Power Yoga DVD

Are you looking for a power yoga DVD that balances strength and power building, with mind and soul? Want 60 minutes of pure pleasure as you feel your natural heat within detoxify your body, leaving you calm and powerful to engage the day? Power yoga is a practice that doesn’t just make your body stronger, it builds your mind and soul to make your entire being stronger.

A good power yoga DVD should lead you through a series of transforming moves and positions easily, whether you’re a beginner or a long time yogi. It should improve your body’s ability to absorb and transport oxygen, by strengthening your cardiovascular system through vigorous exercise. The better our cardiovascular system processes oxygen, the more energy we have. The less efficient it is, the less energy we feel. But a power yoga approach gives more than just raw exercise, it integrates your mind, your soul, and creates a more wholistic health than just strong muscles and cardiovascular system.

There are several styles of yoga with varying degrees of power / cardiovascular intensity. From lowest to highest: hatha, iyengar, bikram, vinyasa, ashtanga.

• Hatha is more a slower paced, gentler style, good for beginners, not so good for aerobics / cardiovascular building.
• Iyengar focuses on moving your body in precise positions, and holding poses for long periods of time.
• Bikram is the “hot” yoga, where a series of up to 26 moves are done in a hot room. Lots of water and towels are useful.
• Vinyasa is more vigorous, using the breath to synchronize movements.
• Ashtanga is a fast paced, intense style that is especially helpful when you’re looking for aerobic exercise. You move quickly from one pose to the other, and you build strength, stamina and your cardiovascular system quickly.

Most power yoga DVD options use either the Ashtanga or Vinyasa yoga styles. So look for these when you’re buying your power yoga DVD.

To make it easier for you, we’ve reviewed some to selling power yoga DVD teachers.

Rodney Yee: Power Yoga: Total Body Workout DVD

Rodney Yee is one of the big names in the power yoga world. This DVD was filmed on a Hawaiian beach (perfect for those of us living in the North!). Rodney uses the Vinyasa style with Sun Salutations, standing poses, twists, backbends, and forward poses. He takes you through beginner poses through to intermediate poses designed to improve your overall body strength and centering.

Sadie Nardini: Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga Power Hour

Sadie is a New York yoga instructor who uses the Vinyasa style to create a high energy, fast paced, fun fun fun power yoga session. You will learn the basic Vinyasa poses, and then Sadie adds in her own stylings to focus on your core-strength. More than just yoga, you’ll feel like you’re doing a flowing dance that helps you center. This power yoga DVD breaks the session into bite sizes, from 5 minutes to 60 minutes, to fit into the time you have. Her goal for you? Make you stronger, leaner, more flexible and more centered with your health.

Brian Kest: Power Yoga, Complete Collection

Brian Kest has created a power yoga DVD aimed specifically at routines that help you lose weight while gaining strength and centering. Brian’s approach to power yoga is to use poses do strengthen and improve elasticity, but more importantly to release toxins in the body caused by stress, and help the mind to stop producing these toxins. This 70 minute DVD will help you create a personal sanctuary to enliven your body and mind, and improve the balance in your life.

Summary

Of course, getting the right power yoga DVD is just one piece of the puzzle for you to improve the balance in your life. Diet, living environment, how you handle stress in other ways are, of course, others. But don’t forget one the most important…each other. Getting balance through movement can be really hard without support. Put it on your action list to call up and recruit a friend to join you with this! If your friends are all busy or uninterested in power yoga, then make new friends through your local yoga studio. Or try www.meetup.com. It’s a great site that lets you find other people interested in getting together to find balance through power yoga, in a safe environment. Just go to www.meetup.com, enter “power yoga” or even just “yoga” and your zip code, and you’ll find new friends who will support you, and you then, in your practice.

There are just a few of the top selling power yoga DVD instructors. Whether you choose these, or another one that you find in your search below, the important point is to START.

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