Rating: 
Summary: Great for beginners
Review: This is my first yoga video and I find the pace very comfortable yet challenging. I read the negative reviews and the repetitiveness they find boring is exactly what I (as a beginner) find great.Going through the same flow of movements and adding one on each time really gives me the chance to get the basics right. Peggy Hall gives you the opportunity to practice and perfect the simple movements. Its like any sport - get the basics right and you'll do much better when the harder stuff comes along. I can see how expert yogi's would find this boring...this dvd doesn't twist you into extreme pretzel poses...but that's not the intent. As a surfer, it's just enough to keep my shoulders flexible and lets me work on balance and focus.
Rating:
Summary: Beautiful production, excellent instruction!
Review: This is Peggy Hall's follow up to her Yoga for Surfers
video. Excellent production quality and great
instruction. There are no surfing scenes during the
practice, only briefly shown between each of the three
segments. This one is shown mainly inside a studio.
Pale yellow walls, wood floors, nice. (However brief
scenes are shown outside on the beach) Here is a run
down of each segment: Spinal Warmup: About 8-10 minutes in length, it's a great way to
start your day. Great twists, rocking moves/knees to
chest, down dog moving into 3 legged dog. Then child
pose, plank, modified cobra with twist to each side,
cobra, up dog, down dog, standing forward bend. Vinyasa Flow: About 21 minutes in length, Peggy links each pose
together in a smooth and fluid sequence. She goes
through each vinyasa adding a new element and then
repeats it to the other side. Here are the poses she
uses: sun salutation vinyasa flow, warrior 1, warrior
2, chair pose (including up on toes for added
balance), triangle, extended angle, bound angle,
balancing half moon (one leg on floor with opposite
leg in air with the same side hand on floor with
opposite arm in air), floating moon (lift the hand off
floor so you are balancing on one leg only). Then you
wind down this segment with the following poses:
prayer twist/wrapped twist, modified side plank or
full side plank, then star fish (lifting top leg up
from the side plank position). You then finish with
child pose, hero pose, down dog and then finally
hanging forward bend. Balance & Relaxation: Tree pose starts this sequence. This is followed by
swaying palm (side bend done in tree pose), then a
flying warrior flow. Return to tree pose and repeat
on other side. She then goes into crow pose, modified
boat pose, relax, then full boat pose. She then
releases from full boat pose, going slowly down to the
ground with legs and arms outstretched. Then you go
very slowly (using your core) back up and into full boat pose. Bridge follows this sequence, then knees
to chest/rotation of knees to the right and then to left, then she holds both her feet with her hands in a
butterfly or dead bug pose. From that pose she extended her knees so her legs are straight out to the
side for a deep inner thigh stretch. Finishing this
session are lying spinal twists, hugging knees to
chest for good stretch then finish up in cobblers
pose. Full relaxations ends the practice. 11 minutes approximate time. **Bonus section** Increase Your Lung Capacity: Here Peggy uses the breath of fire to increase your lung capacity (and tone those abdominals!!)Overall, I loved this one more than the first. This
one is more yoga than surfing oriented. The dvd is well chaptered so you can go to any section at any time...
Rating:
Summary: Great video production, excellent instruction!
Review: This is Peggy Hall's follow up to her Yoga for Surfers
> video. Excellent production quality and great
> instruction. There are no surfing scenes during the
> practice, only briefly shown between each of the three
> segments. This one is shown mainly inside a studio.
> Pale yellow walls, wood floors, nice. (However brief
> scenes are shown outside on the beach) Here is a run
> down of each segment:
>
> Spinal Warmup:
>
> About 8-10 minutes in length, it's a great way to
> start your day. Great twists, rocking moves/knees to
> chest, down dog moving into 3 legged dog. Then child
> pose, plank, modified cobra with twist to each side,
> cobra, up dog, down dog, standing forward bend.
>
> Vinyasa Flow:
>
> About 21 minutes in length, Peggy links each pose
> together in a smooth and fluid sequence. She goes
> through each vinyasa adding a new element and then
> repeats it to the other side. Here are the poses she
> uses: sun salutation vinyasa flow, warrior 1, warrior
> 2, chair pose (including up on toes for added
> balance), triangle, extended angle, bound angle,
> balancing half moon (one leg on floor with opposite
> leg in air with the same side hand on floor with
> opposite arm in air), floating moon (lift the hand off
> floor so you are balancing on one leg only). Then you
> wind down this segment with the following poses:
> prayer twist/wrapped twist, modified side plank or
> full side plank, then star fish (lifting top leg up
> from the side plank position). You then finish with
> child pose, hero pose, down dog and then finally
> hanging forward bend.
>
> Balance & Relaxation:
>
> Tree pose starts this sequence. This is followed by
> swaying palm (side bend done in tree pose), then a
> flying warrior flow. Return to tree pose and repeat
> on other side. She then goes into crow pose, modified
> boat pose, relax, then full boat pose. She then
> releases from full boat pose, going slowly down to the
> ground with legs and arms outstretched. Then you go
> very slowly (using your core) back up and into full
> boat pose. Bridge follows this sequence, then knees
> to chest/rotation of knees to the right and then to
> left, then she holds both her feet with her hands in a
> butterfly or dead bug pose. From that pose she
> extended her knees so her legs are straight out to the
> side for a deep inner thigh stretch. Finishing this
> session are lying spinal twists, hugging knees to
> chest for good stretch then finish up in cobblers
> pose. Full relaxations ends the practice. 11 minutes
> approximate time.
>
> **Bonus section**
>
> Increase Your Lung Capacity:
>
> Here Peggy uses the breath of fire to increase your
> lung capacity (and tone those abdominals!!)
>
> Overall, I loved this one more than the first. This
> one is more yoga than surfing oriented. The dvd is
> well chaptered so you can go to any section at any
> time. ...
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