Power Yoga - Total Body Workout
by Ted Landon
from Living Arts
Power yoga "demands your attention," says instructor Rodney Yee. He leads a challenging, constantly progressing series of poses, one flowing into the next, integrating breath, movement, tension, and relaxation. The poses include Sun Salutation, standing poses, forward bends, back bends, twists, and arm balances. The first poses are fairly easy, and with each repetition of the series, Yee adds on more difficult movements, extending the series without pausing. You're encouraged to do as much of the series that fits your level, up to the entire 65-minute workout if you're an experienced yoga practitioner. Although you can begin at any level, some familiarity with yoga is recommended. The Hawaiian setting is gorgeous and inspiring. This is an excellent yoga workout that you can grow with, adding on more as you get stronger. --Joan Price
Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection
from Warner Home Video
Feel the power. Be the power! Unlock the strengthening slimming detoxifying and re-energizing of Power Yoga. Bryan Kest leads you in a vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga style of Yoga. Three programs on one DVD: Energize Tone SweatFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS UPC: 085393446628
Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest's videos. Kest teaches wildly popular yoga classes in Santa Monica, California--so popular that stars like Rhea Perlman, David Duchovny, and Elisabeth Shue willingly sweat alongside the hoi polloi in Kest's packed, ancient loft studio. If you don't happen to be in the neighborhood, not to worry: Kest's yoga videos are nearly as good as being there. Volume 1: Energize is a beginner level class that nonetheless is smartly designed to provide challenges for all levels of users. Kest's Jersey-boy voice at first seems in contrast to the serene environment and inner-peace objectives, but it gradually becomes soothing and hypnotic in its own right. Stretches and strengthening moves are alternated with just enough repose to keep even first timers on track. After mastering Vol. 1, practitioners can go on to Volume 2: Tone or Volume 3: Sweat to further challenge themselves. As long as you keep in mind Kest's personal mantra--"If you're doing the best you can, you're doing this class perfectly"--you and this video should have many satisfying years of workouts together. --Anne Hurley
Power Yoga - Flexibility
from Living Arts
Regain and extend the easy sense of fluid motion that keeps you doing the things you love to do. In Power Yoga: Flexibility acclaimed instructor Rodney Yee shows you how to use his distinctive style of Power Yoga to restore and make the most of your body s fullest range of motion. Follow Rodney through a quick deep-stretching yoga workout you can do in less than half an hour a remarkable antidote anytime you feel stiff tight or limited in your agility. With this workout you ll release lengthen and noticeably improve suppleness in both large and small muscles throughout your body and stretch all of the major joints. Whether you re an athlete just like to stay active or want to feel less stiff and tight as you move through your day this practice will help you use your strength more efficiently and move more freely with less pain soreness and risk of injury. Rodney s signature style of flowing Power Yoga will fill you with a new sense of fluidity mobility and power to affect how you feel and how your body keeps up with you. Practice regularly and you ll find this flexibility workout a rewarding way to extend your possibilities. A complete 25-minute workout filmed in dramatic Joshua Tree National Park: move through flowing Sun Salutations to flex and warm up deeply stretch muscles and joints in fluid energetic sequences relax completely as you clear and calm your mind.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 029956740204 Manufacturer No: 120-2280
Shiva Rea - Fluid Power - Vinyasa Flow Yoga
from Acacia
It's more of the same from Shiva Rea with Fluid Power: Vinyasa Flow Yoga, and considering the quality of her previous DVD releases, that's a very good thing. With six pre-set practices (three intermediate "long flows" and three "short flows"), ranging from less than 30 minutes to nearly two hours, Fluid Power--described by Rea as a means to explore "the wave movement that is the reality of our fluid, quantum body" in order to "enhance circulation, longevity, and creativity and to satisfy amphibious longings," whatever that means--this is Rea's longest and most detailed presentation to date. Those familiar with her Yoga Shakti and Yoga Trance Dance will recognize certain elements from those programs here; Fluid Power generally combines Shakti's somewhat more traditional approach (e.g., poses that are held for several breaths) with the kind of creative expression fostered by Trance Dance, which favors constant, flowing movements (in the familiar downward facing dog, for instance, Rea encourages steady undulations of the spine, referred to as "circular wave patterns," as opposed to keeping the back long and straight). While there are many asanas that will certainly be recognizable to most anyone who practices hatha yoga (the cobra, bow, upward dog, chaturanga, handstand, and pigeon are just a few of them), Rea also brings her distinctive style to the practice; her "Dancing Warrior 1008," featured in the longest and most challenging pre-set sequence ("Backbend Flow"), uniquely combines backbends, twists, lunges, and more. All of this will take some getting used to. Rea notes that these practices are designed for "experienced beginners and intermediate practitioners," and everyone is advised to view the sequences before attempting them. Meanwhile, the "Yoga Matrix," with which users can customize their practice by combining elements from all six pre-set sequences in any order they choose, is one of the most appealing features of this and all Shiva Rea DVDs. Also as before, the cinematography is gorgeous (filming again took place at New Mexico's White Sands National Park), and the music is evocative but relatively unobtrusive. A second disc includes alignment tips for some poses, information about fluid vinyasa techniques, and comments by various experts about yoga and, yes, even quantum physics. --Sam Graham
Shiva Rea's Blessing for Amazon Customers Dear Amazon Adventurers!
The turning of the New Year - another journey around the Sun - is a time of great opportunity, reflection and renewal of what ignites us in the core of our heart. As Rumi says, "When you do things from your Soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." Every DVD program that we offer you is a labor of love to empower your home practice and living of yoga. Fluid Power is my offering to that river of your life force that awakens, transforms and renews. As we activate a fluid strength in our body and in our lives, we become more open to all the possibility of this great journey of life! Have a rockin' and blessed New Year!
We are naturally fluid. More than half our total body weight is water. And yet this fluid power—in our awareness and way of moving—is often an untapped reservoir of energy and joy.
Explore the power of your fluid nature with Shiva Rea, one of the yoga world's most inspiring teachers. Her innovative sequences move with natural flow for a completely original style of yoga that enhances vitality, agility, and creativity. Through rhythmic, circular, and spiraling movements, you will learn to liberate poses that are often rigidly held, allowing you to grow stronger and more flexible with grace.
The unique Yoga Matrix menu allows you to customize your practice, choosing from over 3 hours of yoga (20 segments) to suit your time and energy level on any given day. Or, choose one of 6 pre-set practices, from foundation to advanced, from short to long, from solely meditative to energetic. Sequences include four innovative sun salutations, water "core," standing pose mandala, fluid backbends, handstand, forward bends, pranayama, meditations, and deep relaxation. For experienced beginners to intermediate practitioners.
- Special Features Include:
- Program options: Create a custom practice with segments from the Yoga Matrix menu with (20 segments, 213 min.) or choose from 6 different pre-set practices (26-108 min. each)
- Audio options: Instruction and music or music only
- Fluid vinyasa techniques
- Alignment details for 10 fluid asanas
- 24-page program guide
- "Y yoga" mini documentary with Shiva Rea
- Comments by experts Sally Kempton, Daniel Odier, Stuart Svotsky, and Fred Alan Wolf
- Filmed in HD at White Sands National Park and directed by James Wvinner with cinematography by Hollywood's Sion Michel (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Power Yoga - Strength
by Steve Adams
from Living Arts
Power up your body and mind with Power Yoga: Strength a fast-moving flow sequence that works arms back and abs to build strength that s balanced throughout all the large and small muscles. Renowned instructor Rodney Yee guides you in a session that targets your entire upper body as you experience his distinctive signature style of Power Yoga. Rodney shows you step-by-step how to confidently do challenging arm balance poses for core strength more defined lean muscle and a greater sense of balance. Feel the empowering effects of using your body s own weight to add strength-building resistance to each move. Rapid sequencing designed to increase power adds a fat-burning aerobic benefit for a complete satisfying yoga workout. Small movements create big results strengthening and fine-tuning upper body muscles you may not even know you have. Gain a new sense of body-mind power that comes from the inside out strength you ll feel and see in everything you do. A complete 24-minute workout filmed along the stunning Maui coast: awaken and warm up body & mind with Sun Salutations boost upper body strength and burn fat with fluid fast-paced sequences finish with guided relaxation and feel focused energized & empowered. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 029956183902 Manufacturer No: 120-2279
Power Yoga for Every Body (With Over 20 Workouts for All Levels of Students)
by MIchael Wohl
from Bodywisdom Media, Inc.
Whether you're a beginning, intermediate, or advanced student of yoga, and whether you have 15 minutes or two hours for your yoga practice, you'll find a power yoga routine that fits your level and your schedule in Power Yoga for Every Body. Instructor Barbara Benagh instructs by voice-over while Jason Gordon demonstrates 24 routines of the "Slow Flow" method of vinyasa yoga: one pose flowing into the next. Benagh instructs this slow practice with careful attention to the details of breathing, movement, alignment, and transition. "Yoga is so much more than a workout--it cultivates your mind, it calms your nerves, it develops an internal awareness," says Benagh. To start out, watch the 15-minute interview with Benagh explaining the benefits of yoga, the Slow Flow technique, how to progress, and tips for incorporating yoga into a busy life. --Joan Price
Editor s Choice - Yoga Journal
Get into shape, relieve stress, become stronger and more flexible & increase energy!
With over 20 routines, no other DVD offers so much to help you learn and progress in the healing art of yoga. Simply select the routine you need on any given day and this amazing DVD will adapt to meet your exact needs. Explore the amazing world of yoga with the most comprehensive and extensive DVD available. Practices range from 20 to 120 minutes.
Power Yoga for Every Body makes the beauty and power of flow yoga accessible to everyone. This comprehensive system of yoga can get into shape and increase flexibility while relieving stress and tension. For both the beginner and advanced practitioner, Power Yoga for Every Body is a safe and effective way to explore this powerful form of yoga. Renowned yoga instructor Barbara Benagh explores the asanas through her famous Slow FlowTM method of vinyasa (poses that flow together) while emphasizing alignment and awareness of breath.
Routines include:
- AM and PM practices
- Increased flexibility
- Strength & Balance building practices
- Relaxation
- Stress Relief
- Special interview with the instructor
- and many more!
Navel Power - Kundalini Yoga w/ Ravi Singh & Ana Brett
from www.raviana.com
In this 75 min. DVD, celebrated Yoga Teachers, Ravi Singh & Ana Brett, will help you develop a stomach of steel and the ability to command your own Destiny!
Ravi & Ana's Yoga DVD's are designed to cover every aspect necessary to bring balance to your mind, health, and emotions and imbue your life with inspiration and fearlessness. The Navel Center or 'fire in the belly,' is the key to success, focus, patience, and energy to burn! The Navel Center is also our rejuvenative capacity. A strong navel helps us to put back the energy we put out every day.
This conveniently chaptered workout, designed to help you structure a workout to fit any schedule, features a warm-up set, stretching, and an invigorating, comprehensive Kundalini Yoga set for abdominal strengthening and toning, core strength development, improved digestion, and prosperity. Also Included: a deep relaxation and a moving meditation to help your life flow. Features superb production values and an inspiring soundtrack including a mantra meditation sung by the renowned recording artist, Wah!
Power Yoga Plus
from Lions Gate
Let Denise Austin America's #1 fitness expert lead you through a workout that will shape stretch and tone you from head to toe. Power Yoga Plus is an innovative blend of Yoga and Pilates moves designed to firm reshape body lines improve flexibility all while toning the abdominal muscles - the body's core of strength and energy!The first workout Power Yoga is a series of traditional Yoga poses performed in a flowing style designed to generate power and stamina. 20 minutes.The second workout Power Pilates is an invigorating series of Pilates moves which challenge the abdominal muscles and tones the buttocks hips and thighs plus combines 3lb. Weights to sculpt the arms chest and shoulders. 20 minutes.So grab a mat 3-5 pound weights and give Denise 20 minutes a day. Performed individually or together Denise Austin's Power Yoga Plus will have you feeling and looking stronger leaner - empowered!System Requirements:Starring Denise Austin Running time: 52 minutes Copyright Artisan Entertainment 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 012236123965 Manufacturer No: 12396
Baron Baptiste: Unlocking Athletic Power - Power Vinyasa Yoga Live! (For Beginners and All Levels)
by Kate Churchill
from Good Times Video
Power Yoga - Stamina
by Steve Adams
from Living Arts
Yoga: Stamina. This inspiring workout will carry you through the day feeling more energized and give you the reserve power to feel ready for anything in your life that demands steady reserves of strength and energy. Acclaimed instructor Rodney Yee guides you through brisk Vinyasa sequences specifically designed to build your energy reserves. This invigorating workout you can do in less than half an hour includes a warmup featuring fluid classic Sun Salutations to warm both muscles and mind. Move seamlessly into Rodney Yee s distinctive style of Power Yoga in endurance-building sequences that challenge you with a range of motion for your entire body. Conclude with short yet deeply renewing relaxation that leaves you recharged and ready for anything. You ll love the way you feel after this great workout as you redisover your body s hidden stores of both physical and mental energy. A complete workout filmed on the stunning Maui shore focus breathing and rev up with warming Sun Salutation sequences boost energy and endurance with stamina-building poses rebalance body and mind through guided relaxation. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 029956514300 Manufacturer No: 120-2278
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