"If there were a royal family of American yoga, Baron Baptiste would certainly be a prince," wrote Yoga Journal of the innovative Power Yoga pioneer.

Born to parents who opened San Francisco’s first yoga studio in 1955, Baptiste has spent a lifetime refining his own adaptive style and bringing yoga to the mainstream (as well as to Raquel Welch and the NFL). On Saturday, October 3rd, he will share his practical-yet-transformative approach at Denver’s Yoga on 6th during a day-long Personal Revolution Immersion workshop.

Ashley Phoenix wants to encourage your love of yoga.

Phoenix is offering a three-month unlimited "scholarship" package at her Bikram and Baptiste affiliate studio, Yoga on 6th, to the person best able to describe, in 500 words or less, "what your practice means to you, and how yoga has changed your life." The essay contest, which will be an ongoing offering for financially challenged students, has an initial deadline of May 27th. Phoenix has not yet hammered out the details about how frequently the contest will be run -- possibly every three months, the duration of the package -- but this cycle’s winner will be announced in the studio’s June newsletter.

Expect headstanding-room-only when Baron Baptiste brings his popular, physically challenging style of hatha yoga to Denver in October.

Although he won't be here for almost six more months, the yoga master's impending return has zealous practitioners practically doing handsprings, which would not be too far off their normal yoga practice.

But you need not bend over backward or stand on your head to attend the "Personal Revolution All-Day Immersion" on Oct. 3. Baptiste has taught celebrities, professional athletes and political power brokers, but he has not led a workshop in Denver since 1994. Coordinators anticipate he'll draw as many as 400 registrants who will practice en masse with the charismatic teacher.