Shiva Rea - Radiant Heart
by James Wvinner
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Actor: Shiva ReaDirector: James Wvinner
Brand: ACORN MEDIA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 35 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acacia
DVD Reviews of Shiva Rea - Radiant Heart
DVD Review: Radiant Yoga Practive
Summary: 4 Stars
I've used this DVD quite a bit since I purchased it back in June, and I can say it's a very relaxing and enjoyable yoga practice. As other reviewers have noted, the DVD is divided into 3 segments: 1. Prayer Wheel 2. Heart Namaskara and 3. Energizing Heart Meditation. Personally, I prefer to practice this routine in the morning before going to work. It's advantageous in that's it's only 30 minutes long and it's gentle, yet energizing for a morning practice.
Rather than incorporate a yoga matrix on such a short DVD, my suggestion would be to incorporate a forward and backward type of selection button to accommodate those reviewers who prefer to end with the more relaxing Prayer Wheel Meditation rather than the Energizing Heart Movement Meditation.
Specifically, here's what's included on the DVD. The opening Prayer Wheel Meditation has you standing, gently rocking back and forth using your legs while doing some slow arms circles around your ribs to open your heart. It also incorporates some heart messaging which I find very beneficial. Sounds goofy but this meditation is very relaxing and peaceful.
Next is the 20 minute Heart Namaskara which you do most of it on your knees, so it would be ideal for beginners who have a little yoga experience. Poses range from low lunges, runner's stretch, half warrior 2, half side angle pose, shoulder openers, modified beam pose, reverse namaste, to cobra and bow poses. Segment ends with some gentle spinal twists and knees-to-the-chest as counterposes.
Finally, the Energizing Heart Meditation begins with a Ha Kria using your arms, which is similar to the one on Yoga Shakti, and ends with a twisting kria.
Overall, I really like this practice. Shiva Rea, with her boundless creative energy, always manages to take a mundane salutation and turn it into something incredibly different and unique. I think that's why she's such an awesome and talented yogini.
DVD Review: Also Back-Opening
Summary: 4 Stars
Because it's fairly short in length (especially compared to Yoga Shakti with Shiva Rea), I initially expected this DVD to be easy. Not so- it's a great workout. It's fairly hard on your knees though (and I don't consider my knees "bad"), so I always use a blanket when doing movements on one knee.
I work as a proofreader/writer, and long hours staring at text or a computer screen have wreaked havoc on my back and neck. This DVD has become essential- almost as good as a chiropractor. The heart opening movements, especially the bonus feature twisting kriya (from Yoga Trance Dance), have done wonders. Radiant Heart has become part of my weekly routine, and one of my best purchases.
DVD Review: Healing from Surgery
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are recovering from breast cancer treatments this is a must-have routine. It is helping me regain necessary stretching ability in my inter-costal muscles and the affected arm where the surgery was necessary. It also has helped me feel more resilient psychologically as well as physically in facing all that goes on with facing cancer treatment. Highly recommended. DVD Review: A Lovely Way to Start My Day
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been enjoying this one regularly when yoga is not my exercise focus for the day, meaning I usually do 1 1/2 hours of yoga and call that my focused movement for the day. I've been doing this before going out running or tabling more exercise for later in the day.
This lovely, short and sweet DVD opens up my heart, my shoulders, my spine, my hips (to some degree) and my quads. I like that Shiva focuses on *opening the heart* instead of *backbends* which is a lot of what is happening here. Focusing on opening the heart, for me, has a tendency to keep me from compressing my lower back.
Personally, I love the cinematography and after the first time or two have had no trouble knowing when to chant and how to position my body.
Chanting OM while in Camel pose is an amazing experience. This DVD is nice to do and then follow with segments from Shiva's Yoga Trance Dance.
The reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is that I wished she had explored the heart opening further. 30 minutes goes by so very quickly!
DVD Review: A Powerful Moving Meditation
Summary: 4 Stars
Since I've been learning about the chakras, I was intrigued by this DVD which focuses on the "heart center" or heart chakra. Overall, I feel this is an excellent offering by Shiva Rea who has a very peaceful and detailed way of instructing. This yoga is all about the heart center (chakra) and focusing energy and healing towards the heart while calling up positive characteristics such as love, compassion, and forgiveness. I could feel love all around and inside me while doing it and even right now. So I would say that in doing this routine, my heart chakra opened up. Shiva Rea achieves what she set out to do. It would be so nice if Ms. Rea did other DVDs focused on the other chakras.
The poses/moves she uses were at times challenging for me so I did the best I could. It is definitely not a DVD for pure beginners. My only qualm with the DVD is the way it was shot. I get that they wanted it to be artsy and the background to be calming (it was a very beautiful background indeed) but it was kind of dark and shadowy and I had a difficult time seeing what Rea was actually doing. That's my only real complaint.
This DVD is not necessarily something I'd add on as part of a fitness routine. It's more of a moving meditation and a powerful one at that. She incorporates the chanting of "Aum" into the routine and the sound "Ha" in the sun salutation part. I enjoyed this DVD and it was perfect to do after yesterday's workout which left me a little sore.
Today's practice left me feeling energetic and bright even though the day is quite dreary. I'm ready to start my day feeling positive and joyful.
Description of Shiva Rea - Radiant Heart
Calming, energizing, life-transforming yogaIn yoga, the heart center has its own wisdom, intelligence, and energy. In this unique and inspiring practice, one of yoga's top teachers shows you how to connect to the power of your heart-most potently, your capacity for love and healing.
Shiva offers three ways to experience yoga's rejuvenating heart-centered focus. Her Prayer Wheel practice generates love and compassion. Hridaya Namaskar (Heart Salutation) leads to deep relaxation and inner peace. The Energizing Heart Movement Meditation releases stagnant energy and creates natural joy and vitality.
Starting or ending your day more centered within your heart will have a profound effect on your body and your life. Choose your practice - or combine all three - and celebrate the mystery of being human, fully alive with a radiant heart.
INCLUDES TWO BONUS SEGMENTS: Sample Shiva's other DVDs with Twisting Kriya (7 min.) from Yoga Trance Dance and Jala Namaskar (8 min.) from Fluid Power Yoga.
The flow (pun intended) of excellent yoga DVDs from Shiva Rea continues with Radiant Heart. With a total running time of about 30 minutes, this is the shortest of the California-based yogini's offerings; and with just a single section devoted to asana, there's no need for the "yoga matrix," a programmable feature that highlights Rea's other videos (including Yoga Shakti, inarguably one of the finest yoga DVDs on the market). Still, that one section, a 20-minute sequence called "Hridaya Namaskar" or "Heart Salutation," is, as Shiva Rea fans have come to expect, innovative and skillfully put together. Focusing less on the strengthening aspects of yoga than on relaxing, stretching, and invigorating, it combines a variety of lunges, backbends (ranging from the relatively elementary sphinx pose to more challenging positions like cobra, camel, and bow), twists, and more, all presented with the kind of flowing, undulating movements typical of Rea's style. The Heart Salutation is bookended by two meditation sections (the eight-minute "Prayer Wheel" and the three-minute "Energizing Heart Movement Meditation"), both of which, as their names imply, involve considerably more activity than is found in more traditional meditation sequences. Whether the combination of these elements will in fact promote the development of "an intelligent heart center which communicates, alerts, balances, and harmonizes" the body will end up being a personal matter for each user, but there's no doubting the quality of both the content and presentation of this inspiring teacher's work. Bonus features include sample bits from two other Rea DVDs, Yoga Trance Dance and Fluid Power Yoga. --Sam Graham
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