Product Details

• Actors: Zyrka Landwijt
• Directors: Sean Riehl
• Format: Anamorphic, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Real Bodywork
• DVD Release Date: January 11, 2008
• Run Time: 210 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012KK6QU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,580 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #63 in Movies & TV > DVD > Exercise & Fitness

Editorial Reviews

Get inspired. Get flexible! Experience peace & tranquility while you gain flexibility! This comprehensive yoga DVD will get you started with a variety of routines to choose from. Let Zyrka's insights & gentle guidance inspire your practice and rejuvenate your spirit and body! This is a great DVD for beginners or anyone new to yoga. Featuring 6 sequences each with their own difficulty level and length: two half-hour sequences, two three-quarter-hour sequences, and two hour sequences. This means that you can choose your level, and amount of time that you want to practice, and this yoga DVD will give you exactly what you need! This yoga DVD also features a unique Yoga Pose Guide section that gives detailed instruction on 23 poses including positioning, common mistakes, pose benefits, & contraindications. This means that you can learn the basics of each pose, without having to listen to detailed instructions that you already know during the main sequences. Filmed in Santa Barbara, California in high definition, with over 3½ hours of footage.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for not so flexible beginners!, May 25, 2009

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C. Kruse - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga: Gentle Practice (DVD)

I borrowed this DVD from my yoga instructor, and now it's definitely the most sought after item on my wish list. I'm not fat or middle-aged or elderly, but I'm just horribly inflexible. The basic/beginner yoga tapes fluster me and I end up giving up. This one, however, is definitely my pace. Zyrka is soothing and very instructive. I find the individual tutorials on each pose to very helpful as well as the guided practices.

This is a great addition to my weekly yoga lessons.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it., October 21, 2010

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Jerome Glassman (Bethesda, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga: Gentle Practice (DVD)

This is the best yoga DVD I own (and I have a bunch). After using it consistently for a few weeks, I noticed a HUGE improvement in my flexibility and greatly decreased back and neck pain that had been unresponsive to just about everything else. Zyrka is a wonderful, calming, soothing, clear instructor and I can't recommend the DVD highly enough. Get it!

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Thorough Yoga DVD, August 24, 2011

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Jane - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Yoga: Gentle Practice (DVD)

I am a yoga teacher who's been extensively researching yoga DVD's and student reviews before I create my own. If you're looking for a yoga DVD that suits you, here's what I discovered:
1) Do your own research to find both the teacher and yoga style that best suits
your personal preferences. Pace, voice quality, clarity, etc. It's like
finding the doctor, dentist, massage therapist, etc. that you like and trust.
2) If you are a Beginner, find a reputable teacher and take a live class first,
if possible. Then research a DVD. Many of the negative yoga DVD reviews I
read came from Beginners who, precisely because they are new to yoga, found
the DVD they bought too challenging, even ones labeled Beginner or Gentle
Yoga. It takes great awareness from a teacher, particularly if they are in
shape, flexible and strong to really remember what it's like to be a
Beginner. Teachers often forget to show modifications and use of props.
3) Watch a yoga DVD first, maybe even a few times, before following along.
So, as far as Zyrka's "Gentle Practice" DVD goes, I found her style to be thorough in explanation, calming, smooth, mindful-based. She offers modifications, the use of props and is very mindful of and speaks to the refinement of body movement.
She teaches what I call classical yoga, not gymnastic yoga (pretzel poses). If you're a hot yoga fan, this DVD probably won't do it for you! I think this DVD is appropriate for Beginners.
I like that she has a section that is devoted to individually teaching several different yoga postures and then does a few different time length flows with them. Again, if you're a Beginner, her referencing the posture name might throw you off a bit but, she does do a good job of verbal cuing. I like that she cues movements a second or two before she actually does the movement which gives the viewer the ability to stay in sync with her. I also like that she incorporates in many warm-ups and basic movements along with recognized yoga postures. There's a lot of material here for your money, too.