Ashtanga Yoga, The Practice - First Series

Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice This is the most user-friendly yoga book available! It contins the entire Primary and Intermediate series of Ashtanga Yoga with three options for every asana. It is spiral bound to easily remain open while practicing. It contains over 650 photos with clear instructions and commen...	Ashtanga Yoga : The Practice : 2nd & 3rd Series Tape 2 is the complete 2nd and 3rd Series of Ashtanga Yoga. It is designed for those already proficient at the First Series. It is advised that you have learned the 2nd or 3rd Series from a qualified Ashtanga Yoga instructor and use Tape 2 as an aid to your practice, not the sole...	Yoga with Richard Freeman: Ashtanga Yoga: The Primary Series	Yoga, Short Forms Yoga Short Forms delivers three distinct workouts geared toward a variety of fitness levels. Each set is centered on the Ashtanga method and is masterfully taught by David Swenson. "Short form" is an accurate way to describe these quick and effective lessons. Swenson kicks off th...	Ashtanga Yoga - The Advanced Series with David Swenson The original Advanced A & B Series of Ashtanga Yoga is demonstrated by some of its first Western practitioners. The postures flow, with grace and poise, from one to the next in an exquisite symphony of movement. This historic video is filmed on the island of Maui and set to music...
Yoga Journal's Yoga Practice for Intermediates with Rodney Yee Yoga for Intermediates with Rodney Yee offers an intensive workout that is full of challenges. This session contains greater posture detail with a focus on perfecting the accuracy of each pose. Yee's control and flexibility are inspiring and his in-depth explanations are demo...	Ashtanga Yoga - Beginners Practice Yoga Journal's Ashtanga Yoga: Beginners Practice combines breathing and standing poses, including many repetitions of two different Sun Salutations, then various standing forward bends, and side angle bends for balance, flexibility, and strength. The pace of this 67-minute practi...

Great practice limited by VHS format
This video is a great argument for looking for all your yoga workouts on DVD. David Swenson has a wonderful understanding of ashtanga yoga, and the first 45 or so minutes of the video is an introductory section of him explaining each movement and showing alternatives for those at different fitness levels. It's great, but I get VERY tired of having to fast-forward to the actual beginning of the practice every time I want to use this tape.Having said that, the practice itself is great, and Swenson challenges yet encourages and reassures at the same time. I'm waiting for his practices to come out on DVD so I can chuck the video and continue using this for my daily practice. Also, the practice is fairly long (over an hour) so it's great for when you have time to do a concentrated session but I don't recommend it for people who only have time for twenty minute practices inbetween other activities. If you do have the time, though, it's wonderful; it's the only tape I have that leaves me feeling as limber and challenged and calm all at once as an actual yoga class with a real teacher.This video also wins me over by avoiding one of my major pet peeves: there's no crappy, New Agey soundtrack in the background drowning out the teacher, and I can play my own music while I practice. Big big plus.