Kundalini Yoga With Gurmukh

Genre : DVD ( DVD )
Release : 2004/12/07
Price : $14.98

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Awaken your spirit and discover your true potential with Kundalini Yoga. ³Kundalini² is a powerful spiritual energy that lies within us all. Based on ancient healing techniques from India, kundalini yoga helps you unlock this energy, strengthen your body, still your mind and set your spirit free. Celebrated yoga teacher Gurmukh guides you through an invigorating series of self-paced yoga sets that give your body an active workout and help you develop inner peace and outer strength. This is a yoga practice to help you thrive amid the challenges of today¹s stress-filled world. Kundalini Yoga takes you on a journey of joyful self-discovery and complements all other yoga practices and exercise programs. Experience a radiant transformation as you build long-lasting health benefits and increase your endurance. Your Kundalini Yoga DVD includes: € Awaken: Stir your spirit through movement and breathing. € Energize: Raise your energy through vigorous standing poses. € Strengthen: Build stamina through challenging aerobic exercises. € Relax: Soothe your spirit through meditation and deep relaxation. Props Recommended: Mat, Blanket

I got this dvd and it is smashed, I can't get anyone to answer. Said to say I don;t know if I would even use amazon again. Terrible

Wonderful dvd...Take your time and work at your pace till you are able to keep up. breath of fire do it every day

2009 was a hell year for me. My mother died, my nephew committed suicide and I lost two pets. I didn't have a job for a while nor a place to live. I felt that the universe was giving me a beating. I had no idea why. Everyday was a struggle. I started doing this a few months ago along w/ daily private mediations. The transformation has been amazing for me. I wake up at 5, do kundalini yoga w/ this DVD, meditate and then off to work. My job leaves much to be desired but this work out contributes to helping me keep my cool at work.

I have tried a couple of the RaviAnna DVDs and I like them but I prefer this for a few reasons. The breath of fire is effortless in this workout. Rather than telling you to "okay start breath of fire now while you're doing this exercise", you just follow gurmukh's lead and the breath of fire comes naturally. The scenery is very peaceful. Listening to the chimes along w/ the birds chirping while doing the final meditation is soothing.

My attitude has definitely changed for the better as a result of doing this yoga routine daily. I am grateful that I stumbled upon it at such a dire and critical time in my life.

I've done many types of yoga and taught a mixture of them all. What I like about Gurmukh's instruction is that it uses the only one prop you need for yoga - your body. She doesn't place a great deal of emphasis on alignment and form, and you should take that in either a negative or positive way. I took it positively because frankly over-emphasis on form sometimes ends up injuring me in some wierd way. As a student, I have many times been corrected in an asana becuase i was not in the correct form, and my muscles were simply not ready or warmed enough for the adjustment the yoga teacher made on my body to "correct" me and I got hurt. Gurmukh just has you move in a way that is organic to your individual body. She does not encourage "perfection" in form. She also uses many exercises which are so basic and elementary, but WORK. My arms and calves were never this toned when using weights. She provides exercises which are common sense. All you need is your body to do basic exercises repeatedly, and they eventually get stronger. You stamina increases. You get leaner. You get an aerobic workout. I do feel fatigued the next day. Because it is a difficult workout. It seems easy for the first few seconds of each exercise...then she continues to do it -over and over again nonstop- for two long minutes until you get tired. Just do what you can, and however much is appropriate for your body. if you need to stop. Do so. You are the best judge of what is too much for you.

The first time I encountered this workout was 9 years ago or so; I was in my early twenties and experimenting with different health routines, exercises, herbal medicine and the like, but not really serious about my health. At 22, I was in great health rather effortlessly and took it for granted, but I remember how much of an impact Gurmukh had on me. Her sort of "airy fairy" thing was a little off-putting at first, but her voice, as other reviewers have said, is very soothing and helps you stay with it. Most importantly, the movements had an instant effect; even at that young age in which I weighed probably 130 lb wet (5'7" tall), the exercise was tough and the mental and physical clarity I felt was almost instantanous. I did the workout a few times and the VHS got lost in the shuffle somewhere.

Fast forward to the present day; I haven't taken very good care of my body at all. After fifteen years of smoking, several years of college and single motherhood, and all the exorbant amounts of coffee and junk food for fast energy, and all the late nights of studying and stress...let's just say I'm in bad shape. I gained fifty pounds in four years of college, was constantly fatigued and depressed, and just generally didn't feel good...ever. The first exericse routine I thought of was Gurmuhk and her Kundalini Yoga; after so many years, I still remembered how vigorous the practice was and how good I felt after doing it. I sought it out on Amazon last year, doing the routine here and there when I could squeeze it in between classes, work, children, and late-night study marathons, but it's taken some time to make real changes.

Since my graduation a few weeks ago, I have gotten very serious about my health and have created a routine for myself: I cut out all the bad food and am on a fairly strict diet regimen, cut the cigarettes, added vitamins and supplements, and I do this video 5-7 days a week. I also do Pilates 2-3 days a week, with a wierdo instructor that can't seem to keep his hands off of the model demonstrating pelvic thrusts. (Can't remember the guy's name right now) The guy creeps me out but I do the video because it works. I also do Jillian Michael's 30-day shred 3-5 days a week. I find her highly abrasive, most of her commentary annoying, and I generally don't like her, but I do her video because it works.
In contrast, once you get past her rather radical appearance and approach (at least for many Americans) Gurmukh is a life saver. I have gotten to the point where my day doesn't feel complete unless I do this round of yoga. She is calm, very positive and encouraging, and the movements are to me unique and challenging without being overwhelming.
At first, it is enormously difficult to do the video beginning to end. I found myself gasping for breath, every muscle in my body burning, and my heart thudding in my chest; sometimes I'd curse her with her calm manner and voice while I was working so hard; the models in the video are annoyingly calm and never seem to even exhale from their mouths, which I find maddening.
This yoga routine is the foundation of my whole regimen; the breathing exercises and focusing have helped me sharpen my resolve and my focus, on my health but also on my family and career life; I am calmer, less anxious, slower to anger, and have 1000% more mental clarity. I'm sure it was all the espressos and junk food I was consuming also, but I have to give Gurmukh credit; if I had to rely on Jillian Michaels or the creepy Pilates guy alone, I think I might have given up already.
Don't entertain any illusions; this routine is hard; it took me until only a day or so ago to be able to get through the whole video; you won't be able to do the whole thing at first; you will have to stop, catch your breath and sometimes stop before the video is over, but if you keep with it and push yourself little by little, it will pay off. The best thing about it is, even if you can only get through a few minutes at a time in the beginning, it still has a profound effect on your energy levels and sense of well being. Buy this video!!!