video tapes

[Guest guest]

Has anyone seen the Richard Freeman video of the Primary Series? How is it? How

does it compare to the Swenson videos?

[Guest guest]

Hi, I haven't seen those videos but I have seen a

video from Lino Miele and I realy liked it. Very well

done and strong spirit. It has been taped in Kovalam

in India january '99.<br>Speciality of that video is

that Lino is actualy demonstrating primary serie with

full vinyasa.<br><br>I wish smooth and strong pactise

all of you<br><br>Tero

[Guest guest]

IMHO the Richard Freeman video is the very best

primary series video I've seen (I have several). It is

distinguished by Richard's description of the postures, he

seems to hit on very interesting verbal ques to help

you fully enter each posture ("Paste your heart on

the ceiling", "Draw the legs up like you are pulling

up long socks"...). He also conducts the series in a

very even measured way, there is no rushing. If it has

bad points for me they are that the action breaks

twice during the series. As you transition to the

sitting postures he stops for a while to describe the

linking vinyasa and again around navasana I think he

stops and gives some additional instruction. Also there

is very limited guidance into savasna at the

end.<br><br>I really like David Swenson's tape also, it is

"More strenuous" than RF's video (5 Sun sal A's and 5

B's as opposed to RF's 3 of each) however there is

less instruction and the instruction there is tends to

the obvious (still useful of course since the obvious

is easily missed). I don't think you can go wrong

getting eoither of these two tapes, but if I had to

choose I'd go with RF's.

[Guest guest]

I forgot to mention, the booklet with the RF tape is very good also, it has nice

descriptions of mula b. and drishti and so forth.