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Inspiring , Beatiful Flow
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Jennifer Lynn is an amazing yogi. This is one challenging, yet inspiring DVD. I’ve been practing for 5 years now, and yet find this tough to keep up with! Great tips for alignment throughout, has really made a difference in my practice. I highly recommend this.
good workout bad dvd
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I liked the flow of the routine of the dvd. Jennifer is a good instructor with clear direction. The woman is flexible like a rubberband!! She is very inspiring. The only problem with the production was the breaks in between the segments was way too long and you can’t fast forward through it. Also I must have gotten a bad dvd because it keeps freezing for 10 seconds or longer at a time. It didn’t do that at first but I used it for the third time the other night and I have a feeling the problem will get worse as it keeps getting used.
An amazing DVD!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This DVD was extremely impressive. Jennifer does a fantastic job of delivering challenging and heart opening yoga instruction in both a beginner and advanced flow. The section on alignment was especially helpful in that it clearly explained principles that keep your body engaged in a way that will prevent injury. Informative and fun, Jennifer gracefully weaves yogic philosophy, beautifully flowing sequences, and anatomical wisdom. I practice yoga just about everyday, and the knowledge in this dvd has helped me take my practice to a whole new level. I FEEL GREAT!
It may be a great practice, but….
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I’m sure Jennifer Lynn is an accomplished practitioner and teacher, but for me her enthusiasm is so excessive that I can’t even listen to her instruction. I tried to do this dvd several times and just couldn’t stand her. So if there is anyone else out there who feels this way, you aren’t alone. I bought this dvd because of all the glowing reviews and I finally threw it out because it actually put me in a terrible mood by section three. It is the first dvd I have tossed into the trash.
Awesome Flow!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is an awesome power, flow yoga practice! Well organized, and professionally produced. The DVD has 4 main chapters an Introduction, Beginner’s Flow (45 minutes) with 10 chapter segments, Intermediate Advanced Flow (75 minutes) with 4 sections called “Quarters” that is further broken down into 4 segments to choose from and and Alignment Principles section.
In the Intro section Jennifer begins with an inspiring message (this is usually the section of a DVD I usually skip but for some reason it flipped to it and I listened for a change and it was a delight). She reminds us that living is a life of balance between purposeful, balanced, responsible living in union with joyful, passionate, exuberant living. Even though she doesn’t mention God, it still reminded me that that’s exactly the life God intends and wants for all of us.
I loved her 75 minute Intermediate/Advanced flow! The setting is both inside a studio and outside in a grassy park with scenes switching gently back and forth. It’s shot in a very professional way with great camera work. She leads with a number of students with an amazing voiceover and great music in the background. It is a challenging power flow with an almost dancelike flowing feel to it especially in the beginning (her transitions move in and out of poses fluidly and beautifully). There will also be a good enough amount of vinyasa’s (chatarunga, updog, downdog) to get the blood pumping and the body warm. Her incredible voice over has amazing cueing and is calming, with great direction while also inpiring, for example, “welcome challenge as you reach up, surrender to grace bowing in, inhale readiness look forward, exhale poise step back or float back”(yet funny enough without coming off as cheesy or sappy). None of her awesome voiceover slows down the flow in any way. She also likes to throw in some great handbalancing and inverted poses throughout, which I love (Quarter section 1: side crow, crow; Quarter section 2: one-legged crow or crane; Quarter section 3: sage 2 pose, side plank to wheel, dolphin to forarm stand, headstand; Quarter section 4: one-legged sage 1 to tripod headstand).
Overall this is an amazing practice and worth every 5 stars!! She’s up there with the best of them: Eoin Finn, Bryan Kest (1st dvd’s), Shiva Rae, Inhale yoga (Oxygen TV, funky music Steve Ross), Mark Blanchard, Baron Baptiste, Donna Helm-Yost (Flow and Yin), Yoga Radiance, Yogatopia, MTV Power Yoga, Power Yoga for Strength & Endurance, XFlowsion, etc.
Excellent teaching for beginner
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I’ve been using Baron Baptiste’s videos for years and like them, but I wanted something new. Jennifer Lynn’s routines have opened my eyes to improving my postures and getting more out of the workout. I nearly abandoned the DVD early on because it begins with a lecture about how to have a good life, healing, etc., which I found a huge turn-off. I wasn’t interested in Ms. Lynn’s views on such matters, only as they pertain to yoga. I can connect my own dots.
When it comes to explaining yoga and energy within that moment, she is clear, insightful, and purposeful. I felt like I’d been to the chiropractor after the beginner session, as if all my bones were in the right place. The intermediate routine was challenging and fun.
nice transitions
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have many yoga dvd’s and practice daily. This is a lovely and intense workout. Like Shiva Rea in terms of the style,with well done sequences. A great addition, if you like a good workout.
Satisfactory yoga flow video
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Overall I suppose I must agree with the other reviewers, this is a nicely put together yoga program. I was a little dissapointed with a couple of things. First, I felt that the video picture quality was not at a really professional level. The colors are washed out in several places and the image appears slightly distorted in same cases. The voiceover seems to reach for the kind of metaphors that Richard Freeman provides so well but here had a slighly fortune cookie feel to them (“Think of your legs as drinking straws…”). Overall a good choice though.
Great Class. Lousy production quality
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I just finished doing this dvd this morning and I loved the flow. I gave it 4 stars for the bad production quality.
What I love about Jennifer’s dvd is that she gets you into poses you thought you could never do. The stretching is sublime! This is the beauty of anusara yoga. I haven’t done flow yoga in years so the intermediate flow was super challenging to me. I watched the beginning flow and there is such a wide gap between the beginning flow and the intermediate flow, that if you are a complete novice, I don’t know how you bridge the gap. Bi-weekly live classes, I suppose. Jennifer’s cuing is impecable. I loved seeing other people in the class with varying abilities. Definitely a new favorite yoga dvd.
My only major complaint is that the production quality sucks. The picture was grainy; the long pauses between quarters was annoying and the 3rd time I used the dvd it froze and I had to re-start the dvd. I cleaned my player and I hope that the freezing doesn’t happen again. Sometimes in the replication process, the dvd degrades with each copying process, expecially when inexpensive media is used. Not saying that this is the case. But I see that another reviewer’s dvd froze too.
By the way, the menu, OMG! You have the chapter titles listed on the top, pictures in the middle and play listed on the bottom. In order to get the right chapter you have to get chapter, picture and play highlighted. It took me a few minutes playing with my remote to get that figured out. For her next dvd, I suggest that she make the menu simpler. She has so much to offer as a teacher, and these flaws are distracting.
Overall, I loved the content. The pace was good. She is talky so be forewarned!! Lots of spiritual metaphors, but I am used to that as my yoga background is kundalini yoga. Great anusara yoga class inspite of the quality!
UPDATE: I just did the beginners class and it is wonderful! This morning I felt like I needed an easy yoga class and this is it. Half sun salutes, tree, wide angle forward bend, heros pose and shoulder stretch, cobra, locust, to name a few. 45 minutes of bliss with a sublime closing pose of supported backbend lying over 2 blocks and words of wisdom. Please Jennifer make another anusara dvd soon.
2nd Best
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love this video because it is broken up into 2 different practices beginner and intermediate. Each practice is then broken down into four , twenty minute chapters, so you and stop and start wherever time allows.
Great video, buy it. Also buy Bryan Kest Power Yoga- great as well.
Flow Yoga with Jennifer Lynn
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Having practiced and taught yoga for 15 years, with time spent teaching myself, it was a pleasure to see something fresh. I loved the way two classes became one:the dvd immersed you in a nature, and then flowed back to an indoor setting- the inner and outer were beautifully balanced.
The flow sequences were unique,as a long time practitioner (not so much anymore) of ashtanga vinyasa (a flow yoga), the routines were alive and seemed to come spontaneously, not a forced movement for the mind to follow. It was much easier to actually be the flow, then obstacles fell away and oneness emerged–making this a true yoga class.
Great Flow!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this practice, it was a great flow. I liked Jennifer’s voice and teaching manners. She seems to be down to earth. I was expecting though that the beginners flow was outdoors, but instead it was indoors in a studio. Jennifer shows the sequence with one more person. The beginners, I would say it’s more like an beginners/intermediate level. It was perfect for me! This one has become one of my favorite yoga dvds!!
I liked it way more than expected!!!!
Thanks Jennifer from bringing yoga to my home
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This DVD rocks!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Flow Yoga with Jennifer Lynn is a DVD that will not let you down. Jennifer guides you through whatever type of practice you are feeling for the day, be it beginner or advanced or just a breakdown of the body alignment. Her voice is soothing and easy to understand. I have had the honor of taking class with Jennifer in person, so to be able to take her home and practice daily with her is such a beautiful treat. What is nice about this DVD is that the advanced practice really makes you sweat and challenges your entire being. For people new to the Anusara principles or for all you Anusara heads out there this video is for you! Sweat, expand, open your heart and flow with Jennifer Lynn, you won’t be sorry you did!
Great Acquisition
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Wonderful practice, ideal for intermediate / advanced practitioners. Good flow and challenging postures.
Just a remark, draw the attention to Jenn’s Mudrás, she uses them, the class does not and there is no explanation for them.
Excellent Yoga Dvd
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Jennifer Lynns Flow Yoga is definitely up there with Shiva Rea’s, yoga shakti, in terms of teaching callibre and quality of practice.
I thought the sections on ‘why we do yoga’ and the technical workshop were excellent – very clear and specific.
Jennifers style is very down to earth, motivating, supportive, encouraging, and gentle. She allows you to feel that perhaps you could go a little further, just to try things and that its okay if you can’t quite do it, because its all part of the yoga process.
I really feel that with this practice I was able to go much further and to begin to appreciate some of the more phillosopical aspects of yoga. Due to the great technical instruction I am now able to attempt some of the more advanced moves.
An amazing and challenging yoga workout
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is my favorite yoga routine. It is really challenging and varied, with lots of interesting sequences. There are a lot of challenging backbends, strength poses, and forearm stands. You will not master this disc quickly! There is a beginner’s routine (which I have never done), a 75 minute intermediate routine, and some pose commentary, etc.
I see that some have commented that the photography is not so professional. OK. It’s true. They filmed the routine both indoors and outdoors and kind of interlaced them a bit. The outdoor shots are lousy, but the indoor ones are OK. Jenifer is teaching a class and you get to see how many of her students can’t do the poses. However, I would say SO WHAT about the mediocre filming, because this is a great, challenging workout! I have a lot of discs, and mostly, I don’t use them because they are all far too easy. This disc is not too easy, and there is a lot of interesting variety and poses and stretches that I have not seen elsewhere.
But what makes this disc super special is Jennifer’s beautiful commentary. It is both instructive and deep, and geared for western minds, so you won’t hear too much about the sun–it’s more about personal growth.
Highly recommended
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Such a great dvd! Jennifer Lynn’s teachings are really inspiring and motivational. She obviously draws from a wealth of knowledge garnered from numerous lineages of yoga and is able to transfer information not only with the precision of someone who thoroughly knows her science but with the fluidity and poetry of an artist. I have lots of yoga dvds from so called celebrity teachers and Jennifer Lynn’s is one of the most comprehensively excellent – beautifully produced, lovely music, clear easy to understand direction, plenty of instruction: ancient teachings delivered beautifully in thoroughly modern technicolor and sound.
Beautiful and Challenging Yoga
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This DVD offers challenging yoga for beginners and advanced yogis. The beginner’s sequence is shorter and well-instructed, but it is also challenging enough for a more advanced yogi if they are in a hurry or a bit worn out. Her advanced sequence is very challenging. All four quarters can be done together or separately. Either way, someone with yoga experience will be challenged. I can rarely make a yoga class, so this is a good alternative for me to continue my practice and grow as a yogi. I am so happy that I found this DVD.
Flow Yoga
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is really a wonderful DVD. Jennifer teaches from the heart and radiates enthusiasm in her yoga practice. There’s something for everyone from basic alignment for beginners to challenging sequences for more experienced practitioners. Jennifer teaches a wide variety of poses with many interesting variations in addition to yogic philosophy. She knows her stuff.
If you are interested in a vinyasa or flow yoga, check out this DVD!