Yoga For Intermediates

Rodney Yee
Year Released: 2000

Categories: Yoga


This 60-minute yoga workout is designed to be for intermediate-level yoga practitioners, and I think that’s an accurate target audience. Actually, the postures aren’t much harder than those in most of Rodney’s beginner’s tapes, but this is longer and besides, I’ve always thought Rodney’s beginner tapes weren’t really beginner-level.

The hardest parts of this video, at least for me, are handstands and headstands, which I’m not really ready for, and also a wheel series where he does 3 repetitions. In general, the video goes like this: You start with four sets of sun salutations to get you a little warm, proceed to standing poses and a couple of balancing poses. I love Rodney’s balancing poses, because he’s the only one who can get me into them correctly. I can actually do a half-moon with him, but with other instructors, I’m usually falling down more than I’m doing the pose. :)

I may be wrong on the sequencing, but I believe next is a head/handstand series, which I modify with a lot of down dogs. Then there are backbends, and finally shoulderstands. Among all these are standing and sitting forward bends and some twists.

I give this an A+ for everthing: the enjoyment of the workout, the instruction, the scenery and production quality, and the effectiveness.

Annie S.

03/11/2002