Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance
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Actor: Shiva ReaBrand: Acorn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acacia
Movie Reviews of Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance
Movie Review: heart opening, energy raising, joyful & life affirming
Summary: 5 Stars
Those are the ways I'd describe my experiences with this DVD so far...I received this DVD last week and have fallen in love. It's trippy, it requires an ability to really let go, be free and not care about what you look like, but the rewards for that kind of child-like freedom are incredible.
Like Fluid Power, which I also enjoy, this has the wonderful matrix menu option so you can create your own yoga/dance sessions any way that you like, although I noticed you can only select each section once, so if I want to repeat a section I love, I have to start it all over again. I wish they would change that. With dance sections, since they aren't terribly long, it would be nice to be able to program it to play a section more than once. That's the only technical thing I've noticed that I would change.
The DVD itself is gorgeous; filmed on the White Sands desert, like "Fluid Power" and the classic "Yoga Mind & Body" with Ali McGraw and Eric Schiffman. The music is a wonderful symbiosis of tribal rhythms with contemporary twists, and while you do have the option of listening to music only, or music with Shiva's instructions, I found I missed her voice when I went without it. Her words, her steady calm voice, and her lovely comments really inspire me and keep me going, but it is nice to have the option for a different experience.
The options here are varied and really interesting; opening meditations that bring you into stillness and gentle movement simultaneously, a slightly more rousing intro that gets the blood really flowing, and of course some yoga sets with Shiva's unique style. They are very much akin to the yoga on Fluid Power, though they seem more approachable on here, like the yoga offered is a bit simplified and more accessible for beginners. You get a total of 15 segments to play with, to mix and match. I was having so much fun with them over the weekend, I think I ended up doing almost the entire DVD. I also enjoyed mixing these segments with some of the ones from "Fluid Power"...for example, I LOVE the Spiral Meditation segment from "Fluid Power" and find that to be a fabulous warmup before the trance dance segments.
I found myself smiling, moving in ways that felt incredible but that I just don't usually free myself to explore, and I was certainly sweating. This feels like cardio for the new age, something beyond just "working out" where my emotional heart and spirit benefit along with my physical body, simultaneously.
I do wish this disc was longer, I wanted more! But it's more than ample for enjoying a little tribal, fluid and thoroughly rousing free-style dance at home. You do not need to be coordinated, flexible or a natural dancer for this...it's just about letting your body express whatever feels right and good in that moment, often closing the eyes and just enjoying the nectar from within. Anyone can do this. I even found, while watching it through for the first time, that I felt benefits from doing it while seated.
It's definitely got the LA trippy vibe, but in the best possible way and with so much obvious love, joy and passion for what they're doing, I find it utterly contagious. I'll certainly be looking into her live Trance Dance workshops now.
**note** I also find that the trance dance sections are a PERFECT compliment to Kundalini yoga practice. I followed Kundalini sets with sections from this disc and it was pure heaven. ;)
Summary of Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance
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.
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