Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection
 | Starring: Bryan Kest Warner Home Video, 2004, DVD Customer Rating: 374 reviews Recommend |
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Feel the power. Be the power! Unlock the strengthening, slimming, detoxifying and reenergizing of Power Yoga. Bryan Kest leads you in a vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga stule of Yoga.
Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest's videos. Kest teaches wildly popular yoga classes in Santa Monica, California — so popular that stars like Rhea Perlman, David Duchovny, and Elisabeth Shue willingly sweat alongside the hoi polloi in Kest's packed, ancient loft studio. If you don't happen to be in the neighborhood, not to worry: Kest's yoga videos are nearly as good as being there. Volume 1: Energize is a beginner level class that nonetheless is smartly designed to provide challenges for all levels of users. Kest's Jersey-boy voice at first seems in contrast to the serene environment and inner-peace objectives, but it gradually becomes soothing and hypnotic in its own right. Stretches and strengthening moves are alternated with just enough repose to keep even first timers on track. After mastering Vol. 1, practitioners can go on to Volume 2: Tone or Volume 3: Sweat to further challenge themselves. As long as you keep in mind Kest's personal mantra — "If you're doing the best you can, you're doing this class perfectly" — you and this video should have many satisfying years of workouts together. — Anne Hurley
Title: Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection
Sales Rank: 248 in DVD
Actor: Bryan Kest
Studio: Warner Home Video, 2004-05-11
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.33:1
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 162 minutes
Item Dimensions: 6.1 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches, 0.15 pounds
- Okay - not great.
- First to let you know where I'm coming from ability wise - I used to be a dancer, and I've been practicing yoga on an intermediate/advanced level for about 3 years.
Now on to the DVD . . . unlike other power yoga classes I've taken, there isn't much of a flow - it seems to be more Ashtanga than Vinyasa. Which some people may prefer. The first work… More reviews
- I love the flow, but...
- Brian Kest talks. too. much. I absolutely love the routines and flow, it is amazing and probably one of the best I have done (it deserves 5 *s), but I wish there was a way that I could do the practice that cuts out most of his talking. Others have commented on his touching the students way too much and inappropriately, but… More reviews
- Dangerous!
- There is not enough warm up in this video, and it leaves one prone to injury! You have to get some blood to the shoulders before holding upper push up lower push up, or downward dog. All three of these are done right at the beginning, with no warm up!! For this reason alone, avoid this video. … More reviews
- Unrated but should be!
- Overall this is a fine, challenging yoga DVD for those with some yoga experience and a good fitness level. However the production is really distracting; all the participants are dressed in tight white underwear and the cameramen focus on their "bulges" and Bryan Kest provocatively grabbing them in intimate spots to guide their poses rather than showing us clearly… More reviews
- A challenging and effective workout
- I have only been doing Yoga for about 1 year and wasn't sure I would be "up" to this one, but I have successfully completed all 3 workouts on this DVD. The instruction is clear and Brian keeps encouraging you to go a little further to challenge yourself. I can do moves that I didn't know was possible. I do this one every 3rd day. In between I rotate one… More reviews
