You will have opportunities to build strength, improve cardiovascular capacity, gain flexibility, and just have fun! We take your basic yoga sequences and turn up the volume a bit.
Try your best, but honor your body and be mindful of what you need your body to do the next day! Rest when you need it.
Do not feel like you have to do everything your teacher says to do. Even the modified versions of some poses are great for building strength and giving you a challenge. Experience in flow yoga is recommended, but if you’re a beginner we won’t turn you away! We just ask that you watch and take your time with the advanced positions until you are properly taught. The challenge is to keep a calm, steady, breath like you would in any yoga class. No, it is not heated! You create your own heat by continuously moving your body and syncing your movements with your breath. Baron Baptiste and others have also influenced the current mainstream attraction to this physical practice.Īt Refresh Yoga Center in Alexandria, Virginia we offer a strong, sweaty, power yoga flow. Many people credit Bryan Kest with creating “Power Yoga” in the 1980s. Vinyasa yoga is usually synonymous with flow yoga.Īlthough the Ashtanga tradition is quite vigorous on its own, some people found that they wanted to vary from the prescribed sequence of positions designated by its founder, Pattabi Jois. “Vinyasa” in the Western word is also used as an adjective meaning to flow, connect, or to place in a certain way.
In that form of yoga, those sun salutations are often called “vinyasas”.
BAPTISTE POWER YOGA SEQUENCE SERIES
Power Yoga originates from the Ashtanga tradition which is a set series of postures connected by Sun Salutations. What is a power yoga class? Across the yoga spectrum, this can mean a lot of different things.