Shiva Rea Starter Pack (Amazon Exclusive Bundle) Review
This set is a fabulous way to start practicing yoga. Flow Yoga for Beginners is incredibly relaxing. Although Shiva Rea can surely bend like a pretzel, rather than showing off, she models appropriate beginner poses with instructions on modifications, breathing techniques, and tips for listening to your body. Creative Core Abs is a wonderful ab workout. If you allow yourself to let go and be creative. You will likely learn to move your body in ways it has not moved since you were a small child- and somehow this is really refreshing. When I started Creative Core and Upper Body I was shocked to hear that I would be doing 108 push ups. I thought, no way, this lady is crazy- but she gets you through them and leads you energizing stretches- surprisingly my arms do not get very sore after doing these exercises- which, I guess, speaks to the importance of the stretching. Creative core and lower body is also a good workout, but I honestly do not use it as much as the other four. I love Yoga Trance Dance for when I am stressed out or overwhelmed I am not sure if it is a great aerobic workout, because I am not sure that the point of it is to be a workout... but it makes me feel a lot better.
Shiva Rea Starter Pack (Amazon Exclusive Bundle) Overview
Shiva Rea - Creative Core Abs
"The Madonna of yoga, exuding creativity and inspiration" —Yogi Times
Good things flow from a strong core: a long lean torso, a healthy back, a positive flow of energy that benefits every aspect of your life. Now, one of the yoga world’s top female teachers shows you an enlightened way to a powerful core. Unlike repetitive conventional abs work, Shiva’s fluid yoga-based approach awakens your creativity and inner fire, building strength and grace in the same way that surfing, rock climbing, or dancing does—while you’re enjoying yourself, not counting the minutes until it’s over. The program includes three flowing segments, which can be done all at once or individually.
Filmed at White Sands National Park, the program was directed by James Wvinner and shot in HD by Hollywood’s Sion Michel (Memoirs of a Geisha). Beautiful, effective, inspiring. It’s an abs workout you’ll look forward to doing again and again.
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.
Shiva Rea: Creative Core & Lower Body
A follow up to Shiva’s hit workout Creative Core Abs
"Transformative . . . fun, with nary a crunch in sight" -- body + soul
The fun way to fire up your core!
A strong core means more than flat abs. Flexibility, endurance, a toned body, even a healthy heart depend on your core. World-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea shows you a creative way to strengthen your core without the usual tedious ab exercises. In this program, she focuses on both the core and the lower body, using graceful yoga-based movements that ignite your inner fire.
As you flow from one pose to another, you’ll strengthen your belly, hips, thighs, and lower back. You’ll feel grounded and filled with vital energy.
Quick, fun, effective—filmed in gorgeous Limahuli Garden on the island of Kauai—this core program will become one of your favorite ways to work out.
Shiva Rea: Creative Core and Upper Body
An innovative way to sculpt your abs, arms, and shoulders
With a strong core, you stand taller, look leaner, and feel healthier and more energetic. But no one wants to do boring exercises to attain that. With this innovative program, you’ll get a lean midsection, a strong back, and sculpted shoulders and arms--all without endless crunches and tedious weight-lifting.
World-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea guides you through fluid, yoga-based movements that are incredibly effective and just feel good.
Embrace the flow and rhythm as you build beautiful muscle tone for a slender, energized body. Filmed in gorgeous Limahuli Garden on the island of Kauai, this program will transform the way you look and feel.
Shiva Rea - Flow Yoga for Beginners
A superb introduction to one of the most beneficial and rewarding forms of yoga
Flow yoga, also called vinyasa yoga, combines flowing movement with rhythmic breathing for a dynamic mind-body workout. Like a moving meditation, flow yoga unites mind, body, and breath. Your mind clears, your body calms, even as your pulse quickens.
Renowned and innovative flow yoga teacher Shiva Rea leads this introductory practice, filmed amid breathtaking scenery on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. She begins with a seated mediation that teaches you how to link breath with movement.
Three more segments introduce her flowing approach to classic poses. Transitions from pose to pose are graceful and easy. You may not have Shiva's flexibility (yet), but you can follow her lead in ways that work for you. Feel yourself becoming stronger and more supple. Sense your new energy and find the fluidity that has always been yours.
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Shiva Rea - Flow Yoga for Beginners
The title, Flow Yoga for Beginners, is slightly oxymoronic, as "flow" yoga, at least as practiced by many yogis and yoginis, is by its very nature more aerobic, vigorous, and difficult than the yoga undertaken by most beginning students. But leave it to Shiva Rea, whose growing series of home videos is arguably the best on the market, to reconcile those two disparate factors--for the most part, anyway. Rea defines the flow concept as "the ability to move freely in an unbroken string of awareness"; in more pedestrian terms, it’s a continuous sequence of poses, one moving freely and naturally to the next, which tends to generate heat and deepen control of the breath. The breath, specifically ujjayi pranayama, is the centerpiece of Rea’s introduction to this 70-minute program; her instructions in the use of this basic but hard-to-explain technique are excellent. Thereafter, she spends about 20 minutes on backbends (from simple standing and lunging backbends to poses like cobra, bow, locust, and camel, which can be very challenging for inexperienced students); this segment also includes a few twists. Next, the "Relaxing Flexibility Flow" sequence consists mostly of counterposes such as the "happy baby" and badakonasana (cobbler’s pose), while the "Standing Pose Flow," the longest and best of the lot, focuses on poses including and derived from virabadrasana II (aka warrior II), one of the common standing positions. It’s all good, but while Rea provides detailed instruction and simpler variations for many poses, genuine beginners would do well to study the program closely before attempting it; and even then, poses like chaturanga dandasana (a lowered pushup) are rarely taught in beginners classes, even in their easier versions. As for the lush Hawaiian scenery, well, great, but the practice of hatha yoga ultimately depends on going inside, even to the point of doing it with eyes closed. Still and all, while it’s not quite up to the standards of Shiva Rea’s other videos, Flow Yoga for Beginners is a winner. --Sam GrahamShiva Rea - Creative Core Abs
It's hard to say how Shiva Rea would react to being called "the Madonna of yoga," a phrase that appears on the cover of Creative Core Abs. But one thing is certain: the popular, California-based yogi's several DVD programs are uniformly first-rate, and this one is no exception. Roughly defined as the area between the upper thighs and lower ribcage, with particular focus on the abdominals and lower back, the core is "more than our physical center," says Rea; it is "our inner fire," the seat of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual selves (not to mention the center of a great many yoga poses). Mindful that core exercises are for many of us "a duty, not a pleasure," Rea has designed three different programs (ranging from seven to seventeen minutes) that aim to offer a more creative, innovative approach to the work. The "Water Core" segment includes various seated movements, many involving the arms as well; there are also sequences done on the back, somewhat akin to the bridge pose, as well as the "water wheel," which combines lifting the hips while alternately extending the legs. The "Spontaneous Core" section incorporates some of the previous movements with several new ones, while the "Fire Core," the longest of the three, blends very challenging poses such as chaturanga and the forearm plank with familiar standing asanas like the Warrior II. As usual, the musical accompaniment is effective but not intrusive, while the setting (New Mexico's White Sands National Park) and the HD cinematography by Sion Michel (a camera operator for Memoirs of a Geisha) are stunning. None of that may matter much while you're flat on your back, struggling to understand what it means to treat a pose as if you're "skateboarding on the empty bowl of your pelvis," but Creative Core Abs is likely to yield satisfying results for those who stick with it. --Sam Graham
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