Sacred Yoga Practice: Vinyasa Flow Series

Rainbeau Mars
Year Released: 2002

Categories: Yoga


I've only gotten into yoga in the past six months, and I feel like I've done these yoga workouts now enough times to give a review of them.

There are 4 workouts by Rainbeau Mars:

1. Beginners Yoga
2. Pure Tranquility
3. Pure Sweat
4. Pure Power

I originally thought I would end up selling one or two (each one is a separate DVD) but I honestly can't bear to part with any of them!

Each workout is approximately 30 minutes each (I would say the beginners one is more like 40 minutes, however).

Beginners Yoga is wonderful to do when you're not feeling up to doing too much (especially at TTOM).

Pure Tranquility is more meditative and stretchy. Very relaxing.

Pure Sweat might be incorrectly named (though I can't really think of what a "correct" title would be!). I like the slowness of the poses and even though Rainbeau Mars' language is a bit "woo-woo", she does lead you through a nice practice.

Pure Power is honestly my favorite. I really feel it in my upper body, the moves are at a nice gentle pace yet tough at the same time. My favorite thing to do is to do the Pure Power followed by the Tranquility one. Total bliss by the end...

Bottomline: The 30-minute length of these yoga workouts are perfect to tack on to the end of other workouts you're doing that day (whether it be cardio or strength).

A definite thumbs-up for me!

Instructor Comments:
Rainbeau Mars' language is about as flowery as her name is. Yet, it's not enough "woo-woo" factor for me to get rid of these workouts. Her cuing is fairly poor....there were plenty of times I would look up at the screen and what she was saying was NOT what she was doing. A little disconcerting, but you can learn to work around it.

I'm not sure I would recommend these workouts to absolute beginners. I believe there are other better workouts for that. On the other hand, one needs to know that there are no inversions in these workouts so they definitely are "do-able".

Terri

02/25/2004