Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183765 in DVD
• Format: NTSC

Customer Reviews

A beautiful, helpful video!
The best video I've seen that provides concise information along with do-able exercises. Contains 2 sets of classes -- one for the beginner (about 30 minutes long) and one for the slightly more advanced (about 40 minutes long). Both classes have explanations, stretching, exercises, and meditations. There's also info on how to modify the exercises if you have back problems (which I do). After doing yoga with the gentle Nirvair Singh Khalsa (who teaches yoga at University of Alaska), I feel relaxed, healthy and in love with life!

Stay Awake Stay Tuned
If you want a challenging workout, this yoga practice is probably not for you. But if your joints are stiff, if you have a lot of stress, if you feel tired and depressed, this may be just the thing. I did it only a few times and suddenly noticed that life was strangely more cheerful than it had been. The breathing and the stretch, the back series and the transformation series, calm me down, make me alert and just a little more detached if I've been obsessing or distressing myself. Nirvair Singh Khalsa's light humorous rap gives a bridge to the mind while the body is engaged. The music is important, the mantras are important, the breathing is vital. A practice you can live with.

Mixed feelings
First of all, this is like no other yoga tape. At first I thought - No! But it did leave me feeling good.

OK, so the instructor is rather deadpan and monotone, I kept looking for a change of expression. But when I did part 2, I managed to ignore that. There's a bit of mantra chanting, which is new to me, but is apparently helpful in mellowing out the brainwaves or something - and it did seem to work. The format is wierd to me though, I am used to flows, and this is NOT flow. Both workouts start off with simple stretches of all parts of the body, held for about 5 seconds each. Then crossed leg sitting cat back, and rotations at the waist. Then relaxation. That's part 1. Part 2 is the same but includes longer held floor poses which are more what I'm used to - such as bridge. This bridge though goes up and down quite speedily for about a minute. At the end of both relaxations, you sing a song dedicating the way you feel to someone you love. And partway thru both sections, there's more mantra work.

So - this is definitely NOT for those who don't like woo-woo stuff. I don't mind it, so long as the effect is right:) Can't imagine doing this practice with anyone around though!

Oh - one more thing - I thought the whole thing about Kundalini was the breathing, Breathe of Fire, specifically. There's no mention of it in this tape - there is one small section where you are instructed to sniff the breathe in 5 sniffs and and exhale forcibly, but that's it.

Hope my review helps.... BTW, part 1 - around 30 minutes, part 2, around 40.