Product Description

Dawn

- 58 moves for a strong, beautiful body! - Energizing stretches to start the day - Purify and revitalize with powerful breathing techniques - Refresh, rejuvenate, restore!

Recharge the spirit and nourish the body with this dynamic series of poses, balances and stretches. Awaken your senses and challenge all muscle groups.Use powerful breathing techniques and more than 50 energizing poses to improve posture, aid digestion and restore health. Watch the pounds melt away, detoxify the body and achieve a sleek physique.

Dusk

- 52 ways to relax and relieve tension - Detoxify body with cleansing poses - Healing yoga and breathing exercises - Banish stress, feel radiant and refreshed!

Relax and release the day’s tensions and toxins with this dynamic, flowing yoga workout. Achieve amazing results using breathing techniques and more than 50 stress-relieving yoga postures. Let go… stretch and strengthen the back, hips, legs and arms. Draw energy into the body to increase flexibility, and help you feel more centered, refreshed and healthy.

Program Features: - Improve circulation for all-over glow - Strengthen, stretch and sculpt muscles - Boost energy and vitality - Eliminate impurities for radiant skin - Reduce stress, tension - For all levels and physical limitations

- Photo Gallery - Trailers - Presented in Normal and Wide Screen – Anamorphic Wide screen 1.78:1

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50834 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-04-19
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Two wonderful practices for sunrise and sunset
Yogini Rainbeau Mars, best known for her "Sacred Yoga Practice" series, has released a new yoga series titled "Yoga for Beauty," which I recently tried on VHS. This series offers two practices, Dawn, the sunrise practice, and Dusk, the sunset practice. In both, Rainbeau instructs a class of four participants, this time in an indoor studio (although it is decorated with many plants to suggest the outdoors). Two of the assistants show modifications, one for limited flexibility and one for limited strength. While chant-like music plays in the background, Rainbeau offers both live and voiceover instruction: she speaks live while setting up poses and moving through vinyasas for the first time, but she switches to voiceover while poses are being held. Her left-right cueing is inconsistent; sometimes she mirror cues, sometimes she does not. At the beginning and end of both practices, Rainbeau is shown performing a beautiful flow of poses a la Ana Forrest in Strength and Spirit.

The first practice, Dawn, is 44 minutes long and is designed to awaken and energize in the a.m. It begins in a seated, cross-legged position for a short series of forward bend, side stretch with neck release, and side twist. Next comes a transition to hands and knees for cat/dog stretches, adding in a lion breath. From here, you move into down dog and then come into a standing forward bend position to practice what Rainbeau calls "belly cleansing," which is a sort of nauli prep and which is repeated once. Then you move to the front of the mat for sun salutations: three half sun salutations, one round of sun salutation A with crescent lunge and an easy twist, then two rounds of sun salutation B, repeating crescent lunge and adding warrior one plus a crescent twist (cobras are subbed for upward dog in all versions). A final sun salutation B adds an airplane balance plus a fun transition to a simple seat twist before; you then move to lying to lie face down on the floor for some gentle backbends, including full cobra, spinx with a quad stretch, bow pose, and then child's pose to release the back. Coming seated, you perform a forward bend and cobbler's pose before double-folding your blanket under your back like a bolster for a supported final relaxation which includes a meditation on colors. The practice ends back in a seated position, with Rainbeau encouraging you to honor your work and touch your mind's eye before coming into namaste.

The second practice, Dusk, is 45 minutes long and is designed for relaxation and release at the end of the day, mainly through hip opening and core work. The practice starts in savasana; you begin to focus on your core via both breathing and simple movement. After rolling into a seated position, you stretch in child's pose, move into downward dog, and transition into 3-legged downward dog for a hip stretch. Returning to core work, you move into a face-down lying position and raise alternate arm and leg; you then do the same thing from a hands and knees position, adding a knee to nose stretch and then finally performing the same knee to nose stretch in down dog. Next comes two round of sun salutation B, the first with warrior one and the second pyramid pose plus several lunge variations to stretch the hips. Transitioning to seated position for more hip work, you perform seated pigeon, rock the cradle, boat, and then thread the needle in a reclined position; there are also a few additional core-strengthening moves. You then grab your blanket for shoulderstand: starting in plow, you raise into shoulderstand, hold for an extended period, lower back into plow, and then roll back down. A brief lying twist to release the back precedes a nice savasana, and then it's back to seated to finish with namaste.

I really enjoyed both of these practices and look forward to doing them often. Although there are modifications shown, I don't think these practices would be appropriate to those brand-new to yoga, but experienced beginners and beyond should be fine. I probably preferred the Dawn practice a bit more; although I loved the hip opening work in Dusk, the tough core work was a bit more challenging than I'd ideally want from a relaxing evening practice. Overall, however, these are well thought out, well executed, and well produced yoga practices, and I would highly recommend the set.

Yoga for Beauty with Rainbeau Mars- 2 Volume Gift Set
This review is not necessarily about the 58 and 50 poses (which were absoultely amazing) Rainbeau introduces, it is about the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical benefits. The prayers performed before and after the workouts are so uplifting. The studio is amazing. The use of colors in the studio--along with the mural background and lit fireplace--makes working out pleasurable and comfortable. It is important to be reminded that Rainbeau's past workout were performed alone, outside near the ocean (which is breathtaking). It is a change but a good change.

She includes people (2 females and 2 males) from different cultures to illustrate the wonderful yoga poses. She also communicates with her cast as she demonstrates the poses--giving good eye contact and continual smiles. Each person demonstrates each level of the workout. This means if you are a beginner, intermediate for advanced person, you will not be disappointed.

I recommend using both DVDs (Dawn and Dusk)on the same day. Dawn gets me extremely energized with uplifing moods and Dusk gets me prepared for a relaxing evening. After performing the Dusk Dvd, I am so relaxed I am actually sleepy when retiring to bed. Gettting up during the night appears to be a condition of my past. Now, I look forward to rest--which is not usual for me. I awake ready and refreshed for the day ahead and extremely hungry. Skipping breakfast is no longer an option.

I practice yoga 3 times a week now that I perform Dawn and Dusk on the same day. My attitude, breathing, posture and energy level is improving daily. My clothes are starting to become loose as well (especially around my mid section). I recommend Yoga for Beauty with Rainbeau Mars-2 Volume Gift set to anyone who wants a challenge or as Rainbeau says just wants to breathe.

I FEEL MORE AT PEACE AND FOCUSED. THIS IS YOGA FOR MY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SELF.

Thank you Rainbeau. I find Vinyasa yoga to be very useful. Hope you are working to your next series. I do not want to give away the entire video but yes, there is more the the video than the workout. You have to buy it to find out more.

you'll love practicing yoga with her!
I have been practicing yoga daily for 9 years now, and I own 30 to 40 yoga videos and DVDs, including those of Shiva Rea, Patricia Walden, Tracey Rich, Seane Corn, and others. Let me just say that Rainbeau Mars' "Yoga for Beauty" has EASILY made it into my top 5 favorites. First of all, do not worry about the word "Beauty" in her title. Rainbeau's definition of Beauty is in no way shallow or superficial. ("Breathe in Self-Love, Breathe out Self-Doubt".) Instead, Rainbeau made an impression on me that she is in-tune with nature, is glowing, radiant, and happy to be alive, and she fully wishes only the best for all her students. She is obviously extremely adept in yoga, and she makes for an excellent yoga instructor, teaching precise alignment, and challenging the student while always showing how to practice modifications for those of us still working on our flexibility and strength. I wholeheartedly recommend this DVD and am on my way to buying more of her dvds, simply because I fully enjoy practicing yoga with her! -Nicole