power yoga! or not.

[alonewiththemoon]

I like to rent various yoga DVDs from Netflix, in a try before I buy kind of plan.  This afternoon, I did The Firm: Power Yoga DVD.  It was short, about 32 minutes, but packed a fair amount of activity into those 32 minutes.  And therein lay its flaw, at least for me.  The DVD describes itself as being yoga without any of that spiritual stuff, just a pure physical workout, and that's what it is.  I do feel that post hard workout feeling, but what I do not feel at all is the sense of ease and balance that comes after a good yoga session.  I've often maintained that I learn something from every DVD, no matter how good or bad it is, and what I learned from this one is that I have come to really crave the spiritual/mental benefits of yoga.  So despite the DVD's avowed non-spiritual take, it still provided me with a form of enlightenment ;-)

Comments

[xenoglaux]

The best yoga DVD I've seen/done so far is David Swenson's 'Short Forms' DVD.
It's amazing.

[alonewiththemoon]

Cool, I'll check it out!

I'm partial to Shiva Rea's choose your own adventure DVD, the Ali mcGraw one with Eric Schifferman, and also a stress relief DVD put out by Yoga Journal with Paul Grilley. That last one has really good advice when it comes to form, and it's relaxing as well.