| HOWARD NAPPER and Penny Smith
Howard's 'Essential' and 'Masterclass' yoga DVDs are terrific - because when it comes to teaching through this medium it needs a special class of personality, communications skills and clarity to help the student really get to grips and understand the intricacies of the posture work, on a physical as well as mental level. He does this with precision.
For both the beginner and those who already practice yoga, these two yoga DVDs are very worthwhile.
Penny Smith is his medium for conveying what he teaches and the demonstration of the posture work and how to maximise the benefits of the yoga positions.
ANNE MARIE NEWLAND
Anne-Marie’s individual style of yoga blends three distinct forms and traditions. Originally studying Iyengar Yoga and then qualifying as a Sivananda Teacher, she followed the Guru Disciple Tradition.
Most of Anne-Marie’s training has been in India and Canada with Swami Vishnu Devananda and his senior Disciples. She worked with Him at His head quarters in Val Morin Quebec Canada before embarking on her teacher training in South India back in 1984.
Anne-Marie has produced to date 4 Yoga DVDs. Her Yoga for Sports DVD is for all active people sport people or not and her Sun Power is the essence of her work. Yoga for the Bigger Body and A Yoga Class live of which all include interviews.
RUTH WHITE
Taught and inspired by India's yoga master, BKS Iyengar, Ruth has been teaching for 25 years. Recognised as one of Britain's leading yoga teachers, Ruth now runs the Ruth White Yoga Centre in Cheam, Surrey.
Ruth has developed a unique style of teaching that unites pupil and teacher alike in an atmosphere of happiness, free from strain. She is well known for her attention to detail and insight, adapting her work to meet the ever changing personal needs of her students.
Using the format of yoga DVDs, her Iyengar style DVD allows the student to obtain a comprehensive and easily understood appreciation and practice of yoga.
See her teacher training programs
JOHN SCOTT
is a world famous practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga Yoga. He is one of the few teachers to have been certified personally by Shri Pattabhi Jois, the instigator of this style of yoga.
Although based in the UK, his workshops and teaching take him worldwide and his excellence and grace in his work has garnered many celebrities and well known enthusiasts of this style to his workshops, classes and personal tuition.
With this DVD you also can benefit from that unique style and personal 1to1 teaching.
This primary Series DVD is not only superb from the teaching point of view but also technologically it uses to the full, the precision and variety that yoga DVDs can offer as teaching aids .
DAVID SWENSON
began practising yoga around the age of 13 in 1969. His elder brother Doug was his first teacher and from books or whatever they could unearth they practised Hatha Yoga.
In 1973 David met David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff in California and his Ashtanga practice took off from there.
When in 1975 K. Pattabhi Jois came to the States for the first time Swenson was fortunate enough to be there. He began to study under the master then and in '77 went to Mysore, India and learnt the full Ashtanga system as originally taught by K.Pattabhi Jois.
Today David Swenson is recognised as one of the world's foremost practitioners and instructors of Ashtanga Yoga.
The yoga DVDs that he has produced work through from the First Series practice to Second and Third, including short forms and an advanced demonstration DVD. They become really useful home practice yoga DVDs for those who wish to get to know or have started Ashtanga Yoga
RICHARD FREEMAN
Richard Freeman has studied and lived for nearly nine years in India and Asia, and is an avid student of both Western and Eastern philosophy, as well as Sanskrit.
He incorporates various traditions into the Ashtanga Yoga practice taught by his principal teacher, K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. His background includes Bhakti and traditional Hatha Yoga in India, Sufism in Iran, Zen and Vipassana Buddhist practice, and an in-depth study of Iyengar Yoga.
Richard has studied yoga since 1968, and is one of the few American born yoga teachers to achieve world-wide recognition, and is director of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado. |
