Creating the database of yoga videos available online has involved many entertaining hours of watching yogis share their practices. I am witnessing beginners sharing their first attempts at headstand, beautifully produced promotions for various yoga studios, sweet and tender devotional offerings and awesome inspiring original sequencing, What we mostly get to see in this medium is the external expressions of a yoga practice: asana, mudras, chanting and some breathwork. Yet somehow, even in the 320 x 240 box, something more sometimes comes through. There is a special quality of understanding and awareness that can be revealed and transmitted. It is this aspect that differentiates the yoga videos from the contortion videos, gymnastics and body building clips. It takes huge confidence and courage to film your yoga and share it. So, thank you to all of you who are making the leap. Cuz when it's really working and your unique connection to the practice comes through, we all benefit.
Below I have selected 7 videos to help communicate my experience with this.
Videos 1 and 2 are exciting samplings of relatively new yoga students sharing their efforts.
Couch for Drop Back Practice in Taiwan, #432 and Odie's Scorpian Practice, #461.
Videos 3 and 4 are awesome demos of committed and proficient asana practice.
Astavakrasana from Handstand in Austria, #456 and Vladimir Kalabin's Asana Demonstration from Russia, #383.
Video 5 is an contortion video of Kristina Kireeva, #554
Video 6 is a gymnastics routine by Patrick Ross showing how different familiar yoga postures look in the context of performance, #555.
Video 7 is a sweet personal look into one girl's devotion to the butterflies, #508.
