Baptiste Power of Yoga

Sherri Baptiste Freeman
Year Released: 2002

Categories: Yoga


Let me start off by saying that at some points during this workout the filming is a little jerky. Not a biggy but for the money I paid at Amazon, I would have expected something a little more porfessional. It is a unique practise and IMHO, a good one

All in all, I did like this practise. There is quite a long warmup:
Standing in Tadasana
Urdhva Hastasana
Breath attention with stretching upper body
Prithvi Mudra (Fire & Earth),
Victory Squats (Jyasana)
Ujjayi pranayama,
heaven and earth
Yoga Mudra, etc.

Then on to standing poses, back poses, more standing poses, abdominal poses, relaxation and if you choose, a 20 minute meditation practise:

Moving Lunges
Uttihita Parsvakonasana
Standing Splits to Pidgeon Pose
down to cobra
Warrior I to Prayer Twist
Locust Series
Tortoise pose (Koormasana)Dhanurasana
Childs Pose
Half Plank
Full Plank
Childs Pose
Warrior III with 3 variations
Warrior Series
Cat stretch
V Pose to boat pose
table pose series
boat pose again
abdominal series
Spinal Twists
Back release series
bridge
Full Wheel
More back release
Corpse pose
Meditation

I may have missed a few poses. With the standing poses you are mostly doing a vinyasa before coming into them. Corpse pose is short and leads directly to the Meditation. If you don't want the meditation practise then turn off the DVD VHS and just relax in corpse.

I do like this practise and it is challenging. I find it very relaxing and the standing poses are invigorating. I feel quite good when done. This is not Power Yoga. It is not like Baron's yoga at all. So if you are expecting a fast paced practise you won't get it here. Sherri spends time with many of the poses by doing variations of them before you go into the full pose; preparatory and like a mini warm up. There are lots of Downward dogs to rest in.

There is much focus on the breath through this hatha yoga practise. Some woo-woo as well. This is an intermediate practise and could appeal as well to the advanced yogini.

Lori M

10/05/2004