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Summary: 3 great workouts on 1 DVD
Review: I really enjoy Baron Baptiste's teaching style. He has a the perfect soothing voice for putting you in the right state of mind for practice. He's good at reminding you to breathe, if you're a beginner. The two 25 minute practices are great for when you are short on time. And the hour long practice is demanding enough to keep you interested for quite a while, especially if you start out with the easier modifications. The participants do beginner and advanced movements, so you always have something to work up to.
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Summary: If you only buy one yoga DVD, make it this one...
Review: I started practicing Yoga about 4 months ago. Starting with Bryan Kest's Beginner 20-minute at the suggestion of a friend, I was hooked! I started checking out Baron Baptiste when I saw his 3 DVD set at Best Buy. I liked his flow a lot. I read here how great the LIVE! DVD was and I read Baron's book.This is a fantastic intermediate workout. All three workouts are awesome and complete. The music is by far the best music I have heard in any Yoga video. Get this one if you want to take your practice to the next level! If you are a TRUE BEGINNER WITH NO EXPERIENCE get Bryan Kest's Step-By-Step/20 Minute Workout DVD (or seperately on VHS). Namaste
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Summary: Awesome! But not for new beginners...
Review: I started practicing Yoga about 4 months ago. Starting with Bryan Kest's Beginner 20-minute at the suggestion of a friend, I was hooked! I started checking out Baron Baptiste when I saw his 3 DVD set at Best Buy. I liked his flow a lot. I read here how great the LIVE! DVD was and I read Baron's book. This is a fantastic intermediate workout. All three workouts are awesome and complete. The music is by far the best music I have heard in any Yoga video. Get this one if you want to take your practice to the next level! If you are a TRUE BEGINNER WITH NO EXPERIENCE get Bryan Kest's Step-By-Step/20 Minute Workout DVD (or seperately on VHS). Namaste
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Summary: Baptiste Fan
Review: I would recommend this DVD to everyone. It shows students pereforming Yoga on all levels in a classroom setting and gives the inspiration and instruction you need to compete a wonderful 1 hour of Yoga. The only downside to this edition is that the two additional 30 minute workout sessions are pretty much copies of the first 60 minute one. Great instructions from the best, Baron Baptiste
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Summary: The New Face of Baron Baptiste
Review: This DVD has three very nice workouts on it: the first is a 60-minute full workout that reflects Baron's teaching these days. Age has made him a more gentle and careful teacher, but this session will still move that healing heat and deep sweat through your body. I found the session an interesting combination of gentleness and challenge, in large part because the poses are ordered differently than they are in many power workouts including Bryan Kest's and Baron's mid 1990s work. Specifically, the tape moves away from using exclusively sun salutations for warming the body, instead adding in thunderbolt poses (like sitting in chair with no chair)to build up heat. For those whose arms might get tired doing the salutations, the chair poses spread the heat over the whole body and the sequence does not overload the arms right at the beginning of the session. For me the changed sequence meant that different parts of the body were being challenged at different points, which seemed to expose some new body weaknesses and really got the heat moving. The new order also allowed me to go farther in some poses like side plank pose where the traditional order had left me a little too weak to explore the pose like I wanted to. Definitely worth having. Also included on the disc are two short sessions, a core power (abs and back) session and an athletic performance (hip, leg and back stretch and strength)session. Both of these are very good, but you want to be sure you are practicing in a well-heated room, breathing deeply and relaxing, because in a shorter session it is sometimes easy to strain a little bit before you are really heated up and loose. With that in mind, the two 30 minute short sessions are also really good. This disc is a great value, and for my money is better than Journey Into Power 2, although that is also very good.
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Summary: The New Face of Baron Baptiste
Review: This DVD has three very nice workouts on it: the first is a 60-minute full workout that reflects Baron's teaching these days. Age has made him a more gentle and careful teacher, but this session will still move that healing heat and deep sweat through your body. I found the session an interesting combination of gentleness and challenge, in large part because the poses are ordered differently than they are in many power workouts including Bryan Kest's and Baron's mid 1990s work. Specifically, the tape moves away from using exclusively sun salutations for warming the body, instead adding in thunderbolt poses (like sitting in chair with no chair)to build up heat. For those whose arms might get tired doing the salutations, the chair poses spread the heat over the whole body and the sequence does not overload the arms right at the beginning of the session. For me the changed sequence meant that different parts of the body were being challenged at different points, which seemed to expose some new body weaknesses and really got the heat moving. The new order also allowed me to go farther in some poses like side plank pose where the traditional order had left me a little too weak to explore the pose like I wanted to. Definitely worth having. Also included on the disc are two short sessions, a core power (abs and back) session and an athletic performance (hip, leg and back stretch and strength)session. Both of these are very good, but you want to be sure you are practicing in a well-heated room, breathing deeply and relaxing, because in a shorter session it is sometimes easy to strain a little bit before you are really heated up and loose. With that in mind, the two 30 minute short sessions are also really good. This disc is a great value, and for my money is better than Journey Into Power 2, although that is also very good.
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