Yoga: Altar of the Heart

Tilak Pyle
Year Released: 2005

Categories: Yoga


It took me a while(and help from the yoga checkin) to figure out which one he was because it's done voice-over and has several people in different scenes showing the poses (seems like 4 total). I like how one lady he shows is very flexible but is 'real' (has a little meat on her as well as breasts) so I can see how she does the poses. One guy looks like an exbf but guess Tilak had no way of knowing that would upset me.

I've only done roughly the first half or slightly more than that (I stopped when he got to headstand!) anyways, Ilike how he speaks in this and the different scenes and the music. Iwas very tired the evening I did this but kept going from him and the music. I like how he starts off with some seated stretches before doing the more strenous poses. after some seated poses you stand and reach overhead then go into forward bend several times. these are meant to be invigorating Ith ink because you dont' linger in the pose but keep going in and out letting the arms 'flop'. He does several downdogs/chatarangas (fancy yoga word for pushups)I modified a lot. the downdogs weren't held too long but he would add some standing twists and harder standing poses then a vinyase where youd do the downdog/updog(cobra for me!) pushup sequence and add pigeon, etc. these got more challenging themore we did and I thought about stopping but just couldn't :-) ! Beth on the yoga checkin said about halfway throught there was a brief savasana (corpse pose) so I wanted to get there. Once I got there I decided to do the leg stretches that were next and ahhh they felt nice then he went to headstand prep and i stopped the practice. from what Iv'e heard though that was the hardest pose (headstand) then it went to a nice stretching good before bed type stuff that I may do later or just do the whole thing next time and do dolphin or something for the headstand.
I'm also sorta beginnerish but I've tried differnt yoga dvds and can sometimes modify an intermediate one (this says intermediate and i did have to modify) but Ididnt' feel like I ws cheating. I still enjoyed the practice and when I have time for this length and have the energy I'll do it again. It's not done fast like some of the power yoga dvds but not too slow either and has poses that require a lot of strength as well as nice mixture of nice stretches and hip openers throughout. defintely worth the money imo and I'll be keeping it!

Instructor Comments:
took me a while to figure out which one he was! But he's very young looking and has a very nice voice and way with words. (voice over)

Susanna

04/23/2006