Sherri Baptiste
Sherri Baptiste is the author of Yoga with Weights for Dummies (Wiley Publishers). The daughter of American yoga and physical culture pioneers Walt and Magaña Baptiste, she has been associated with yoga since she took her first baby steps or assumed her first lotus position, whichever came first. A top expert in her field of health, fitness and wellness, she is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga™, a nationally recognized yoga method. An inspirational teacher at the forefront of yoga in the United States and internationally, her way of teaching is accessible to everyone; offering depth, renewal, dynamic results, and inspiration. She leads teacher training programs recognized by Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 hr and 500 hr. More info at www.powerofyoga.com or info@powerofyoga.com.
Lectures and Private Consultations for the 2011 Cruise
Class 1: POWER of YOGA - Beginner Level (Open to All Levels)
This session includes yoga postures and breath work for serenity, strength and beauty, including:
- a gentle warm-up
- posture alignment techniques
- breathing techniques
- deep relaxation at the end
- techniques for modifications
Class 2: POWER of YOGA - Intermediate Level (At Least One Year of Practice is Suggested)
- building your foundation: standing postures
- awakening your core: bandas and arches
- finding the breath: complete yogic breathing and Ujjayi
- increasing circulation: sun salute
- strengthening your body: warrior and triangles
- spreading your wings: balance and extension
- strengthening back and abs: ab series and simple back bends
- rejuvenating: relaxation and mindfulness techniques
- completing your practice: pranayama with alternate nostril and balancing breath
Workshop 1: Chakra Journey
Nationally recognized yoga expert Sherri Baptiste teaches you about the magnetic polarities and energy fields known as the chakras. The chakras are vital force centers at the different levels of consciousness in the human system. Discovering and nourishing the chakras regularly with the energy of your breath and certain yoga postures balances and increases the vitality of the surrounding organs and cells. When the seven centers are perfectly aligned, optimum energy flows throughout your nervous system resulting in a feeling of peaceful well-being.
Session includes:
- dynamic exploration of the chakras as a path of yogic transformation and healing
- Hatha Yoga posture session designed and sequenced to awaken and balance the chakras
- visualization and color breathing techniques
- techniques to awaken subtle awareness and bring balance
- guided meditation to open you toward self-realization or resonance on all levels
Workshop 2: Power of Deep Meditation and Relaxation
Nationally recognized yoga expert Sherri Baptiste teaches you how to tap into the spiritual power of meditation and shares a helpful way to sequence your meditation practice. Physicians, psychologists and other professionals endorse meditation as a powerful tool for relieving stress, maintaining health and promoting creativity and vitality. Learn important sequencing to elicit the relaxation response, guided visualization and silent meditation.
- gentle hip opening poses
- sitting techniques
- breathing techniques to still the body and quiet the mind
- the art and practice of relaxation
- guided visualization
- centering techniques
- body scanning–gentle guidance to deepen stillness
- self-reflection
- meditation with the use of sound
- silent meditation
Private Yoga with Weights Session - $175/person.
Internationally renowned teacher and author of Yoga with Weights for Dummies, Sherri Baptiste, will offer a private 45-minute Yoga with Weights session. The session is intended to help individuals to skillfully integrate the use of weights into their yoga practice. Yoga with weights is a hybrid of two powerful, time-tested exercise systems: yoga and bodybuilding. Yoga is well known as a system of personal development through which you can cultivate peak performance and achieve a higher quality of life. By combining these two exercise systems, yoga with weights addresses the needs of the body beautiful, but it also goes beyond the physical dimension of your wellbeing. Some props such as yoga mat, fitness ball, small hand-held weights, ankle weights, and stretch strap will be used.
Private Yoga & Breath Work Session - $175/person.
Internationally renowned teacher and author, Sherri Baptiste, will offer a private, 45-minute session combining yoga with breathing techniques. The session is intended to refine the individual’s proper form and alignment in yoga postures. Refining your personal yoga practice can be an excellent way to help you towards optimal health. You will also reduce stress while practicing the exercises; concentrating on the breath builds you in stronger and deeper ways from the inside out. It’s a quality of consciousness that you’ll carry into your daily life. You’ll notice an overall sense of wellbeing and peace of mind. Some props such as yoga block, yoga mat and stretch strap will be used.
Private Mentoring Session - $185/person.
Internationally renowned teacher and author, Sherri Baptiste, will offer a 45-minute one-on-one discussion session to explore your lifestyle and vision in life. Getting in touch with what works best for you, this session is designed to help you clearly see ways to greater personal freedom and satisfaction while exploring your own inner realm of potential and how to bring it fully to every area of your life, body-mind and spirit. Baptiste’s private sessions are designed to empower people to find more authentic, inspired and joyful living now.