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Don't kill your TV yet

Kate Potter's popular show, "Namaste Yoga," can now be seen in seven countries. "In all my years of teaching yoga, I never dreamed I would be reaching out to the numbers of people who are writing to me these days," says Kate. "My show is now seen across Canada, the United States, Asia, and now even in parts of Europe and Central America. I answer mail every day to people who tell me this show has moved them, inspired them, and even healed them." In the U.S., FitTv broadcasts "Namaste Yoga." (Visit http://fittv.discovery.com/fansites/namaste/namaste.html for more info.) Have you seen it?

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Yes, I see it almost everyday, not able to pracitce all the time but I listen and I have to say I am a novice when it comes to yogo but I truly enjoy just listening as well as practicing with the show, so glad it is on FIT TV.
Keep the faith, Charlee

I became of fan of Namaste yoga on FIT TV a few years ago, when we upgraded our cable and got a DVR. I was just a beginner and needed to rewind to learn basic sequences and catch up when I lost track (or when my toddler pulled me off balance!). However as she has progressed from crawling under me to practicing yoga beside me, and I have progressed, I am less and less satisified with the show.
I found myself with just as much need to rewind lately as before, and couldn't pin my finger on what exactly was discomfiting. The show did the same poses and sequences I can do on my own or in my real-life class. I asked my husband (who, along with my school age children, has been observing my living-room yoga practice for a while now), to sit and watch with me. I found that poses were often done only on one side and then cut to a commercial...which didn't bother me so much, but that other vinyasas seemed to move much more quickly than humanely possible. It is already a show that's hard to follow because of the sharp and frequent change in camera angles, but the speed seems to have gotten out of hand in the past few months. My husband, a techie, suggested that it had been sped up with compression software to fit more commercials in it's ostensibly 1/2 hour time slot...and the minutes he said that, it made sense.

While it's certainly beautiful to watch, and better than nothing, I have become less and less satisfied...first because the camera angles make it very difficult for a beginner to follow, and secondly because NO yogi can possibly follow it at the speed at which it airs. I would be very grateful to anyone who could prove whether or not compression software was being used on it. It's very disappointing that a show that aspires to develop a calm, centered approach should leave a person feeling breathless, chronically slow, and out of step. I wouldn't recommend it for beginners (or anyone else), except as inspiration. I have taken to turning it on, checking what sequences are on, and then turning some music on and practicing on my own.

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