Why You Should Avoid Power Yoga

This talk goes over why you should avoid power yoga classes such as Bikram, Corepower Yoga classes, and Yoga Sculpt. This talk goes over why this style of yoga provides watered down and often incorrect teachings, along with a superficial culture associated with it. These classes are quite accessible for most people, however, if you are looking to deepen your spiritual practice, these classes will not assist you.

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I love this. I made the connection between our surface level culture and how we’ve tried to make yoga surface level too, and it was never meant to be that. Thank you!

Excellent points. I have been attending classes at a studio almost every day and feel that it’s time for a change. The music during class bothers me and there seems to be an emphasis on making postures hard.

Thank you dear Ishar, this was so needed. I don’t even know what lead me to the power yoga but having found you here certainly helped me turn back to my original practice. This time though with more reverence for it. A big thank you. 🙏🏽

Thank you so much for these insights...! It helps me a lot in finding my purpose in Yoga and also explains a lot how I felt so lost in these Power Yoga classes / why they didn't stick for the long haul... Ever since I connected breathing more with the movement, it invites automatically to go more inward afterwards.. Its very refreshing to hear this perspective, especially in a world where things get claimed otherwise.

Very helpful, insightful and affirming. I was recently in a yoga class that was exactly what you described here. I intuitively knew this as clas progressed and the instructors presentation. You confirmed what I intuitively knew, so thank you!