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Mark Blanchard's Professional Yoga Training embraces Celebrities and Professional Athletes. Blanchard has trained many fit celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Delaney, Rachel Griffiths, Willem Dafoe, Jennie Garth, Andy Garcia, James Wilder, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. Mark Blanchard also specializes in training golfers, basketball players and other professional athletes since he keenly understands yoga's healing powers. 'The internal practice improves mental focus, clarity and split-second concentration while the outward physical practice hones strength, speedwork and reaction-time.
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About Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power Yoga
One of the defining roles of Mark Blanchard's life is that of an athlete. While playing semi-pro baseball and college football in New York, Blanchard suffered through several major knee operations and shoulder injuries. Urged by his orthopedic surgeon to attend a yoga class to rehab his body, he was utterly hooked from the first downward dog at Norman Allen's studio in Manhattan. "I watched this lean little yogi bend into powerful poses while maintaining the most serene expression," says Blanchard. "I was intrigued, excited." Progressive Power Yoga
He has continued to practice yoga every day of his life since then. While pursuing his love of this ancient art of yoga, Blanchard also began modeling and acting on soap operas, including All My Children and Guiding Light. He moved to Southern California to film a dozen movies and television roles, and even began teaching informal yoga sessions on movie sets. Finally, after studying with India's Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, father of the modern Ashtanga movement, and being a serious student of yoga for 20 years, Blanchard began teaching full-time in 1993. Progressive Power Yoga
Training Celebrities and Professional Athletes - Blanchard has trained many fit celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Delaney, Rachel Griffiths, Willem Dafoe, Jennie Garth, Andy Garcia, James Wilder, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. Blanchard also specializes in training golfers, basketball players and other professional athletes since he keenly understands yoga's healing powers. "The internal practice improves mental focus, clarity and split-second concentration while the outward physical practice hones strength, speedwork and reaction-time," he says. A leader of the Power Yoga movement, Mark Blanchard has his Studio City location in Southern California with ten others planned around the United States. Known as Mark Blanchard's Power Yoga Centers, they are flourishing. "Students tell us how they appreciate the family atmosphere and friendly greetings when they enter," says Mark Blanchard. "There's no attitude in our studios. We come only to practice and to feel calm and in balance with the world around us." Progressive Power Yoga
There Are No Levels In Yoga - Some of the most unique and identifying characteristics of Mark Blanchard's purist yoga class are that he never categorizes sessions by potentially threatening "levels," he practices only to the music of the human breath and he does not recommend class props such as blocks or straps. "Regardless of how trendy these accoutrements have become, there were no stereos or straps when yoga was created over 5,000 years ago," says Mark Blanchard. "Simply work at our own level, do the best you can personally do, and welcome the joy from within." His mother, Barbara, and wife Elizabeth work with him, and their baby yogis, Rowan Eleanor. Carmen Riley and newest yogi Shane Joseph.
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| Mark Blanchard's Yoga Client Success Stories
"In two months my body was transformed from an exhausted, stooped over, chemo-ridden "old man" to the "Me" I haven't seen in 15 years."
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"After completing them I feel refreshed, strong, energized and happy."
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"If you want to buy a yoga dvd, Mark Blanchard's dvds are the best."
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"As Blanchard moves about the class, his presence comes through the screen."
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"The videos are only as difficult as you make them and are for everyone, no matter where you are in your yoga."
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"I'm strong, flexible, and more open-minded since this experience, and am very grateful to have something physically challenging in my life that is fun and positive!"
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"This is the TOUGHEST yoga I have ever done and I have a big collection of yoga videos from Bryan Kest to Shiva Rea to Baron Baptiste and more."
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"Very nice customer service in my book!"
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"I have Mark's Progressive Power Yoga dvd's and I just love them."
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"I think his voice from the clips is very calming."
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"I weighed 260 pounds before starting your dvds, now I weigh 190!!! Thanks Mark!!!"
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"Overall, I am so pleased with the purchase of Sedona series - the scenery is gorgeous, Mark's instruction is superb."
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"This is great for me because I can't do everything but I can work up to it."
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"I can't believe I've never discovered Mark Blanchard before. His teaching style is, IMO, fabulous!"
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"This is my favorite instructor so far!!!!!"
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"It is a great set! i love core,stretch & flow."
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