Sonic Yoga Vinyasa Heat Live! Intermediate

Jonathan Fields
Year Released: 2002

Categories: Yoga


I read about SonicYoga in the October issue of Yoga Journal. The article author and her friend took her class and the exact comments were "it was too hard for me. After awhile I thought I was going to pass out." Well, I have a lot of yoga cd's and tapes and I wanted one that I could 'grow' into. I didn't want to "pass out" but I did want to feel like I had nothing left after doing the class. So I found the web site and ordered the tape. After waiting 2 months (the YJ article caused high demand for the tape), it finally arrived.
I plopped the tape in and much to my suprise it looked just like a Baron Baptiste tape. The music, the camera angle, the format, almost everything a Baron clone!! The production is kind of fuzzy and the audio sounded just like the music that Baron uses in his tapes. Even though, Jonathan said in the YJ article that he uses loud contemporary music--not Jai Utal 'moaning' music. As for the workout, the tape box says intermediate. At best, it's advanced beginner. In fact Jonathan keeps referring to beginners not intermediate students. There are no poses on this tape that a beginner can't do or that would challenge an intermediate student. There are no inversions and probably the most challenging pose is crow pose. As for burning 540 calories an hour, not by using tis tape. If you want to sweat buckets, try the Flow series - Fire.
SonicYoga is coming out with an advanced tape. The jury is still out on whether or not I will get it. I may just get Bryan Kest's Advanced yoga CD. Not that I'm a fan of Bryan Kest, but I know that when Bryan says advanced, he means it.

Instructor Comments:
He looks and sounds just like Baron Baptiste--right down to the doo-rag on his head. How long did it take to make this tape. Even a couple of students in the front row don't know what's going on.

Janice

11/20/2002