Ali MacGraw - Yoga Mind & Body | Ali MacGraw, Erich Schiffmann

Ali MacGraw - Yoga Mind & Body | Ali MacGraw, Erich Schiffmann | Awesome video, despite its age

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	Ali MacGraw - Yoga Mind & Body Ali MacGraw, Erich Schiffmann Warner Home Video, 2003 average customer review:based on 246 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Beautifully produced, challenging, satisfying workout

This yoga DVD is very well produced. The location, with its blue skies and white sand is beautifully filmed. Erich Schiffmann, the yoga instructor, is an accomplished yogi who works through several poses, one after the other in a flowing manner, paying attention to the breath at all times. His voice is calming and the music is engaging. It will provide a good workout and relieve tension in only 45 minutes! This is an excellent choice for beginners as well as more advanced students.

Awesome video, despite its age

An intro to basic yoga with beautiful people in a beautiful landscape with great music. Really helps me relax. There are points after the poses where I feel REALLY HAPPY - just from releasing locked up energy in my muscles. For those seeking a more spiritual workout.

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the best

This is the single best yoga workout I've ever experienced. A smooth-flowing series of postures that is perfectly balanced; it targets all areas.

Calming, centering, relaxed pace yoga session for advanced beginners/low intermediates

Beautifully set, awesome production quality, wide screen view, for those who already know basic yoga (very few cues), no "woo hoo" new age terms for those who don't like it. This requires a little bit of strength, but you can always modify it. Set in 1994 with yoga trainer Erich Schiffmann who has a wonderfully calming, confident, clear voice.
Starting very slowly with cat/cow on all 4s after the intro up to the 7 min mark.
Next is sun salutations, mostly mountain/standing fwd bend at first, then adding on downward dog, plank & cobra for 10 min.
Standing poses: bound triangle, kinda half moon 1 leg hip stretch, side angle & warrior 2.
Floor - cobra, bridge & bow, knee to chest, reclined straight leg stretches, reclined spinal twists, seated double leg fwd bend & ends with baby bridge. Ends in meditation.
The actual work is 47 min, minus 10 min for the very slow cat/cow stretching, so it's really 37 min w/o mediation which can fit in most schedules.

I LOVED the music, it helped me center/calm, the scenic scenes were a little too long for me between sections & I didn't want to rest, so I just FFWed... I'd love to see more from Erich.

Because of very little teaching & long views of the beautiful landscape, this is not for new beginners.

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Class was ok, DVD pretty distracting

I am an experienced yoga practioner, and I thought that the class itself was pretty good, a good sequence, nice soothing narration, but sometimes rushed in areas. The desert scenery was indeed, beautiful, as well as the music. However, the music, for me, was not conducive to a relaxing, focused feeling. I prefer music to be more meditative and slow in a yoga class. I did not feel relaxed at the end of this class. It was somewhat disjointed.

The way the DVD was shot, was extremely distracting. Constant flashes of desert scenes, then back to the students in the class, then several different flashes of some clouds, then back to the students, all in a matter of 10 seconds. Almost as if someone were taking snapshots of nature, and flashing them all onto the screen. Sometimes when you need to look up to see what they are doing, there's a flash of a cactus. I'm sure if you do the DVD enough times to know what happens next, this won't be an issue, and you won't even need to look up. But it left me feeling agitated at the end.

The class itself was pretty good. I enjoyed the narration. Simple and clear instructions. There were times when it was rushed, all of a sudden everyone in the class is standing up, when 1 second ago, they were on the ground. There are some shaky transitions. I found myself having hard time keeping up with what they were doing. Sometimes I had to change the position of my yoga mat, and race to catch up.

I think if they would have tried not to be so fancy in the shooting of the dvd, it would have been better. The class all by itself, without all the flashes of scenery would have been fine.

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