Product Details

• Actors: Amy Weintraub
• Directors: Dan Duncan
• Format: Widescreen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Pre-Post Production
• DVD Release Date: January 12, 2007
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MMMWMU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,811 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mudra, chanting, stretching, kunalini, hatha yoga set outdoors, May 24, 2008

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Touch Remedy "TouchRemedy" (Nassau, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues - Level One (DVD)

This is set in a beautiful park-like of wide open grass/trees, cacti & mountain in the back in Tucson, AZ. Amy Weintraub alone demonstrating & using voice over. The production quality is well done for all aspects. Amy has a very non self-conscious, new age style that demands you be open, silly (non one's watching) & relax. Amy has great body awareness, great energy that you want to learn from.
Here is the breakdown of the dvd with poses/stretches she spends most on listed. This isn't about working out or sweating, but about being more aware of your body & letting go. The pace is very relaxed & she gives modifications by words & also flashes in/out of video of her doing them.

Menu: play & chapter choices
Intro: 5 min
Joint warm-up - 5 min
opening up joints, kinda dancing
Centering Mediation - 5 min
seated breathing & chanting
Breathing Exercises - 8 min
seated breathing, easy kunalini movements, chanting & easy standing kunalini movements,
Warm-up Poses - 18 min
a few very modified standing fwd bed, chair, mountain pose & down dogs, relined leg stretches, knee to chest stretches, sphinx, shoulder stretch, more basic modified sun salutations, cat/cow & few other her own style linked stretches
Cultivating Will: Standing Postures - 13 min
standing fwd bend, lunge, warrior 1 very modified arms, pyramid
Will & Willingness: Back bend postures - 6 min
locust or she calls bow, full bow, child's, & roll to lean on crown a little she calls rabbit.
Will & Surrender: Fwd Bend & Twist - 10 min
simple spine stretches, sitting fwd bend, reverse plank, reclined spinal twist, reclined butterfly, raise & lower legs slowly & hold for slight ab work
Yoga Nidra: Surrender - 10 min
Ends w/Amy in Savasana reclined guiding you in meditation & then just music.

More about her at her site yogafordepression com

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Yoga DVD to Improve Your Energy Level and Mood, February 11, 2007

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Kathleen R. Vogt - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues - Level One (DVD)

LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues is beautifully done and uplifting. The practice is easy to follow, and it really improves one's mood, energy level and sense of being "in balance." The opening joint warm-up dance is so much fun and uses great sanskrit music. Amy Weintraub's descriptions of the breathing practices, yoga poses and yoga flows are excellent. She also weaves mantra throughout the practice, which adds another dimension. I would recommend this to anyone, at any level, who wants to improve their sense of physical, mental and emotional well-being.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars it's okay, February 8, 2008

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Michelle R. Strzelewicz "Mimi" (near Webster Lake, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues - Level One (DVD)

I enjoyed Amy Weintraub's book and I love yoga, so I purchased this DVD. I really like the Joint Opening part, and the seated meditation. Once the yoga started with the chanting, I just couldn't get into it. Chanting is not the style of yoga that I enjoy - although others may. It is a well quality made DVD. So if you don't mind chanting throughout your yoga, it's for you. If chanting is not your style, then I would not recommend it. It's a nice gentle practice.