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Tibetan Energy Yoga - A traditional workout to liberate and elevate your energy (With Study Guide) [VHS]

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This video gives us 30 minutes a day to regain both our mental and physical health. The exercises are purely Tibetan and purely wonderful. Lama Surya Das instructs us outdoors in a beautiful Colorado oasis (lake, trees, forest) and we learn how to take care of ourselves. These exercises are also a brilliant preliminary to our meditation. Nourishing, or balancing, both sides of our bodies, we are deeply harmoninized and ready to funtion in our highly-stressed world. The exercises also stand alone so that you don't have to meditate. Or we could even go a step further and state that these exercises are meditation. The wonderful thing about movement exercises is that they blend our meditation into our everyday life. With mindful moving and eyes open, this is crossing the boundary between meditation and non-meditation. One can practice meditation 16 hours a day! And these eight exercises are so valuable because they "crack" the body's inhibitions and dissolve the negativities there within. Releasing...releasing...releasing. Releasing the past, releasing the future, and just being in the all-fulfilling present. Problems shrink in size and become "workable". The past seems "understandable" now. The eight exercises are all done seated. You will love this tape. I am sure that you will do the exercises. And see the difference in your daily life. A simply wonderful video. An 11-page study guide with three books listed at the end as additional resources. Good luck!

This a tape that features a number of Tibetan yoga's pranayama (breath control) exercises. But beware: almost every exercise emphasizes retaining (holding) the breath as long as you can. For anyone with hypertension or heart problems, this is DANGEROUS. One yogi I studied with explained that breath retention was rarely considered a means of improving health; rather, it was considered an adjunct to meditation that was generally recognized as good for the soul, bad for the physiology. While very moderate breath retention is probably safe, anything involving even mild strain is a no-no. Buy this tape if you're curious, but don't hold your breath! And please, please read Iyengar's Light on Pranayama, the most comprehensive book on breathing exercises extant. Iyengar specifically addresses the limitations of those with hypertension, hypotension, etc., and teaches accordingly.

My expectation of watching a video with this topic is that the instructor shows at least some inner focus towards what he is teaching. This instructor is just plain hectic and restless. The exercises itself may be useful but the instructor takes away all the energetic exercises by simpley being incongruent in his teachings. Watching this video makes you feel nervous ,too after some minutes. Although the landscape in the background looks nice, the rest is amateur performance. Bad ratio between price and information.

The video is very good, it teaches ancient practices treasured at the heart of the vast spiritual knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism.
These are not teachings that you will find everywhere in bookshelves.
For any meditator this teaching could be really valuable.
The landscapes, and Lama Surya's spiritual energy and compassion
makes this video wonderful!