 | Heart Flow Vinyasa Yoga, Beginner, Intermediate, & Advanced, a ***Practice DVD***, (Anusara Yoga)
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An alignment focused, heart centered, Anusara Flow Yoga DVD that emphasizes body alignments that open the heart.
Ishwari Gonnot is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher. She has been practicing and teaching yoga since 1992. She has been studying with John Friend since 1995. She is known for the way she inspires her students to connect deeply into their hearts while playfully challenging them to exceed themselves and realize their own greatness.
Heart Flow Yoga is flowing with Grace by saying yes to the whole magical spectrum of life. It is a willingness to be aware of all parts of ourselves-the light and the dark, the full rainbow of sensation, perception, emotion, and thought. To be in the flow is to look at whatever arises with freshness and freedom. It is simply to open our hearts with love to the present moment without clinging or pushing. Heart Flow Yoga is accepting the world and ourselves as we are, and then responding with love.
Heart Flow Yoga is one of many videos at MyYogaVideo.com that have multiple sound tracks. You can choose between two instructional styles, detailed or asana timing only, and you can choose your music from several beautiful tracks (or none). This video is a multi level yoga practice for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced yogis. In the detailed instructionalsound track you are often presented with pose options for each level. Choose the option that fits you best and hold the pose only as long as you can keep the integration.
Ishwari's website : www.yogabhava.com
 provided a great introduction to Anusara style yoga , September 24, 2008
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James E. White (Oak Park, IL) - |
This DVD was the first Anusara style yoga DVD I ever purchased. The DVD is approximately 73 minutes long. There is a short mediation and a decent amount of time for savasana (final resting pose). The flow is on the slow side (as compared to vinyasa or ashtanga style yoga), but there are some poses that are on this DVD that are definitely of an intermediate to advance nature. One example of this is the back bend. A beginner can simply do a version of a back bend appropriate for themselves, or do a full back bend and extend a leg in the air, or do a back bend place a hand on the thigh on the same side and then come up to standing from the back bend. Overall, the instruction is good and music is nice. You do not need to be an expert yogi/yogini to get through this DVD, but some of the poses will make you wish you were more experienced if you are a beginner. Any skill level can try this DVD but some poses my not have a brand new beginner level of modification/adjustment for some of the poses.
A yoga DVD that works for everyone! , April 15, 2008
I have been practicing yoga for over a decade and I finally found in the Heart Yoga Flow DVD the perfect balance between a deep knowledge of physical alignment with really clear and precise direction and an inspiring spiritual theme that is carried out throughout the class. Hearing the teacher's French accent and the words she chooses is really conducive to a state of expansion and I feel totally rejuvenated each time I use this DVD practice.
Also, I like the fact that there are 4 different music tracks. Some days I am feeling mellow and I choose the music that is soft and mystical. Other days when I feel that I need to wake up, I choose the more upbeat track with a more active rhythm.
I am at a point in my practice where I need to hear the full instruction track; however, as I continue practice regularly I assume I will be able to try the timing only option where the instructions are less detailed. I can't wait to try the more advance versions when I get stronger and more open with regular practice. Basically I feel that I found a yoga DVD that really works for me and that I will never get tired of listening and practicing again and again and again choosing from all these different options and tracks. My frozen shoulder is already feeling much better. I am grateful for this DVD. |
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| ***Practice DVD***: This DVD has a simple menu that lets you choose your sound track including the music and teaching style. After you have listened to the detailed instructional sound track you switch to the asana timing sound track. This helps you get into the body through your yoga practice and out of your critical mind. This DVD also lets you choose the beautiful music that inspires you "today" ...
Here are some sound track samples. |
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Straight forward anuara yoga class , December 17, 2008
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YogaGirl (san francisco, ca United States) - |
I just finished viewing this class. It is a very straight forward anusara yoga class with lots of instruction. You can view a clip to get a feel for the class. The poses, as memory serves me are:
arm raises 3x, lunges, cobra, cobra with hands clasped behind back, down dog, up dog, triangle to balancing triangle, bird of paradise, warrior 1, warrior 2, standing head to knee forward stretch, half moon to half moon holding foot, pigeon, pigeon with one or both arms over head, pigeon hold foot, half or full frog, bow, bridge, upward facing bow 2x with variation for advanced students, bound angle, half forward bending, meditation, relaxation. The poses listed are not in the order practiced on the dvd but as I remember them. The practice itself runs about 60 minutes. This is a slow flow with no vinyasa in between poses. Anusara yoga is not big on sun salutations.
There are up to 3 variations for most of the poses. The class starts with the anusara invocation with the words on the screen.
Overall a nice short sweet class for days when you don't have 90 minutes for a class. A more comprehensive anusara class would be Jennifer Lynn's flow yoga dvd.
The camera work is a little funky during some of the forward bending poses, but I am assuming that the camera person assumed you wouldn't be looking at the screen at that point and therefore shot a snail coming out of its shell. Also during savasana, they included out takes where the teacher and director (I guess) were messing around. Again they assumed that you would not notice this because you are lying down, eyes closed. At the end of the class, the camera work was very bad aa it blurred and panned across flowers to settle on a flower instead of the actors. Interesting choice.
I look forward to doing this tomorrow and I will let you know how I felt afterwards. I gave it 5 stars because it has a very peaceful and spiritual feeling which I like in yoga classes. If you are looking for a very active sweaty class, then this is not the dvd for you.
UPDATE: I did this class and it is deceptively challenging becuause of the long holds. I felt great afterwards. A well cued and instructed anusara yoga class. Wish there were more of these on the market. I have John Friend's 3 live dvds, but those were more about HIM than the yoga. This dvd was pure yoga and bliss, indeed!
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