Yoga with Ateeka

Ateeka
Year Released: 2001

Categories: Yoga


Yoga with Ateeka is a visually beautiful video and equally enjoyable Yoga session. The workout could be classified as intermediate plus, because she doesn't hold the moves for an extremely long time, but the duration was long enough for me. Her graceful personality blended beautifully with her demonstration of the postures and the gorgeous Oceanside Maui setting (oh my!) While Ateeka performs the various moves, her voice over encourages proper positioning and motivation. She speaks a great deal about going to "your edge" and not taking your stretches beyond that. Your edge is the farthest point you are able to take a stretch to without hurting yourself or losing all personal motivation or confidence.

Ateeka then proceeds through a seated breathing warm-up and continues on to perform sun salutations (always lowering to full plank to up dog and quickly again to down dog – where you take 5 much needed breathes). She then proceeds to display warriors, chair pose, dancer for balance, triangle (not in this order), plough, shoulder stand, bridge, backbend, and so many more. She always followed a strong forward fold with a back arch/bend or visa versa, which I liked very much. For the most part she showed beg/int/adv levels for the majority of poses. I felt I completed a very thorough yoga workout and the time flew by. This is a definite keeper. Grade A+

Janet O'Neil

06/07/2001