The Bollywood Dance Workout with Hemalayaa
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Actor: HemalayaaBrand: Acorn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acacia
Movie Reviews of The Bollywood Dance Workout with Hemalayaa
Movie Review: Great workout...makes time fly
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a little concerned about adding "The Bollywood Workout" to my aerobics workouts. For one thing, I thought it might only be for girls. Also, Indian dancing is barefoot, and the moves are impossible in gym shoes. I like dancing without shoes, the human foot was meant for this, but injured myself when doing aerobic workouts without running shoes.
I decided to give it a try because in Bollywood films, the guys dance just as crazily as the girls, trying to impress them I would suppose. As to the shoe issue, the ONLY impact movements in this workout are the two and three hop Hare Krishna moves and Hemalayaa is very conscientious about telling you to bend the knee to absorb the stress. The other foot moves are characteristic of Indian dance and art: rather than being *en pointe* or a continual *jete* into space (with stress on landing) Indian dance stays rooted to the earth and gets its strength building from variants of *plie*, if you'll pardon my French!
This I found a very rewarding workout that unlike Jane Fonda's (which I also like) seems to last far less than fifty minutes, because there is more variety. The ladies look like real women and not Barbie dolls but are "eye candy" all the same.
You do need to be careful in the head whip moves if you have any history of neck or back trouble. But doing them slowly and ramping up may (in my nonmedical opinion) help to clear these very problems up.
Of course, as an introduction to the vast dance tradition of India, this is like playing Louie-Louie on the *sitar* and purists may be offended. But Bollywood itself plays around, respectfully, with India's traditions and this workout introduces the Westerner to many unvisited bodily zones, for example, when Hemalayaa invites you to breathe into a specific area.
More advanced dancers will of course laugh at these gals, but those of us fighting depression and advancing age with Siva's dance applaud Hemalayaa's efforts to bring this important practice to ordinary gymnosophistical slobs such as yours truly.
Summary of The Bollywood Dance Workout with Hemalayaa
For ALL fitness and experience levels.Inspired by the Indian film tradition of infectiously expressive music and dance comes a sexy, saucy, calorie-burning, full-body workout. Fitness star Hemalayaa leads you in traditional moves that will tone you head to toe while unleashing waves of energy and joy.
The movements are simple?no exercise or dance experience required?but the results are big.
You?ll be getting a cardio, sculpting, and stretching workout while having a blast?and learning moves you'll love to flaunt on the dance floor. Just let yourself go and boogie to the bhangra beat. It?s impossible not to.
Features include audio options (instruction and music or music only) and bonus dance performances.
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