Journey Into Power : How to Sculpt Your Ideal Body, Free your True Self and Transform your Life with Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga
Product Description
Wake up the power inside
and turn your life around!
Whether you are looking to lose weight, trying to increase your strength and stamina, hoping to sharpen your mental edge, or seeking to go deeper within, Journey into Power can take you there. Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga isn’t just the ultimate workout, it’s the ultimate life transformation program. In this unique and inspiring book, Baron Baptiste, one of the world’s most dynamic and sought-after… More >>
This is a largly contrived and shallow look at yoga (as are baptiste’s other books) but it is helpfull with some postures.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have been practicing yoga for quite a few years now. I can’t begin to fathom, knowing what I know about the principles of yoga, how the yoga world puts up with Baron Baptiste. Mere pages into the book it’s quite obvious that the man is an unapologetic narcissist – rumor has it he’s a misogynist to boot.
Save your money and buy a book by someone who respects yoga, and wouldn’t take a … advance to write about it (like Baptiste did).
Better yet, if you want to experience power yoga without the ego, buy one of Bryan Kest’s new DVDs. He’s fantastic, and refreshingly unobsessed with himself.
Rating: 1 / 5
this is a Great Yoga Book , I didn’t remember I paid that price though,its basically like his tapes just longer, good explanation and beautiful pictures too. I didn’t bother to finish, but there also a chapter about diet and meditation.
Rating: 5 / 5
hippy bla, bla. he knows his yoga poses though.
Also, in the back of the book there is a chapter on nutrition. The 7 day cleanse really does make you feel better. If only to try the cleanse, buy this book.
Rating: 3 / 5
The name of his brand of Ashtanga Yoga says it all, despite his denials – the man’s a raving ego-maniac. The actual yoga is OK, but his rationalizations about “finding your own way” the way he did, to arrive at what he “modestly” says “others may call enlightenment” is just skin-deep, self-indulgent self-infatuation. He doesn’t even acknowledge the sources of his teachings; it’s as though he invented yoga de novo. My advice is to skip it and go to a book that at least pays tribute to the 1500 or more year-old yoga traditions, and to the rediscover of Ashtanga Vinyasa, Krishnamacharya, his students, Desikachar and Iyengar, and those who brought it to the West — Van Lysbeth, Norman Allen, and David Williams. A really good one is “Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice” by David Swenson.
Rating: 2 / 5