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Tibetan Energy Yoga - A traditional workout to liberate and elevate your energy (With Study Guide) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Lama Surya Das
Studio: Sounds True Video
Category: Video
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 33054
Format: Color, Student Edition, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 40 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1564557537
UPC: 600835001861
EAN: 9781564557537
ASIN: B00004TFK5
Theatrical Release Date: December 4, 2001
Release Date: December 4, 2001
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Amazon.com
Tibetan Energy Yoga promotes a healthy and harmonious flow to the energy system through eight exercises that focus primarily on breathing techniques. Lama Surya Das leads this 30-minute session with special concentration on the balance and purification of yoga (meaning union). Surya Das explains that we all have solar (male) and lunar (female) energies within ourselves that can be directed toward cleansing and grounding our spiritual being. Each of the eight exercises has three phases: the first stage is called filing up (or inhaling deeply), the second is holding (or meditating), and the third is grounding (or releasing). The last of these three is done with great fervor and Surya Das encourages an external release through vocalization (almost growling). This portion of the workout is definitely not for the soft-spoken or shy participant because it requires a total release of inhibitions. The format is more spiritually charged than your sweatin' to the oldies video--chanting and prayer play an integral part. The foundation of this set is meditation. Exercises enhancing flexibility that are usually part of a yoga format are not present here. In fact, the whole class is conducted in one sitting position with limited utilization of major muscle groups. The scenery is beautiful and the music is peaceful, which almost seems to contradict abrasive exercises like "in the lion's roar" and "bep-Chung" (meaning small jumps from a seated position). This unique yoga configuration closes out with concentrated mediation and the wisdom mantra (a haunting chant that may leave you humming the next day). Despite the lack of physical challenge here, participants may experience some stress relief and learn a chant or two. --Olivia Voigts
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 Handle With Care July 29, 2003
louienapoli (Chicago)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This a tape that features a number of Tibetan yoga's pranayama (breath control) exercises. But beware: almost every exercise emphasizes retaining (holding) the breath as long as you can. For anyone with hypertension or heart problems, this is DANGEROUS. One yogi I studied with explained that breath retention was rarely considered a means of improving health; rather, it was considered an adjunct to meditation that was generally recognized as good for the soul, bad for the physiology. While very moderate breath retention is probably safe, anything involving even mild strain is a no-no. Buy this tape if you're curious, but don't hold your breath! And please, please read Iyengar's Light on Pranayama, the most comprehensive book on breathing exercises extant. Iyengar specifically addresses the limitations of those with hypertension, hypotension, etc., and teaches accordingly.
 A treasure of valuable practices November 6, 2002
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The video is very good, it teaches ancient practices treasured at the heart of the vast spiritual knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism.
These are not teachings that you will find everywhere in bookshelves.
For any meditator this teaching could be really valuable.
The landscapes, and Lama Surya's spiritual energy and compassion
makes this video wonderful!
 No energy, much hectic August 21, 2002
Christian Wolf (GOeTZENS, Tirol Austria)
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
My expectation of watching a video with this topic is that the instructor shows at least some inner focus towards what he is teaching. This instructor is just plain hectic and restless. The exercises itself may be useful but the instructor takes away all the energetic exercises by simpley being incongruent in his teachings. Watching this video makes you feel nervous ,too after some minutes. Although the landscape in the background looks nice, the rest is amateur performance. Bad ratio between price and information.
A Wonderful Video to Help Us Gain Health!!! October 19, 2000
Bill Butler (Tarzana, Ca. USA)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
This video gives us 30 minutes a day to regain both our mental and physical health. The exercises are purely Tibetan and purely wonderful. Lama Surya Das instructs us outdoors in a beautiful Colorado oasis (lake, trees, forest) and we learn how to take care of ourselves. These exercises are also a brilliant preliminary to our meditation. Nourishing, or balancing, both sides of our bodies, we are deeply harmoninized and ready to funtion in our highly-stressed world. The exercises also stand alone so that you don't have to meditate. Or we could even go a step further and state that these exercises are meditation. The wonderful thing about movement exercises is that they blend our meditation into our everyday life. With mindful moving and eyes open, this is crossing the boundary between meditation and non-meditation. One can practice meditation 16 hours a day! And these eight exercises are so valuable because they "crack" the body's inhibitions and dissolve the negativities there within. Releasing...releasing...releasing. Releasing the past, releasing the future, and just being in the all-fulfilling present. Problems shrink in size and become "workable". The past seems "understandable" now. The eight exercises are all done seated. You will love this tape. I am sure that you will do the exercises. And see the difference in your daily life. A simply wonderful video. An 11-page study guide with three books listed at the end as additional resources. Good luck!
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