Yoga Zone Beginners: Premiere Collection
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Brand: Koch InternationalPerformer: Alan Finger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 220 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
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DVD Review: Alan is a GREAT teacher!
Summary: 5 Stars
What I would give to study with Alan Finger!!!
This set was the first dvd purchase that I made of yoga classes. I'd taken some classes before. I could tell it was something that could be good for me, but somehow I couldn't get into it. There was something dead and dry about the way they taught it. So I stopped doing that and learned about other kinds of bodywork for a while. (well, more like dabbled) But for instance I did some studying on the Feldenkrais Method which was very eye-opening. (I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in bodywork.) However, I continued to read about yoga even tho' I was not practicing it. Erich Schiffman's Yoga the Practice of Moving Into Stillness taught me the idea and spirituality behind yoga for the first time.
Anyway, so I decided to try some yoga again a few weeks ago. I read all these great reviews of this series and decided to go with it. Now, everything that I thought was not quite right with how yoga was presented in other classes, Alan Finger immediately made me understand what it was. Even tho' I'm no expert, I can just tell he's a true yogi who lives his art. You can sense his love and dedication for what he does. Other teachers that I'd studied with - they'd guide the class thru' the motions, but the instructions were cut and dry. They didn't truly "live" the spirit behind it. And I don't think you can practice anything without its spirit. With Alan, everything that he says, how he says them, and what he doesn't say even - carries such truth. I never really trusted the other teachers, but he gained mine very quickly.
He's very enthusiastic and positive in a very genuine way. He explains each pose very throughly - THE most thorough instructions I'd ever had, much more than classes I'd taken in person ever! I love that he makes sure that every pose is done right. So many teachers tell you what to do, basically showing you an approximation of what you should LOOK like, instead of really giving you instructions on what to do, and then for YOU to find out how much you can do - like Alan does. His 2 assistants who demonstrate on the videos have that air of being fully engaged in their practice as well. I'm especially impressed with Lisa Bennetts - not because she demonstrates the "real" poses instead of the modified easy ones. But again the way she does them somehow conveys that she, too, has the kind of true yogi spirit that Alan emits. I think she teaches in nyc. Next time I go back I definitely will try to attend some of her classes.
I can't say enough about these dvd's. My only complaint is that there aren't more of them!
p.s.
now more than two years later (jan 09), i'd like to add some extra comments, not on the dvd's themselves but on alan finger. i attended a seminar that he gave in MA a while back and got to meet him. wow, it turns out that he's very different from how i'd imagined him to be. he was always making inapproiate sexual jokes, jewish jokes (he's jewish) in class, or making petty, embittered comments about other yogis. he also walked around kind of like a movie star or something. he's got his shades on, not really talking to people, but surrounded by an entourage of beautiful women-and i mean surrounded. every walk that i saw him take, there'd be at least 4 or 5 women literally surrounding him. i was pretty shocked and very disappointed in him. however, he did seem like a master of yoga, in that he really seemed very learned. but the spirit that i was expecting from a great teacher and yogi... maybe i was expecting too much. it's not that i was expecting him not to be flawed as a human being. but somehow the flippancy and the disrespect that he's shown was something that was hard for me to accept. he seemed more like a learned businessman rather than a teacher.
anyway, just a little note of my impression that is very different from what my review said. so here it is.
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