Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45268 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-12-27
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Video Description

Language: English

Synopsis
An exercise programme designed for beginners and the more advanced alike. Features warm up exercises and positions from the Ashtanga Vinyasa school of yoga.

From the Back Cover
William Robertson and Annabelle Purnell present the increasingly popular Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, an accessible program suitable for fit beginners and advancing pracitioners. Both instructors possess over 30 years of experience, achieved from study with the most important yoga teachers on the planet. An Essential Warm Up (used to improve strength and stamina) is presented before the complete Primary Series as an easy-to-follow step-by-step process. this unique section continues to prepare qualities of smooth movement, stable breathing and mental engagement for all students. The primary sequence of four is presented for the first time with invaluable perspective gained from study with this tradition's other leading innovators, BKS Iyengar and Desikichar. William Robertson is one of the most extensively trained instructors in Europe, having established a unique Progressive Individual Yoga Instruction programme at the West London Yogashala. Annabelle Purnell holds a British Wheel of Yoga Teaching Diploma and completed Derek Ireland's Ashtanga Vinyasa Teacher Training in India. They run yoga retreats in Thailand, Egypt, India and New Zealand. Beyond Dynamic Yoga can dramatically improve your health and the shape of your body; it increases your internal energy and will steadily improve your physical responsiveness.

Customer Reviews

Certainly not for beginners
The workout last about 1hour and 20 minutes,(excluded intro and relaxation), consist of warm up, sun salutation, standing postures, seated postures, and finishing postures. It covers most common asana. The sequence is fluid, fast paced, requires a lot of up-body strength.

Although I started to practise yoga at 17, there is a 12 years gap before I re-start it half-hearted about 2 years ago. It is my 3rd video/DVD acquisition. It is very daunting, even I was familiar with most postures to start with, and keeping up the pace was not easy. After 7 month practice 3-4 times per week, there are about 6 postures I still can't achieve.

There are lots yoga exercise programs in the market, but 99 per cent of them have no use for anyone has practiced yoga for more than 2 years. I have bought so many yoga DVDs in the past year, include some shipped from states. This one still is the most thorough, advanced Yoga DVD I have encountered. It is a rarity which not only provides a platform for those intermediate levels to progress, but also provides enough scope to advance and to challenge.

The monotonous whilst concise instruction uttered by both practioneers became such a bore very quickly, for anyone can stand it, this DVD has a long life span to suit one’s yoga needs. Good buy.
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Very good, most certainly not for beginners.

Beyond Dynamic Yoga video/dvd
As its title suggests, this is an advanced course with some prior knowledge of yoga needed. Beginners may find this form of yoga too fast paced, as may those with some experience. Nevertheless, after a couple of weeks practice, you do start to anticipate the next move and become more flowing in your movement. You also start to notice physical and mental benfits within a very short period of time. This form of yoga is deliberately fast paced to build stamina, deep strength, and flexibility. However, it perhaps does not mention in enough detail for the beginner how to breathe correctly, or position yourself correctly. Therefore if you have no experience of ashtanga yoga I would suggest that you start with 'Dynamic Yoga' by Godfrey Devereux, the prequel to this edition. This goes over the basics and will prepare you for the somewhat hard hitting nature of this video. In sum, this is a good video with fantastic health benefits, but may require more effort from a beginner. It is not an easy practice, but has high rewards.

Not my first choice
I have been practising yoga for many years, although rather sporadically. I wanted to find a DVD that was challenging for someone who had practised yoga before and needed some guidance to practise at home between classes. So I was very disappointed with this one. The instructors rush through the sequences without preparing you for what to do next. I kept finding myself having to get up and stop and rewind the DVD as they had gone into the next pose or sequence without talking you through it - so while I was in a pose I would often look through my legs to find they had jumped ahead onto the next one. I felt as if I shoulds have sat down and watched the DVD., memorising the sequence beforehand in order to be able to follow it. None of the poses were well explained so it would be easy for someone who is not very practised in yoga to place feet etc wrong, which could easily lead to injury. In the end the DVD irritated me so much I turned it off half way - not the best frame of mind to leave a yoga practise on!