How To Do Power Yoga Video

Power yoga is a fitness-based approach to classical yoga. Power yoga classes focus on strength and flexibility. Learn about Power yoga in this yoga video lesson.

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Expect athletic yoga
Employ powerful poses
Hold poses longer

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this clip we're going to discuss power yoga. The term, power yoga, was coined by Beryl Bender Birch. She was a student of Pattabhi Jois, and because this style of yoga is very powerful, very energetic, very athletic, Beryl Bender Birch called it power yoga and the name stuck. It attracts type-A personalities who really want to get in there, get a big workout, sweat and move really fast and hard. So a power yoga class usually uses ujjayi breathing. It's a victorious breath that helps you come through the poses. You usually start with several sun salutations and then you build on poses from there. You do hold the pose and it is breath with movement, so breathe with movement and powerful poses. As all yogas, you seek the divine. So you use these yoga poses to connect your mind, body and breath so that you can make a better connection with the divine. Power yoga: very athletic, very energetic, really great for type-A personalities.

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