Reddit reviews Power Yoga: The Total Strength and Flexibility Workout

Some of the sequences in here are pretty intense: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Yoga-Strength-Flexibility-Workout/dp/0020583516

Also the NYTimes scientific 7 minute workout, coupled with the advanced 7 minute workout, would definitely get your heart rate up for a good short session.

>we've been focusing on the reaction a Christian man had to the news that yoga was being taught in public schools

A reaction of fear and close mindedness. His reaction is remarkably un-christian. If Jesus were to pop back in he'd pretty much say "you're doing it wrong" to this. Jesus preached enlightenment, love, and understanding, not fear, ignorance and isolationism.

There is zero incompatibility between yoga and christianity. Zero. I have this on authority of learned clergy BTW. Also, full disclosure - I've read the bible and as a result have fully rejected Jesus Christ as my own personal savior.

We went through this same BS recently here - in the yoga capital. The style of yoga I most enjoy is ashtanga - popularized as "Power Yoga". Introduced by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, spreading the practice has become something of a family business and a foundation has been formed. The foundation donated over half a million dollars for a pilot yoga program in the PE department in Encinitas public schools. One close minded set of parents sued to get it removed - about as sensible a move in Encinitas as suing to get bacon on the menu at a synagog - people here like yoga. If you don't like yoga, you should live somewhere else.

Regardless, the Encinitas program was permitted to continue. It is a popular program and teachers believe the participants show greater mental focus. The Jois family is good people and they give talks from time to time. A recent one stated "We should get connected to whichever god or belief we like. It can be a belief in something without shape. We have created all of these shapes, but there is no one shape for any god."

What terribly dangerous thinking. /s

I have no patience or sympathy for people who desire ignorance.

Common starting points for Ashtanga include David Swenson's Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual and Beryl Bender Birch's Power Yoga.