Yoga Radiance Engage your mind and spirit! The Pure Joy of Yoga Discover the energy and youthful glow you’ve always wanted. Yoga Radiance will help you burn fat and increase your flexibility. From the spring warm up through the winter closing sequence you’ll invigorate your body, mind and spirit with the power and grace of Yoga Radiance. Includes a special restorative flow -Lunar- a gentle evening series to prepare you for a deep and restful sleep. Learn from Southern California’s master yoga instructors as they guide you through four seasons of renewal. A dynamic series of Vinyasa low yoga postures will take you to a new level.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent DVD!!
This is a must try for anyone wanting to take their practice deeper! I also recommendTAMARA’S YOGA FUSION
3 Stars ok-but too fast and stylized
Everyone loves this DVD because of the production values, but I found the set and sweaty women a little intimidating. The yoga teachers had wonderful form, but it felt as if they were saying look what we can do and look what you cannot do. I have other yoga DVDs with wonderful instructors dressed similarly, but for some reason I felt like I was watching soft porn during this DVD. Maybe these teachers and Bryan Kest can get together and do a soft porn yoga DVD. The class itself moves too fast and the cueing is awful. It also has a weird sequencing to the poses. If you are looking for a more advanced DVD, you probably will like this one because there are many difficult poses, and if you are a guy who wants to see beautiful, hot, sweaty women bending over backwards, you should also give this DVD a try.
3 Stars Yogarobics
This DVD does yoga poses at an aerobics pace. If you can’t keep up you will miss a pose or two, or three. Part of the flow-pace issue is with the instruction. For instance, the instructor will tell you a sequence of two or three moves and then the girl in the video will do them, so it takes some time to get your own flow-pace set so that you are neither too far ahead or behind. Also, the amount of instruction is lacking. For example, you will get a set of instructions for one side and then “repeat on second side” is all you get on the second. Also, if you don’t already have a good foundation of yoga poses and what they are called you will not be able to follow this DVD as there is not enough time to watch the video and then do it yourself before they have moved into a new pose.
The Spring and summer sections are as I have described above, very fast. The Autumn focuses on balance so it is slowed down a bit. Winter also is a bit slower, but this is usually where I start getting interrupted by my five year old, so if you don’t have a five year old this may not apply. The Lunar sequence, as it is intended to be done before bed, is very slow, so slow in fact I got bored and stopped.
With all of that said, this DVD is challenging and that makes it fun. Its biggest downfall is the lack of verbal instruction which makes it difficult to follow even after doing it several times.
3 Stars Great yoga dvd but poor cueing
Lovely cinematography, I enjoy the practice itself and feel fantastic at the end and I also appreciate some of the more challenging moves introduced here.
However the cueing is out of time and poses are somewhat rushed in places. I also find that some of the stretching in the lunar sequence is not held long enough to give you any real benefit.
I reccommend this dvd for someone who would like some fresh ideas for their practice and a bit of a challenge but be prepared to be dissatisfied with the cueing and find the need to rewind or pause the dvd.
5 Stars My favorite
This DVD has helped me take it to the next level. I really enjoy this workout and it helps me feel challenged. I also like that there are still moves to strive for on this workout!
My only small complaint is that there are a couple of moves I’d start from a different position, they seem a little awarkward the way they were “choreographed”. The main ones are Bird of Paradise and the first time we come into Cresent Moon. I just come into it the way I’m used to doing it in my class at the gym. It’s nothing major, I just make my little adjustment and the workout continues to be fabulous.
The 4 seasons are a nice touch and you can easily break up the workout if you are short on time. Spring is the warmup and gets you flowing, Summer is the strengthening/power yoga part, Autumn has nice balancing poses and wraps up with Winter and shoulder stands, plow and backbends and shavasana. It is almost 50 mins, total.
I always finish the workout feeling amazing! I recommend this if you are an intermediate level practioner. Other good workouts are Yogatopia, Shiva Rea’s workouts, Rainbeau Mars Pure Power and Rodney Yee’s Intermediate Yoga.