Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh Boston
• VHS Release Date: January 7, 2003
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006HB50
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,804 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Welcome to power yoga boot camp!

Forty strangers with no previous yoga experience take a week out of their hectic lives to travel to the island paradise of Maui and put themselves in the hands of celebrity yoga master Baron Baptiste. From a full-time mom to a steel worker, from a doctor to a college student, these people represent a slice of America and are all in Maui for one reason: to transform their lives.

Follow the group as Baron leads them through seven days of joyful ‘suffering’—intense yoga sessions, meditation, a cleansing diet—that will lead to personal joys and break-throughs, that they—and you-discover through the unexpected power of yoga. It is the most complete one-stop transformation you could ever find.

Also included is a bonus 20-minute yoga session that you can do at home. Led by Baron Baptiste, he personally walks you through the building blocks that will allow you to sculpt and tone your body while igniting your spirit and freeing your mind.

Baron Baptiste has studied yoga and meditation since childhood. He launched his teaching career in Los Angeles where he quickly became the yoga trainer to the stars, with such clients as Elisabeth Shue, Helen Hunt, and Raquel Welch. Baron is now the owner/director of the Power Yoga Institute in Boston and Cambridge, and is the author of the groundbreaking yoga book Journey into Power.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great opportunity to get an overview of Baron's Bootcamps!, June 26, 2003

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This review is from: Transform Your Life - Yoga with Baron Baptiste [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I bought this video at first out of curiousity but it has proven to be quite valuable to me. I have many of Baron's videos and his book so I am very familiar with his work. I find Baron to be a breath of fresh air in the yoga world in that his approach to yoga is very down to earth and practical. As he says "This is yoga for Real People".....

This video has 42 of students of all different levels of experience with yoga, some complete beginners, going thru a seven day bootcamp in Hawaii. It's very inspirational to see them go thru not only the intense yoga practice but how they respond to the diet (including a fruit only detoxifying diet for a couple of days).

I have read Baron's book "Journey Into Power" several times already and continue to read it still. The section on the cleansing diet was particularly fascinating to me. Somehow watching the students on the tape go thru that diet made it seem more approachable to me and I have since modified my diet more along the lines of the books recommendations.

I noticed immediate benefits and have been able to break a plateau weightwise not to mention that I just feel better overall (and I am a person who had a pretty clean vegetarian diet for about 15 years and have been doing yoga seriously (daily in fact) for the last 6 years. This video really provides additional inspiration to help implement what I've learned from Baron's book.

This is not a teaching video per say, more of a mini-documentary of one of his bootcamps (though there is a wonderful "Power Yoga Basics" 20 minute instructional routine at the end which is a nice addition and worth the price of the entire tape).

Also it's wonderful to watch how the combined practices of asana, diet and meditation (plus group discussions)really impact on the students lives in a very real and deep way in such a short period of time. I hope someday I'll have the opportunity to do one of his bootcamps myself:)

Baron truly has an approach to teaching yoga in a way that is incredibly relevant to modern folks. It's just as deep as more traditional practices but it's put in language that speaks directly to folks who want the transformative power of yoga without the eastern trappings. As he says, the power is in the process!

Highly inspirational and Highly recommended!!!!

Namaste

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WISH I WAS THERE, January 11, 2003

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J. S. WILLARD "eclectic reader" (CHARLESTON, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transform Your Life - Yoga with Baron Baptiste [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The documentary portion is very 'MTV Yoga" great music, quick cuts, participants breaking the "fourth wall". Set at a seven day bootcamp in Maui, it focuses on those who are new to yoga. It's great to see all the various types- men,women,younger,older, fit, not so fit. It made me want to go to a bootcamp, or at least try one at home. The bonus 20min. routine is a terrific compact practice. As always a winner from Baron.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting documentary followed by nice short yoga practice, December 1, 2004

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Beth Cholette "doctor_beth" (Upstate NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transform Your Life - Yoga with Baron Baptiste [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Transform Your Life follows a group of 42 yoga students during one of world famous yoga instructor Baron Bapiste's week-long "boot camps." Over the course of the week, participants are exposed to several hours of yoga daily, meditation and other centering activities, a 3-day all-fruit "fast," and more. It was extremely interesting to watch people of different ages and various walks of life come together to share this intense, life-changing experience. Furthermore, the documentary does a nice job of balancing Baron's class teachings with reflections by individual participants. Each day is highlighted separately, with Days 1 through 4 being covered more in-depth and 5 thruogh 7 moving a bit more quickly. Following the documentary portion of the video, there is a 20-minute, beginner's level power yoga practice which appears to have been taken from one of the boot camp classes. Although this practice doesn't have enough specific instruction for those brand-new to yoga, the practice--along with the documentary--would perfect for those just starting to practice power yoga and wanting to learn more.