The menu is chaptered, and each section of the practice is sub-chaptered:

1. Introduction

2. Sitting Poses: 3 "om" chants, shoulder rolls, neck rolls, extend the arms upward, arms up side twist, side bend, seated half eagle, cross-legged seated forward bend, seated spinal twist, seated forward bend with extended legs, wide-angle forward bend, boat pose, cat stretches, side-side stretch, camel, rotate hips, bow pose, thread the arm pose and cobra.

3. Standing Poses: mountain, standing forward bend, right foot lunge into warrior I, downward-facing dog, push up, cobra, downward-facing dog, left foot lunge into warrior I, downward-facing dog and walk the feet forward.

4. Balancing Poses: mountain pose, triangle pose, side angle pose, warrior II, mountain, half moon, dancer pose, standing eagle pose and tree pose.

5. Final Relaxation: squat pose, bug, side to side spinal roll, raised knee to chest pose, reclined thigh-over-thigh twist and a 5-minute relaxing corpse pose (in which she doesn't talk). The practice ends with 3 "om" chants.

This 60-minute practice is filmed on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii (very serene scenery). The production quality is outstanding and the colors are rich. The soft background music is pleasant, but monotonous and almost non-existent.

Julie performs the practice alone on a wooden platform that's nestled among lush green foliage and palm trees (white sand and a calm, blue ocean are visible in the background). She speaks quietly and clearly; her usage of spiritual language is very minimal. Julie doesn't mirror your movements during the practice.

The pace of this practice is languid and deliberate. Some may find this dull, but it helps me to improve my posture, balance and strength. One major disrupt in flow is that Julie does not always cue on coming out of a pose. It's annoying to have to play "catch up" in the sequence, but the pace is slow enough that it allows you to do so. Once I became familiar with the sequence, it wasn't a problem for me anymore.

I like a variety of hatha yoga practices in my routine, and this fits in well for non-power yoga days with its balancing/strengthening asanas.

Instructor Comments:
Julie is a yogini in her thirties, who credits yoga as having changed her life. Julie believes that yoga is a rehabilitation for the spirit as well as a healing of bodily injuries.

Julie is an executive producer for this DVD. She also co-directed and choreographed this yoga practice.

Leslie (blue_hydrangea)