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A Home Practice Session with John Friend in the Tradition of Sri B.K.S. Iyengar Originally produced in 1993, John Friend's Yoga: Alignment and Form is still widely regarded as the most technically detailed alignment yoga video available. In the method of yoga Master, B.K.S. Iyengar, John Friend presents 26 yoga poses with detailed and precise body alignment instructions. The poses are sequenced so tha beginning yoga students, as well as teachers, can use the DVD as both practice video and as instructional guide. The 1 1/2 hour practice session is sequenced as follows: I Fundamental Pose ( Adho Mukha Svanasana) II Standing Poses I Sitting Pose (Virsana) 5 Backbends Repeat Adho Mukha Svanasana and Utanasana I Supine Pose (Supta Padangusthsana) 6 Sitting Forward Bends and Twists I Restorative and Relaxation Pose ( Savasana) Iyengar yoga, with its emphasis on precise postural alignment, is an unsurpassed way to build strength, stamina, and flexibility while cultivating a sense of graceful peace and John has been a student of yoga since 1973 and has been teaching yoga since 1980. From 1987 to 1995, John Friend was a certified Iyengar yoga instructor. In 1997, he founded Anusara yoga and currently teaches workshops and trainings internationally. Today he is widely considered on of the mist charismatic and highly respected yoga teachers in the world. Anusara yoga is now in over 70 counties worldwide.