Yoga Journal: Great Instructors (Baron Baptiste Shiva Rea Seane)

Three different approaches to Vinyasa, today's most popular form of yoga. Each 90-minute DVD helps you develop physical strength and flexibility as well as emotional balance.

Disc 1 - Baron Baptiste: Foundations of Power Vinyasa Yoga - Create a positive—and permanent—shift in your life.

Filmed live at the fifth annual Yoga Journal San Francisco Conference, this unrehearsed 90-minute program captures the magnetism and wisdom of one of America’s great instructors and will help you establish a strong foundation for your yoga practice. In this basic, flowing workout, you will discover how proper yoga technique and mindfulness can power your practice and empower your life.

One of the leading yoga innovators in America, Baron Baptiste popularized the style of yoga known as Power Vinyasa Yoga, which is designed to create heat in the body and stimulate energy flow. He is the owner and director of two Baptiste Power Yoga Institutes in Massachusetts and is the author of three books.

The DVD includes:

36 poses, including Sun Salutations A & B, standing poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, and seated poses
fundamentals of effective alignment
stand-alone chapters, allowing you to start the class at any point
in depth interview with Baron Baptiste
and valuable resource materials for teachers.

Disc 2 - Seane Corn: Yoga from the Heart - Heal yourself–and the world–through yoga.

Filmed live at the Annual Yoga Journal San Francisco Conference, this unrehearsed 90-minute class captures the charisma and soul of one of yoga’s great instructors. In this heart-pumping vinyasa flow practice, you’ll journey through your body to awaken to your own intuition and life purpose and gain insight into how your yoga practice can empower you to help heal the world. One of the most gifted yoga instructors in America, Seane Corn’s dynamic and inspirational style of yoga incorporates both the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga. She is the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS and the recipient of the 2005 Conscious Humanitarian Award. Seane teaches at Sacred Movement in Santa Monica, California and travels extensively.

Learn 32 poses in all, including:

Sun Salutations; standing poses; hip openers, and shoulder and spine stretches
Stand-alone chapters allow you to start the class at any point
In-depth interview with Seane Corn
Great resource for teachers

Unleash your creative spirit in this improvisational, open practice.

Disc 3 - Shiva Rea’s Free Flow Yoga will tune and tone you while showing you how to navigate life’s challenges with grace, power, and confidence.

Filmed live at the Annual Yoga Journal San Francisco Conference, this unrehearsed 90-minute program captures the dynamism and creativity of one of the great instructors of Yoga in America today. A leading teacher of vinyasa flow yoga, Shiva Rea is best known for her creation of Yoga Trance Dance. Her approach to yoga integrates her knowledge of Krishnamacharya lineage, tantra, ayurveda, bhakti, kalaripayattu, world dance, yogic art and somatic movement. She has lead over 70 retreats nationally and internationally, and actions for the environment, yoga and the arts.

DVD features include: a bonus chanting & meditation session as well as an in-depth interview with Shiva.