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 Shiva Rea Yoga Trance Dance :: 0262220598
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| Shiva Rea has been teaching Yoga Trance Dance for more than 10 years. Now, for the first time, her most popular workshop is available to anyone who wants to experience celebration, rejuvenation, and creative joy through movement. Appropriate for all ages and experience levels, Yoga Trance Dance begins with prana-initiating yogasanas, flowing into an exploration of free-form, breath-driven movement to free your creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom. It features the Yoga Matrix format, which allows you to customize your practice by choosing and organizing portions of the program to suit your needs every time you use the DVD. Filmed at White Sands National Park, the program was shot in HD by Hollywood’s Sion Michel (Memoirs of a Geisha) and directed by yoga teacher and fashion photographer James Wvinner for an inspiring look and feel unlike any other yoga or fitness video. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
This practice is more invigorating, freeing, inspiring, and energizing than any other DVD practice I have ever tried. No lie.
It brings you joy and reminds you of who you truly are - you realize "Hey - I'm not just my job, I'm not just a wife/mom/etc, I'm ME and it's so cool! I almost forgot! And screw the job and screw whatever my kid just said that hurt my feelings, right now I am a whirling dervish!"-- it makes you feel happy like a kid again. I guess you could call that "washing away stress" but I'd say it's more like screaming "GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN!!" at stress and exorcising it from your planet. Annihilating stress, if you will.
And it doesn't matter whether you are a yogi or not! You can modify the dance sequences in any way you want. You wanna lightly bounce instead of jumping up and down? Well cool -- you can do that without feeling like a schmuck. My superyogi friends would do this and love it, just rockin the moves, but my mom could do this and love it, too, because it's about being YOU instead of trying to be the person on the screen. And the yoga matrix format rocks, without a doubt, without a doubt.
So in a word, I'd say this DVD offers LIBERATION!! (Oh yeah, and a lot of great yoga stretches and a lot of intense calorie burning cardio, too. But it's such a great stress buster that I almost forgot about that.)
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Author: Guest
I own 2 other Shiva Rea DVD's and love them both. This one is totally different, but a lively, joyful, meditative and thoughtful experience. The first time that I did it, I must admit I was a bit self-conscious "letting go", even in my own room, but as I continued, I found many other feelings arose in addition to "exercise" that I didn't expect. If you like structure and lots of instruction, then try Yoga Shakti DVD also. There is a place and time for everything and you may find that in addition to the structure (I'm an "instruction follower) you may be able to loosen up and have a different experience.
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Author: Guest
I own and frequently use Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti - it's the most challenging Yoga DVD I've found to date, so it stands at the forefront of my collection. I enjoy what I'll call Shiva's "academically creative" approach to yoga in general, so I was pleased when I saw advertisements for her new Yoga Trance Dance, and pre-ordered it. The DVD is high-quality; well filmed, and her unique "yoga matrix" is as cool a selling feature as ever, since it allows you to design your own routine. The contents of the DVD are not what I expected, however. I had anticipated more of a creative blending of traditional yoga poses into dance - looser interpretations of the poses set to rythym. However, the DVD is structured such that yoga segments are completely separate from dance segments, and although you can alternate the segments to your heart's content in the matrix, you cannot integrate them. The yoga segments are less structured than your standard fare yoga DVD, but don't offer particularly innovative poses, and are short and few (you can't assemble much more than 30 minutes worth of yoga on this DVD). They're neat enough, but if it's yoga you want to do, you're better off buying a different DVD (try Shiva's Yoga Shakti, which also has the Yoga matrix and offers a multitude of variations on traditional poses, set to well-selected music, and offers the option of elimiating the "instruction" soundtrack and allowing you to practice to music alone). The "Trance Dance" segments are less useful than the yoga. The advertised "free form dance" is TRULY free form dance; the only guidance the DVD offers is footage of people in free-flowing clothing running in circles and waving their arms at White Sands National Monument (which is spectacular), while Shiva's [very soothing] voice encourages you to do the same. The idea of free movement and spontaneous creativity is a great one, and if you're a person who feels silly engaging in it without encouragement, even in the privacy of your own home, you might rate this DVD much higher than I do. However, I'm inclined to suggest that if your proclivity lies in this direction, you should purchase one of Shiva's music compilation CDs, and dance to it on your own. You'll probably feel much more spontaneously creative and less like you're aping the movements of the people on screen (and won't have a visual reminder of how silly you might look in what you're doing!). Bottom Line: a good idea and well-constructed DVD, but not a go-to or essential addition to a yoga collection.
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Author: Guest
"Since we live where everything is music, everything is dancing..." ~ Jalaluddin Al Din Rumi
How have we traveled so far away from this? As Shiva explains in her introduction on this DVD, our hyperautomated society has separated us from what living beings were truly meant to do...Dance! And, I must add, though Shiva does not, religion has done this to us also...in the small, super-conservative religious town I was brought up in, dancing was considered a sin! I am sure, after watching and participating in this DVD, everyone who reads this is thinking; "my god, that's ridiculous!"
Yoga, among many things has taught me that there is nothing dirty about dancing, movement and our bodies in general and this DVD certain drives that point home for all of us.
In each of these sequences, with beautiful scenery and photography we start out slowly and are invited to "go within" and invoke the meditative state that is necessary for us to be in to get the most out of trance dance. As always, Shiva's voice is beautiful and soothing. We are continously encouraged to listen and trust our bodies to take the flow that is right for us.
I would say that this DVD is really for all levels of Yoga practitioners because one can start out with just one sequence and just move forward as you feel comfortable. You can certainly slow down if you feel out of breath and just move your feet more slowly. There is no right or wrong way of doing this practice my friends, as long as you feel comfortable ~ So Dance and Love It!
Om Shanti
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Author: Guest
This is a FUN DVD. The scenery and setting is so gorgeous and its filmed in an atypical way thats really cutting edge! THIS IS A HOT HOT DVD. You need this one for your collection. Shiva reminds us to BREAK out of the mold, yes even in yoga.... and to have fun... and that life is about movement. Her best DVD YET hands down!!
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