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Bryan Kest - Power Yoga Boxed Set | 
 enlarge | Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: Video
Buy New: $149.99
New (4) Used (2) from $132.22
Rating:  371 reviews
Sales Rank: 14582
Format: Box Set, Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 162 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.3 x 3.2
ISBN: 6303548970
UPC: 085393597436
EAN: 9786303548975
ASIN: 6303548970
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: November 2, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: 3 VHS video set sealed in shrink wrap/Video 1 Energize, Video 2 Tone, Video 3 Sweat/ships within 2 business days with delivery confirmation/expedited orders ship Priority mail/**Orders over $100 are shipped with signature confirmation and require a signature at time of delivery**
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Amazon.com
Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest's home-video workouts. Kest teaches wildly popular yoga classes in Santa Monica, California--so popular that stars like Rhea Perlman, David Duchovny, and Elisabeth Shue willingly sweat alongside the hoi polloi in Kest's packed, ancient loft studio. If you don't happen to be in the neighborhood, not to worry: Kest's yoga videos are nearly as good as being there. Volume 1, Energize, is a beginner-level class that nonetheless is smartly designed to provide challenges for all levels of users. Kest's Jersey-boy voice at first seems in contrast to the serene environment and inner-peace objectives, but it gradually becomes soothing and hypnotic in its own right. Stretches and strengthening moves are alternated with just enough repose to keep even first timers on track. After mastering Vol. 1, practitioners can go on to Volume 2, Tone, in which Kest turns up the intensity, holding a variety of twisting poses for long stretches of time. It's OK to take it easy, rest, or modify the routines to your ability, which is part of the reason the tape is so useful. You won't be turned off as a beginner-to-intermediate practitioner, but there's plenty of room to challenge yourself as an advanced athlete, too. Volume 3, Sweat, is a slightly shorter version of the challenging class Kest teaches in person. There are still all the gentle, firm admonitions to listen to your body, not to feel competitive with anyone else in how you do the pose (and as long as you heed them, you'll do fine). But Kest combines the classic warm-ups and longer-hold poses with a rapid succession of sun salutes, which will be gratifying to the advanced yoga student, but may make a first timer feel as though he dropped in to a Rockettes rehearsal by mistake. But if you keep at it, the workout is very easy to follow, and Kest's gentle, gruff voice is so soothing you find yourself relaxing even as you're pushing your body to its limits. As long as you keep in mind his personal mantra--"If you're doing the best you can, you're doing this class perfectly"--you and Kest should have many satisfying years of workouts together. --Anne Hurley
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 Unrated but should be! November 19, 2008
Emily C. Shaffer (Rwanda)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall this is a fine, challenging yoga DVD for those with some yoga experience and a good fitness level. However the production is really distracting; all the participants are dressed in tight white underwear and the cameramen focus on their "bulges" and Bryan Kest provocatively grabbing them in intimate spots to guide their poses rather than showing us clearly how the poses should look. It seems like he is going for a "avant garde, sexy" ambiance but it gets really annoying if you are just focusing on getting a good yoga workout.
 A challenging and effective workout November 16, 2008
Kat (OH USA)
I have only been doing Yoga for about 1 year and wasn't sure I would be "up" to this one, but I have successfully completed all 3 workouts on this DVD. The instruction is clear and Brian keeps encouraging you to go a little further to challenge yourself. I can do moves that I didn't know was possible. I do this one every 3rd day. In between I rotate one of several Kundalini Yoga w/Raviana DVDs and Rodney Yee Yoga Burn. The perception is that Yoga is all about meditation and stretching; while it is true that Yoga incorporates these elements into the workout, it is also physically challenging and a great head to toe workout. Combining these workouts and a low-carb diet plan, I have successfully lost more than 40 lbs. and changed the way by body looks and feels. No more backaches, I sleep like a baby.Kundalini Yoga for Beginners & Beyond NEW! Now with the **MATRIX** MENU OPTION!!!Rodney Yee: Yoga BurnBryan Kest Power Yoga Complete CollectionYoga for Beginners & Beyond: Stretch, Strengthen, Be Stress Free! - Ana Brett & Ravi Singh
Bryan the best October 28, 2008
Fini Fulvio
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bryan Kest power yoga collection has helped me a lot in my brand new yoga teacher career. I am a Virgin Active yoga teacher in Italy, Bologne, and I have nearly never taught before, but just lestening to him, watching him the way he moves during the lesson, the way he teaches, the words he says, and his sequence of asanas, all this and some more has been very useful and valuable. Thaks Bryan for your teachings and for share with us your knowledge. It's a must have collection.
Better than any other yoga DVD I've done! October 11, 2008
W. Solberg
I've tried a couple yoga DVD's and I have gotten way more results from this one than any others. It's challenging but not impossible. I was super sore the first few times I did just the first set. I'm not a big fan of the fruity, earthy, fluffy stuff that goes along with yoga but I am a fan of the results. The first set is 50ish minutes and I thought that would be a bit long but the time flies by. Before you have a chance to look at the time, you're just about done. I had no idea you should and would work so many muscles in yoga as the other DVD's I've tried were way less challenging. I'd never been sore from yoga before. This is a great DVD and I recommend it to beginners and beyond.
Wow!!! October 1, 2008
J. K. Albert (Hudson Valley, NY, USA)
After a recent urge to get into yoga, I decided to purchase this program through Amazon due to the reviews it has gotten. I'm so glad I did. I've only tried it a few times but have felt great everytime. It is a bit difficult as I'm not flexible at all but I am definitely looking forward to mastering some moves.
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