Crunch Super SlimDown YogaPilates Blend (2006)

So heres a portrait of yoga in the 21st Century this ancient discipline created thousands of years ago to enhance the meditative experience the asanas or poses commonly used in hatha yoga were in fact designed to enable meditators to sit quietly calmly and comfortably for hours on end is now a total body blast with users urged to get hard core and feel the groove all so your torso will look buff At least thats how Ellen Barrett the relentlessly sunny instructor featured in Crunch Yogas Super SlimDown Pilates Yoga Blend sees it But while that approach may sound pretty frightening to traditionalists this cant in fairness be viewed as a typical yoga video nor does Barrett who commingles power yoga moves and what she describes as coreconditioning power pilates make any claims that it is Many of the posesincluding Warrior II extended right angle cobra locust and otherswill certainly be familiar to yogis