Om Yoga Class: Beginner/Intermediate
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Artist: Cyndi LeeDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Dharma Moon
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DVD Review: Stop! Don't throw your money away.
Summary: 2 Stars
This is not a beginner's class. I wouldn't even call it an intermediate class. In fact, it's not even like a yoga class at all. It's like Kathy Smith doing yoga.
I'm not a beginner, but I still found this to be a really, really difficult and strange yoga class. Cyndi Lee is nice, but she's forgotten what it's like to be a beginner. She doesn't give very clear instructions to the at-home audience. She talks while the yogis demonstrate. She goes between the two yogis in the front and makes corrections on their form, but since we can't see them from the side, they're pointless to us. She promised modifications for beginners, but proceeded to teach to the level of her professional demonstrators.
There were a few points on form that she made that were helpful.
The DVD contains a lot of boring extras too, like a tour of her yoga studio. What is the point of that unless you live in NYC? The DVD is hard to use as well. The highlight points are dark blue and small, the unhighlighted points are black and small, so you can't really see which item you have highlighted. (That's probably just me whining, but it was frustrating to be trying to get back to the main menu and keep ending up on her studio tour!)
There were options that allowed you to make the class shorter, but they were just pieces of the full length class. You could achieve exactly the same effect by pushing the "next" (or "skip") button on your remote.
The optional class for the absolute beginner was a hoot. It was just the warm-up. The class for the beginner (next level up) was the warm-up plus sun salutations (which started out OK, but rapidly progressed to very unusual and extremely difficult variations like jumping from standing forward fold to downward dog; no beginner would know what to do to modify them--what, just lie down in child pose and wait it out?) and I think it also had the final poses (which included shoulder stand--not a beginner's pose).
The best part of the video was that you could choose to play the class without the unsoothing music, but who cares since there isn't going to be a next time? I didn't like the music and I don't like this DVD. Try the Stott Pilates Yoga series beginning with Simple Stretches or Kripalu's DVD (if you can find it) or JJ Gormley's Yoga For Every Body or Gaiam's yoga videos. The Ali McGraw video is really good. I even like White Lotus' Total Yoga or Earth or Water, but not Fire because it's way, way too advanced. (Maybe Hercules could do it . . .)
Anyway, don't bother with this DVD. It's too choppy, the classroom is crowded, and the workout is not much fun. It's also not relaxing and isn't that the point of yoga?
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