Fat Free Yoga - Lose Weight & Feel Great FOR BEGINNERS & BEYOND w/ Ana Brett & Ravi Singh NOW W/THE **MATRIX** | 
 enlarge | Actor: Ana Brett & Ravi Singh
Studio: www.raviana.com
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 266
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 880239003092
EAN: 0880239003092
ASIN: B000AY6JVK
Release Date: September 20, 2005
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Product Description
NOW WITH THE ALL NEW DESIGN YOUR OWN WORKOUT MATRIX MENU OPTION Experience Kundalini Yoga's sophisticated approach to effortless conditioning. Breathe, move, stretch, relax, meditate, celebrate! Boost your metabolism. Slim down, tone and feel inspired. These workouts and meditations will help you optimize your glandular system, bring emotional healing, reduce problem areas, and help you attain your personal ideal. This conveniently chaptered 90 min. DVD offers four 20 min. workouts (plus two meditations) to help you reshape your body and your life! This DVD starts with a breathing exercise for energizing and to curb impulsive habit patterns. Then the first segment Start Your Engines, features exercises to boost metabolism. Our favorite is the cardio warm-up called 'Ravi Rolls' with the breath of fire. The Fight Fire w/Fire segment focuses on abdominal strengthening and toning. These are exercises anyone can do, but you will really feel the burn. Segment 3: No Impact Aerobics really gets your circulation moving. You haven't lived until you've tried Frog Pose and Piston Pose! Your Life is in Your Own Glands will optimize hormonal balance. The two meditations on this DVD are for calming and emotional healing. The soothing Breath Meditation w/Hands Like a Teapot is more relaxing than a day at the spa! This DVD is for all levels. Modifications are given so that everyone can always participate. Long time yogis will find much new material to add to their yoga repertoire. This DVD features an inspired musical score by Tom Carden.
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Steady Weight Loss (and it's fun!) August 30, 2008
I enjoy this DVD very much, both in terms of content, production values and fun factor. I wish that I had discovered this yoga program long ago, before so many dead ends with yoga DVD's that didn't thrill me. I am 29 years old and was recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I am on medication but have been doing this DVD for a couple of months. I am losing weight slowly. I don't mind because it seems that my body is adjusting as I go, and I feel any weight loss I have achieved will be more permanent than fast weight loss would be. Also, I do feel better. I had gone up to a size 12 from a size 6 which was devastating because I am a former model. I am encouraged that my clothes are fitting more loosely now.
More cardio than other choices.. August 30, 2008
I wanted to try Fat-Free Yoga as a supplement to going to the gym. I really want to be more flexible and balanced, but I also wanted something faster and closer to a cardio workout than traditional posing/meditative yoga.
I wasn't in love with the first DVD of Ana & Ravi's I bought, Beginners and Beyond. But using the "breath of fire" (basically a panting kind of breath) makes these poses challenging and much more satisfying. I've been doing the DVD before going to the gym and I feel like it gives me some energy and motivation to get in there and do a harder workout.
There are brief resting meditations between exercises, which really helped motivate me to finish the entire DVD, and some really nice relaxing ones in the intro and ending. I LOVE the Matrix feature and being able to set up the segments in advance.
There's very little yoga-speak about chakras, just very well-placed instruction and motivation. On one of the tougher moves, I started whining in my head, about to give up. Then he narrated "you may not love this move, but it loves you." Caught me, haha.
Although Ravi mentions it a couple of times, I think it's important to reiterate that you should go only as fast as you feel comfortable going with all the moves. Because this kind of yoga can be jerky and it's more about motion than poses, I found it helpful to really watch and pay attention to the DVD the first couple of times through, then backing up to actually do the segment. And anything that went past slight discomfort into pain, I'm skipping for now. I think easing into the DVD that way really cuts down on the potential frustration in the learning curve.
Looking forward to trying the Stretch & "Warrior" DVDs too :]
*Just a note - there's a video on YouTube from their Quick Fixes DVD for headache remedies that I just found and did tonight. I'd had a headache all day and it was seriously gone in less than a couple of minutes. amazing!
 Absolutely boring, August 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
How to say, very boring. Not sure if it even deserves at star. There seemed only a few work-outs on the DVD and it consisted mainly of repeating them ad nauseam. Perhaps being a college athlete this is not for me? When I found this DVD I was excited thinking it was a yoga work-out, instead I wouldn't even use it to warm-up. Seriously, I didn't even break a sweat. All-in-all, I would recommend this to the elderly and go back to my Pilates for Indie Rockers. A work-out that makes the sweat rain.
 Great exercises but poor audio August 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The sessions in this DVD are very good but the audio is extremely poor. At times it was difficult to hear the narrarator over the breathing exercises.
A Perfect DVD August 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This DVD is perfect for when you only have 25 minutes to exercise. It will get you energized fast and get your metabolism revved up. This is great for the days when you can't make it to the gym. In fact, I've been going to the gym less than before because I actually prefer this workout. It's something I look forward to doing everyday.
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