Your workout begins

OK, Susan has finally started putting yoga workouts online.

For the past 15 months I've had the immense privilege of working out with one of the world's greatest fitness instructors, Susan Powter.

Susan faces (for the umpteenth time in her colorful career) the challenge of figuring out how to replicate the astonishing classroom experiences she gives us so that they are accessible to everyone.

She's been playing around with some ideas via video, via MySpace, and via blogging, in the past several months. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't.

Now she's got Susan Powter Online going. This site does not provide the polished, organized exercise information we're used to from all those videos and DVDs we've all purchased (and not used) in the past few decades. This site is about how Susan, who turned 50 two weeks ago, lives a fit, healthy life in her modest, artsy home in Seattle (which she shares with her young son). Here's some yoga in her little Seattle studio; it's cold—that's why Susan starts out in fluffy slippers!

Our workout with her Sunday was in the hallway of the school where we rent space. Temperature? 55 degrees. And we were sweating when we finished.

Here you go: