Product: Mas Vidal's Optimum Yoga & Ayurveda - DVD Complete Set (Air, Fire & Water)
Rating: 5.0
If you buy any yoga DVD, make it this one!
I've been a yoga student for several years now, and I've been through my good share of yoga classes and yoga DVDs. I can say without hesitation that this DVD blows all the other DVDs out of the water.Mas has crafted three absolutely beautiful practices. In a yoga class, it's difficult to balance between a good physical workout and a calming emotional experience. The balance can often tip one way or the other, leaving you at the end of your practice as either physically fulfilled but mentally frazzled from all the fast movements and lack of meditation, or blissed out but with very few challenges posed to your body. I feel these practices, however, are perfectly balanced between the two. The practice is difficult enough to get you sweating and feeling physically engaged, but calm enough to prevent you from getting frazzled. The addition of meditation and pranayama in these practices strengthens the mental/emotional experience of the class, which so few yoga DVDs seek to do.Most importantly, the DVD has really gotten me excited about yoga, and I can't wait to do these practices again. This is a practice that you will WANT to do every week, rather than feel like you SHOULD be doing. I always feel enlivened after it. My day is just plain better when I practice with this DVD.