Best 5 Advanced Yoga DVDs

Here is a list of the Top 5 Advanced Yoga DVDs, and what they offer you. But first I want to explain that advanced yoga is much more than going through the different poses that you have become familiar with.

What you see on TV, the movies and most DVDs is yoga fitness that helps stretch and tone the body.

When practicing advanced yoga, there are more aspects you would need to observe, but for the sake of this article, I will concentrate on advanced yoga as being the practice of postures and rhythmic breathing.

So the advanced yoga DVDs listed below will take you a little further than the regular beginner and intermediate yoga practices.

Yoga Advanced Workout
By: Alla Zorikova

Price: $19.95
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The Yoga Advanced Workout DVD with Alla Zorikova was created around Dharma Mittra's flow yoga or vinyasa yoga, and it gives you a total mind and body workout from the combination of flowing movement and rhythmic breathing.

All the yoga poses or Asanas in this DVD were included with the purpose of helping you gain flexibility and strength on the outside of your body, while helping to focus the energy on the inside of your body. The workout combines your breathing, your body and your mind.

Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection
By: Bryan Kest

Price: $7.99
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Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection comes in 3 volumes. Volume 1 is on the beginner level, Volume 2 is for toning and Volume 3 is taking it to the next level of challenge.

This DVD takes you through a very vigorous workout of Ashtanga yoga, which is mainly learning to synchronize your breathing while doing a progressive series of postures.

The benefit of Ashtanga yoga is that it helps give you a calm mind, improved circulation and a strong and light body. This is the result of your body producing an intense internal heat, that creates a purifying sweat that detoxifies your organs and your muscles.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Grace, Power, Surf, and Sunset
Intermediate & Advanced
By: Maral Hadidi

Price: $17.99
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This yoga DVD is for anyone who wants to further their yoga practice, and build their physical and energetic endurance, by using rhythmic breathing and flow to increase their meditation focus.

You will practice certain postures (asanas), like arm balancing, forward folds, hip openers, spinal twists, hip inversions and you will end with a deep reclining meditation (Savasana).

Advanced Yoga
By: Rodney Yee

Price: $14.99
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The 2 disc, full-length advanced yoga programs in this DVD will take you through about 1 hour and 40 minutes of arm balancing, hip opening and centering pranayama sessions.

These sessions were designed to strengthen your body, make you more flexible, strengthen you lungs and to send oxygen-rich blood through out your body.

Yoga at Home With Yogi Hari: Advanced Level 1
By: Yogi Hari

Price: $19.95
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Yoga at Home With Yogi Hari, offers you a complete 2-hour Sivananda routine, that is done with clear instructions. There are over 100 postures for the advanced practitioner, with 90 minutes of advanced postures (asanas), and 30 minutes of breathing exercises (pranayamas).

There are seated poses, standing poses, arm balances and inversions, that is followed with meditation. If you are seriously advanced, then this yoga DVD is for you - if not - you probably won't follow through with them.

Please enjoy the top 5 advanced yoga DVDs listed above. Even though advanced yoga today means postures, movements, breathing, strength, control, stamina and ability... you can still achieve total body, mind and spirit benefits.