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 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 […]
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 […]
Play Within The Thorns & The Roses
I was excited to head to BIG in Houston, TX, to help Jenny Noonan with the Baptiste Kid’s Yoga Teacher Training Program. I always look forward to being on program, and I was very focused on being able to create with Jenny, but also how I was to bring it back to Albany, NY this […]
Why Being of Power?
A lot can happen in just one day. For example, take Being Of Power : an all-day intensive taking place one month from today, at Baptiste Yoga San Francisco. It’s a relatively new program, designed for anybody and everybody wanting to create a shift in their life. We decided to ask Suzie Newcome – Owner […]
What Really Happened At Level One For Me
At the end of January I was laid off from my 9-5 desk job in downtown San Francisco. Some people would be really upset about such a big life change, but for me it was an opportunity. Not only was I miserable working at a desk at a job where I had no passion, but […]
Perfectly Imperfect Review by: Chris Jankus
Review of Perfectly Imperfect: The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice by Baron Baptiste “This book will shine new light on your journey, ignite your practice with new power, inspire new possibilities for growth, and infuse your life with the grace and confidence you seek.” —Baron Baptiste I was first introduced to Baron Baptiste over […]
What You Say Is So
There’s a story about two baseball umpires talking about a more seasoned umpire. One of the umpires says to the other, “Old Bill is a master. There are balls and there are strikes, and he calls them like they are.” The other umpire responds, “Yes, Bill is a master umpire…there’s balls and there are strikes, […]
Be Where You Are
We live in a world that teaches the importance of ambition, efficiency, expediency, getting things done to produce the quickest results. It does not teach or encourage us to relax and just be where we are. In fact, if we are not crazy active and doing a million different things, we get labeled as lazy […]
Leveling Up Our Accountability
To bring a new level of possibility into existence, we must develop a whole new capacity to be accountable. Accountability is accepting 100 percent responsibility for taking effective and productive action within a domain and accounting for your actions. There are two aspects to accountability—what it is to have an accountability, and what it is […]