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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303548975 Format: Box set, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303548970 Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: November 02, 1999 Running Time: 162 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1995 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest's home-video workouts. 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, in which Kest turns up the intensity, holding a variety of twisting poses for long stretches of time. It's OK to take it easy, rest, or modify the routines to your ability, which is part of the reason the tape is so useful. You won't be turned off as a beginner-to-intermediate practitioner, but there's plenty of room to challenge yourself as an advanced athlete, too. Volume 3, Sweat, is a slightly shorter version of the challenging class Kest teaches in person. There are still all the gentle, firm admonitions to listen to your body, not to feel competitive with anyone else in how you do the pose (and as long as you heed them, you'll do fine). But Kest combines the classic warm-ups and longer-hold poses with a rapid succession of sun salutes, which will be gratifying to the advanced yoga student, but may make a first timer feel as though he dropped in to a Rockettes rehearsal by mistake. But if you keep at it, the workout is very easy to follow, and Kest's gentle, gruff voice is so soothing you find yourself relaxing even as you're pushing your body to its limits. As long as you keep in mind his personal mantra--"If you're doing the best you can, you're doing this class perfectly"--you and Kest should have many satisfying years of workouts together. --Anne Hurley Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Wow!!!After a recent urge to get into yoga, I decided to purchase this program through Amazon due to the reviews it has gotten. I'm so glad I did. I've only tried it a few times but have felt great everytime. It is a bit difficult as I'm not flexible at all but I am definitely looking forward to mastering some moves. Rating: - Very good mental as well as physical workoutI haven't had a very wide range of yoga experience -- I've never taken a live class, for example -- but I've used videos by a number of different teachers, and Bryan Kest is my favorite. From the first time I did the first video in this series, a few months after my fourth child was born, I understood it completely. Bryan Kest's cuing is clear and easy to follow, and he gives exactly the right amount of detail on how to do each pose. I could tell what the pose was supposed to look and more importantly ... Read More Rating: - Bryan Kest at his BESTThis dvd set is amazing! This is Bryan Kest at his best (this was filmed quite a while ago!) This yoga is for no wimps though... so hang tight because you're going on a ride of extreme yoga! Bryan has such a way of pushing you to go further in your practice. However, you don't feel overwhelmed... he is very incouraging and before you realize it, you just held Half Moon for an HOUR! No, seriously, this is a workout, but, you also know by the end you have just been "opened" up... mind, body and spirit. Plus, ... Read More Rating: - Who gets to define what yoga should or shouldn't be???I have to begin by addressing the wide array of reviews here. It seems that the biggest discrepancy is whether or not Kest is truly doing yoga or if he is truly a yogi or an appropriate teacher. Really, I agree with the person who said that it is a personal thing. I had not done yoga before getting this set. I had done pilates and have a good foundation of body awareness, so that helped in overcoming the fact that I did not have a teacher there to help me with my form. But as long as I felt good, I didn't ... Read More Rating: - Awesome video seriesI bought this video after getting a recommendation from my yoga teacher and reading other Amazon reviews, before leaving on an extended vacation (where a live class would not be available). Like many others here, I think this yoga set absolutely rocks- it is an excellent and balanced yoga series (bends, balance, strength) which is challenging, but not dangerously so (and there are three levels to choose from). I can see how it would be a matter of personal preference whether you would like the constant chatter ... Read More |
