I did a Google search on on "power yoga". First four entries--in order--were Bryan Kest's Power Yoga, "what is power yoga" on About.com, Baptiste Power Yoga Institute, and The Hard & The Soft Yoga Intitute (Beryl Bender Birch). Most of them credit Ashtanga yoga as the style that gave "birth" to power yoga. From About.com: "The term 'power yoga' came into common usage in the mid 1990s, when several yoga teachers were looking for a way to make Ashtanga yoga more accessible to western students. Unlike Ashtanga, power yoga does not follow a set series of poses. Therefore, any power yoga class can vary widely from the next. What they have in common is an emphasis on strength and flexibility. The advent of power yoga heralded yoga's current popularity, as people began to see yoga as a way to work out. Power yoga brought yoga into the gyms of America."
Both Bryan and Beryl have formal Ashtanga training from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Baptiste has an exclusive power yoga, like Bikram Yoga, that only he can certify teachers to teach it.
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- My first experience of yoga was a physical ed credit in college. I also have been active in taekwondo, skiing, snowboarding and soccer. A knee injury return my interest to yoga, and I was amazed at how good I felt after the classes--so much energy! My ability in other sports increased mentally and physically, I think injuries were prevented by my flexibility and strength from doing yoga. I found that my preferred form of yoga is Ashtanga. I continued yoga through two pregnancies and eventually received my certificate to teach yoga from Yoga Vermont. I now teach classes regularly at The Edge and within my community.
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