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Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: VAS
EAN: 0054961869596
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Acacia
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Acacia
MPN: DAMP8695D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Acacia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Acacia
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:
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 Hollywoods 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. Amazon.com description. Running Time: 130 minutes. Release Date: 10/04/2006.
Released some two years after 2004's Yoga Shakti, one of the finest yoga programs on the market, Shiva Rea's Yoga Trance Dance is substantially different in content but every bit the former's equal in terms of style and presentation. Combining what she calls "two of the oldest ways (to get) back home," Rea has mixed dance and yoga to create "a contemporary exploration of conscious movement meditation," with an eye toward healing the split between body and mind that has, she says, led many of us to live primarily "from the neck up." As was the case with Yoga Shakti, several pre-set practices are offered (six in this case, ranging from 29 to 41 minutes in length); and the DVD again features the innovative "Yoga Matrix," which allows users to customize their practice by choosing and organizing various segments to suit their own needs and moods. Yet because of the dance element, most comparisons to a traditional yoga program don't apply. Whereas vinyasa yoga is essentially a series of flowing, connected poses, incorporating breath and movement and cultivating heat, strength, flexibility, and balance, here the movement is within the poses themselves, not just within the overall sequence. Thus familiar asanas such as the cobra and downward facing dog take on a new aspect, with users encouraged to constantly roll their shoulders from side to side in cobra or make undulating, wave-like spinal movements in down dog (both can be found in the terrific jala namaskar, the so-called "water salutation"); it's a style that may be somewhat more familiar to practitioners of kundalini yoga than those used to the more widespread, Iyengar-based hatha tradition. Meanwhile, the trance dance sections encourage spontaneous, free-form movement that may well lead to the kind of creative self-expression and loosening of inhibitions that Rea prescribes. Visually stunning (it was shot in high definition at New Mexico's White Sands National Monument) and augmented by a fine world music soundtrack (a music-only option is available) and Rea's soothing, authoritative presence, the DVD also includes a mini-documentary about the instructor, bonus comments by a couple of experts, and more. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Let go and have fun!
I wasn't sure how I would do with this DVD after reading some of the mixed reviews. I didn't know if I had it in me to "let go" and move without detailed steps. But, I'm really glad that I tried this DVD anyway. I love the DVD and the scenery, and sometimes letting go is exactly what I need. Plus, I love the matrix option, and I can workout for as long or as short as I want, or I can do a high intensive or low intensive routine.
I can only do this DVD when I'm alone, though. I'd feel pretty ... Read More
Rating: - Moving to the Beat of your Breath!!
Ok, so I admit... I always secretly wanted to be a dancer, and this dvd will make ANYONE feel like a dancer! I've always loved Shiva Rea and this dvd is just an added addition to some of her more "instructional" classes. Eric Shiffman is doing something similar to this now too... I was lucky enough to practice Trance Dance live with Shiva Rea about 5 years ago and this DVD brings me right back to that wonderful experience I had! Sometimes it's ok to LET GO in a yoga class. Often times there's so much rigidity ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing Practice!!!
Shiva is an amazing instructor... This DVD is one of her best... I do have to say that I have to be in the mood to do it as there is a lot of free style dancing... but after I'm done, I feel so connected and in peace!!! This is another winner from Shiva!!
Rating:  - Extremely disappointed
If you expect fluid movements done as a dance that give a good work out don't buy this DVD. If you are looking for an esoteric experience then this is for you.
Rating: - challenging but fun
If you are middle aged, overweight and out of shape like I am, you'll find some of the yoga poses difficult. Shiva moves through them fairly quickly so they can be hard to follow. The faster movement segments that are part yoga and part dance are much easier for me because they are a small part pose and a large part freeform. And they are aerobic without being hard on the knees. So I enjoy this video but alternate it with other videos of slower, more traditional yoga sequences. (I like Big Yoga and Yoga for the ... Read More
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