Product Details

• Actors: Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: GAIAM AMERICAS
• DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001EWUZAS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,706 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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PRACTICAL POWER OF YOGA - DVD Movie

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding before doing, January 13, 2009

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Christina Debarros "Chris B." (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Practical Power Of Yoga (DVD)

A lot of people who want to start doing yoga are not familiar with this ancient art. This video can give a rare insight to what it entails. It can clear misconceptions and wrong advice. An example is in how to correctly do a back bend, from your upper chest and not the waist. This is not a video of a yoga session but an eye opener. Its important to know what one is getting into.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars informative and entertaining, January 12, 2009

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Gitma (Norge, VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Practical Power Of Yoga (DVD)

The Yoga DVD was very helpful and easy to follow and had great information for beginners. It was great that they showed you how to do yoga even if you are sitting or laying down. Very enjoyable.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A PBS Yoga lecture/demonstration program, October 6, 2009

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Touch Remedy "TouchRemedy" (Nassau, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Practical Power Of Yoga (DVD)

UpTooLateReadingBook's 1/29/09, Christa Debarros 1/13/09 & Gitma's 1/12/09 reviews are great. This is a mostly lecture, but part teaching/demonstration of yoga poses. The reasons why people do it, the misconceptions, the mind/body union, the doing less is more, the giving yourself permission to relax will help everyone (it's not a sin), to do yoga to wake up instead of coffee, to prevent/heal backaches & even prostate issues & more.
There are some stories, but mostly they stick to the why's & basic teaching. It's an hour with a 20 min bonus of more poses.
They have the audience participate either using the floor/mats or sitting in a chair doing mountain, sun salutations, cobbler's, cobra, triangle, half moon, camel and relaxation or savasana and meditation.
Normally I get bored very easily, but because Rodney Yee & Colleen Saidman practice being in the now with energy, I wasn't at all, and the program moved at nice fast pace, and was over before I knew it.
This is for people who never tried yoga, or beginners for the most part, but even with the hundred? of yoga dvds I've bought/rented in the past 6 years, and a couple of yoga classes I took, I did learn to put more emphasis in using the upper back in my back bends as well as making sure the legs stay straight & not allow my hips to pull forward to give a fake feeling I'm bending more which puts pressure on the lower back. Also, to always ground with the feet, even in seated poses.
I only wish they spent longer in the teaching of each pose, but that's because I'm so detailed oriented, and probably wished this was three hours long.

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