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Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga: Total Body Transformation and Weight Loss with Sadie Nardini

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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Whether you need to lose weight fast, get leaner, stronger, build core strength, transform your whole body or just want to find a fun, engaging new yoga style, welcome to Sadie's world! You won't get more benefits in less time with any other DVD! You don't have to be a yoga pro to rock the second, more comprehensive yoga workout from this top NYC instructor and co-owner of The Fierce Club's bestselling DVD series! It will give you a cardio, calorie-burning, muscle-building and opening workout that meets you right where you are, from beginner to advanced. You can pick your length and type of practice, as little as 5 minutes and up to 2 hours, depending on your mood and needs each day, and it will all make you stronger, leaner, and more flexible faster than most other styles! Like her first DVD, the 5-star Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga: Power Hour, this DVD, Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga: Total Body Transformation will give you everything you're looking for in an at-home practice: a clear, dynamic and knowledgeable instructor, a whole-body weight loss, sculpting and strengthening in much less time than other yoga DVDs--every hour you spend in this practice is like doing 90 minutes of other styles!--and greater flexibility of body and mind. Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga a is a fun, core-centered style that takes the yoga poses and infuses them with more benefits, by using your core strength within and between each pose in a flowing, empowering dance from center that uses all the latest findings in stretch and strengthening technology to make you look and feel better, fast! With a Beginner's Lesson and a Foundational Introduction, you'll be able to start the practice right away start seeing results immediately. Let Sadie and her vibrant, transformative style work for you, as you reach all your fitness, mind/body health and self-esteem goals!

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Yoga For Inflexible People

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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Yoga isn't just for people who are already supple--it's a way to become more flexible. Yoga for Inflexible People presents modifications and props to make traditional poses accessible to people who could not otherwise perform them comfortably or correctly. You get more than 35 workouts and about four hours of instruction and practice in all. Choose a general workout, focus on an area of the body (shoulders, legs, hips, and back), or select a peaceful or energizing workout. Within each category, you have a choice of several different 15- to 75-minute series (some seated), much more variety than most videos offer. Some of the poses are beginning level; others are not. Leader Judi Rice demonstrates well, instructing by voice-over, though her expressionless face lacks warmth and personality. You'll need a yoga mat, blocks (or large books), a long strap or belt, a chair, and blankets. --Joan Price

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Valeo Yoga Kit

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

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Yoga Kit Sticky mat 24" x 68" 72" woven cotton strap with buckle Two firm foam blocks 3" x 6" x 9" Nylon tote bag with shoulder strap Yoga instruction chart Washable

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  • 24" x 68" sticky mat
  • 72" woven cotton strap with buckle
  • Two firm foam blocks 3"x6"x9"
  • Nylon tote bag with shoulder strap
  • Yoga instruction wall chart

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The Biggest Loser: The Workout – Weight Loss Yoga

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

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The Biggest Loser: The Workout - Weight Loss Yoga
 
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 12/16/2008 Run time: 55 minutes Rating: Nr

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Yoga For Every Body (With Over 35 Routines)

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

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Yoga For Every Body (With Over 35 Routines)
 
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Body & Soul Magazine "Best Buy...will revolutionize your home yoga practice... Finally, an at-home yoga series customized to suit your needs!"

realage.com "Editor's Pick...Yoga for Every Body is an easy-to-follow DVD with lots of routines. It will teach you how to stretch, relax, really breathe... "

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Body & Soul Magazine "Best Buy...will revolutionize your home yoga practice... Finally, an at-home yoga series customized to suit your needs!" Get into shape, relieve stress, become stronger and more flexible & increase energy!

Yoga Complete for Every Body allows everyone, from the beginner to advanced students, to experience the joy, power and serenity of yoga. With over 35 routines, no other DVD offers so much to help you learn and progress in the healing art of yoga. Simply select the routine you need on any given day and this amazing DVD will adapt to meet your exact needs. Explore the amazing world of yoga with the most comprehensive and extensive DVD available. Practices range from 15 to 75 minutes.

Routines include:
- AM and PM practices
- Increased flexibility for targeted areas, such as the legs, back, neck, etc
- Strength building practices
- Back and neck pain, including headaches
- Relaxation
- Stress Relief
- Rejuvenation
- and many more!

JJ Gormley is a certified yoga instructor and has taught thousands of students throughout the world over the past 25 years. She guides students with a warm, non-judgmental style that encourages the expansion of physical, mental and emotional limits within the healthy and stimulating context of yoga.

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Yoga Bandhas – How To Learn The Bandhas

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Taking for granted that one has already practised purakas and rechakas of ten and twenty seconds respectively, for a month or so, one should, on the first day, introduce holding of breath in the last round, for ten seconds. After completing the puraka, both the nostrils should be closed, the right one with the thumb, and the left one with the last two fingers. The head should be lowered down in the front, and the chin set against the jugular notch below the throat. This technique is known as “jalandhara-bandha.” It should beaccom”panied by two other bandhas called respectively “mulabandha”. and “uddiyana-bandha”. The former involves contraction of the anus, the latter, contraction of the pelvis (lower abdomen). These three bandhas are supposed to have a special significance. After holding the breath for ten seconds after the putaka through the left nostril, the head may be taken to its normal erect position, the muscles of the anus and pelvis are relased, and then rechaka and the next puraka are made through the right nostril. Another kumbhaka is then made, which is followed by rechaka through the left nostril. The number of rounds involving kwnbhakas may be increased by two per week,so that within five to six weeks all the ten rounds would include holding of breath. After practising twenty kumbhakas (of ten seconds duration each) every day for about a month, the duration of each kumbhaka may be slowly increased to fifteen seconds.This would be achieved in about a month and a half, and may be practised regularly for nearly a month. Then the time may be progressively increased to twenty seconds.

Another sitting may be added at this stage. In the beginning the dose of ten rounds (i.e. twenty kumbhakas of twenty seconds each) may be split up into two doing ten kumbhakas in the morning and ten in the evening. The number at both sittings may be increased by one every week, so that after five weeks one will be doing forty klllnbhakas per day, twenty in the morning and twenty in the evening. The maximum dose of kumbhaka that an advanced student of yoga is expected to practise every day, as mentioned in Hathayoga-Pradipika , is eighty kumbhakas per sitting, with four sittings in a day. One should thus practise Pranayama in the morning, evening, and at midday and midnight. The maximum duration of kwnbhaka in each round is traditionally expected to be sixty four matras. The definition of a matra seems to vary in different traditional texts. For example, in the Yogatatvopanishad it is said that a matras is the period required for taking the hand round the knee neither hastily nor slowly, and making a sound by sliding the middle finger downward from the apex of the thumb. This means nearly thirty six matras in one minute. A matra is defined in the Markandeya Purana as the time required for winking of the eyelids, or for uttering a syllable. This may mean about one hundred matras per minute. The Brihadyogi-yajnyavalkya Smriti speaks of a matra as the time required for making a sound thrice by the middle finger and thumb, or for moving the hand once around the knee and the thigh. This is rather vague. Brahma. nanda, the commentator of Hathayoga-Pradipika mentions several meanings of the word “matra”.We need not go into the details of these meanings.

It seems reasonable to assume that sixty four matras are equal to nearly forty eight seconds.A kwnbhaka of this duration may be described as of the “highest type”. A duration of twent four seconds would make a kumbhaka of the “medium type”, while a kwnbhaka lasting only twelve seconds may be called the one of a “low type”. It is supposed that a kwnbhaka of the low type causes profuse perspiration of the body, the one of a “medium type,” cause tremors in the body, while that of the “highest” type may cause the body to be raised from the ground. The highest type of kwnbhaka must however, be developed with due care and caution: preferably under the guidance of a person .who has himself mastered it. The author of the Hathayoga-Pradipika (II, 15-16) does well to warn the student of yoga against the ill effects of an improper practice or Pranayama. He has rightly compare breath control with the process of taming a lion or an elephant, emphasizing the need for exercising caution and care.

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Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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In any meditation class, one of the first things one learns is the importance of breathing. For Larry Rosenberg, a seasoned instructor of insight meditation, the breath is everything. And he's not in bad company since the Buddha himself delivered a sutra on the subject. Rosenberg's Breath by Breath is an elaboration on this short classic but couched in familiar language, liberally spiced with anecdotes from Rosenberg's decades of practice and teaching. It's Rosenberg's earthy humor and patient instruction that make him such a popular teacher and that make Breath by Breath a rewarding read. He takes the beginning student from the wandering "doggy mind" to becoming a chicken, along the way getting a teacher's bite and sitting like a frog. For the hurried and harried, he includes a nutshell, two-step version of the sutra's 16-step practice (appended in the full text of the sutra). More of a coach than a disciplinarian, Rosenberg takes a see-what-happens attitude. "You don't make liberation happen," he says. "To contemplate breathing is to contemplate life itself." --Brian Bruya

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Relaxation & Breathing for Meditation

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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The importance of the breath is familiar to anyone who practices yoga, as is its significance in the pursuit of a deeper, more meditative state. But it never hurts to be reminded of that connection, especially as yoga's growing popularity has turned it in a more active, less contemplative direction. The title of this DVD program pretty much describes the content; it consists of two approximately 30-minute sections, one ("Conscious Relaxation") devoted to several easy, relaxation-inducing poses and the other ("Conscious Breahing") focusing entirely on the breath itself. (Also included are an 8-minute "guided meditation" and an interview with instructor Rodney Yee.) It's unlikely that you'll break a sweat, and you won't "go for the burn," as yoga practitioners seem intent on doing these days--but you might reach a place of stillness that's considerably more profound. Note: The use of certain props (mat, blanket, pillow, chair) is recommended. --Sam Graham

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  • A unique two-part program of supported yoga poses and breathing techniques to bring the body and mind to a state of stillness. PRODUCT DETAILS The special DVD edition includes the complete two-part practice, bonus guided restorative meditation and an in-depth interview with Rodney Yee. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR Age: 029956013209 UPC: 02

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Hatha Yoga Illustrated

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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Experience the physical benefits and body awareness from hatha yoga—the most popular form of yoga today. Hatha Yoga Illustrated presents nearly 650 full-color photos to visually demonstrate 77 standard poses from hatha yoga that apply to all major hatha styles including Iyengar, Astanga, Anusara, and Bikram.

Individual poses are presented from start to finish, showing you how to achieve proper alignment and breathing to ensure challenging yet safe execution. The result is an increase in the effectiveness, both physically and mentally, you’ll experience with each pose. Several pose variations based on your personal preference, ability, and fitness level are also included.

Eleven sample yoga routines show how to assemble the poses into workouts that meet your specific time, difficulty, and intensity parameters. Colorful and comprehensive, Hatha Yoga Illustrated is organized for your ultimate convenience and use. Use it to guide your muscles, as well as your mind, and increase strength and stamina, reduce stress and anxiety, reduce blood pressure, and increase flexibility.

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Meditation Can Be One Of The Best Ways To Improve Memory

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Meditation can be a superb technique to assist your whole body to unwind. With the benefit of meditation and system of breathing exercises your whole body will soon start to feel the tension being eased.

This sort of system enables great many of us to be a lot more open minded and approachable because meditation has verified helpful result on peoples mental condition.

Relation between tension and memory loss has long since been scientifically proven. Because of that the more you are relaxed the better will your brain and memory operate.

With the help of proper breathing and great awareness your memory is going to get a momentous improvement.

Can you think of the shame you felt the last time you forgot a friends name, or a birthday of someone close to you?

Things like that happen to all of us during a stressful periods. It is possible that you got fired or something else was wrong.

When you start to recognize that it is happening to you it will just pile up yet more tension on your mind. This is an particularly grueling position which you will have a exceedingly hard time getting out off. Nonetheless, by means of meditation method which many of us have been using very effectively for years, you can unlock your brain and just let all this tension out. This will allow your mind and memory to work much better.

Suddenly your memory will begin to work like a super computer, and you are going to find it painless to recollect any date, name or phone number. Every single information is still there, in your brain only it was misplaced due to the improper use.

A lot of people think of a meditation as a demanding and a bit mystifying process. Meditation has scores of genuinely easy exercises that just about anyone of us can put aside a few minutes every day to assist you improve memory.

The manner in which meditation increases your memory is that it assists you to expand your focus which again helps to increase your memory.

What is the good way to start meditating?

Make an effort to find a small serene part of your household to meditate. Usage of essential oils and scented candles can also help you with meditation.

If you discover that it does help you meditate, it can be off large help as certain oils and candles have scents that are proven to support relaxation and brain functions.

There are many ways in which you can start meditating or learning to meditate. You can sign up for a lessons, many of those simple to come across. If you do not know of any meditation group near you just go online and search for it.

You can even stumble on many classes whose specialization is memory improvement techniques. This sort of courses can bring long-term benefits for anyone who believes that his or hers memory is not running as it ought to any more.

This is specially useful for students.

Inch by inch, you will form your memory improvement and meditation practice and along the way, you will also build up your whole mental condition and self esteem. Of course there are many among us that do not enjoy courses.

No problem as there are heaps of books that can support you with exhaustive information and bit by bit counseling.

Anyway you select it is really important to pick the one right for you, because meditation will give you many benefits. By using the techniques outlined in this books or classes, you will be at the same time relaxing your body and boosting you memory and mind.

Well-rested, peaceful mind is vital for having a good memory.

Better-Me.com is dedicated to bring you the most recent information in memory improvement. Pay us a visit and find out lots of ways to improve your memory improvement skills.

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