1. Energize - Beginner Level
Feel the power. Be the power. Unlock the strengthening, slimming, detoxifying and reenergizing of Power Yoga. Bryant Kest leads you in vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga style of yoga.
<br /> "If you're doing the best you can, you're doing this class perfectly," Kest explains. After instructions on proper breathing, the session begins, taking you and an on-screen class through a variety of flowing, dynamic exercises (salutation, lungs, balancing, spinal stretches and more) augmented by Kest's demonstrations of the poses.<br /><br />2. Tone - Intermediate Level
Challenge your muscular strength aerobic endurance, flexibility, balance and mental stamina with <em>Tone.<br /><br /> An innovative series of lunge moves provides the primary activity in this workout that emphasizes finding your personal edge - the maximal yoga pose that still permits proper yogic breathing. Kest guides you and an in-studio class in a total-body regime that helps maintain flexibility and suppleness while building strength and well-being. Features comprising various poses are described so that you can add elements as you become more adept.

3. Sweat - Advanced Level
Looking for an advanced yoga routine? Then get ready to <em>sweat.<br />
"This program is definitely challenging," Kest admits about this maximal power-up session that builds upon the strength, stamina and flexibility cultivated in the first two <em>Power Yoga programs, combining a vigorous lung series with extended standing balance and floor stretch moves, the routine flows from one pose to the next while working toward total body/mind harmony. The brisk pace provides instruction, encouragement and commentary to assist you and the on-screen class.

Studio: Gaiam Americas Release Date: 02/12/2007

Join the Cheerleaders and their official Yoga instructor Kurt Johnsen for a series of Yoga practices inside the heart of Texas Stadium. Kurt's style of Yoga is proven to sculpt and strengthen the body while promoting peace of mind. Choose between a 25-minute or 45-minute practice designed to promote fat loss and strengthen all muscle groups. Each practice allows you to follow along at beginner, intermediate or advanced levels so you can set the intensity of your program!

<i>We are naturally fluid. More than half our total body weight is water. And yet this fluid power—in our awareness and way of moving—is often an untapped reservoir of energy and joy.<P>Explore the power of your fluid nature with Shiva Rea, one of the yoga world’s most inspiring teachers. Her innovative sequences move with natural flow for a completely original style of yoga that enhances vitality, agility, and creativity. Through rhythmic, circular, and spiraling movements, you will learn to liberate poses that are often rigidly held, allowing you to grow stronger and more flexible with grace.

The unique Yoga Matrix menu allows you to customize your practice, choosing from <b>over 3 hours of yoga (20 segments) to suit your time and energy level on any given day. Or, choose one of 6 pre-set practices, from foundation to advanced, from short to long, from solely meditative to energetic. Sequences include four innovative sun salutations, water "core," standing pose mandala, fluid backbends, handstand, forward bends, pranayama, meditations, and deep relaxation. For experienced beginners to intermediate practitioners. <ul><b>Special Features Include:

Program options: Create a custom practice with segments from the Yoga Matrix menu with (20 segments, 213 min.) or choose from 6 different pre-set practices (26-108 min. each)

Audio options: Instruction and music or music only

Fluid vinyasa techniques

Alignment details for 10 fluid asanas <li>24-page program guide <li>"Y yoga" mini documentary with Shiva Rea <li>Comments by experts Sally Kempton, Daniel Odier, Stuart Svotsky, and Fred Alan Wolf

Filmed in HD at White Sands National Park and directed by James Wvinner with cinematography by Hollywood’s Sion Michel (Memoirs of a Geisha)

Regain and extend the easy sense of fluid motion that keeps you doing the things you love to do. In Power Yoga: Flexibility, acclaimed instructor Rodney Yee shows you how to use his distinctive style of Power Yoga to restore and make the most of your body¹s fullest range of motion. Follow Rodney through a quick, deep-stretching yoga workout you can do in less than half an hour ‹ a remarkable antidote anytime you feel stiff, tight or limited in your agility. With this workout you¹ll release, lengthen and noticeably improve suppleness in both large and small muscles throughout your body, and stretch all of the major joints. Whether you¹re an athlete, just like to stay active, or want to feel less stiff and tight as you move through your day, this practice will help you use your strength more efficiently and move more freely with less pain, soreness and risk of injury. Rodney¹s signature style of flowing Power Yoga will fill you with a new sense of fluidity, mobility and power to affect how you feel and how your body keeps up with you. Practice regularly and you¹ll find this flexibility workout a rewarding way to extend your possibilities. A complete 25-minute workout filmed in dramatic Joshua Tree National Park: move through flowing Sun Salutations to flex and warm up, deeply stretch muscles and joints in fluid, energetic sequences, relax completely as you clear and calm your mind.

Editor s Choice - Yoga Journal

Get into shape, relieve stress, become stronger and more flexible & increase energy!<P> With over 20 routines, no other DVD offers so much to help you learn and progress in the healing art of yoga. Simply select the routine you need on any given day and this amazing DVD will adapt to meet your exact needs. Explore the amazing world of yoga with the most comprehensive and extensive DVD available. Practices range from 20 to 120 minutes.

Power Yoga for Every Body makes the beauty and power of flow yoga accessible to everyone. This comprehensive system of yoga can get into shape and increase flexibility while relieving stress and tension. For both the beginner and advanced practitioner, Power Yoga for Every Body is a safe and effective way to explore this powerful form of yoga. Renowned yoga instructor Barbara Benagh explores the asanas through her famous Slow FlowTM method of vinyasa (poses that flow together) while emphasizing alignment and awareness of breath.

Routines include:

- AM and PM practices <P> - Increased flexibility <P> - Strength & Balance building practices

- Relaxation <P> - Stress Relief

- Special interview with the instructor

- and many more!

Think you can't get a real workout in 10 minutes? Think again. Now you can get Tony Horton-style results in less time-a lot less.

This hour is a cardio amping, fat-blasting and creatively fun flow with master instructor Sadie Nardini. Called a "rising star" by Yoga Journal, this top instructor will change the way you practice yoga. She's the founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, a style that puts the core back into all your yoga poses! You'll torch calories, reshape and tone your entire body, gain strength, flexibility, and replace any vigorous hour you could do at the gym with the healing, balancing and transformative power of yoga. If you love to move and are looking to get strong, lean and flexible in less time, all while having a blast--this DVD is for you!

Power up your body and mind with Power Yoga: Strength, a fast-moving flow sequence that works arms, back and abs to build strength that¹s balanced throughout all the large and small muscles. Renowned instructor Rodney Yee guides you in a session that targets your entire upper body as you experience his distinctive, signature style of Power Yoga. Rodney shows you step-by-step how to confidently do challenging arm balance poses for core strength, more defined lean muscle and a greater sense of balance. Feel the empowering effects of using your body¹s own weight to add strength-building resistance to each move. Rapid sequencing designed to increase power adds a fat-burning aerobic benefit for a complete, satisfying yoga workout. Small movements create big results, strengthening and fine-tuning upper body muscles you may not even know you have. Gain a new sense of body-mind power that comes from the inside out ‹ strength you¹ll feel and see in everything you do. A complete 24-minute workout filmed along the stunning Maui coast: awaken and warm up body & mind with Sun Salutations, boost upper body strength and burn fat with fluid, fast-paced sequences, finish with guided relaxation and feel focused, energized & empowered.

Studio: Gaiam Americas Release Date: 03/30/2004 Run time: 30 minutes Rating: Nr