Ultimate Stretch Yoga Workout – ALL LEVELS – Ana Brett, Ravi Singh
Posted on | January 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
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Celebrated Yoga teachers Ravi Singh & Ana Brett have produced this (user-friendly, conveniently chaptered to fit any schedule) 60 minute Kundalini Yoga DVD to give you a complete workout and guide you towards your Ultimate Stretch! Ana & Ravi’s Kundalini Yoga DVD’s are an all-in-one yoga system. They are designed to bring balance to your mind, health, and emotions, and imbue your life with inspiration and fearlessness. A flexible body is a youthful body. In some cul… More >>
Ultimate Stretch Yoga Workout – ALL LEVELS – Ana Brett, Ravi Singh
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January 20th, 2010 @ 8:17 pm
Very strange. The instructor performs the routines on a raised white platform in a small room surrounded in cloud backdrops. Her strange facial expressions trumped in weirdness only by the chanting that starts via a male voiceover. One reviewer described it as a “drink the koolaid” type of voice and I cannot think of a better description. I just couldn’t get into it and returned it. [...]
Rating: 1 / 5
January 20th, 2010 @ 8:47 pm
For those Christians out there trying to stay away from the chanting and singing-meditation stuff… this is not the DVD for you. It starts and ends with long sections of chanting and singing. (I respect it but would rather not have it. I like DVDs that ask for QUIET meditation. This one has you chant along and at the end has this singalong section- thank goodness for fast forwarding)
That actually was not my biggest issue with the DVD. There is not enough stretching content for me. The DVD didn’t address many parts of the body…no open leg stretching for the inner thighs and hamstrings, very little shoulder and upper back stretching, little to no stretching of the quads and no side angle poses at all.
Ultimate stretch??!??!! I think not
on one positive note: the female doing all the poses…she is really strong and I can tell she has been doing yoga for a loooong time. not to mention very pretty.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 20th, 2010 @ 8:52 pm
This video was a huge mistake for me at the moment. I am 47 and trying to get back in shape and if you are not already flexible and doing yoga for the past 20 years then pass on this video. It starts out with her sitting in a completely impossible position for me to even attempt. Then the video wants you to start chanting in a foreign language which is not only culturally and “politically” incorrect I am sure that evangelist type Christians may find it absolutely OFFENSIVE in more ways than one (I’m Buddhist by the way so little offends me personally). It just got worse from there until I turned it off. I am going to shelve it just in case 5 or 6 years from now I am fit enough to give it another try. I found Tammilee Webb to be much better for my level and she’s more like doing it with a friend than a mystic. I finished Tamilee’s entire video and look forward to doing it regularly.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 20th, 2010 @ 10:37 pm
I was expecting an hour of stretching, but that’s not what this video offers. It offers approximately half an hour of stretching, the other half consists of vocal cord stretching with chanting and singing. The stretches, the little that there is of them, are good and work the body. The video is well done, the workout model is lovely, and the commentator’s voice is soothing and calm. The poses are easy, although challenging because one has to hold them for extended periods of time. I was disappointed that this wasn’t a traditional yogaish type of exercise. The singing and chanting mumbo jumbo was a little far fetched for me-but others may enjoy it. I prefer the Shiva Ria and Deb Dobbin videos, which offer a more comprehensive practice. I would have been more comfortable with this video if it offered an hour of exercise like it states. The ~half an hour of exercise was not sufficient for me.
Rating: 2 / 5
January 20th, 2010 @ 10:53 pm
When I bought this dvd, I was hoping for a good stretching routine to practice along with my husband. I was not expecting it to be quite so new-agey. We quickly realized that the first part of it was not what we were looking for (chanting, etc.), so we skipped ahead to the first stretching chapter. As we tried to do the stretches, we kept being distracted by the silly things the narrator was saying (such as “remember to remember to breathe”), and finally we both collapsed in a fit of giggles and turned the thing off. I’m sure that this dvd could be entirely meaningful and helpful to some people… my husband and I are just not those people.
So, maybe this video will be good for you if you’re really into yoga and whatnot. But if you’re just an average person or couple looking to get a good, basic stretch routine in, and you don’t want all the fluffy feel-good stuff, I would say to skip this one.
Rating: 2 / 5