Well, I am a fan of flow yoga although I started out practicing Ashtanga. I do appreciate ashtanga and practice it whenever I have time to devote to the complete sequence. Kest's video has no flow, just going from one pose into another. It is like in ashtanga as someone pointed out, but with a big difference: Kest's sequence has no vinyasa, no link between the poses.

But that wasn't the only disappointment. As everyone notes, the whole thing is dated. Hair, makeup, the leotards on the women, all cry out late 80's or early 90's. There is nothing wrong with that, but I find it distracting. The biggest disappointment came when they were doing sitting poses. When Kest sat down with his toes pointing up, you could see that his feet were dirty. I know one of the niyamas is cleanliness, and that just grossed me out. I figured the floor that he had been walking on while giving his practitioners instructions was dirty, but you think that they could have cleaned the floors before shooting? I, for one, find dirty floors very distracting to my practice, and all the studios I visit are meticulous about keeping their floors clean, so what's up with that?

It seems that Kest has evolved since this video, I really hope that he has.

I originally bought these yoga routines when they were on VHS in the mid-nineties. I have to lol when I read reviews ridiculing Bryan's style and the cheesy camera angles... what do you expect? The routine on this DVD is over twelve years old. Last time I looked at old MTV clips from the mid-nineties, those looked pretty cheesy too. If you want something more up to date, then check the release date.

Anyway - to be honest, yes, the intro on the routines are totally cheesy but the workouts are entirely worth it! I have yet to find other routines that I like as much as Kest's Power Yoga. Rodney Yee's routines are great but even faster than Kest's pace - Baptiste too. The three routines are similar but different. Poses are held in different combinations and for different lengths of time. A few "new" poses are added in each subsequent routine but the base routine doesn't change which I find helpful. Instead of trying to learn an entirely new routine, I can focus on deepening my practice and keeping my breath calm.

These routines are not for the faint of heart. They are challenging for the average practitioner. If you can suspend judgement, get over the cheese factor, and focus on the sensations in your body, you will walk away challenged and enlivened.

The video is a bit dated, having been originally issued a number of years ago (Amazon says 2004, but some of the reviews go back to 1999 and 2000, so, ?). However that doesn't detract at all from the quality yoga routines presented (Yoga's been around for 2 milennia - the only things that change are the costumes). The 3rd routine I find especially good, being a very rigorous yoga vinyasa flow workout, not dissimilar to the routines I experienced in a really good yoga studio I once attended. Because of it's older vintage, it's also being sold for the ridiculous price of $7.99. Where I live, you can hardly get a sandwich for that money anymore. I strongly recommend the video. My first copy got damaged, and I liked it enough to order a second. I haven't tried any of Kest's new videos, and in this one he comes off a bit fru-fru, (he's cut his long hair since then), but it didn't bother me any. Just ignore that and get on with it ! Namaste.

Wow! This video is quite dated. You may be better off just turning on your own music and doing your home practice poses.

This DVD is definitely for the more experienced because they move in and out of poses very quickly and u cannot watch the screen, u must listen to the instruction. If u look, then u will not be doing poses properly! Its better to watch it first then try.