now. Not tomorrow. Not someday. Now. This practice is about waking up to that reality and living it. – Step […]