The 35 poses/ practices are split neatly into poses on your back, on the stomach, sitting and standing, pranayama, and neck and shoulder. The directions given were extremely precise: every move that your body is required to make, including the rest between poses, is precisely given. This is not as easy as it sounds since most yoga instruction fails on this score.
The flow of poses in each set also is well-tuned, from the easy, doable ones to the slightly difficult to more advanced asanas.
The bonus offer, of a quick-fix, with some select poses for a short practice is perfect. The poses chosen were real all-rounders from the entire set: like uttanpadasana, dhanu, veerabhadrasana.
The pace of instruction is also very comfortably slow. The asanas (the yoga advisors were Shiv Mishra and Ravi Dixit) were repeated a few times, so the moves could be observed and followed. Execution was good, suggesting that Shetty is not clambering up the yoga bandwagon just because everybody else is, but that this comes from genuine practice.
Some poses which simply would not be possible for a rank newcomer to attempt, let alone do with the grace that Shetty displays include chakrasana (requires spinal flexibility), natrajasana (combination of flexibility and balance), navkasana (requires abdominal strength and ability to balance).
Also see: Yoga relief for the summer heat!
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