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Maya Fiennes Kundalini Yoga: A Journey through the Chakras
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| Genre | Exercise & Fitness |
| Format | Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen |
| Contributor | Maya Fiennes |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Discs | 3 |
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In this series Maya takes you on a journey through the first 3 Chakras, introducing a new Kundalini Yoga practice for each individual Chakra. Chakras are energy centers which absorb life force or prana from the universe and are distributed through the nadis, energy channels to the nervous system, endocrinal glands adn cicrular systems. In this 3 DVD box set, Maya will guide you through the yoga practices for the first three Chakras: Courage, Creativity and Willpower, know as the lower triangle. The lower triangular chakras focus on elimination and are balanced by the upper triangular Chakras, which accumulate, create and recline.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Package Dimensions : 7.4 x 5.51 x 0.87 inches; 8.48 Ounces
- Director : Maya Fiennes
- Media Format : Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 44 minutes
- Release date : March 15, 2010
- Actors : Maya Fiennes
- Studio : Sterling Worldwide Entertainment
- ASIN : B001FC37FM
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #197,159 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,630 in Exercise & Fitness (Movies & TV)
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I've tried many varieties of yoga throughout the years. There is no one style that will resonate with everyone. In Kundalini Yoga, however, I have found my personal home. I am a highly feeling and sensitive person, and Kundalini Yoga is unique in the way that it addresses the safe and positive release of emotions often deemed "negative," like fear, worry, and anger. This yoga series addresses the whole person, mind, body, heart, and spirit, in such a gentle way -- it shows how to transform those feelings or passions into acceptance and bliss. My highly skeptical husband and my nephew, who are both complete neophytes to yoga, do the yoga with me regularly, and they are coming to love it as I do. There may be people who, like my husband, find talk of chakras woo-woo. That's okay. You can understand the chakras however you want. This DVD series does an excellent job, though, of explaining the emotions and processes governed by each chakra in the chakra-specific narrative portion of each dvd.
This first dvd set in the series is easily the most physically challenging one.
Just a note, when I say that the yoga is gentle, I mean it, but Kundalini yoga is *extremely good* at getting to those emotions. You may find yourself almost yelling the mantras sometimes, or tears may come to your eyes. Embrace that release -- it means that the yoga is doing its job. Honestly, this is nothing to be feared or ashamed about -- even in public classes I've attended, this sort of emotional release is extremely common. The yoga is designed to get those feelings out, so don't hold them back. Maya urges her students to TRUST THE PROCESS. You will be challenged, there may be times you feel like giving up, but take a breath and rejoin the kriyas when you can and more likely than not, you'll find yourself relaxed, energized, and blissful at the end. The wonderful music, which she writes, sings, and performs herself, is very supportive of the process. Play it a little more loudly, especially during the mantra sections, and you may find that music encourages you to keep up.
There are a few minor quibbles that I have. I think that the meditation sections are far too short. In my household, we've solved this by having a mantra queued up and ready to go on the stereo. You can pause the dvd in between the exercise and mantra section for a deeper meditative experience. There is also a spot in the 1st chakra exercises ("Courage") where she does an exercise for one leg and not the other. Overall, though, this series is the BEST.
(1) The whited-out background, which actually hurt my eyes (when they weren't shut) and reminded me of the old adage about a polar bear eating marshmallows in a snowstorm. So wearying on a day-to-day basis!
(2) The music. Too much, too loud, too foreground, too distracting from my yoga experience. Also,I kept wishing Maya had used different music for each chakra. The repetition of certain music (usually the song I liked the least) was irritating.
(3) It would have been helpful for Kundalini Yoga beginners if Maya, like Raviana, had suggested modifications for some of the more advanced poses. I am not a beginner, but certain poses (such as the accelerated plough pose on the first disc) just didn't feel safe. (I modified that one by doing spinal rolls, Happy Baby pose, and finally a full Plough.)
I'm not at all sorry I purchased this series, but whereas I had originally planned to use it exclusively for several months, because of the detractions I'll probably use it only for one 6-week rotation per year.
NEW THOUGHTS--MAYA MODIFIED (15 March 2013):
Having hit a plateau with kundalini yoga workouts, I decided to try something heretical: creative modification, using light hand weights, bands, a stability ball, variant positions. My new approach has worked like a charm, particularly with Maya's "Detox and Destress" and "Journey Through the Chakras". Although each of her workouts is well designed, my "heretical" modified versions energize me much more than the originals ever did. I especially recommend the bone-loading benefits of adding light hand weights to the arm movements, when safe to do so. Mudras (symbolic hand configurations) are all well and good, but as a 66-year-old woman, "why waste an opportunity for bone-loading" has become my new motto!
This set is really not for the complete beginner either. After 4 months of almost daily yoga, I find exercises in this set to be very taxing and difficult to maintain. For example, in one DVD, we are asked to lie down on our backs and continuously throw our legs up and over our heads touching the floor. I had neck and and back pain for a day after this one. Even exercises which at first appear laughable, such as revolving one fists around one another while chanting "harrr" are in reality very difficult if maintained for 2 1/2 minutes nonstop. In all, you are going to have to be disciplined and in good shape to get through an entire DVD in one session. You will need the kind of discipline that Maya Fiennes, no doubt had to develop to become a professional musician as well as a yoga expert.
If you are just starting out, I think her DVD entitled, Kundalini Yoga to detox and destress, will be more accessible.
The DVDs have an elegant look and fine original music by Maya. But I think that the Kundalini Yoga DVDs by Ana Brett and Ravi Singh are more fun and upbeat, while incorporating some of the same exercises. As pointed out by one reviewer, Maya's DVDs are very similar to attending a real yoga class. As such, be prepared to work and feel muscular pain afterwards, rather than complete relaxation.
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Having followed the "courage" DVD for a week I have moved onto "creativity". Having read the reviews I was nervous about it being too difficult. It was hard and I could not complete the 4th and 5th Tibetan, or Bridge. However I did what could and I am confident that I will master it with practise. After a couple of days I could do all of the moves except for the full bridge pose., so did pelvic lift instead. Finally I Moved to the willpower DVD and it's a lot easier than "Creativity", although the first asana of the Kriya section is a little difficult and I do have to rest. The 3 DVD's are fabulous and I have bought the others in the "journey through the chakras" which I look forward to doing.
What has been the most pleasing is how each time I follow the DVD's I improve.
According to the charity Action On Hearing Loss there are about 12 million people with hearing loss in the UK, or about 1 in 6 of us. Why has the maker of this DVD ignored such a large percentage of the population? It doesn't make sense as this points to a potential loss of sales.
With regret I have returned this DVD set for a refund.
However, I have found (lack of flexibility) sitting in 'easy pose' for quite a long time a bit of a challenge, and just when I get to the end of the kryia section on we go to the 'meditation' (not what I'd expected as a meditation but hey ho....) section (for another 10 + mins) with lots of chanting / breathing. This is typical of kundalini yoga I presume and I am getting used to it (even if I do still feel a bit silly). Oh also would have liked a little more instruction / guidance about how often etc to run with these. I'm trying to do one every other day for 2 weeks to run through the whole chakra set - is this right?
I do recommend all of Maya's dvds and am looking forward to the release of the book - shame its not come in time for Christmas!
Remember not to shower straight after your workout or you'll literally 'wash away' the good healing energy you've built up in your body :-)






