Features:

• -The same Power Yoga workouts used by Mark's professional sports clients and top celebrities.
• -Increase your metabolism, lose weight, and burn up to 800 calories or more over a 90 minute workout.
• -Sculpt long, lean muscles for greater flexibility. Increase your energy so you look and feel younger.
• -Decrease stress, improve mental focus and clarity, and get a stronger sense of spirituality.
• -Selected as one of the top Yoga DVD's by Shape, Fitness, and Glamour magazines.

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Bask in a sun-washed radiant sky. Breathe, stretch, focus and enjoy the vortex energy in one of the most beautiful spots in the world.Life is a series of perceptions and evaluations. How we react to them will determine each outcome. And so it is with yoga. In its truest form, yoga will always be a celebration of you and where you are on any specific day. It is about nurturing your mind, body and spirit in a noncompetitive environment. In more than 5000 years, yoga has never had props, nor has it ever had levels. If you can understand and genuinely appreciate this concept, then you will truly benefit from this DVD system. It is total acceptance. It is simultaneously about progressing to a deeper and more fulfilling practice: that is the yin/yang of yoga.Progressive Power Yoga® - The Sedona ExperienceTM, was produced as a comprehensive collection of power yoga workouts that follow the same invigorating power yoga routines that are used by Mark's professional sports clients; filled with high energy, flowing asanas, balancing poses and deep cool-down stretches. By practicing this yoga system, you'll increase your metabolism and you can expect to lose more weight and burn more calories than any other form of cardio or weight-training exercise.Progressive Power Yoga® - The Sedona Experience is designed for the athlete in all of us. There is nothing here that you can easily breeze through. It should be challenging for you, but not to the point where you stress out over whether or not you are doing too much or not enough. It takes time and dedication. It takes patience. Regardless of where you are in your yoga practice, the time you spend is always spent in the Now. That's what the power of yoga reminds us to do live and breathe who you are right now.

Rating : - My experience with "The Sedona Experience"
I worked out to The Trilogy, the DVD series Mark Blanchard made before this one, for 1,5 years. Doing one workout each week. At a certain point I was looking out for something new, so I decided to purchase The Sedona Experience. While the Trilogy consisted of three "all in" yoga workouts, in The Sedona Experience each DVD emphasizes a specific aspect of Power Yoga practice.
Another difference is the length of the workouts. The Sedona Experience DVD's vary in length from 48 minutes (The Core) to 137 (The Culmination). Being able to choose from workouts with different lengths comes in handy if your schedule doesn't allow you the time to workout for a full 1,5 hours. As far as I can see, there is no need to do the DVD's in any particular order.

SETTING
You have to give it to him: filming his workouts in the natural beauty of New Age Mecca Sedona was a great move. Without getting into New Age ramblings about "power places" the prospect of practicing yoga in that setting must have been a powerful experience, though you won't feel much of that at home. While the setting of the Trilogy was not very inspirational, the mysterious red rock formations and crystal clear blue sky of these DVD's is a definitive plus. The good looking nicely shaved ladies in the front of the class might appeal to some as well.

THE WORKOUTS
"The Foundation" is a basic 1,5 hour yoga workout. "The Stretch" is a one hour yoga workout is which the stretching aspect is slightly stressed. "The Core" is the most specific of the workouts in that about half of it is dedicated to (pretty demanding) abdominal exercises. "The Flow" is a one hour Yoga workout that is slightly cardio oriented. "The Culmination" is a long hardcore Power Yoga session with headstands, etc.

EXTRAS
The Extra's consist of the different Power Yoga moves broken down, but without commentary, and different soundscapes like a Sedona Sunrise that might be handy if you want to quiet your mind.

CONCLUSION
Yes, some of Blanchard's corrections of the female students do look like postures from the Kama Sutra (that's a kind of yoga too, I suppose...). But the bottom line is that these are enjoyable workouts. I thought a lot about whether to give this DVD set 3 or 4 stars. But the scenery does it, hence the 4 stars. Namaste.