Shiva Rea - Fluid Power - Vinyasa Flow Yoga
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Actor: Shiva ReaBrand: VAS
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 243 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acacia
DVD Reviews of Shiva Rea - Fluid Power - Vinyasa Flow Yoga
DVD Review: Eat, pray, SHIVA
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is worth every penny - over 4 hours of vinyasa in a matrix format! Shiva leads you in a quiet, soothing voice through her workout which is set in a charming desert, among other places. You get to mess with a matrix which allows you to pick which poses you want to team together and which part of your body you'd rather do. Additional meditation clips are also included.
However, the most important thing is how you feel once you work with her through just 1 or 2 clips! She has an amazing way of relaxing you while working your every muscle with these poses!! I highly recommend her. If you want just one, do her Shakti DVD though!
DVD Review: Fluid Power
Summary: 4 Stars
It is not for beginners and the stretches are not held as long as I like, but it is still a good video with many options.DVD Review: Not for the yoga beginner
Summary: 2 Stars
I have worked with Shiva Rea's yoga shakthi and Radiant Heart and really like her style of teaching. Not sure though what she was thinking with this one. She flays limbs around wildly with quick flow instructions, a beginner or even intermediate yoga person can easily injure body parts by wiggling in this fashion. It is good to be creative in any exercise form but yoga is meant to introduce stillness and stretching, it is not a dance form. Also teachers like Shiva must introduce level of complexity, meant for beginners, intermediate or advanced yoga, not for all. Clearly this is for advanced, and even there for those who can wiggle body parts without risk of injury.DVD Review: I'll sit this dance out
Summary: 3 Stars
I just returned this DVD to the store after giving it a whirl. Not what I was looking for. Right off the bat, Shiva started swaying her hips and rotating her arms around in some odd, fast pattern, without any guidance. Huh? I just want to emphasize for potential buyers that the style of her yoga in this DVD involves more dance-like movements than the product description emphasizes. Insert "lots of spiraly swaying and coordination" for "fluid power." Anyone been to a good rave lately? Alright, alright, it's not that extreme, but this DVD is quite unique and probably not suited for beginner and intermediate folks looking for a DVD to help them practice the basics more consistently at home. I have been an informal student of traditional yoga (the asanas and the philosophic system) for the past ten years, and this DVD's approach really turned me off. Obviously, Shiva Rea can move however she wants to and teach however she wants to -- and aesthetically the result on this DVD is quite beautiful. Definitely unique, and it may be a great buy for those who love dancing and coloring outside of the lines.DVD Review: different than what I'm used to
Summary: 4 Stars
I haven't tried all the parts to this DVD, but it seems great so far, just a different type of yoga workout than I'm used to. I think her style is a great way to switch things up and become more fluid and flexible. She includes more advanced techniques if you chose to do them. It didn't seem like I got much of a workout while I was doing it, but I was sore in new places the next day.
Description of Shiva Rea - Fluid Power - Vinyasa Flow Yoga
We are naturally fluid. More than half our total body weight is water. And yet this fluid powerin our awareness and way of movingis often an untapped reservoir of energy and joy. Explore the power of your fluid nature with Shiva Rea, one of the yoga worlds most inspiring teachers. Her innovative sequences move with natural flow for a completely original style of yoga that enhances vitality, agility, and creativity. Through rhythmic, circular, and spiraling movements, you will learn to liberate poses that are often rigidly held, allowing you to grow stronger and more flexible with grace. The unique Yoga Matrix menu allows you to customize your practice, choosing from over 3 hours of yoga (20 segments) to suit your time and energy level on any given day. Or, choose one of 6 pre-set practices, from foundation to advanced, from short to long, from solely meditative to energetic. Sequences include four innovative sun salutations, water "core," standing pose mandala, fluid backbends, handIt's more of the same from Shiva Rea with Fluid Power: Vinyasa Flow Yoga, and considering the quality of her previous DVD releases, that's a very good thing. With six pre-set practices (three intermediate "long flows" and three "short flows"), ranging from less than 30 minutes to nearly two hours, Fluid Power--described by Rea as a means to explore "the wave movement that is the reality of our fluid, quantum body" in order to "enhance circulation, longevity, and creativity and to satisfy amphibious longings," whatever that means--this is Rea's longest and most detailed presentation to date. Those familiar with her Yoga Shakti and Yoga Trance Dance will recognize certain elements from those programs here; Fluid Power generally combines Shakti's somewhat more traditional approach (e.g., poses that are held for several breaths) with the kind of creative expression fostered by Trance Dance, which favors constant, flowing movements (in the familiar downward facing dog, for instance, Rea encourages steady undulations of the spine, referred to as "circular wave patterns," as opposed to keeping the back long and straight). While there are many asanas that will certainly be recognizable to most anyone who practices hatha yoga (the cobra, bow, upward dog, chaturanga, handstand, and pigeon are just a few of them), Rea also brings her distinctive style to the practice; her "Dancing Warrior 1008," featured in the longest and most challenging pre-set sequence ("Backbend Flow"), uniquely combines backbends, twists, lunges, and more. All of this will take some getting used to. Rea notes that these practices are designed for "experienced beginners and intermediate practitioners," and everyone is advised to view the sequences before attempting them. Meanwhile, the "Yoga Matrix," with which users can customize their practice by combining elements from all six pre-set sequences in any order they choose, is one of the most appealing features of this and all Shiva Rea DVDs. Also as before, the cinematography is gorgeous (filming again took place at New Mexico's White Sands National Park), and the music is evocative but relatively unobtrusive. A second disc includes alignment tips for some poses, information about fluid vinyasa techniques, and comments by various experts about yoga and, yes, even quantum physics. --Sam Graham
Shiva Rea's Blessing for Amazon Customers Dear Amazon Adventurers!
The turning of the New Year - another journey around the Sun - is a time of great opportunity, reflection and renewal of what ignites us in the core of our heart. As Rumi says, "When you do things from your Soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." Every DVD program that we offer you is a labor of love to empower your home practice and living of yoga. Fluid Power is my offering to that river of your life force that awakens, transforms and renews. As we activate a fluid strength in our body and in our lives, we become more open to all the possibility of this great journey of life! Have a rockin' and blessed New Year!
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