Baron Baptiste

For more than twenty years, Baron Baptiste has been an impactful teacher, trainer, leader and catalyst in the realm of personal growth....

"When we approach our practice from a place where there is nothing to prove, nothing to improve, we open ourselves up to the simple wonder of being alive. My reason for teaching is for my students to leave their mats with a palpable sense of readiness for whatever shows up in their lives."

Claire Este-McDonald

Claire came to yoga in 2001, just after having her second child and third back surgery. From the very first OM, she knew that she had found home in her body again. The journey was tumultuous...

Rhea Slichter

Rhea began teaching for Baron Baptiste for eight years ago and has continued teaching this yoga non stop. Rhea became the director and eventual owner of Baptiste Power Yoga studio in Bryn Mawr, PA in 1999 to 2002...

Mark Finneran

Mark comes to the Baptiste studios after a colorful journey in both sports and journalism.

He attended the University of Maine... Read more »

Jeanne Magazu

Jeanne is a lifelong health and fitness enthusiast who originally sought out yoga to compensate for the toll that years of strenuous physical activity had taken on her body. She immediately loved the de-toxifying aspect of the practice...

Paula Harvey

Paula has an extensive dance background and has been choreographing for many years. Her love of movement and curiosty of Yoga is what brought her to the Baptiste studio. "I'll never forget May 18, 2001 my life was forever changed!...

Brian Lam

While Brian had already been practicing yoga since 2001, it wasn’t until fall of 2005 that he came across Baptiste Power yoga. After just one practice at the Boston studio, amazed at how the heat and the sequence of poses allowed him to feel his body for the first time in years, he was hooked.

“I had always been a competitive athlete growing up...

Emily Shea

Emily walked into her first yoga class and announced "I am not a yoga person." Given that she was a busy mom of three and a corporate litigation attorney, weighed well over 200 pounds and could not reach her feet for bow pose...

Jessica Kimball

Jessica came to her first yoga class in 2002 at the Baptiste studio in Cambridge. Having an active and athletic background, she fell in love with the practice immediately. Although initially her intention was to get a “good work out,” what she found was much deeper than that. Yoga opened the doors to a new way of being!

“I noticed that the more I committed...