My Baptiste Yoga Journey
It all began in February 2012. Flashback to my first yoga teacher training in 2011. My first training was an Ashtanga-based Vinyasa teacher training; I learned how to teach asana and practice meditation. I learned in depth yoga history and philosophy. I discovered new things about myself that I knew needed work but I was […]
Finding My Real Voice At Level One
I attended Level One training in February 2016 in Sedona, AZ. The location is stunning, and a perfect backdrop to an intensive 7 day yoga training. What I didn’t realize that first day is how much this program would impact me in ways that I never thought it could; mind, body and spirit. And, it […]
A Perfectly Imperfect Approach To 40 Days
Most of the Baptiste family seems to be either beginning, middle-ing, or ending a 40 Day to Personal Revolution program within their individual communities around the world. I’ve completed about five revolutions in seven years. They’ve all looked differently, of course, depending on my life at the time. I’ve done them with others at my […]
Finding Confidence at Level One Training
I attended Level One the summer before my senior year of college. At that point in my life, I was a master compartmentalizer. I kept going back to yoga because I loved the physical practice and it helped me move through whatever was upsetting me, even if just for the duration of the practice. I […]
Five Ways To Up Your Yoga Teaching Game in 2016
We yoga teachers are growth addicts. We love transformation, both ours and others’. The clean-slate-ness that comes with a brand new year has us tasting the next big breakthrough more than ever. We’re energized and inspired to take action in our teaching, to bring it to the next level. So how? Once I know what […]
When You Think You Know, Go To Level One
I went into Level One like I knew exactly what to expect. It seemed like the next logical step in my yoga practice: I had recently graduated a 200-hour training, I was working as a teacher in a dynamic studio and contributing as a leader in my yoga community. I had everything all lined up. […]
How Level One Changed My Teaching
Once upon a time, there was a yoga teacher who had it all figured out. She had the Journey Into Power sequence memorized word for word. She knew all of the True North Alignment cues from top to bottom, off the top of her head. She filled all of the silence in her classes with […]
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends: Art of Assisting Weekend
Contributed by Julie Mathers, co-owner of Evolution Power Yoga . — On an early, cold fall morning, four yogis from Evolution Power Yoga headed off in the dark for a five hour drive to Rochester, NY for Art of Assisting. With a loaded iPod and a trunk filled with mats and blocks, we were on […]
The Magic Of An All Day Immersion
All Day? An ALL DAY Immersion? Are you kidding? Why should I spend a day immersing myself with Baron Baptiste when I have so much I have to get done before Thanksgiving? I had just completed a 200-hour Power Vinyasa Teacher Training at a local studio here in Dallas when my teacher mentioned this guy; […]
What “You Are Ready Now” Really Means
“Are you ready?!” I must’ve heard this question at least 200 times over the last month, as the first Baptiste Yoga partnership studio was preparing to open in San Francisco. I was about to give up my routine to step into a bigger role leading new teachers, in a brand new space, which would share […]