Product Details

• Actors: Rainbeau Mars
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cerebellum Corporation
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2007
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007P0XMS
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,807 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Dawn
- 58 moves for a strong, beautiful body!
- Energizing stretches to start the day
- Purify and revitalize with powerful breathing techniques

Refresh, rejuvenate, restore!

Recharge the spirit and nourish the body with this dynamic series of poses, balances and stretches. Awaken your senses and challenge all muscle groups.

Use powerful breathing techniques and more than 50 energizing poses to improve posture, aid digestion and restore health. Watch the pounds melt away, detoxify the body and achieve a sleek physique.

Program Features:

- Improve circulation for all-over glow
- Strengthen, stretch and sculpt muscles
- Boost energy and vitality
- Eliminate impurities for radiant skin
- Reduce stress, tension
- For all levels and physical limitations

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent morning yoga practice, April 18, 2005

By	Beth Cholette "doctor_beth" (Upstate NY USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Yogini Rainbeau Mars, best known for her "Sacred Yoga Practice" series, has released a new yoga series titled "Yoga for Beauty," and I recently tried the VHS version. This series offers two practices, Dawn, or the sunrise practice, and Dusk, or the sunset practice. In both, Rainbeau instructs a class of four participants, this time in an indoor studio (although it is decorated with many plants to suggest the outdoors). Two of the assistants show modifications, one for limited flexibility and one for limited strength, although I would recommend some prior experience with yoga. While chant-like music plays in the background, Rainbeau offers both live and voiceover instruction: she speaks live while setting up poses and moving through vinyasas for the first time, but she switches to voiceover while poses are being held. Her left-right cueing is inconsistent; sometimes she mirror cues, sometimes she does not. At the beginning and end of both practices, Rainbeau is shown performing a beautiful flow of poses a la Ana Forrest in Strength and Spirit.

The first practice, Dawn, is 44 minutes long and is designed to awaken and energize in the a.m. It begins in a seated, cross-legged position for a short series of forward bend, side stretch with neck release, and side twist. Next comes a transition to hands and knees for cat/dog stretches, adding in a lion breath. From here, you move into down dog and then come into a standing forward bend position to practice what Rainbeau calls "belly cleansing," which is a sort of nauli prep and which is repeated once. Then you move to the front of the mat for sun salutations: three half sun salutations, one round of sun salutation A with crescent lunge and an easy twist, then two rounds of sun salutation B, repeating crescent lunge and adding warrior one plus a crescent twist (cobras are subbed for upward dog in all versions). A final sun salutation B adds an airplane balance plus a fun transition to a simple seat twist before; you then move to lying to lie face down on the floor for some gentle backbends, including full cobra, spinx with a quad stretch, bow pose, and then child's pose to release the back. Coming seated, you perform a forward bend and cobbler's pose before double-folding your blanket under your back like a bolster for a supported final relaxation which includes a meditation on colors. The practice ends back in a seated position, with Rainbeau encouraging you to honor your work and touch your mind's eye before coming into namaste. I really enjoyed this practice and look forward to doing it often. This serene sunrise practice is well thought out, well executed, and well produced, and I would highly recommend it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soothing yoga that helps you wake up, November 27, 2006

By	Lena, LMT "TouchRemedy.com" (Nassau, NY) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

Rainbeau does this in a beautiful studio w/2 women & 2 men, 1 guy & 1 showing modifications. The music's beautiful slow & interesting with some chanting & ethnic guitar, etc. This DVD has great menu options such letterbox or full screen choice, dolby digital 2.0 or 5.1, gallery of pictures, workout w/o narration & the workout ends with a beautiful about 4 min solo performance of Rainbeau showing how advanced she is. There are also trailers for her previous DVDs: vinyasa flow, Dawn, Zen mama, as well as for yoga for wimps & Lilias series for the people who want a mature instructor.
The workout starts after a 3 min intro & ends at the 46 min mark including 4 min of relaxations/mediation.
Dr. Beth did a great job with telling you about the poses such as sun salutations (downward dog, mountain, standing fwd bend, plank, cobra), twisted crescent, modified butterfly, 2 legged stance, seated spinal twists, airplane, sphinx (easy stretch), lion, cat/cow, warrior 1, chair, etc. The pace is slow/very easy at first & then picks up speed & energy needed with some short rest periods after the harder poses such as 3 legged standing poses. I felt a lot more awake & positive when I was done & didn't want to stop. The pace was great since I felt very stiff at first from not doing yoga in too long a time.
The narration was great, she speaks during the poses as well as over the program. She is great is let you know what the poses help you do, such as twisting poses to help open your hips & simple belly cleaner with breathing to help digestion & other organs. She also reminds you that it will always be hard the first time & get easier as you practice.

On the DVD version there is a bonus 10 min workout of Rainbeau alone doing simple sitting stretches, shoulder opener, cat/cow, down dog, belly/hip cleaners/opener. Sun salutations, crescent, twisted crescent & repeat. Sun salutations, warrior 1, repeat. Sun salutations, chair, sun salutations, twisted warrior 1, repeat. Sit, spinal twist, laying down butterfly & relax.

This dvd can be used by beginners who are careful & don't push themselves.
You can see clips of this on youtube

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Was extremely happy but...., February 22, 2009

By	Eileen A. Trainor "Eileen" (Lathrop, CA.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was very happy with this purchase, it arrived within a week and a half (which is fast to me) and the packaging arrived in very good condition and even though I was happy with the purchase, I returned it b/c I bought a 2 dvd set (Rainbeau Mars of her Dusk and Dawn) for the same price I had spent on one, so just make sure you look through all of the offers. Hope this was helpful to whoever reads this.