Product Details

• Actors: Total Yoga
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: December 11, 2001
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QCY5
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,912 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

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The three-volume set, Total Yoga: The Flow Series, contains three separate workouts, each targeting a different level of expertise. Total Yoga: Earth is the most basic workout drawing upon the foundations of Hatha Yoga. This 45-minute program introduces the fundamentals through detailed instruction on ujjayi breathing and sun salutation. Teachers Tracey Rich and Ganga White keep the asanas simple and demonstrate alternative postures for participants with compromised backs and necks. The cueing is both informative and clear, with valuable safety information about body alignment and form. This is a strong and thoughtful regimen that will be welcome for the first-time student and intermediate practitioner alike.

Total Yoga: Water presents a 45-minute intermediate workout with basic combinations of standing postures and floor poses. Based in the foundations of Hatha vinyasa, Water draws on core energy and ujjayi breathing to increase focus and flexibility. Rich and White illustrate modifications for most postures and limit the amount of advanced asanas. Participants will get a solid workout through a series of sun salutations and familiar poses such as triangle and warrior. Spinal rotation and inverted postures are kept to a minimum, but some great flexibility-building movements are incorporated that will increase the students' capacity to work into these poses later in their discipline.

The most rigorous workout is Total Yoga: Fire, which combines both classical and contemporary postures in one continuous flow. These poses are advanced to begin with, but the difficulty is increased with the length that each asana (pose) is held and the repetition of each vinyasa (series of poses). Rich and White silently lead this 60-minute session with verbal instruction from a narrator, who gives direction in both traditional yoga terminology and simple directional cues. The fundamentals of balance, ujjayi breath, and safety are addressed at the beginning, but the intensity level increases quite vigorously. Rich and White exhibit impeccable form and alignment through standing postures and three series of sun salutations. All of the programs in this excellent series end with meditations. --Olivia Voigts

Product Description
Internationally renowned yoga masters Ganga White and Tracey Rich bring over 60 years of teaching experience to Total Yoga: The Flow Series. This comprehensive and dynamic follow-up to the popular Total Yoga program is divided into three separate videocassettes, each representing a complete daily workout routine that brings the many benefits of yoga to all levels of students. The first in this series, Earth, builds foundations for balanced daily yoga routine for both the beginner and more experienced students, including sun salutations, standing and other classical postures, emphasizing flexibility, attention, flow and breath in a comprehensive, restorative manner. The second in the series, Water, advances the positions and postures for continuing students with the fluidity and grace of Hatha Vinyasa, flowing transitions, with a broader complement of standing, seated and inverted yoga postures. The third and final volume in the series, Fire, forges elements from the first two videos into a higher level of aerobic intensity for intermediate to advanced students.

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50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECTION OR CLOSE TO IT, May 15, 2002

By A Customer

If your looking for a workout that breaks down every Yoga pose I've ever hear of or was taught (10 years experience) this series is for you.
I bought this gift pack and have never been happier with a home workout. Starting with Earth which begins with detailed breathing instruction it guides one through a wonderful flowing series of sun salutions, standing poises, backbends, inversions and ends with deep relaxation (which most videos I,ve seem hardly cover if at all) it leaves me in a complete state of bliss. While Earth is suitable for beginners I get a great deal of satifaction from practicing with this tape as well as using it as a perfect warmup for golf and sking.
Water is another wonderful practice that moves with more pace and gusto then Earth and goes somewhat deeper into the poses . For friends of mine who have recently taken up Yoga I can recomend this as a next step after becoming aquanted with the poses in the Earth series or have had instruction in a Yoga class.
Fire is certainly for a more experinced Yogi, but I feels that Ganga and Tracey's detailed instruction and variations in the more challening poises will enable alot of people who are serious about expanding their practice to enjoy this series. The Flow Series moves in a continous motion that I relish more each time I use it. Its shot from every angle and is as gorgous to look at as it is beautiful to practice with.
The producers of this video really put alot of time and did this one right. From the music to the background this is by far ahead of all of the other videos (at least 50) that I,ve see and used as a practice in the last decade. I can recommend this three tape package for everyone.

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Beginners to Intermediate/Advanced, June 12, 2002

By	Han-yeu Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I consider myself an advanced beginner and have been practicing 3 times a week for the last year or so. I found this series to be great. The first two tapes are more for beginners and I like how at the beginning of each tape, they took the time to teach you the most important thing about yoga which is ujayii breathing. Most other tapes or even classes hardly spend the time telling u how to breathe which can affect your entire yoga experience.
As an advanced beginner, I only watched the first tape and did the second tape once. After that, I only practiced with the 3rd tape which is a more challenging hatha vinyassa yoga practice lasting a bit over 60 minutes. I disagree with one of the other reviewers saying that it's all about repetitions and nothing new. That's what vinyassa yoga is... lots of sun salutations one after another to get your body warm and to control your breathing well throughout the entire exercise!
I don't know what others expect. The poses in yoga practices are limited in the sense that you cannot really invent a new pose! But variations of each poses are limitless depending on the capability of your body. Plus, I have often done research with books on more advanced variations of certain poses and integrate them into this workout. Furthermore, as the tape demonstrates, while Rich is doing a simpler pose, Ganga will do a more challenging pose. This has helped me tremendously on setting goals.
Compared to the routines by Rodney Yee, I believe the narration is much better as Rich clearly tells u how to coordinate your breathing with your poses to maximize the effects of yoga. Compared to Power Yoga with Bryan Kest, this series seem more "traditional" and is a bit less "fun." Nevertheless, it is still quite challenging. I intermix Power Yoga - Sweat with Fire from this series for my in home practices and go to the yoga classes for additional inspirations and learnings.
As a beginner, I think you should get the whole set as the first two are invaluable in terms of teaching and poses. When you gets better, u can move on to the third tape and maybe give the first two tapes to friends and family to inspire them! Otherwise, just get Fire from this series and the last 2 tapes from Bryan Kest's series to have a challenging yoga experience! Namaste!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Three wonderful workouts for any level, October 21, 2002

By	artemis "artemis" - See all my reviews

I own nearly 20 yoga videos, and recently added this to my collection. I love all three, but especially Water and Earth, and they are now the tapes I use most often. The best word I can use to describe them is "pure". This is simple yoga, no music, no seaside scenery, no "get some rapport with the floor" annoying rhyming. They are the perfect length for a squeezed-in yoga session (35-40 minutes), and revitalize and re-centre me even when I am very tired at the end of the day. A good investment.