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The Perfect Exercise: Sun Salutations with Dawn Holst

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I have to share a personal story that led me to Dawn's video. I am a middle-aged woman, and I started reading various articles on Yoga and what it could do for me physically as well as mentally. Searching the net one day, I came upon Dawn's website, and we started to have a conversation about the study of Yoga. Long story short, my friends and I are now taking a private class from Dawn. In her video, Dawn does a wonderful job of taking you through the steps of Sun Salutations in a quiet, powerful way. The video is very easy to follow, and does a great job of explaining/illustrating each move. It is a perfect compliment to classes or can be used regularly at home. I am learning the practice of Yoga with the help of this DVD and Dawn's classes, and the experience is helping me become the "fully functioning" person I hope to always be. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to practice Yoga.

This is a great Yoga DVD. I have tried a few Yoga DVDs to fill in the gaps between classes and Dawn's Qi-Yoga DVD is one of my favorites...This new one is a lot better. Dawn definitely stepped up the quality of video production in The Perfect Exercise, clearly this is not an LA production, but the shot composition is interesting and the use of cutaway alternative angles on poses helps you to see how the pose should look.

With full disclosure, I am lucky enough to regularly take classes with Dawn. A common vein between her classes and videos are excellent transitions. Beyond the attention Dawn puts into building a series of poses that enable your body to achieve both strength and flexibility....it is the transitions between the poses that I truly enjoy.

In The Perfect Exercise, Dawn blends in traditional Indian names of poses with their English equivalent effectively bridging the gap. This tape is very much like being in class with Dawn (minus the Hudson river!!!). There is no pretension here, the poses vary from basic to difficult and even include variations for those who need modifications of the poses. The urban setting brings a "normal" quality to the video that goes well with my own practice, which more often than not happens in the city (note you will not find me barefoot doing a sun salutation all that often but it works for Dawn).

Dawn does an excellent job of talking you thru the fine tuning that will enable the beginner to discover Yoga and the expert to focus on the details that will push your practice. If you only get one Yoga DVD this is a great one....If you are looking for 2, pick up Dawn's Qi-Yoga DVD also! You will get stronger, feel better and even fit into your clothes better from practicing with Dawn!

I am finally able to follow my yoga instructor's advice in doing some Sun Salutations each day. I am not quite up to the number of repetitions that Dawn Holst recommends.

I like that there are 3 variations offered, however, it would have been nice if after a variation, I was brought back to the main menu where I could easily replay the variation for however many repetitions I am interested in doing during one session.