Just finished Practice 1. It was very nice, and covered a lot of ground in 30 minutes. Travis is demonstrating the poses while narrating in voiceover. He moves very quickly between the poses, as you would expect for a shortened practice. I guess the assumption is that you have done UY or have experience with similar styles, because there is no expository period as there is in UY (where you move more slowly through the vinyasa and then speed it up). The form cues are also fewer, although not nonexistent. The music is similar to that in UY as well. While I have not done all the discs in UY (I don't think I've done Balance yet), there were some poses that I haven't seen before (in UY I mean). He does the deep squat with feet flat and adds a twist and a bind. Holy cow I cannot even twist there! He also does a very brief crow pose (which is probably in Balance). There is a "wild thing" move where you flip over in down dog to feet flat with arched back balancing on one arm. And at the end is bridge to wheel (which I was able to briefly get into yay!).
Travis sounds a bit different due to the voiceover, and he doesn't say as many encouraging tidbits in this. I did kind of miss that. This is Travis right down to business without the philosophical stuff.
I peeked in on the Lauren practice. She narrates in voiceover. My goodness, her body is friggin' perfect. Maybe I should get back to doing yoga more often! I'll probably do that one next time.
Oh gosh, I have been waiting so long for these and now they're here. I feel like the length of these practices is perfect for me to be able to do more yoga. I can do about 1 segment each of Ballet Body downloads for upper and lower body and then do this yoga. Or I can go for a walk and then tag this on at the end. I'm so happy there are 4 practices to choose from.
The menu doesn't indicate anything at all about the differences between the practices, nor does the DVD case. So I guess I will have to do them all to find out. I was hoping for shorter versions of my favorites in the UY set.
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