Power Yoga for Happiness
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DVD: Region Code 1Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 258 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-06
Studio: vancouveryoga.com
DVD Reviews of Power Yoga for Happiness
DVD Review: Good, but oh my how he's grown as a yogi and a teacher
Summary: 4 Stars
I discovered Eoin Finn through his free podcasts, of which there are 8 that can be downloaded from iTunes. The podcasts cover a range of about 6 years. Eoin's skill as a teacher and prowess as a yogi has grown quite a bit over the past six years. I find the same is true with his DVDs. The first one I bought is the most recent: Power Yoga For Happiness II The Surf Edition. After owning that for a month, I bought this one, Power Yoga For Happiness.
It is a good, solid workout. If you love vinyasa yoga/power yoga, you'll probably like this DVD. For me, it was good and solid, but didn't contain any of the really funky variations of his later work.
And for clarity purposes, there is one workout on this DVD. It's 80 minutes long. All the other workouts are different chapters of the main workout put together with certain things left out to make shorter flows.
The thing I love about Eoin is that he is just so filled with love, playfulness and joy. That comes through in this DVD, but it comes through even more in Power Yoga For Happiness II The Surf Edition. If you could only have one, and you're pretty fit and love to work hard in your yoga practice, save your money for The Surf Edition.
DVD Review: Happy and Fun Flow for Intermediates to Advanced
Summary: 5 Stars
It's filmed in a beautiful forest park setting outdoors and has a calming yet playful vibe to it with soothing music in the background and Eoin doing a calming, encouraging and even fun voice over. It's so refreshing! It's a great power yoga flowing practice with a good amount of vinyasa's throughout to get you sweating and pumped. This practice flows so there will not be any breaks in the routine to explain the postures (it's not for true beginners). There are even some really nice hand balancing poses sprinkled throughout to work towards so intermediates can continue to grow into. It's a wonderfully balanced power yoga practice. It will get your upper body strong, your lower body strong, with an all over top to bottom stretching, strengthening, lengthening and opening -- Eoin doesn't leave anything out. It's just awesome! It's fun and calming and will keep you challenged and growing without being too beyond you to leave you frustrated. It will leave you happy and glowing with a big smile on your face! : )) Also check out his latest DVD release "Power Yoga for Happiness 2" [Other Recommended Power Yoga DVDs: Yogatopia; Yoga Radiance; Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti and also her Fluid Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga; Bryan Kest's Energize, Tone and Sweat; Yoga Zone's Power Yoga for Strength and Endurance; MTV's Power Yoga, Adrienne Reed's Power Yoga for Athletes and her other Power Yoga Fat Burner; Flow Yoga with Jennifer Lynn; Ease Into Ashtanga with Yoga Hawaii (see their website for video clips); Flow and Yin: A Balanced Yoga Practice with Donna Helm-Yost; Vinyasa Flow Yoga Simple and Sweet with Jennifer Tipton also Vinyasa Flow Yoga Intermediate & Advanced with Maral Hadidi (see their www.myyogavideo.com site for videoclips, they also have some other nice DVD's in the series you can get at Amazon).]DVD Review: Love this Yoga practice
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this DVD reluctantly, thinking I'd watch it a couple times. I fell in love with it. I've made so much progress, I'm now doing the advanced poses. I am definitely more flexible and have gained strength. Each time I do it, I get better and learn/feel something new. Some days I do the quickie 30 minute practice and then other days when I have more time, I do one of the longer sessions. At first I though the commentary was kind of cheesy but to be honest, I really enjoy the cheesiness...it makes me feel calm, happy and relaxed. I would highly recommend this video. DVD Review: love it
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this dvd compilation. Several options to choose from, 2 disks so that's great especially for those days where you don't have much time, but still want to get something in to ease your mind. I love the setting (in beautiful BC in a lush green park), and the background music works perfectly (not annoying)... the participants on screen are all at different levels, which is pretty cool to see (if you're watching the screen)! Made my husband feel good about himself when he tried it, seeing that he was better than the one guy who has (very little) flexibility!!!
Eoin has a quirky sense of humor, but I think that's his appeal.. ya sure, maybe it's a little cheesy, but it perks me up and his voice is relaxing. This is 'power yoga' so the Vinyasa style is quick- I think it's wise for beginners (or anyone) to watch the dvd once over before doing the workout anyway. Definitely does the trick, calms the mind and tones the body as well. My favorite workout is 'Strong Free & Happy'- challenging, and just the right length of time (53min). 'Full Happiness' is awesome too, but I don't always have 80min as the mom of a rambunctious toddler! The 'quickie' is great too when I just want to get some yoga happiness into a busy day, even if it's not very long (30 min).
If you do the 'Full Happiness' workout, you will be exposed to all of the key postures, and there will be no surprises when you try the other workout options. I guess that could be a criticism since all the workouts are essentially the same one, broken down into different length segments (same voice-over, same cueing, same background music). That doesn't bother me however, because I like the familiarity and find the combination right on the way it is.
All this to say that it is wonderful. I highly recommend it to anyone!
DVD Review: Good workouts - he's a bit flakey, funny!
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the workouts and feel good doing this workout - however Finn is a bit of a hippy, flaky, peace, love, and all that instructor. I wish he would talk less about loving and more about form and what muscles you are working - More fitness less philosophy. Once you get past his quirky personality it is a great workout and I do the tape frequently, not sure that i will buy more though.
Description of Power Yoga for Happiness
Yoga for Strength, Yoga for Flexibility. Yoga to become the Perfect Meditator. These are all worthwhile goals, but somehow they all seem to involve a struggle for things that are always in the future. But Happiness- that luminous and joyous state of rapture is our natural state! It's with us all the time, underlying all we do. Yoga for Happiness is a celebration of this fact!The routines are accessible to a wide range of ability levels. The yogis demonstrate two or three different options for every pose so you can practice at a level that is suited to the unique being that you are. Whether you have done yoga once or one thousand times, you will dramatically improve your fitness, increase flexibility, feel more vital and develop a deep-seated sense of contentment.
As with any yoga practice the emphasis is not so much on what you do, but how you do it. Have fun with this DVD. Let it make you feel your best. When you feel your best, it is so easy to give to others.
Right On! Eoin
Features Five Routines on one DVD:
-Total Happiness routine (80 min)
-Magically Hips (55 min)
-Strong, Free and Happy (53 min)
-Daily Dose of Bliss (40 min)
-The Quickie (30 min)
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