Product: Yoga for Weight Loss, Detox, & Cleansing (2007)
Rating: 5.0
A Really Balanced Tough Workout
I was seriously surprised to find that I had to take breaks and even modify a couple of the poses in this DVD. I've been doing yoga for 11 years, and I have a strong practice. I've never thought of workout video/DVDs as particularly challenging but this one was.Marc put together a really tough 90 minute session that was completely balanced in terms of hitting all the body parts and muscles. He included all of the basic asanas and held positions long enough where you felt it. He did a couple of really challenging series of poses (one side and then the other). Each time i was sure he was done with the first side, he would go to another pose on the same standing leg and really push you. I even yelled an obscenity or two at the screen at one point, but felt really good because I knew I was pushing myself.I liked that he continually gave alternatives or modifications to challenging poses and that he was good about pointing out poses that would be good to skip if you had particular injuries.One thing I noticed was a couple of times in the beginning of the DVD I felt like the music overpowered his voice which made it hard to hear at times, but it seemed to balance out better as the DVD went on. Also, he didn't teach upward dog at all and just kept it to cobra in the sun salutations which i found a little strange. I guess all teachers have their own way of teaching sun salutations and it's easy to modify if you do it differently.Overall, I felt really good afterwards and will definitely do this practice again.