Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power Yoga - The Sedona Experience (5-DVD Set)
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Brand: Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power YogaPrimary Contributor: Mark Blanchard
DVD: Region Code 1
Running Time: 357 minutes
Model: PPY-SED5
Studio: The Illusion Factory
Product features:
- -The same Power Yoga workouts used by Mark's professional sports clients and top celebrities.
- -Increase your metabolism, lose weight, and burn up to 800 calories or more over a 90 minute workout.
- -Sculpt long, lean muscles for greater flexibility. Increase your energy so you look and feel younger.
- -Decrease stress, improve mental focus and clarity, and get a stronger sense of spirituality.
- -Selected as one of the top Yoga DVD's by Shape, Fitness, and Glamour magazines.
DVD Reviews of Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power Yoga - The Sedona Experience (5-DVD Set)
DVD Review: Blanchards Power Yoga: Powerfully Dissapointing.
Summary: 2 Stars
(This review for the first of the five Blanchard Power Yoga DVDs)
The Good: A long workout (120mns), really hitting the legs. Background and practitioners are pleasant to look at. (You'll see why this was noted as a plus...)
The Bad: This yoga practice just doesn't flow. At all. Blanchard fails to call out poses by name consistently-making the viewer look at the screen much too often. Some poses are repeated over and over, making the routine seem.... monotonous.
The Verdict: Borrow it from the library. Borrow it from a friend. But don't buy it without going through it once or twice. While the workout is lengthy and intense on the legs, Blanchard fails as a good instructor.
Full Review: This is a classroom "type" DVD, with some pretty practitioners. Not that I mind that the women are attractive - but it seems like they chose "pretty" people versus real practitioners. Anyhow, I digress. While Blanchard is purely concerned with talking about the poses-a good thing in an of itself, he doesn't call out poses by name enough. He talks about bending limbs this way, and falling that way-but you don't know what pose he's guiding you towards until you break down and look at the screen.
After the first half, I was really frustrated because I like to practice yoga-not continually watch the screen to see what the instructor intended. You know a great yoga practice if you can perform it by listening to the instructor, occasionally glancing at them. Why can't Blanchard just say "Standing forward bend, standing back bend, side plank, crow"? Because he only calls out the poses about half the time-I'm left to decipher his unclear instructions, which is not what I'm in this for. This becomes very apparent, as you can see the entire class having varying difficulty keeping pace with what he's describing-having to look up to see what he's going for.
Blanchard uses a "hands on" approach with some students, something not everyone will appreciate. I find it mildly amusing that he wanders off course and starts to describe the set scenery and how happy your dog is. I know this is "progressive" yoga, but really?
The balancing poses are interesting, some new that I haven't seen before-which were a breath of freshness. He seems strangely partial to three-legged dog and one legged balances. About 50 minutes into the workout, the "view" changes, spreading out the practitioners. At first I thought this would be be nice-but because I had to look at the screen so often, it was even more distracting. As the people were spread out, it was blatantly obvious that they could not follow without looking at Blanchard - a true statement to how well he can coordinate the workout. The last half hour approaches some more balancing, strength, backbends/shoulderstands, and some hip-openers.
The real detriment is the instructor. "Bring this hand to the earth, that hand up to the sky." Hey Blanchard, how about saying half-moon pose? It's also apparent that Blanchard can't even do many of the poses very well. Call me old fashioned, but the teacher needs to be able to demonstrate what they teach.
If it wasn't for the few one-legged balancing poses I hadn't seen before, two stars would have been two-too many.
Description of Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power Yoga - The Sedona Experience (5-DVD Set)
Bask in a sun-washed radiant sky. Breathe, stretch, focus and enjoy the vortex energy in one of the most beautiful spots in the world. Life is a series of perceptions and evaluations. How we react to them will determine each outcome. And so it is with yoga. In its truest form, yoga will always be a celebration of you and where you are on any specific day. It is about nurturing your mind, body and spirit in a noncompetitive environment. In more than 5000 years, yoga has never had props, nor has it ever had levels. If you can understand and genuinely appreciate this concept, then you will truly benefit from this DVD system. It is total acceptance. It is simultaneously about progressing to a deeper and more fulfilling practice: that is the yin/yang of yoga. Progressive Power YogaŽ - The Sedona ExperienceTM, was produced as a comprehensive collection of power yoga workouts that follow the same invigorating power yoga routines that are used by Mark's professional sports clients; filled with high energy, flowing asanas, balancing poses and deep cool-down stretches. By practicing this yoga system, you'll increase your metabolism and you can expect to lose more weight and burn more calories than any other form of cardio or weight-training exercise. Progressive Power YogaŽ - The Sedona Experience is designed for the athlete in all of us. There is nothing here that you can easily breeze through. It should be challenging for you, but not to the point where you stress out over whether or not you are doing too much or not enough. It takes time and dedication. It takes patience. Regardless of where you are in your yoga practice, the time you spend is always spent in the "Now." That's what the power of yoga reminds us to do- live and breathe who you are right now.Bestsellers in DVD
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