Product Details

• Actors: Durga Ahlund"
• Directors: Durga Ahlund"
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Kriya Yoga Publications
• DVD Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1895383188
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,586 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Marshall Govindan has practiced Babaji's Kriya Yoga intensively since 1969. He teaches annually in more than 20 countries. He maintains a Yoga ashram in Quebec, Canada and in Bangalore, India.

Product Description

Learn the 18 postures developed by Babaji Nagaraj and become aware of what is aware! Become the Seer, not the Seen! Bliss arises! This unique comprehensive instructional video provides careful detailed instructions in not only the technical performance and alignment of each posture, but also in the higher states of consciousness, which they awaken. It includes an introduction into the philosophy of yoga, the nature of consciousness and the cultivation of Self-awareness.
Make your practice of yoga deeply meditative. In this beautiful DVD, the postures are taught in progressive stages, with preparatory variations making them accessible to the beginner and challenging for the experienced student of yoga. These postures, selected by Babaji, will rejuvenate and energize you! The instructions emphasize the energetic and relaxation effects. They may assist in the healing and purification of the physical and subtle bodies, thus helping to eliminate some of the most common sources of misery: poor health and mental confusion.
In the DVD you may select and view any posture with your remote control.
"This is an earnest, unique and inspiring presentation, suitable for experienced beginners and intermediates." - Yoga Journal January 2002

See all Editorial Reviews

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yoga Journal Review - January 2002, January 24, 2002

By 

"jaiyoga" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Babaji's Kriya Hatha Yoga Self-realization through Action with Awareness (Videotape)

"This is the first Kriya Hatha Yoga tape to come our way. The teaching, a blend of Patanjali's kriya yoga and kundalini yoga, is attributed to the legendary Babaji Nagaraj, the ageless siddha(adept) introduced to Westerners in Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. Kriya yoga, the yoga of "ritual action," is probably not as well known as its eight-limbed cousin, ashtanga yoga, Kriya traditionally has three elements: asceticism (tapas), self-study (svadhyaya), and devotion to the Lord (ishvara-pranidhana; see Yoga Sutra II.1). However, the first two elements cited here are practice (abhyasa) and dispassion (vairagya), usually considered the two great "wings" of the classical school and embracing both kriya and ashtanga yoga. The asana practice consists of a fixed series of 18 mostly familiar poses, such as Full and Half Shoulderstand, Plow, Triangle, and Boat. The names given to several of the poses are a bit unusual; for example, the aforementioned Boat, typically called Navasana, is here Vajroli Mudrasana, which is actually what this position is called in the Gheranda-Samhita, a seventeenth-century hatha manual. Along with Shoulderstand and its variations, the sequence consists primarily of alternately forward-sitting and back-bending poses, many augmented by pulsing "micro-movements," or kriyas. There are only two standing poses: a forward bend near the beginning and a Triangle at the very end, which provides the only twist.

The 100-minute session strolls along with lots of time to rest and reflect in between poses. There are minimal physical instructions, the emphasis being on the energetic and spiritual dimensions of the work. The poses are generally accessible and adequately demonstrated, though the inversions aren't properly cautioned regarding high blood pressure and menstruation, and Govindan demonstrates the Lotus warm-ups by pushing down on his knee, which I wouldn't recommend. But this is an earnest, unique and inspiring presentation, suitable for experienced beginners and intermediates."

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly make hatha yoga video, March 21, 2011

By 

K. Villanueva "FDNY_USMC_BJJ_MMA_YOGA" (NYC) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Babaji's Kriya Hatha Yoga Self-realization through Action with Awareness (DVD)

All I can see is that this DVD was over priced for a poor hatha yoga video. I have tons of yoga DVDs. I was hoping this DVD would have some special stuff in here. Once I put this DVD in and started watching it I noticed that it had NO sound at all.
No sound and poorly produced. I feel ripped out. Please don't waste your time or money.