Baron Baptiste

International Best-selling Author, Educator, International Presenter

For more than twenty years, Baron Baptiste has been an impactful teacher, trainer, leader and catalyst in the realm of personal growth. Baron has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people from dozens of countries with his best-selling books, video/audio products, public speaking engagements, live trainings and workshop presentations and appearances. Baron's books have been published and translated into more than 12 languages globally.

Baron Baptiste was born into a lineage and heritage of health, yoga and spiritual educators. Baron was bred to teach and educate. He's a man of much life experience in life transformation, self-development education, yoga philosophy and practice. Intimately familiar with its pitfalls and its power, Baron, an intelligent and deliberate man, holds himself with a dignified mindfulness and positive aire. In 2006 Yoga Journal Magazine said: "If there were a royal family of American yoga, Baron Baptiste would certainly be a prince." It's clear that Baron has exactly what it takes to continually transform the face of yoga in America and build powerful bridges from the wisdom of the east into the spiritually starved west.

Couple his own true-life hardships, transformations and accomplishments with his knack for expressing words that create new worlds for people and his ability to deliver a methodology that provides individuals and groups with a means to design new contexts and paradigms in body and mind - both on-and-off the yoga mat.

More so than any other form of health and fitness, yoga practice is all about our transformation and our life stories. These life stories represent our unique everyday struggles as well as our more grand hopes for personal power, authentic health and manifesting a life that has energy and authenticity. Baron, as educator, brings enlightening distinctions that help us drop the negative steam from our stories which helps us build new worlds into new possibilities.

Being ahead of the times, Baron was once yoga's greatest sensationalist. Now he's its leading pragmatist. The traditional yoga community along with yoga purists cannot deny the magnetism and magnitude of his message and methodology.

Today, Baron Baptiste and his educational training methods are known around the globe. He has educated people throughout the world from remote Fijian villages to the heart of New York City. People from six continents and all walks of life have taken classes with Baron and utilized his methods, from the highly educated and successful to the down-and-out, people ranging in age from children to seniors, people who see life as an opportunity to keep learning. Baron has not only touched the lives of people with means such as the Kennedys, Hollywood celebrities, and professional athletes, but also has devoted his time to helping those individuals with less opportunities. He has coached people living in impoverished areas of Central America, troubled teenagers in South Central Los Angeles and families living in low-income government housing in Washington, D.C.

Baron became a well-known author with his bestselling book, Journey Into Power, and has gone on to write and create many other self-help tools, including: 40 Days to Personal Revolution, The PBS Television Special "Transform Your Life with Baron Baptiste", The Soul Of Strength Video Series, The Teachers' Insight Series, The Yoga Bootcamp In A Box, and the best-selling children's book My Daddy Is A Pretzel, as well as a series self-empowerment tools for parents and children.

In 1994, Baron was invited to join the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles coaching staff and for 4 years he more fully learned his craft by working personally and closely with Super-Bowl Champion coaches and athletes, like John Gruden, Ray Rhodes, Bill Callahan, NFL all-time kicking record holder Gary Anderson, Bill Romanowski, Ricky Watters, Irving Fryer, Hershel Walker, "The Fridge" Perry, Art Monk Rodney Peete, and quarterback all-time great Randal Cunningham. As the team's Peak Performance Specialist, Baron designed a program for athletes to transform their performance, and he very successfully did just that. The athletes quickly became addicted to the results. Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles said: "When it comes to training champions, Baron Baptiste is exceptional."

Over the last 8 years Baron has founded and directed three of the busiest yoga schools in America in Boston, MA. Over 600 students pass through the Baptiste Power Yoga Institutes each day. He also is the inspiration to over 30 Baptiste Affiliate studios that are peppered out globally.

In April of 2002, Baron hit the road in what seemed to be an unending world tour promoting the release of his first book Journey Into Power and shared the Baptiste Experience in his charismatic and infectious teaching style. This first book release was a product of his unrelenting drive, talent and frankly, his real-ness. There is no doubt that Baron will continue to challenge himself and his audience in an on-going Journey Into Power.

Today, when he's not traveling the globe delivering his uplifting message and methodology, he shares his life's work through many forums, including:

The weekly hour call-in "Producing Extreme Results" radio program broadcasted around the nation on Sundays on over 50 power stations reaching an estimated one million listeners each week.
Television appearances on such programs as the Today Show, Regis & Kelly, CNN Headline News, The BBC, the Blue Peter Show in the United Kingdom, as well as PBS Pledge Drives where his "one hour reality style" program Transform Your Life with Baron Baptiste airs dozens of times annually in prime time in almost every market in the United States, Caribbean and Canada. From 1995 through 1998 Baron hosted his own 1/2 hour television show on ESPN reaching millions of viewers with his peak performance principles and techniques each morning. Baron has been an on-going host since 1995 on the QVC Home Shopping Network as their mind/body expert, as well as the host of his own highly acclaimed television infomercial.
A magazine column, with Women's Health magazine, "In-Focus Balance," which has a circulation moving toward a million readers. Baron has been regularly interviewed by: People, US Weekly, Self, W, Elle, Vogue, GQ, Allure, Shape, Men's Health, Fitness, Redbook, Entertainment Weekly, In-Style, Cosmopolitan, Natural Health, Parenting and Yoga Journal, as well as many other newspapers and publications. He has also been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and Natural Health Magazine.
Baptiste Publishing has produced and distributed over 25 multi-media productions, making it one of the foremost producers of yoga based self-transformational books, audio, video, dvd and publishing materials in the world. Baron's books have been translated into many languages and his video products viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and, often donated for use and showing in prisons and correctional facilities nationwide.