Product Description

If you want to take a class with popular yoga teacher and writer Shiva Rea, you could fly to Santa Monica and wait in line with the othersaor you could pop this double-CD release in the player and have her all to yourself. In a pleasant California drawl, Rea leads the listener through two complete vinyasa routines. The first, "Solar Practice", is designed to energise, with lots of sun salutations, standing poses, and backward bends. The second, "Lunar Practice", features soothing forward bends, hip openers, a deep relaxation period, and pranayama.
The two-CD set comes with a booklet that clearly illustrates each posture, and suggests alternate programs based on the listener's time limitations and bodily needs. Beautiful original music complements the instructions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141553 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-31
• Released on: 2001-04-27
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Audiobook, Double CD, Import
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD
• 9 pages

Customer Reviews

Suitable for both beginner and intermediate level students
The double CD covers pretty much everything from sun salutations A&B, standing and inverted postures, and stretching and relaxation. You can create/tailor your own practice, in terms of duration and what you want to cover, and examples of rounded sessions are given to fit into whatever time you have.

The CD comes with a poster showing photographs of all the postures, including the steps taken to get into and out of them.

Although I feel this CD could be used by beginners, to get the most out of it I would suggest that you attend at least a few classes beforehand, otherwise it might be a little too fast with not enough explanation.

For intermediates, you can tailor the sessions to cover whatever you wish, and can relax your mind not having to worry about which asana to do next and just listen to the instructions.

My only real criticism is that not enough attention or instruction is given to breathing throughout the CD, which to beginners is vital. I also found that I couldn't breathe slowly enough to keep in pace with the instructions, and was therefore breathing unaturally slowly. The music during the final relaxation was also too loud and distracting.

In summary, if you were to take out the music and speed it up a fraction, this CD would be very good.

Beautiful Yoga CD!!!!!
This is my first yoga cd I ever bought after having lots of videos andbooks, I don't understand why Amazon don't sell it anymore cuz it seemslike a successful product. Anyway I bought it from soundstrue website at afair price.I've done the cd twice already and I love it, you have lots ofpossibilities on these 2 cd's of tailoring your own workouts which shementions in the nice booklet, you also get a beautiful big poster of allthe asanas in the cd's by their order.In these yoga cd's there are a lotof challenging poses like in the balancing track, but the overall feelingI get from these cd's is very relaxing, probably because of Shiva'ssoothing voice and the beautiful music in the background, but youdefinetly get a good workout at a moderate pace.It is definetly a nicechange from the usual videos /dvd's we do since you don't have to squintat the tv!