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Summary: Wake up the power inside yourself
Review: Baron Baptiste is an amazing yoga teacher. While I've only done one of his yoga videos, his technique is superior to all others.
Journey into Power offers a condensed version of Baron Baptiste's weeklong "Bootcamp" and gives readers the tools for complete physical, mental, and spiritual transformation, including: *Rewiring your thinking, because all change begins in the mind.
*Daily power Vinyasa Yoga practice, the heart of the program.
*Cleansing diet habits, which includes "water-rich" foods and how to live to be 100 by breathing more and eating less.
*Meditations for truthful living.
*10-minute tune-ups that help you boost energy, get centered, de-stress, and much more! For anyone who is interested in yoga or improving their health and wellbeing, this is a book for you.
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Summary: Excellent for developing or enhancing a home yoga practice
Review: I've been practicing yoga at home for a little over two years without ever taking a class. In an effort to enhance my home practice, including perfecting my form and moving into some more challenging poses, I previewed many different yoga books from the library, and Journey Into Power is the one I eventually purchased. In this book, Baron does an excellent job of explaining how to incorporate a regular yoga practice into your life. Although the book is broken into several sections, including one on a cleasing diet, what I found most helpful was his descriptions of the poses (asanas) themselves. Baron groups the poses into about 12 different categories--sun salutations 1 & 2, balancing poses, hip openers, abdominals, backbends, etc--and then explains how to either mix and match the groupings when time is limited or do the entire 90 minute program. In his explanations of the individual poses, Baron is clear, precise, and thorough. He begins with a "connecting vinyasa" which explains exactly how to move from one pose to the next. For each pose, Baron talks about setup, allignment, breathing, risk factors, and finally, a suggestion for meditation. What hooked me on the book is that after I read his instructions for Crow pose--a challenging arm balancing pose--I was immediately able to do the pose for the very first time! Baron's descriptive style reminds of Brooke Siler's in The Pilates Body, as he has a similar enouraging and non-intimidating manner. If you are looking to develop or enhance a home yoga practice, you will not be disappointed in this book--and at this great amazon.com price, how can you lose?
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Summary: Great on the yoga, however some parts questionable
Review: This book is predominantly about yoga with small chapters on diet and meditation. The yoga section of the book is excellent. The book covers power yoga, which is a very vigorous, dynamic form of yoga that is quite demanding on the body. All the poses are illustrated using colour photographs. These are accompanied by very detailed descriptions. Each pose has a section on proper body alignment, risk factors, suggested modifications and a "spiritual focus". The text gives a description of how to connect the poses together and overall I was very impressed with this part of the book. The nutrition section of the book is also very sound on the whole. Baptiste doesn't prescribe a diet as such but provides sound guidelines on how to improve your eating habits. However he talks a lot about going through a "detox" which involves eating only fruit. I find this questionable and I don't believe it is backed up by any logic or research. The section on meditation is good reading especially if you haven't done any sort of meditation before. It offers some very practical advice that will help you get through the hectic pace of modern day lifestyle. As a yoga book I was very happy with my purchase. Almost all of the information is very valuable, and aside from a few minor points in the nutrition section this book is thoroughly and wholeheartedly recommended for anyone interested in vigorous yoga.
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Summary: PJ
Review: This is a largly contrived and shallow look at yoga (as are baptiste's other books) but it is helpfull with some postures.
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