Sherri
Baptiste Freeman and her Yoga Legacy
Born into a legacy
of highly respected teachers at the forefront of yoga training and education
in America.
- Parent’s Magana & Walt Baptiste established yoga on the West
Coast in the 1950’s
- She began teaching yoga, health and fitness practices to
others in her teens
- Founder/owner of the successful Baptiste Natural Foods Store
in San Francisco - until1990
- Founder
of Baptiste Power of Yoga™ in Marin Co. California
- Established The Baptiste Power of Yoga Teachers Training
Program
- Baptiste Power of Yoga Teachers Training program is registered and recognized
by the Yoga Alliance, Yoga Federation of Europe, and International
Yoga Federation
- Personally has taught thousands and thousands of students.
- Weekly classes attract more than two hundred students: ongoing
group classes and private sessions
- Associate teacher with The Himalayan Institute, Rishikesh India, Pennsylvania,
and Minneapolis
- Served as Membership Liaison for the International Association of Yoga
Therapists
- She has taught in the College of Marin's Adult Education Programs
- Has taught both; Children and Teachers in the public and
private Elementary and High Schools
- Associate teacher with The Himalayan Institute, Rishikesh
India, Pennsylvania, and Minneapolis
- Conference Presenter: UC Medical Center Health Events, University of
San Francisco Educational Events, The Practice Center Conference, LA Yoga Expo,
Body Mind Spirit Conference, IDEA World Fitness Conference
- Has
served as yoga teacher to Dr. Dean Ornish’s Research Participant
Group.
- Twelve Year Associate Member of 'California Yoga Teachers Association'
- Teacher at Rancho La Puerta Spa, Green Gulch Zen Center,
and Noetic Institutes IONS Retreat Center.
- Facilitator of Life Balance Program and Workshops; Western Athletic Clubs,
Sporting Club Aventine, Marriot Spa
- Gives
workshops, intensive, retreats, Yoga Vacations Nationally and Internationally;
Bali, Yucatan, India & Nepal
- Frequent
Radio & Television
Personality and Speaker
- New
products released 2003-04’ include: Baptiste Power of Yoga
and Meditation Videos, DVD, CD
- A Native San Franciscan; lives with her family in Marin Co California.
- Baptiste Power of Yoga
Web Site; http:www.powerofyoga.com, newsletter
and email list are used to list her events
- Yoga Workshops and Retreats fill
consistently to capacity.
Sherri
Baptiste Freeman represents, the perfect balance between the
physical and mental
aspects of this ancient discipline
- no easy task to anyone
who has experienced yoga. She is professional yet
approachable; she is warm yet determined; she knowingly accommodates
the personal physical
limitations of participants in the class, while
simultaneously challenging them to
gently, yet aggressively progress through their
previously established barriers of resistance. Given her background,
she is thoroughly
knowledgeable in The Eastern Philosophy surrounding
yoga.
yet incorporates it in
such
a way that is easily understood and totally non-treatening
to western students. In short, She is wonderful!! Sherri
is very highly
respected,
revered,
and regarded here in Marin County and is personally
responsible for expanding at least three yoga programs of which
I am
aware. Any program
fortunate
enough to procure her services quickly realizes
the
immense wisdom, expertise, professionalism, and value that she
carries with her.
— Patty
Applegate, Attorney at Law Atherton,Ca Baptiste,
as you would expect from her background, is
an excellent teacher and model. Her instructions
are both physically exact and spiritually
uplifting....
—
Richard Rosen, Yoga Journal 2003
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