Customer Reviews

Yoga Total Tune-UP

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I have used 2 different Ravi and Ana DVDs and I am impressed. They are consistent in their presentations and I was motivated to purchase 3 more DVDs just for the variety and the calmness I felt after doing this workout. Ravi is so calm and he explains what you are doing and most importantly WHY you are doing it. In so many Yoga videos you hold pose after pose, but the teacher does not explain why or for what reason the pose is important.

This tape has some moves a person doing aerobics would recognize, but Ravi explains how they benefit your maridians or how it cleanses your organs etc. A simple neck roll now becomes something I want to do because it has value on so many levels.

I got up a sweat with this tape, but did not find it particularly difficult, except for the Frogs, man those are challenging. I plan on incorporating these DVDs into my weekly practice. I find them a refreshing change to your typical down dog, up dog routine.

When I first began practicing yoga at home with DVD's, Yoga Total Tune UP quickly became one of my favorites. It provides a thorough yoga workout for your entire body with a particular focus on your breathing. Ravi Singh's voice is very calm, and Ana Brett is very strong and limber.
This is not the same old, same old, same old yoga practice. Thank God for something new or I may have given up on yoga!
I still enjoy this tape now that I've been doing it for awhile; it's both relaxing and energizing and very effective.
I am on my 3rd copy, I have loaned the other ones to friends and they wanted to keep them. This and Ravi & Ana's Beginners & Beyond are the number one DVD's that I recommend to those new to yoga.

I love these four 20 minute sets. Ana is gorgeous and great to watch, Ravi does an inspired voiceover.
The workout is always fun and interesting. Makes me wonder why so many yoga DVDs have to be so boring! I like the music and the workout is challenging. It is also perfect if you have a hard time following workouts on DVD. You can practically do these workouts with your eyes closed. The exercises work and there is no needless chitchat before the workout you get right into it.

I usually watch a dvd through at first to sort of prepare myself for what follows but with this dvd I found myself on the floor during the very first set chanting and flexing, twisting and breathing. This is definitely not the same old yoga. This was fun to do! It felt very liberating! I couldn't believe how good it felt to move my body in new ways. And the breathing definitely gave me a buzz. Afterwards I felt a vibrancy I havent felt since I was a kid. I also felt calm and clear. This is definitely how a good yoga class should make you feel! The Four 20 minute segments are great and makes it very convenient since I don't always have a whole hour and twenty minutes to practice. Ravi Singhs directions are very clear and precise and his comments are very inspiring. Ana Brett is an amazing yogi. I love watching her. Its great to see the poses done they way they are meant to be done. Its almost like a meditaion just watching her!
This style of yoga, kundalini yoga, is what I have been looking for but never knew about until now. It not only gave me a complete physical workout, I felt it gave me a great inner workout as well!
This seems suitable for any level. It didn't seem easy but not too daunting either. I was able to do every exercise as given but alternatives were offered for each more challenging exercise.

I have recently begun to do all yoga as fitness. I had been doing a pretty high-impact workout routine 6 days a week. Now I do yoga instead for 6 days. I do mostly Ana Brett & Ravi Singh yoga workouts. I really like their type of yoga because it feels very aerobic. It is a mild form of cardio that feels much healthier to my body then all that hard stepping up and down and running that I had been doing I have been amazed to see I have finally started losing weight and actually seeing some muscles in my arms legs, back and stomach - all former problem areas.
The only other thing I do, which is something I have always done, is walking at a fairly good pace. I live in the city and take about 2 twenty minute brisk walks to the subway and back and then walking to do shopping. I am beginning to think yoga is all I need.

I'm a very fit and experienced fitness person, but tend to focus on cardio and weights. This yoga DVD combines cardio, strength, flexibility, balance, and toning in a vigorous and enjoyable workout. I love the pace, the exercises, Ravi's cuing, and and Ana's form and energy. I always feel that it's time well spent and I certainly feel it the next day. If you're looking for a program that leaves you worked out, energized and on top of the world this DVD is the one to buy.

This series of 3-DVDs are wonderful. They include individual segments for a quick workout or you can do them together for a longer practice. Ravi Singh has a very soothing voice. You work hard, then rest and meditate. This type of yoga might not be for everyone, but give Fat Free Yoga a try. Ravi Singh talks during the instruction and for 2 of the DVDs visual instruction is performed by Ana Brett (his current wife). The other DVD is demonstrated by Catherine Quinn.

Also, if you get a chance to attend one of Ravi Singh's / Ana Brett's workshop it's well worth the money. They came to Portland before I got their DVDs. It was a fun and rewarding workshop. I went out a bought all the DVDs after that and I'm practicing Kundalini Yoga along with my Hatha Yoga practice every day. Thanks Ravi!

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Between 3 and 4 stars. I own a number of yoga tapes mostly Hatha and Ashtanga style yoga, such as Power Yoga with Rodney Yee and Total Yoga with Tracey Rich and Ganja White. After reading about and then subsequently practicing Kundalini yoga from books, I wanted to purchase a Kundalini yoga DVD. The exercises are very solid- frog pose into straight leg position done quickly, leg lifts pumping up and into chest, slow cobra poses up and down and with breath of fire, leg lifts, headrolls, contractions and arched back from pose of nobility, etc. I did really like the Burn and Affirm section. The pranayama breath work is very good and all is executed wonderfully by Ann.

What I didn't like about the tape was: the side stretches from leg to leg are done too fast given the lack of warmup into them. There is a potential for injury unless people slow it down until they feel stretched enough to go at the pace in the DVD. I also really didn't like the music, very drum and bassey, in a distracting way, and without much versatility to make it a good drum & bass track. Also the filming quality is so so and Ravi Singh talking, although sometimes good information is annoying in a patronizing kind of way. I'm glad I got a Kundalini DVD so I get perspective on the pace the exercises are done, but I don't know if this is the best.

I did this set combo last night for the first time in ages and while it's a lengthy class (about 80 minutes if you do all 4 sets) it's very "do-able" and a lot of fun.

The first set is about 30 minutes and it's a great standalone class or warmup, as it's used here. I find that doing this by itself in the morning is a fabulous way to start your day!

The second set gets you going and really activates and energizes your navel center, for personal power and will.

The third set is more aerobic, to me, and great because just when the second set has you starting to sweat, this one keeps it going and gives you energy since you are standing for much of it.

The fourth set offers some unique and effective techniques for clarity, and it delivers you nicely into a relaxed state, feeling that from head to toe, body, mind and spirit have all united and worked together.

My body was literally humming or buzzing lightly with this wonderful energy during the final relaxation, and I thought to myself "you really do have to go through the challenges to get to the sweetness, and that's the fun part."

I think this is a beautiful all around class and I love that it's broken up into 4 sets so you can mix and match them as well.

This type of yoga is absolutely awsome. Ana and Ravi are such an inspiration. I feel exhillerated after doing this workout. I realy feel like I am doing my body good and have actally began eating much healthier since starting this workout. You feel so good after doing this DVD you WANT to eat better. Some other reviewer compared this DVD to Shiva Rea. Shiva Rea is good, but I do not feel as good after doing Shiva Rea and with Shiva I am always looking at the clock and I feel bored. there is no boredom doing Ana and Ravis DVD. You will not regret this purchase. I feel like i glow on the inside and on the out.