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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Grounding the Body & Freeing the Mind with Baron Baptiste

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with the legendary Baron Baptiste, founder of Baptiste Power Yoga Institute. We dive deep into the realms of clarity, balance, and focus, discussing their pivotal roles in personal and professional success. Baron enlightens us on the transformative power of yoga, providing a fresh perspective on overcoming personal challenges and finding genuine equilibrium. We discuss the significant resistance faced by yoga and meditation, and Baron’s unwavering efforts to make these practices accessible and understood by all. He shares impactful insights on grounding oneself, cultivating a powerful “I am,” and the profound impact of yoga on changing personal frequency, outlook, and strength.

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0:00.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week I bring you some of the greatest

0:04.8

athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and

0:09.5

professional playbook to success. This day Melter with Entrepreneurs the Playbook

0:14.2

I'm so excited to be here at SoFi Stadium the greatest stadium ever built and I

0:19.6

have the grandmaster himself. This man's going to teach us about clarity,

0:22.8

balance, and focus. He's a legendary yoga man himself, Baron Baptiste. Welcome

0:29.8

to the Playbook. Thank you to have me. Yeah, appreciate it. So very rarely do I

0:34.2

give kind of a precursor of the topics that I want to discuss. But I think for

0:39.2

me is a foundational principle in my life. Not only yoga, but you represent the

0:44.9

three key areas to be successful regardless of whether it's family, finance,

0:49.6

faith, whatever it is. It's clarity, balance, and focus. Yeah. And I think these

0:56.4

are three of the major attributes of what you teach on and off the mat. Yeah.

1:02.1

And so I want to start with clarity. What are some of the aspects of yoga and

1:07.0

other things that you teach that brings greater awareness or clarity so that

1:11.3

life is easier, that we prioritize and make decisions aligned with what we want.

1:15.7

Yeah, you know, very good. I think people live in their heads. People live in

1:21.1

their imaginations, their thoughts, their reactions to life. And there's

1:26.9

something about getting grounded in your body. Like you're fit, you get on a

1:30.8

yoke, roll out of yoga mat, get on a yoga mat, you start moving just through

1:34.8

different poses, positions with deep breathing. And it's amazing how suddenly

1:39.4

you find yourself in your body in it. You find yourself is the key kind of

1:45.9

operative words there that the finding of your reality, your feet on the

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