Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance
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Actor: Shiva ReaCinematographer: Sion Michel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: 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
DVD Reviews of Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance
DVD Review: Shiva Rea + Trance Dance = Awesome!
Summary: 5 Stars
I admit I was hesitant in buying Yoga Trance Dance since I already own a couple of Shiva's DVDs. In addition, the title alone made me think the DVD was going to be too goofy - just how could you possibly combine yoga and dance?
Thankfully, I'm so glad I didn't take my doubts too seriously and went for it. This is absolutely my favorite DVD from Shiva Rea!! For those looking for a traditional yoga practice, you will be disappointed; however, those who keep an open mind and trust in Shiva will enjoy this DVD immensely.
It contains 3 opening movement meditations, 3 sun salutations, 3 krias, 3 free form dance segments, 3 prana yoga segments, and lest we forget, shavasana. Essentially, this DVD mixes prana yoga, similar to what's featured on Yoga Shakti, and free form dance.
The DVD includes the yoga matrix and some bonus material. You feel ridiculous at first doing the free form dance routines. But once you learn to let go and not care anymore, it truly becomes a fun and liberating experience. You'll definitely build up a great sweat after doing this cardio workout. The scenery and music are just awesome - even when you hear it the first time, you will be compelled to dance, dance, dance!
I'd just like to know where you can purchase the music from the DVD?
DVD 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. ;)
DVD Review: Nothing gained from this video...disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I was very disappointed...as a dancer and yoga practitioner I was curious to see what this yoga trance dance I'd heard about was about and I must say some of the yoga directions were fine and that is why I gave it 2 stars...however, the dance part was I felt nothing but a series of lectures (as another reviewer noticed)on how to be in touch with your inner self as you move...which I guess if you have never danced in the past may be a bit helpful...but for those of us who have no trouble feeling the music, these directions were useless...the dancers in the dvd simply jumped around and the camera did not stay long on any one dancer to get any idea for any moves... just a bunch of people jumping and girating around...don't waste your money...for this you could go to any disco and watch people gyrate and since you can watch as long as you want (without a camera to take away your focus)you would have a better chance at catching some steps....I hope I can resell this to one of Shiva's fans who find this kind of dvd "inspiring" as some seem to do....I am hispanic....in my culture dance is a part of everything....reason I gave it a 2 was for the part were there is an actual Indian dancer doing authentic Hindu dancing and it was beautiful...however, one only sees bits of her dancing as the camera then switches to Shiva's very boring dancing....Sorry Shiva! Think you are a better yoga teacher than trance dance facilitator!!DVD Review: Trance Dance is absolutely awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
This video is number one by far the best dvd for any type of exercise I have ever bought. The pre-set combinations are excellent. The build your own matrix is easy. All in all the program is excellent. If you are looking for a fun, inspirational, yoga exercise dvd, both physical and mental this is it! It inspires my creativity, makes me laugh and have fun and leaves me feeling energized, creative and in better shape than the day before every time I use it. Any of the pre-set combinations that I choose always leave me feeling greatful to have picked it. Beginners could use it as well as seasoned practioners. I recommend it with all my heart.DVD Review: shiva rea
Summary: 3 Stars
Fun practice, but a bit on the " hollywood" side. My personal taste is on the "down to earth" side. At any rate, I think this dvd will be enjoyed by most.
Description 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.
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
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