In order to bring Ashtanga to the masses, it would have to change a lot.īryan Kest simultaneously came up with the name Power Yoga. There is a lot of movement in Ashtanga Yoga, and you have to have a lot of flexibility to do many of the postures. There are six sequences in total, called series, and you must complete one before going on to the next. It’s a fixed sequence practice, meaning you do the same groups of postures every time. The critical phrase that Beryl picked up on is “ workout.” Ashtanga is tough stuff. Power yoga became “anything and everything.”.The emphasis was on a “serious workout” rather than mere stretching.In the beginning, Power Yoga was a modified Ashtanga Yoga practice.Because it wasn’t trademarked Power Yoga became anything and everything. He was on the West Coast I was on the East coast… Baron (Baptise) got the name from me. Byran Kest tried… We kind of both came up with the name at the same time. I could not trademark it, though I tried. She goes on to say, in an interview with J.
Power Yoga was simply a name, the name I came up with in the late ’80s to let people know that this Ashtanga yoga practice – unlike most of the yoga taught in the 70’s – was a serious workout… She would go through one more name “Yoga for athletes” before finally coming up with the winner, “Power Yoga.” You don’t stretch to warm up for running, or cycling or tennis…you’ve got to get sweating.”
To her credit, she modified the Ashtanga practice to meet people where they are and called it “Stretching and strengthening for athletes.” “ I thought it was such a fantastic practice for athletes. She noticed that “runners and athletes” were “ so tight no one could do the postures.” Two people get credit for coining the term- Beryl Bender Birch and Bryan Kest-in the late 1980s.īeryl, who wrote the book, Power Yoga, practiced and taught Ashtanga Yoga in New York. Power Yoga classes are active and frenetic like that one friend you had in school that stayed out all night because they wanted to “PARTY.” There is a heavy emphasis on standing postures because moving your legs gets your heart pumping-a key component of Power Yoga-cardio. When you think of a Power Yoga practice, think:
The creators saw it as a “gateway yoga” where you come for the abs but stay for the deeper prospect of yoga. What gets overlooked is Power Yoga never meant to become what it is today. One of the consequences of being successful is that it spawns variation, like Power Yoga. The explosion of yoga in the world and fact that it’s the number one group exercise Americans participate in (source: Mindbody Fitness in America report) says that Iyengar did it. BKS Iyengar set out to deliberately popularize yoga. Keep reading, and we’ll explore what Power Yoga is, where it came from, and the original intention behind it. “hot Power Yoga,” a.k.a “Baptiste Power Yoga”) Names of Power Yoga: Power yoga (a.k.a “Power Vinyasa Yoga,” a.k.a. It’s worth understanding Power Yoga because even though it’s one of the most prolific forms of yoga in the United States, it can be difficult to define and has more names than someone running from the law.
Why? Because it’s popular and athletic-the very definition of modern yoga. Even if you never heard of it, odds are it’s affecting the way you think about and practice yoga.
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