Manufacturer: Maverick Entertainment
Starring: Kathy Smith

Louise Solomon's logical blend of pilates and yoga in the original Yogalates was presented as a tool for weight loss aimed at professional women. The Australian expert's second offering Yogalates: Total Body Toner is a curiously--and most definitely welcome--softer approach. Although billed as a total body toner, the graceful Solomon ensures that this is no pounding quick-fix. Far ...

Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures

Manufacturer: Imc Vision
Starring: Lucy Lloyd-Barker

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Maxine Tobias
Directed By: Brian Lighthill

From the moment Yogacise begins--with adorning shots of a heavily made-up Jerry Hall--it's hard to take it seriously. The brainwave of teacher Vimla Lalvani is a combination of the ancient system of yoga and stretching and is intended to help urban stressful living. However, Lalvani and celebrity student Jerry Hall seem to be appealing to an older, wealthy lady whose stress comes from where ...

Barbara Currie's Power of Yoga makes some powerful claims. Promising you "the best body shape ever" Barbara assures the viewer the video will teach you how to "re-charge and re-energise your entire body in just 10 easy minutes a day".The video itself consists of four self-contained sections based on Hatha yoga techniques that can be done individually if you're short on time or all at ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Barbara Currie

Manufacturer: Firefly Entertainment
Starring: Penny Smith

Manufacturer: Vision Video Ltd.
Starring: Kisen

With the slinky white leotards, the pastel set and the references to toning and firming, yoga purists might be quick to dismiss Barbara Currie's Seven Secrets of Yoga as yoga for middle England. Yet Barbara Currie is the Delia Smith of the yoga world--it's not just that what she does works, but she knows exactly how to make it work for the rest of us. Though the title implies that this ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Barbara Currie
Directed By: Steve Kemsley

At the risk of offending hard core yogaphiles who disapproved of Geri Halliwell's common touch, it's difficult to sneer at Geri Body Yoga--the follow-up to her first yoga offering. Every detail, from the ace location in California to clear simple instructions by teacher Katy Appleton, makes for an exceptional quality production. Thankfully, this time round the incessant Geri-babbling is ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Geri Halliwell, Katy Appleton