Power Yoga is one of several forms of energetic form of yoga evolved in India. These include forms derived from Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and body weight exercises. It was practiced in India in mysore city. Patabhi Jois brought power yoga to the west especially to America. Power yoga can involve classic yoga postures mixed with body weight training. It brings that calmness of yoga mixed with the intensity of various exercises.
History
Power Yoga began in the 1990s with "nearly simultaneous invention" by two students of
K. Pattabhi Jois, and similar forms led by other yoga teachers including
Larry Schultz
Larry Schultz (November 14, 1950 – February 27, 2011) was an American yoga teacher who was a long-time student of the founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, K. Pattabhi Jois. Schultz is primarily recognized as the creator of Rocket Yoga, a style der ...
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Rocket Yoga
Larry Schultz (November 14, 1950 – February 27, 2011) was an American Yoga as exercise, yoga teacher who was a long-time student of the founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, K. Pattabhi Jois. Schultz is primarily recognized as the creator of Rocket ...
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created what ''
Yoga Journal
''Yoga Journal'' is a website and digital journal, formerly a print magazine, on yoga as exercise founded in California in 1975 with the goal of combining the essence of traditional yoga with scientific understanding. It has produced live events ...
'' calls "the original Power Yoga"
in 1995.
Bryan Kest
Bryan Kest (born 1964) is an American yoga teacher. Recognized as the creator of one form of Power Yoga, he is the founder of Santa Monica Power Yoga, based in Santa Monica, California. Kest has led yoga classes, retreats and workshops worldwide. ...
, who studied
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga under K. Pattabhi Jois, and
Baron Baptiste, a
Bikram enthusiast, separately put their own spins on the style, and branded it. Neither Baron Baptiste's Power Yoga nor Bryan Kest's Power Yoga are synonymous with Ashtanga Yoga.
In 1995, Jois wrote a letter to ''Yoga Journal'' expressing his disappointment at the association between his Ashtanga Yoga, and the newly coined style "power yoga", referring to it as "ignorant bodybuilding".
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There are several separate institutes which each teach their own forms of 'Power Yoga'.
The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute(Beryl Bender Birch)
Power Yoga(Bryan Kest)
Baptiste Institute(Baron Baptiste)
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