yoga for urban living

[Guest guest]

hiya!

well, i lost 3 days this week due to having a cold.... im

beginning to feel better now, and didnt want that break to

stretch out any longer, so im easing back into my workouts today

with yoga.

i used hemalaya behl's 'yoga for urban living' dvd. this dvd

contains 3 workouts... 30 min 'morning quickie', 25 min 'evening

bath' and 60 min 'daily connection'. there is also some sort of

tutorial for breathing and another for some of the postures done

in the workouts.

i did 'morning quickie', followed by 'evening bath'. in MQ,

hemalaya starts out with (and ends with) a bit of chanting and

also does that weird fast belly breathing, which i admit i

skipped over. then she does sun salutations for the rest of the

session, changing one of the poses in the middle of the sal.

for example, she would do a lunge in a couple of sals, then

change that to side angle in the next couple of sals. so there

was some variety, and not just the same sun salutation over and

over. EB is more restorative, with the poses done on the floor.

i liked the music in these workouts and i thought that hemalaya

was ok, and that the practice was ok. i wasnt blown away by

it... it was just ok. she instructs via voiceover, and that is

done well, but her voice doesnt usually match what she is doing

on the screen - one is often lagging behind the other. i also

thought there was a bit of confusion when she cued right/left at

times, but that could have just been me. also, in EB, she does

that pose with her feet over her head and a shoulder stand with

her legs/feet straight up in the air, which i dont like to do

because they are hard on my neck. so, i had to repeat one of

the earlier stretches while she did those. i have other yoga

workouts that i enjoy more and am glad that this is a rental...

however, i do think that i will do the longer 'daily connection'

practice... perhaps tomorrow evening.

:*carolyn.

[Guest guest]

well, i lost 3 days this week due to having a cold....

oh no, not again. This cold thing just won't leave everyone alone.

Yoga was a good way to get back into the rhthm of things.

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