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Yoga for Stress Relief (With The Dalai Lama)

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Editorial Review: Over the centuries, yoga practitioners have discovered the secret to achieving optimal health, vitality and happiness. For the first time, this path to living a longer, happier life is revealed on a single DVD. Excessive stress and negative mental attitudes in our daily lives are the greatest obstacles to achieving serenity, good health & well-being. This DVD teaches step by step, easy to follow practices to reduce negative thoughts & emotions while promoting positive thinking. With over 20 routines to address negative mental, emotional and physical issues, this DVD is the most comprehensive DVD of its kind. This DVD also includes an UNPRECEDENTED 30 minute instruction on meditation with the Dalai Lama! This exclusive discussion of meditation with the Dalai Lama himself appears only on this deluxe edition DVD. Considered one of the greatest influencers of our time, the Dalai Lama has spent his life teaching people how to be happy and promote positive thinking. His teachings are world ...

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Helpful, 2008-06-30
This is an excellent DVD, it has really helped me with anxiety relief and insomnia. The instructor talks you through the poses and she lets you breath at your own pace instead of making you feel like you have to do a certain style of yoga breathing. This is a good DVD to use before bedtime.

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Good yoga RX for mental and physical ailments, 2008-06-17
A few days ago I got my DVD order for Barbara Benagh: Yoga for Stress Relief.

The DVD shows the same lovely beach in Half Moon Bay as in her Beginners Yoga DVD, but in this one, there is also very soft, gentle guitar in the background. You can barely hear it and it does not drown out the sound of the waves. So that is nicely done.

Barbara also has a rather longish interview where she talks about modern life being overloaded, and how yoga will help slow things down. And about how hard it is to slow down at first. Tell me about it! :)

The interview on meditation by the Dalai Lama contains great information and HH's soft, gentle humor. It is hard at times to understand what he is saying and one requires a slight bit of patience to understand some of this section.

This DVD has such a wealth of options in it, and all for helping with mental and physical conditions: headaches, shoulder/neck tension, opening your heart, digestive ailments, lower back pain, hip pain, anxiety, some AM and PM routines, an insomnia set, mood uplift, serenity work...

So far I tried these sections:

Easing Neck Tension, passive variation (20 mins) - Soft Spanish guitar music, everything lying down, mainly body twisting. Very sweet and restful.

Restorative Poses for Relaxation (15 mins) - soft new Agey music, three supportive poses: cobblers, heart opener and legs up the wall. Pretty much the same set as on Barbara's Yoga for Beginners DVD (the rejuvenate one) but without the centering/breathing part. Also, this one suggests more uses of the blankets and having an eye bag. As I got an eye bag as a gift, I was prepared. But you only really need three blankets/pillows for this section.

Lower Back Tension (35 min): This was the best one yet. With my period cramps it was incredibly soothing to my lower back/stomach area. We used a blanket, strap and eye pillow for this set. A bit more active than the two I tried above, this has locus pose and a great let stretch with the strap.

Hip Pain section(35 min): Essentially the same routine as the Lower Back Tension, but with two changes. One was the reclined half lotus and the other was something where you sit on your knees, then spread the hips wide, and lean your head forward to the floor. These were very nice poses for my menstrual cramping and this session took away the lingering pain I had.

Other than that, the footage is just sliced from the back pain one, with the same modified down dog, locust, hamstring stretch with strap.

We used a strap, and eye bag in this one, but no blanket was needed.

New Agey music, very gentle, as in the back pain one. You can still hear the ocean and even some birds.

Serenity in Stillness (35 min) - lovely section that really opens the sacrum and relaxes the entire body. There was quite a bit of repeats from the back pain and hip pain segments, including the reclining half lotus, but it all came together well. The supported backbend at the end requires a yoga brick. I really enjoyed this pose. New Agey music with a vaguely Hawaiian theme.

So many choices in this great DVD - it will be hard to get to them all! It's all all presented in a lovely beach setting and accompanied by Barbara's soothing, healing voice.

Highly recommended for yoga practitioners to use (as needed) for various physical/mental ailments. There are also a few AM/PM type routines in this disc, as a bonus for anyone wishing to add this DVD to their regular yoga rotation.

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Relaxing and Beneficial, 2008-06-09
I enjoyed this DVD a great deal. Perfect to help with various ailments that we get from stress that we feel.

My tension headaches have been reduced in how often they occur and their serverity, so those exercises alone were worth it to me.

This DVD does what it says and I would recommend it highly.

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This is a wonderful DVD., 2008-05-14
This DVD is fantastic. Barbara Benagh is a no-nonsense yoga instructor. She explains the positions in great detail. She walks you through the positions and through the routines with a soft, relaxed voice. She doesn't pressure you at all. The setting is beautiful - right on the beach in Antigua. The sound of the waves contributes to the feeling of relaxation. There are many routines to choose from, depending on your mood. I use this DVD several times a week. I highly recommend it.

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Excellent Workout; Not Hype, 2008-05-12
Excellent Yoga DVD; the 5-star reviews are quite accurate. It contains a large variety of routines, and all of them that I've tried were excellent.

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