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 enlarge | Actor: Ana Brett & Ravi Singh
Studio: www.raviana.com
Category: DVD
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  170 reviews
Sales Rank: 371
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 880239003092
EAN: 0880239003092
ASIN: B000AY6JVK
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Awesome Yoga Practice with Aerobic Benefits!!!!! August 30, 2008
J. wilmshurst (new york)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This DVD is great! It has four approximately 20 minute segments, so you can do a 20 minute workout or the whole workout for a real rush!! When I have done the complete DVD my abs feel as though I had been through a tough Fat Burning Pilates session (which I have had plenty of at my Crunch Gym in LA) though this is a thousand times more enjoyable than that!!! This is yoga at its best! This would be a great DVD for yoga beginners because the instructor gives great instructions and tells you how to modify the exercise where necessary
This DVD gets my heart beating and some good sweat going.
Steady Weight Loss (and it's fun!) August 30, 2008
Elizabeth Arenas
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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
jessi_books
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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!
 Great exercises but poor audio August 27, 2008
P. Clugsten (Akron, OH USA)
1 out of 4 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
Michael Skyer
7 out of 7 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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