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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Flow!!, February 29, 2008
This is an awesome power, flow yoga practice! Well organized, and professionally produced. The DVD has 4 main chapters an Introduction, Beginner's Flow (45 minutes) with 10 chapter segments, Intermediate Advanced Flow (75 minutes) with 4 sections called "Quarters" that is further broken down into 4 segments to choose from and and Alignment Principles section.
In the Intro section Jennifer begins with an inspiring message (this is usually the section of a DVD I usually skip but for some reason it flipped to it and I listened for a change and it was a delight). She reminds us that living is a life of balance between purposeful, balanced, responsible living in union with joyful, passionate, exuberant living. Even though she doesn't mention God, it still reminded me that that's exactly the life God intends and wants for all of us.
I loved her 75 minute Intermediate/Advanced flow! The setting is both inside a studio and outside in a grassy park with scenes switching gently back and forth. It's shot in a very professional way with great camera work. She leads with a number of students with an amazing voiceover and great music in the background. It is a challenging power flow with an almost dancelike flowing feel to it especially in the beginning (her transitions move in and out of poses fluidly and beautifully). There will also be a good enough amount of vinyasa's (chatarunga, updog, downdog) to get the blood pumping and the body warm. Her incredible voice over has amazing cueing and is calming, with great direction while also inpiring, for example, "welcome challenge as you reach up, surrender to grace bowing in, inhale readiness look forward, exhale poise step back or float back"(yet funny enough without coming off as cheesy or sappy). None of her awesome voiceover slows down the flow in any way. She also likes to throw in some great handbalancing and inverted poses throughout, which I love (Quarter section 1: side crow, crow; Quarter section 2: one-legged crow or crane; Quarter section 3: sage 2 pose, side plank to wheel, dolphin to forarm stand, headstand; Quarter section 4: one-legged sage 1 to tripod headstand).
Overall this is an amazing practice and worth every 5 stars!! She's up there with the best of them: Eoin Finn, Bryan Kest (1st dvd's), Shiva Rae, Inhale yoga (Oxygen TV, funky music Steve Ross), Mark Blanchard, Baron Baptiste, Donna Helm-Yost (Flow and Yin), Yoga Radiance, Yogatopia, MTV Power Yoga, Power Yoga for Strength & Endurance, XFlowsion, etc.
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