Are you like me, highly sensitive? If so, then this may just be the perfect workout for you. Yes, it is a workout. Make no mistake about that. I've been using these dvds 5-7 days a week for almost five months. There are still kriyas (or exercise sequences) that are extremely challenging to me. I've become far stronger and more flexible, both in mind and body. My posture is better than it's ever been, and the back pain that has always plagued me, as a scoliosis sufferer, is far more manageable. I used to see a chiropractor once a month for that reason. I haven't felt a need to do that since beginning this yoga. No other sort of yoga I've tried has worked with the spine in such a direct and gentle way. So, the DVDs have already paid for themselves.
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.
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Alex-Kirsty
Calming, energising and inspiring - but careful with the flexibility
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Great Kundalini Yoga Video
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2013Hera
Thank the heavens for Maya!
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