Bryan Kest: Spinal Strengthening (CD & Booklet)
by Bryan Kest
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Author: Bryan KestEdition: Spiral-bound
Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN: 0972247815
Number of pages: 46
Publisher: PowerYoga.com
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Book Review: Caveat emptor- not an authentic yogi
Summary: 1 Stars
I've studied yoga for almost 10 years (all aspects) and I won't insult those real yogis and yoginis by calling Kest a yogi. But if you like your yoga instructors using gutter language, yelling it at you to instruct you through your practice like it's football practice in a most annoying voice, then Bryan Kest is your man! If you think his regaling of his in-studio audience with how he wants yoga to make him high, how "he wants to be stoned all day", is exactly how a yoga practice should be, then buy this CD.
But if you are like a lot of people who use yoga as a method for recovery from substance abuse, or a method of drug-free stress management, or think teachers should treat students respectfully, or (heaven forbid) believe that a yoga instructor shouldn't be so obnoxious that all you can focus on is him, rather than yourself- breathing, posture, etc., then skip this CD. Kest does not bring anything worthwhile to the practice of yoga and if he were a true yogi, he would know exactly how and why he is exactly the kind of yoga practitioner that the authentic yogis and yoginis of the East warn Western practitioners about- the false practitioner (and there are unfortunately a lot of them, think:fly-by-night-yogis who got a certificate from a yoga-instructor-mill). There is a whole way of life, called the 8-limbs of Yoga some of which were espoused by Gandhi himself (ahimsa), which Bryan Kest clearly has no idea about because he does not observe them in his yoga instruction. I know of one yoga-instructor-mill which shall remain nameless,(and I am not claiming Kest comes from there) that wouldn't know a Yoga Limb if it bit them.
Personally, I wasn't able to make it through the first 7 minutes of the first routine because of Kest's offensive demeanor. I threw the booklet and CD away shortly afterwards. I know a fake when I hear one. I know that there are far more respectful, talented and readily available "at-home yogis" products enough not to waste my hard-earned money on what Bryan Kest is peddling. Most likely the only reason he's even got a product on the market is because of his "connection" with Lisa Bonet-Kravitz-Lilakoi-Moon (or whatever she's calling herself these days).
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