Tara Stiles This is Yoga DVD 4: Complete Yoga Library for Everyone

Love this. Tara is one of my favorite instructors for her tireless effort to remind you to breathe. These disks are soothing, beautiful, relaxing, and fun. There is definitely a flow for everyone in these disks. Great variety for beginners up past intermediate and even on to advanced who still like a guided practice that is a nice self-challenging no-brainer.Tara's narrative is like a constant path guiding you through every moment with your body in each pose, suggesting play and even micromovements within the greater poses of the flow. I love it! Flow yoga constantly moves, so it can be hard to get clear guidance in new practices unless you choreograph it yourself.Can't say enough good things about this set. Really. It's exactly what I've been looking for in a DVD set for years. Hours of good feelings for body and mind! Varieties of length practices from a 5 minute routines in bed for am and pm, 15 minute Gentle Flow on Disk 2 to an hour long flows on Disks 1 & 3, and plenty of 30-40 minute flows too.Thanks Tara and Strala Yoga for being inspiring, warm, friendly, and approachable. Your love of yoga shines through everything you do, and is contagious. Thank you for being the breadcrumbs we need from where we are in our yoga practice to where we know we want to end up.People seem confused about routine time lengths. Disk two's descriptions have a few names for each flow, so I can see where the confusion is from. The descriptions and times are listed on the back of each disk, but here's a quick guide:Disk 1 - Strong Flow (1 hour play time) listed at 60 minutes - Relax Flow (34 minute play time) listed at 30 minutesDisk 2 - AM Flow (33 minute play time) listed as Beginners Flow on back of case at 30 minutes - Gentle Flow (14 minute play time) listed on back of case as Relaxed Easygoing Flow on back of disk at 15 minutes - PM Flow (48 minute play time) listed on back of case as Calming Night Time Flow at 50 minutesDisk 3 - AM Yoga In Bed (4 minute play time) listed at 5 minutes - Daily Flow (32 minute play time) listed on back of case as Daily Basic Flow at 15 minutes - Energy Flow (1 hour 2 minute play time) listed on case as Energizing Strong Flow 60 minutes - PM Yoga in Bed (6 minute play time) listed on case as Bed Time Flow at 5 minutesDisk 4 - Pose Library Sets of poses related to topics such as Seated, Standing, Sun Salutations, Arm Balance, Inversions, Back Bends, Reclining and runs 90 minutes total according to back of case - BONUS: Strength and Flexibility poses listed as 20 collective minutes on back of caseHope that helps! :) I'm printing it up and putting it with the disks for quick reference for myself too since I don't have them memorized yet.

I was so excited for Tara Stiles new DVD set - however, I live in Australia and the DVDs are not yet available here. So, my impatience got the better of me and I got a friend to order them through her family in America. It was beyond worth it, going through that extra trouble to get my hands on these incredible workouts! I'll admit I was skeptical about the weight loss benefits of yoga, but I'd tried some of Tara's podcast videos and after a week was already seeing results. The DVDs are even better (if that's possible). I've been doing the 30 minute Beginners AM Flow and love how you can build up to doing some of the more difficult poses. The Pose Library is incredibly helpful - Tara constantly provides tips for beginners as well as clear instructions to make sure you're accomplishing the poses correctly. I've yet to work up to the more difficult routines, but would completely recommend this to anyone.I've never done a yoga class before, so this was the perfect set to get me motivated. I think it's really good to combine with other exercises - I've tried mixing the yoga with Zumba DVDs and even just going for afternoon walks. I've found that yoga seems to boost the benefits of other exercises (for me, going for two one-hour walks a week and doing 20-30 minutes of yoga every day has given me muscle tone, weight loss, and even reduced cellulite - not to mention I'm more relaxed than I ever knew possible!). But I'm not exactly a fitness fanatic, so in my experience you don't have to do a separate workout and yoga routine to see results. I'm pretty confident that yoga can stand alone, as long as you keep up with it. Although it is early days, at the moment I cannot go a day without doing at least one of Tara's 5-minute podcast workouts.So why should you try "This is Yoga"? 1. It's $20 for 4 dvds - an amazing bargain! 2. It boosts flexibility and helps with poor posture. 3. Tara keeps a decent pace and doesn't confuse you with strange phrases (e.g. "breathe through your left lung" - she just guides your breathing and technique, which is great! 4. It helps with weight loss (well, mine anyway) to make you feel more confident. 5. There are plenty of routines and poses to keep you interested in continuing on with yoga (I love how the more difficult poses provide goals to work up to - like those insanely amazing headstand poses, really!). So Thank You Tara! For once exercise is not a dreaded practice, but an absolute delight and necessity!

Ho acquistato questo set di 4 dvd ad un prezzo davvero ottimo. La consegna è stata impeccabile come al solito, il pacco è stato recapitato prima del previsto. I dvd sono interessanti e ben realizzati, l'unico neo è che anche le sequenze definite per "beginners" non sono affatto "per tutti", specialmente per chi dovesse iniziare per la prima volta una sessione di yoga senza aver praticato nessun altro tipo di sport. Alcune asana sono molto impegnative e potrebbero causare problemi se non eseguite con cautela e in modo corretto. Trovo che i dvd siano utili davvero soprattutto a chi pratica già da qualche tempo. Particolarmente interessante la sezione "Encyclopedia", che illustra una per una tutte le posizioni utilizzate nelle sequenze.

I discovered Tara Stiles's work only recently via her YouTube channel, when looking for gentle (but still effective!) exercise routines that would help me get back in shape after delivering my first baby.I was immediately captivated by Tara's fluid sense of movement, making all the poses and transitions between them look so elegant and easy.I decided to get this DVD series to dive more into her yoga style (called Strala yoga) and I haven't regretted it! Two months after giving birth, one could hardly tell I was still heavily pregnant 9 weeks ago, and I started my daily practice only 6 weeks after delivering my baby.Practicing Strala helps me relax in my body, and is happily contributing to tone my muscles head to toe.Plus, the yoga encyclopedia (4th DVD) provides a nice reference manual if you are looking to improve any of your poses.As other reviewers have already mentioned, the daily routine on DVD 3 is not 15 min (as stated on the back cover), but 30 min. Although this is the case, there is a point mid-routine where Tara brings you down sitting on your knees for a mindful breather. It's easy to stop your practice at this point if you're short in time.All in all, great for both beginners and advanced yogis/yoginis looking to get back in shape after an injury, pregnancy or extended vacation from their yoga practice. Highly recommend it!

Undoubtedly this set is great value for money and has so many different practices even 2 in bed! However Tara just never shuts up and she talks so fast I found I really had to turn it off. I've never been so irritated by an instructor (I even dont mind Jillian Michaels or Leslie sansone and they seem to bother quite a few!!) so if you like your yoga relaxing I wouldn't recommend this.

Love this! However, be warned, as if you're a total beginner (as I am), do make sure to read the discs properly as mine weren't in the case in correct order so I began watching what I thought was the easiest, but it clearly wasn't! But once sorted out and I started with the correct beginner disc (I've not touched the other 3 as yet) I have to say it's brilliant and just what I was after and I cannot wait to work through them all as I progress. Even my "I can't even touch my toes" husband has decided to give Yoga a go, so I can't ask for more.

Having seen Tara on a few youtube videos I wasn't sure about her voice, her yoga style and how I would like doing the same videos repetitively. It seems like a small thing but if you find your teacher's voice strange in yoga, you won't be able to stop noticing it. However I read all the positive reviews and got the set. I was not disappointed! There are so many chunks that you can dip in and out of the routines depending on how you feel and how much time you have. Plus Tara's approach is genuinely refreshing. As a beginner you do get tied up in what the right poses are but as you practise and get more flexible, you find yourself managing to do them and they feel right. At first I wanted to hold each pose longer (like more traditional yoga methods) but once I got into it, I can see the benefits of doing it this way. Simple instruction, a genuine teacher and lots of variety. There is also a selection of really hard routines e.g. the Strong 60 min flow. One negative thing is that the timings written on the back of the dvds aren't always right. But once you get to know them it's fine.