DVD : Shiva Rea - Radiant Heart

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961895694
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Acacia
Manufacturer: Acacia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Acacia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 35 minutes
Studio: Acacia
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Sales Rank: 23407
MPN: ACRDAMP8956D

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Product Description:
Calming, energizing, life-transforming yoga

In 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.

Amazon.com:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- I Like It!
I was pleasantly surprised by Radiant Heart. I knew it was only 30 min. and figured it would be something I could fit into my busy schedule at least once a week, I really liked that it feels a bit more accessible than many of Shiva's longer DVDs and I like its relaxing but energetic vibe.
The practice consists of a calming movement meditation, 20 min. yoga flow practice, and then a very short and dynamic movement meditation. I recommend doing the final meditation only in the morning so you ... Read More

Rating:

- A wonderful grounding and peaceful workout
This video offers a wonderful opportunity to open one's heart to the universe. The excercises bring about a sense of peace and openness of heart that is often difficult to access. The end result is a strong sense of grounding in a world that is frequently chaotic. I strongly recommend this workout.

Rating:

- Delightful - hope Shiva gives us more brief, chakra oriented practices like this!
My only mistake was holding off buying this DVD until 2008 and missing out on an exquisite little gem. It's a perfect early morning practice, with gentle music and a Prayer Wheel warmup as the sun rises behind clouds ... a brief period of arm circles and Ohm chants, a heart chakra "massage," then the Prayer Wheel which consists of gently rocking forward and back in a staggered stance, while circling the arms to stimulate the chi. This section alone is better than the strongest morning coffee! ... Read More

Rating:

- Enjoyable, but with camera flaws
I would give this a full five star rating if the camera work, while pretty, was not a source of deep confusion and vexation the first few times I did the work out. Occasionally Shiva will instruct you to do something--say, "bring your left knee up to your side" but because she's shot in shadows, you can't actually SEE what it was she just did and only figure it out a few moments later when she progresses into the full movement. Where exactly is her knee? Where should I put my knee? Oh shoot. She's ... Read More

Rating:

- Not quite for true beginners
Overall, glad to have this in my collection. I have done yoga off and on being mostly off right now I was looking for something to ease back in to practice. Let me say if you are very low on flexibility or yoga experience then these poses will be challanging and there is a chance you may do them wrong (even a slight chance for injury) because instructions are as if you have done these before. Perhaps this is true if you own other Shiva Rea discs, I do not.

The pace seems to go fast, ... Read More

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