Flexibility Flexibility

I must admit, I have had this video for a couple of years, and haven't done it a lot. I probably should have started with their "Yoga for Beginners" video, but silly me, I think I'm so hot, I jumped right in with one of their more advanced videos, and I had never done yoga before.

The video is divided into two different sections, one forward bend segment, and one backward bend segment. Each segment is around 30 minutes long. I was not strong enough to do a lot of the backward bends the first few times I did this video. Then I put it away for about a year, and in that time I discovered the Firm videos and started doing strength training. The next time I tried it, I had the upper body strength to do the poses.

I didn't realize until I tried the Bryan Kest Power Yoga videos, that one of the reason's I found these videos so discouraging at first was that they have one person doing the poses, and she is so amazingly flexible that I could never do the moves as well as her. They do show modifications, but since I was somewhere between the modifications and what the instructor was doing, I just felt inadequate. However, I do like this video, I just think I would have done better if I had started with the beginner video, which I assume has more instruction in the basics. This series has received very good reviews elsewhere, so don't let my slightly soured view of it completely turn you off to them.

Not a very specific review, but I haven't really done this video a lot, and when I do it there is a big gap between times, so my memory of details is pretty thin. (hey, is this a review of my review?)

Trish Ransom

11/30/-0001