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Total Yoga | 
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Studio: Living Arts
Category: Video
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 10261
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 6304796803
UPC: 029956116535
EAN: 9786304796801
ASIN: 6303296785
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Very good condition, wear from reading. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged but may have spine creases from reading.
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| Features:
| • | Acclaimed yoga teacher Rodney Yee offers an energized yoga workout with vigorous lunges, standing poses flowing to the next | | • | Filmed in Maui, this easy to follow program is designed for people of all ages and levels of fitness |
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Amazon.com
While this is certainly an excellent video for those schooled in some of the moves and positions of yoga, it may prove somewhat intimidating to the novice. Tracey Rich and Ganga White demonstrate the poses in this 68-minute hatha workout, Tracey showing the simpler steps and Ganga the more complex. Yet even the simple poses require quite a bit of flexibility. If, however, you are on an intermediate to advanced level, Total Yoga will give you a satisfying stretch, increase your relaxation, improve your circulation and flexibility, and build strength. Not much time is spent on explanation, so the tape will hold your interest on repeat viewings. Breath work is emphasized in the beginning of the tape, which segues nicely into a balanced workout using flow series. A perfect video for continuing your yoga experience once one of the more basic ones (such as Stephanie Foster's Yoga: Beginner's Level or A.M./P.M. Yoga for Beginners) becomes too easy. --Jenny Brown
Product Description
The Total Yoga video from Video Action Sports features acclaimed yoga teacher Rodney Yee as he offers an energized yoga workout with vigorous lunges and standing poses.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Great for most skill levels September 20, 2008
Tooksbooks (CA United States)
This was my very first yoga tape that I purchased when I was a young teenager. I was just starting to exercise regularly and found this to be a great introduction to yoga. I could do all of the regular movements from the get-go even though I wasn't particularly flexible. I'm not sure why people are saying that it's not for beginners, because I found it to be pretty gentle and uncomplicated. There are a few poses that might be more difficult for people with limitations *for ex. I have always had tightness in my shoulders so I can't do fully the movements where you put your arms behind your back* However nothing extraordinary. Also one thing I remember noticing right away was that with each time you practiced the tape, your flexibility continues to increase. This video is a perfect length for a good yoga workout, not difficult and not so easy that you are bored, has a "clean" white background and soft calming music so nothing jarring or off putting about watching the tape. It has a couple of advanced pose suggestions as well. Just an excellent production and routine for all levels and a great workout/intro to yoga for a beginner to low/medium intermediate exerciser.
I finally found it! July 25, 2005
Sarah Milicia (Ohio)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've been doing yoga for about 11 years, and this was one of my first tapes. It was challenging at the time, but even when I was doing yoga every day for months, I still found it very rewarding and never boring. This tape and I have been through a lot.
I've bought perhaps a half-dozen other yoga videos and never even watched them more than a couple times, always preferring this one. In high school, I let someone borrow it and never saw it again. Luckily, though, I had dubbed an audio recording of it, and could then practice anywhere I could bring a portable stereo. And I did.
Through college, and several subsequent moves, I always practiced with that old ratty tape. After being pregnant with my first child, I was ecstatic to find it again, and begin practicing again, but it was too old and crumpled to be used anymore. Unfortunately, it had been ages since I'd seen the original VHS tape, and couldn't remember what it was called or even the names of the people involved.
But here it is, after just a short search. (I would have bought another copy years ago if I'd known it was going to be that easy!) It must be a pretty popular item to be so easy to find with a generic 'yoga' search on Yahoo. It's absolutely worth every penny, I wish I had it right now.
 Good workout / no breaks! March 1, 2005
tessaje (York, Maine)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've tried so many exercise tapes, including yoga tapes, over the years and this is actually one of the better, less-obnoxious ones. It's a fairly tough workout but is very well-explained throughout, has no goofy music, narration or ugly sets getting in the way. The biggest problem with this - and it was a big one for me - is that the tape goes logically from a less to more strenuous workout but, at 70 minutes total, there is no clear way to break the workout up. Other tapes will maybe put 3 20-minute workouts on one, so that you can do one, two or all three workouts and customize it for yourself. Not the case with this one, and that's a pain. What it means is, if you don't have over an hour to workout, you will have to just stop the tape, interrupting any sort of flow and progression. Frustrating!
good exercise, not for finding centeredness February 6, 2005
Lakshmi (NM)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have done yoga sporadically over the past few years and found this video slightly jarring. I think it would be perfect for a person who likes arobics or who is adverse to anything "new age-y." The narrator has a very slight Texas accent and moves from position to position in a very matter-of-fact way. I prefer the more mindful approach in Rodney Yee's videos. As an alternative, I would highly recommend Ali McGraw's video which I think is appropriate for a beginner (although some poses will always be challenging), provides good guidance, it is "modern" and very mindful.
VHS worn out completely, had to replace my VCR from overuse! January 7, 2005
Wendlynne
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had no yoga experience when I picked up this video. I loved it, and within two months was in better shape than I have ever been. I am rarely inspired to exercise, and hardly keen to do a 60 minute routine. However, I loved this so much that I went out and bought some new DVDs of other instructors to vary the pace a bit. I thought, "I'll try that Rodney Yee guy, maybe that other girl that my sister likes." Everything else I have purchased sits on the shelves. I think she's charming, physically inspiring without being disgustingly thin or over the top, and soothing. I love the pace of this video, and have had to re-purchase it (I wore it out!!) and move into her Total Yoga series in order to vary the routines a bit. I cannot recommend this video or instructor strongly enough, although beginners will benefit both from patience and outside instruction.
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