Yoga Trance Dance: A High-Energy Movement Meditation to Liberate Your Creative Life Force

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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: Geoffrey Gordon's music is awesome--the CD starts out with slow, hypnotic music that increases in intensity with each track. Shiva Rea's instructions are excellent, and trance dance is just plain fun. You start out with a fluid, flowing yoga series that gradually moves into an all-out free-form dance, then slows back down to yoga and total relaxation. It feels goooood! I love the fact that there are 2 CDs--one with instructions over the music, and one with music only.

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Summary: The most useful cd in my collection
Review: I am very pleased with the purchase of this cd. Shivarea class has
a process that took me to a deeper state of ecstatic meditation.
She starts with invocation and prana conciousness, then moves on to bringing movement and fluidity to the spine. Free rhythmic grounded movements lead to trance dance. Prana yoga follows. The session ends with kirtan, and a beautiful prayer. Shivarea also brings Poetry to different sgments of her class. Simple and powerful...

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Summary: Great music, not a whole ton of traditional yoga asanas
Review: I love the music on this CD, so I definitely think of it as a worthwhile buy. However, the workout itself is a complement to a regular yoga practice. It doesn't have at all the same feel you would get by going to a yoga class - it's more like Shiva uses yoga principles to put you in a place where you can trance dance. Personally, I enjoy the structure of traditional yoga, so this workout may not be for me. That said, I really, really love the music, and it's great that she includes a CD with just the music. I plan to do my own home yoga practice using that.

Rating:
Summary: Great music, not a whole ton of traditional yoga asanas
Review: I love the music on this CD, so I definitely think of it as a worthwhile buy. However, the workout itself is a complement to a regular yoga practice. It doesn't have at all the same feel you would get by going to a yoga class - it's more like Shiva uses yoga principles to put you in a place where you can trance dance. Personally, I enjoy the structure of traditional yoga, so this workout may not be for me. That said, I really, really love the music, and it's great that she includes a CD with just the music. I plan to do my own home yoga practice using that.

Rating:
Summary: Fabulous!
Review: This is a low impact workout that gets your heart pumping yet manages to relax you at the same time. As a bellydancer, I found many connections between the circular, undulating and figure 8 movements in one of the trance dance sections with middle eastern dance. The music is Indian inspired and the second CD is lovely just to listen to and unwind.