2011
USA
Ana Brett and Ravi Singh
01:30:00
English
Electrifying fitness with celebrity Yoga Teachers Ana Brett and Ravi Singh leading the way! This inspiring all-in-one workout will provide total fitness and inner/outer beauty everyday. The Body Electric focuses on strength, flexibility, athletic endurance, and provides a super body/mind makeover. A great warm-up set is followed by two routines for flexibility and nerve strength (Nerves of Platinum parts 1 & 2), Body Bliss Workout (an amazing Kundalini, on your mat, (not dance) cardio romp featuring exercises ANYONE can do), deep relaxation, mantra chant, plus bonus material (Renew YOU Through & Through), pre-sets, and of course the Matrix Menu option which lets you program your own workout based on the time your have. This workout is for ALL LEVELS. It's fun fitness you will love for life! P.S. the music on this DVD rocks! Transform your body. Beautify your soul!
Think of those special days when you feel on top of everything, in control without having to be on high alert mode. A day when everything seems to make sense and flows and beauty surrounds you! The aim of this workout is to put these types of once in a blue moon special days on speed dial! This workout is for ALL LEVELS.
About the Actor
Reknowned Teachers, Ana Brett and Ravi Singh have over 42 years combined teaching experience. They've authored 22 DVD's and books including their new title: The Kundalini Yoga Book. They've trained 300+ Kundalini Yoga Teachers. Their clients have included Olympic Athletes, & celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Sting, and the Red Hot Chile Peppers. They travel extensively teaching worldwide. Their approach is powerful, inspiring, moving, and fun.
After doing The Body Electric Workout, I could probably light my house(even the whole neighborhood!) with my own internal electricity! I did the entire DVD straight through. It starts out with traditional warm-ups, so I thought it would be pretty mellow. But, it progresses along, getting a little more challenging with each segment...culminating with the Body Bliss segment.(see below description for details) I really feel charged and "in tune" after doing this workout. I can feel it working on my nerves for sure. Whenever I have a hard day and my nerves feel raw, I can tell this DVD will strengthen them...I guess that's why they used the Nerves of Platinum description. I highly recommend this DVD and their other new one, Boot Camp. I can't get enough of these two right now. In this DVD, you'll recognize Ana's red RELAX shirt and her pink Speedo top that she wore in one of her Facebook photos, I believe. The music is a blend of styles. There is almost a folksy twang in a couple of them and like an Indian hip-hop in some. They all invoke a feeling of well-being, joy, and are definitely feel-good songs! (The one in the Body Bliss segment has an intense enough edge added to it to help give you the determination to keep going.) The background is the same mountain one as in the previous DVDs.
Kundalini yoga is so great for your body, inside and out. I've been doing Raviana's yoga for years and it has given me amazing gains physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Also, many people I know have found it helpful for anxiety, OCD(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), excess weight, and health problems in general. I took a short break from Kundalini Yoga recently, and found it harder to stay as lean(I gained 5 pounds, which doesn't sound like a lot, but I'm used to my ideal weight)and had more anxiety. So, now I'm back on track! Ever since I started Kundalini Yoga several years ago, I've been nice and lean without even really trying...just doing Kundalini yoga, eating right, and dancing. I'm only adding this to encourage people that you don't have to beat your brains out at the gym trying to get to your healthy weight. Kundalini gets everything covered in a minimal amount of time by working on the inside to the outer.
Anyway, back to the DVD!
Here is a break-down of the segments:
INTRO: 1:08-
Overview of the DVD
TUNE-IN: 2:06-
the usual Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo, but with different background sounds from their previous DVDs
WARM-UPS: 9:20-
Starts seated, with spinal grinds. Next, sitting on heels, flexing the spine forward and back. Then, doing a side stretch sitting on your heels, repeatedly stretching over side to side. Then, sitting cross-legged, arms behind head, twisting with Breath of Fire(rapid breathing through nose). Next, wide-legged rowboat(sitting wide-legged, arms folded bringing them down, then bringing legs together and sitting up). Then, wide-legged forward bend.
NERVES OF PLATINUM PART 1: 11:00-
Start standing, fingers interlaced at the base of your spine, exhaling bending forward and inhaling back up. Then, horse stance(standing, legs wide, feet out-turned, knees bent) with arms parallel, palms facing out. Next, wide-legged standing forward bend twisting from side-to-side with alternate arms raising. Then, holding a wide-legged forward bend. Next, laying on your stomach in locust pose(legs raised). You do this twice. Then, you raise up on your elbows, hands in fists by your ears, and on your toes. You raise one leg and hold with long deep breathing. Challenging core pose! Then Stretch Pose(lying on your back, head and shoulders raised, hands underneath your hips, legs raised), with long deep breathing.
NERVES OF PLATINUM PART 2: 10:00-
You begin in the up position of a push-up, but with the tops of your feet on the floor. Then, back platform pose...hands behind you, body raised, legs straight, only your feet and hands touching the floor. Next, side plank pose. Then, seated cross-legged, with your thumbs and ring fingers meeting, arms 30 degrees parallel to the floor, outstretched in front of you...you stare straight ahead with long deep breathing...Ravi Mudra I believe they called it...this exercise is said to be good for the adrenals.
BODY BLISS WORKOUT: 22:30-
You start with an ab crunch...balancing on your sacrum, knees bent, pulsing your upper body side to side. Next, V Pose...balancing on your sacrum, legs straight, with Breath of Fire. Next, lying on your back, double leg lifts with Breath of Fire through puckered lips. Then, on your hands and knees doing alternate legs lifts behind you with Breath of Fire through puckered lips again.(This is done for quite awhile...challenging!) THEN, you repeat this exercise, but with alternating raising your arms in addition to the legs. This is done for quite awhile again. Next, now that your glutes are about to fall off, you stand up and do squats with arms outstrethed in front of you. You'll want to yell at Ravi(my Raviana yoga friends and I always joke about yelling at Ravi for working us so hard, but that's one of the things we love him for!)(When we heard about the new Boot Camp DVD, we joked that we were scared of what Ravi would have in store for us! LOL)...I love that they challenge you. True gurus bring out the best in their students and help you to realize your full potential. Next, you sit on your heels, arms up and raise and lower them to parallel, moving the palms; palms up and palms down as you raise and lower your arms.
DEEP RELAXATION: 4:00-
A good relaxation with Ravi's wonderful words and gong!
3 MINUTE MEDITATION: 3:00-
A seated meditation with the gong. You sit quietly, cross-legged, with your hands upturned on your knees, thumbs and index fingers meeting.
MANTRA CHANT: 5:30-
Seated cross-legged, hands on your sternum, you chant "Narayan Hari"
CLOSING PRAYER: 1:20-
Traditional closing prayer and Sat Nam.
(after this is Ana doing a short little fun dance...same as the one on the Boot Camp DVD)
BREATH PRIMER: 3:30-
Breath explanation and demonstration of Long Deep Breathing and Breath of Fire. Same primer as on their previous set of DVDs...the one with Ana in a purple top and shorts and her hair in a long pony-tail.
RENEW YOU, THROUGH AND THROUGH: 5:25-
Seated cross-legged, arms outstretched in front of you, parallel to the floor...one hand in fist, the other hand over it, both thumbs up side by side. You hold your breath out as long as you can, inhale, and repeat.
Here are the PRE-SET workouts the DVD comes with. Each one is a combination of the above exercises:
ALL-IN-ONE-MINI-WORKOUT: 40:00
NEW NERVES: 49:00
TOTAL BLISS: 50:00
QUICK SPIRIT LIFT: 29:00
Download File Size:3.03 GB
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