This is an interesting tape, but I'm not sure how often I'll use it. The tape is about an hour long, and I've done it several times in bits and pieces, but never done the whole thing at once. Looking over some notes I took when I went through it again this morning, I can see why. This is a loooooong tape. And I can't quite figure out why it has to be so long. For example, at one point I noted a full ten minutes of oblique stretches, which included five minutes doing it normally, then five minutes with a "feldenkrais" visualization. There was nothing wrong with it, I guess. But ten minutes on one stretch? I enjoy oblique stretches, but I've enjoyed them in other, shorter tapes too. Doing them for ten minutes didn't make them any more or less enjoyable, effective or relaxing.

He spends about 15 minutes on some warm-up stuff: simplified Tai Chi such moving the arms and such, followed by something called the "eight poses of empowerment" which felt wonderful. He finishes the standing segment with some perfunctory calf stretching. This section alone would not offer a complete stretch by any definition, but if you have a few minutes to kill and want to do some relaxation exercises without breaking a sweat, this segment would be perfect.

The rest of the tape is on the floor, and Scott alternates between doing the moves himself and wandering around the room to help the others. We have that oblique part I mentioned, and also some quad and hamstring stretches, some seated oblique twists and some cat/back stretch stuff. He finishes with a very long relaxation and meditation section in a yoga corpse pose.

Scott seems like a good leader, but in his effort to lay on the mind/body stuff thoroughly, he sometimes tries too hard. At one point, he refers to an exercise being good for "bloatation" for example. And sometimes he puts a bit too fine a point on things. At one point, foot flexed and leg extended, he invites us to essentially move our big toe a tiny tiny micron to the left and "feel the difference." Um, sure.

I'm not sure I would ever do this whole tape at once. The opening standing segment is a nice cool-down/relaxer, and conveniently placed at the beginning of the tape for avid mix-and-matchers like me. But the rest of it.I don't know. There was nothing wrong with it, really. But with the tape's length taken into account, I could see myself reaching for other options.

Joanna