For yoga fiends, Baptiste’s intense, heat-infused Vinyasa style has become a secular church in its own right. So it’s only fitting that a descendant of six generations of ministers should be ...

He’s mastered the everyman style of instructing hot yoga: encouraging, imparting wisdom, and throwing in a good joke or two when the mercury rises above 90.

Kuperman is also a yoga instructor and director of Yoga Teacher Training at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute in Bryn Mawr, Pa. "The well-known breathing and relaxation techniques that Dr. Lamaze ...