Radiant Flow with Janet Stone

This is becoming a favorite, as I like this practice more each time I do it. And as a vinyasa yoga instructor, I've also gleaned a lot of new ideas for my own classes from her artful and unusual sequences. Those who are familiar with Shiva Rea's style of flow yoga will recognize quite a few of her signature moves here, and Janet also includes some variations and transitions I've never seen before.This is on the faster and more flowy side of vinyasa yoga. Some may need a few practices to learn some of the more complicated vinyasas, but it's well worth taking the time. This is a real treat, from the beautiful set to the music by Craig Kohland (Shaman's Dream).I'm only giving this four stars because:1. The shavasana (final rest) is extremely short.2. This is quite spendy for just a single practice, slightly more than an hour. There are no extras or options. For this price, it would have been nice to have a separate guided meditation or perhaps a longer practice with some length options. Still, if you get as much use out of your DVD library as I do, it's a very worthwhile purchase.I don't recommend this for extreme beginners, or anyone with serious injuries, but intermediates will find a real challenge here and advanced students will enjoy the chance to practice with greater fluidity and creativity. I can't wait to try Janet's other DVD and see what she comes up with in the future.

It doesn't look like this disc is all too available, but it's worth getting if you are an interemediate yogi and in pretty good shape. There are a lot of movement repetitions - it's not exactly classical vinyassa yoga, but it is a fresh and interesting alternative!I usually discard a lot of yoga discs because there are just not challenging enough. Not this one!At first I didn't like the music, but it grew on me. It is very Eastern. The only thing that bothers me on this disc is all the idols!Nice stage design. Pleasant and somewhat deep and interesting commentary. Janets got a nice voice and a mature attitude.Nice disc.

Really interesting setting for the yoga workout, an old brick loft with lots of Hindu statues, flowers, and river rocks. Janet leads the small class of both men and women, each one dressed differently, a slightly different shape and height, and everyone achieved the poses differently. Very good video for men who are reluctant to do yoga as they think it is too feminine. The men in the video are very strong and athletic and masculine, and the women are that also...all quite lovely. Janet delivers excellent instructions in a voice over to the class. Fast flow...not much of a warm up. I suggest stretching and warming up before undertaking this workout.

Don't like for the same reason I didn't like Ananda Vinyasa. Too repetitive and gets too long and boring. Would do well with less repetitions and more variety of poses instead, found in most other yoga videos and classes. It would be more balanced and less boring. My body was craving many types of stretches and twists it's used to getting from a practice and not getting it here, so near the end I just turned it off and finished on my own with what I needed and what worked for me. Not going to do it again. I ordered it on the same day as Ananda Vinyasa, which I didn't like, wish I waited and didn't order both at the same time, after Ananda I wouldn't invest anymore money into this.By the way, I got Ananda from Amazon and Radiant flow (along with Mellow flow) from the Janet Stone website. If anyone thinks of doing it, a warning. Customer service there is nonexistent. It took them 10 days to ship, and meanwhile I emailed a few times asking when it would ship, since there is no info at all on the site, and was ignored, except for someone telling me once they would forward my email to someone in shipping and they would get back to me, only no one did. After 10 days I emailed again asking to cancel the order and only then got a shipping notice, but still no human acknowledgement of any kind. So I regret the purchase in more ways than one. But if you want to order do it through Amazon at least or keep in mind my ordering experience from the website, in case you also start to wonder when it's shipping and why you are not getting responses to your questions.

I have yet to get through any of Janet Stone's yoga DVDs. Well, the 20 min. one for moms I did, but it was really hard.Still, I like her style. As difficult as these are. I have them all. My goal is to be able to DO them all by the end of 2018.

I have all of Janet's DVDs and this is one of my favorites. The routine is fun to do and the music great. The flow has some great balancing poses and nice core work but feels more like yoga to me then an exercise class. Perfect for a home practice.

I love this! But be warned. It is for advanced practioners of Yoga only! Buy and use this afterUsing her Mellow Flow video...which is for Beginners to Advanced.

she is great. love her dvd's. love her voice. she is a great instructor. love the flow of it. feel like i am getting cardio in as well. great dvd.