Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection
- Feel the power. Be the power! Unlock the strengthening, slimming, detoxifying and re-energizing of Power Yoga. Bryan Kest leads you in a vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga style of Yoga.Three programs on one DVD: Energize, Tone, Sweat Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR Age: 085393446628 UPC: 085393446628 Manufacturer No: 34466
Description
1. Energize – Beginner Level
Feel the power. Be the power. Unlock the strengthening, slimming, detoxifying and reenergizing of Power Yoga. Bryant Kest leads you in vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga style of yoga.
“If you’re doing the best you can, you’re doing this class perfectly,” Kest explains. After instructions on proper breathing, the session begins, taking you and an on-screen class through a variety of flowing, dynamic exercises (salutation, lungs, balancing, spinal stretches and more) augmented by Kest’s demonstrations of the poses.
2. Tone – Intermediate Level
Challenge your muscular strength aerobic endurance, flexibility, balance and mental stamina with Tone.
An innovative series of lunge moves provides the primary activity in this workout that emphasizes finding your personal edge – the maximal yoga pose that still permits proper yogic breathing. Kest guides you and an in-studio class in a total-body regime that helps maintain flexibility and suppleness while building strength and well-being. Features comprising various poses are described so that you can add elements as you become more adept.
3. Sweat – Advanced Level
Looking for an advanced yoga routine? Then get ready to sweat.
“This program is definitely challenging,” Kest admits about this maximal power-up session that builds upon the strength, stamina and flexibility cultivated in the first two Power Yoga programs, combining a vigorous lung series with extended standing balance and floor stretch moves, the routine flows from one pose to the next while working toward total body/mind harmony. The brisk pace provides instruction, encouragement and commentary to assist you and the on-screen class.Amazon.com
Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest’s videos. 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 or Volume 3: Sweat to further challenge themselves. As long as you keep in mind Kest’s personal mantra–”If you’re doing the best you can, you’re doing this class perfectly”–you and this video should have many satisfying years of workouts together. –Anne Hurley
I just hope that for those of you using this video, that this is not your only exposure to yoga. Nothing beats a live class. This video, compared to a good yoga class, is a joke.
Rating: 2 / 5
First of all, the quality of tape is awful. Nearly ruined my vcr. Aside from that, I cannot believe this new jersey looser – without a shirt (!) is teaching yoga. The taped class is not too good – much less challenging than your average “power” yoga class. I suppose it could be worse.
Rating: 3 / 5
OK, I own about 100 workout tapes and this particular tape is one of the best yoga tapes I own, for the workout itself. The instructor, however, often touches his students in very strange ways…Let’s just say that my husband cannot watch the tape at all. I am not being homophobic, because when he touches a man or woman on the set it, is, quite frankly creepy.
So, if you can get past that fact, the tape (and instructor) are amazingly great and the way he explains is fantastic. So, take that advice and decide for yourself.
Rating: 4 / 5
Just a quick note for those who may not investigate videos because of the presenter’s voice. I agree that there are certain ’sounds’ from a voice that may inspire some while others grate against us.
Either way, I have often tired of hearing the verbiage of almost any of the videos I have, and have simply turned down the volume and replaced my own ‘heavy metal’ sounds on some days…and ’soothing environmentals’ on others.
Obviously I need not point out, that I do this once I have ‘heard’ the instructions and recognize the upcoming exercise…Hope this helps those who would miss a lot of awesome messages. Maria
Rating: 5 / 5
I recently purchased this DVD as part of a Christmas present to myself to get back to or exceed the level of fitness I had in my early 20s — I am now in my mid-to-late 30s. I have to admit that this workout is very challenging at not just Levels Two and Three, but Level One as well.
As some of you who may have purchased Diamond Dallas Page’s Yoga for Regular Guys know, this particular yoga instructor’s method was recommended by DDP himself in the beginning chapters of his book. Page himself used Kest’s “tapes” when he first started doing yoga, and I, in turn, wanted to do the same as to vary my workouts and avoid complacency.
I love that Kest encourages beginners like myself to go as far as we can into the poses so that we are still challenging ourselves to become more flexible and go into the poses deeper. One thing I did notice that concerned me was that modified poses for what I considered some of the more difficult balancing poses — namely the left and right tree stances — had no modifications. I may have to purchase another workout that does include those. Still, Kest does encourage his students to know when and when not to push themselves, especially if the student’s breathing is not steady and relaxed.
Nevertheless, I know I will eventually get stronger, more flexible, and improve my stamina with each workout session via Bryan’s methods among others.
Oh! For all of you other potential regular guy yogis out there along the same mindset of DDP and his crew, there are very hot yoga babes in every portion of this collection to inspire you to greet them with “T & A” — or was that “namaste?”
Overall, I love this workout. Again, it is very challenging at even the beginner level, has incredibly hot and fit yoga babes, and most importantly encourages practitioners to know when to challenge themselves or to ease up. To quote Kest, “If you are doing your best, you are doing this workout correctly.”
Rating: 4 / 5