Product Details

• Actors: Shiva Rea
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Acacia
• DVD Release Date: May 9, 2006
• Run Time: 130 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F8DB94
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,428 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Shiva Rea has been teaching Yoga Trance Dance for more than 10 years. Now, for the first time, her most popular workshop is available to anyone who wants to experience celebration, rejuvenation, and creative joy through movement.

Appropriate for all ages and experience levels, Yoga Trance Dance begins with prana-initiating yogasanas, flowing into an exploration of free-form, breath-driven movement to free your creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom. It features the Yoga Matrix format, which allows you to customize your practice by choosing and organizing portions of the program to suit your needs every time you use the DVD.

Filmed at White Sands National Park, the program was shot in HD by Hollywood’s Sion Michel (Memoirs of a Geisha) and directed by yoga teacher and fashion photographer James Wvinner for an inspiring look and feel unlike any other yoga or fitness video.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

73 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful mistake!, May 27, 2007

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Ms. Mary S. Massung "melodic wind" (San Marcos, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance (DVD)

I ordered this DVD accidentally...when ordering creative core abs. When it arrived and I watched it, I was somewhat intimidated because, at age 60, I could not imagine myself dancing in such an uninhibited manner. So this DVD has sat on my shelf for several months. In the meantime, I was learning Chinese Soaring Crane Qigong and learning how to feel QI move through my body.

This morning I decided to give Trance Dance a try just before giving away the DVD. I was astounded. As the drums started beating, something inside me 'broke loose'...something that I have not felt in 40 years! I began moving in ways that I never thought I could! I felt my hips undulate with an intensity I would not have believed possible...and I wasn't following Shiva Rea's moves! I was doing this with my eyes closed just listening to the music!

Because I have moderately severe pulmonary fibrosis, I checked my HR several times. It never went above 100 yet I was hot, perspiring, and enjoying every minute! After 15 minutes, I was too relaxed to continue! I will now use it as my warm-up for strength yoga..when I want to have internal heat!

If this old body can move so freely, what can a young body do with this music. I had forgotten how fun it is to move so fluidly!

66 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Shiva Rea!!!, May 11, 2006

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DVD Workout Queen (CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance (DVD)

This is another one given in the yoga matrix style. I have only done the "prana yoga only" option so far, and I loved it. It is a lot like the prana section in Yoga Shakti, but 41 minutes long. You do stuff like go into cobra doing figure eights with your chest, in cat do circles with your chest, in bridge do free-form movements with your hips and hands. (There is a lot more, but it is hard to explain adequately.) You are told to explore and do what feels good. It makes me happy, like a kindergardener doing modern dance. I have no doubt that it will help me to avoid injury during traditional yoga practices, as well as get some different kinds of muscle tone.

The dance part I have only watched so far. I don't know much about traditional "trance dance", so I can't critique the reiewer who said this didn't work well on a DVD. But I can say that as an avid dancer, who cares? You may not hit a true "trance" state, but I love the idea of dancing around, pretending to play the drums that are all around you. (There is other imagery in the variety of dance meditations she presents). This DVD is a perfect way to get into dance for those who are shy, because you learn that dancing is about how you feel.

Anyway, I am super happy I bought this DVD. It is different, but that is what makes it good. I am officially a Shiva Rea groupie. Her style is great (as it was in Yoga Shakti): soothing, smart, present, not overdone.

BTW, per her website, this is only one of the three videos she is coming out with in upcoming months. Another will be more traditional yoga, like Yoga Shakti, and the other about the mental and other aspects of yoga.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't wait to see what she comes up with next...!!, June 6, 2006

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This review is from: Shiva Rea - Yoga Trance Dance (DVD)

What a beautful way to teach moving meditation! Believe me, there is nothing better to reduce stress than running around in circles waving your arms! The only ones who will feel silly are those who let themselves be self conscious! Quite a cardio workout this is too. I found myself using segments from Yoga Shakti and this DVD by combining them together in one workout ~ and oh lord is it a workout! Much like Yoga Shakti, this DVD has preselected workouts that range from slow, gentle and "meditative" to "high energy", "Trance Dance Only" and "Prana Yoga". As well as the wonderful "Matrix" that gives us the option of choosing any or all of the individual sequences.

I was quite impressed with Prana Yoga, there were some poses and ideas presented by Shiva in this section that I have not tried before and they are giving me a much more flexible back and tighter abs! The "Twisting Kriya" section really does put me in a trance and the "Infinite Movement Meditation" is perhaps my favorite ~ calming, cooling and restorative as well as a balm for the soul.

The photography, the scenery and the outfits are phenomenal, the dancers look like ordinary people, not models, although I did recognize music artist Joel Virgel among them! Kudos to you again Shiva for all you have done!

Om Shanti