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Power Flow Vinyasa Yoga is definitely the toughest of the three Vinyasa Flow workouts by Jennifer Kries. It is also the longest - clocking in at 50 minutes. Jennifer focuses on various breathing techniques as you work through the poses. The poses are also more advanced.  Jennifer shows several advance poses that have a strength element to them where you are holding your own body weight. The workout starts with a series of Sun Salutation. Each time through the Sun Salutation, Jennifer increases the difficulty by adding slight variations to several of the postures. About half way through the workout, there is also a very intense balance pose segment. Jennifer throws the splits at you as well as show you a levitation pose. This was definitely a challenging workout; several of the moves I could not do.   The workout concludes with some deep breaths and the meditation posture. Jennifer likes to explain, and I usually do not mind this but at one point in the workou...

Balance Flow Vinyasa Yoga is Jennifer's Intermediate Level workout. I could definitely tell the difference between this workout and the Beginner Energy Flow that I did last week. The postures were more demanding and Jennifer included different breathing techniques. The intermediate workouts really builds on the beginner workouts by adding to the sun salutations series, the warrior series and bow series; and each time as you go through the series the posture or positions become more challenging. Another challenging pose was the standing balance front and side. This pose built on the tree pose that Jennifer had us do in the beginner disk. This workout also contain great stretching. While challenging, I found the workout very easy to follow and I enjoyed this practice. The workout clocks in at just over 26 minutes. 4 stars

Energy Flow Vinyasa Yoga is a beginner level yoga workout led by Jennifer Kries. The DVD comes with a 6 minute introduction. During the introduction, Jennifer introduces you to some of the poses in yoga showing proper body alignment. The Energy Flow workout clocks in at under 23 minutes.  I think parts of this workout was taken from Jennifer's Hot Body Cool Mind series. As Jennifer takes you through a series of postures she has you hold the pose anywhere from one to three breaths.  I thought the pace and sequencing that Jennifer used in this workout was perfect Some of the poses you will be doing are the Sun Salutation, warrior series, boat, cobra, triangle, tree and chair. I love Jennifer as an instructor.  In this workout she leads and she teaches.  So from time to time, she will break from the pose to highlight a particular move using a cast member. I like this one.  Thus far, this is probably my favorite yoga workout of the ones I have done th...

February 2014 Monthly Rotation This month I will be doing Les Mills Body Combat, Combat, and Pump workouts. I also have Ilaria's Atletica workouts as well as Discount Workouts  Advanced Strength Training DVDs scheduled. This rotations is similar to last months.  Last month it was 4 cardio and 2 strength a week.  Plus I tagged on some Yoga.  This month it is 3 cardio, 2 strength, and 1 cardio/sculpt a week.  I will also be tagging on some yoga.  The yoga I have schedule for this month are the Jennifer Kries Vinyasa Yoga workouts and the Les Mills Pump Flow workout.