Kundalini Yoga. Transformer. All-In-One Workout. - Transform Your Body, Feed Your Soul, Change Your Life! Ana Brett, Ravi Singh

First impressions after I tried the “Kundalini Yoga. Transformer. All-In-One Workout. – Transform Your Body, Feed Your Soul, Change Your Life! Ana Brett, Ravi Singh” DVD.

Disclaimer
- I’m not getting payed for DVD reviews. – I’m happy to review any Yoga or Yoga related DVD — I do it for free, and I’m also free to have my opinion.
- And I’m trying my best to be neutral and open-minded in the review — not to be biased by own preferences.
Environment
- I like the settings – nice bright, “sunny” picture. Ana’s smile itself – is like a little bright sun.
- I like the music – it’s light, very “Yogic” and appropriate.
Equipment you will need (in addition to DVD that is)
- You will only need your mat and corresponding size in your room in front of a TV. Literally. There are no movements beyond 2 square meters of space.
- There is an additional feature I like – a list of pre-set programs of different duration and intensity. — DVD also has (as other DVDs of these authors) more possibilities for customization and building interactively your own program for workouts (MATRIX menu option), which you are welcome to explore and use too.
Physical aspect
- In general workout is not very hard physically – most likely your muscles won’t feel sore after it – especially if you are at least a bit active.
- Workout includes exercises for legs, abdomen, and arms/shoulders. Arms and shoulders may feel quite worked out at the end and next couple of days – a large part of the practice concentrated around arms movement.
- A nice aspect of the workout – it’s very dynamic with a lot of bends, twists and stretches (in warming-up part in particular). – That is a great thing about Yoga which was not lost in this workout. All the stretches, twists and bends help us to release muscle tensions and stress from the body and mind. That is a great thing for not very active people under a lot of mind/office stress and for athletes – between their workouts.
- There are even “workouts” for glands! Seriously though – it’s good.
- NOTE: a larger part of the program includes sitting cross legged. As it is demonstrated by Ana – sitting on the mat directly – may be too hard for many people who are not as flexible and open in hips. When a not very flexible person is trying to sit like this – he/she would inevitably have knees up and legs in general may not be very comfortable. With knees up and buttocks on the mat – back would tend to round and get tired. One of the ways to avoid this – is to have a cushion of right size (so that buttocks are on the same level as knees) and sit on it.
Breathing
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- As any Kundalini Yoga class – this one includes a lot of breathing using different techniques (“fire breathing” is most often used).
- Instructions are given in the supplemental to the DVD brochure and comments added during practice.
- All-in-all – I didn’t find breathing in the workout challenging or very sophisticated. I mean it in a good way – if you are new to such practice adjustment/learning shouldn’t be long.
Mantras
- Again, as in other Kundalini Practices – this one includes a lot of mantras (pronounced out loud and silently with every breath).
- Again, some of these may sound complex – but I think in the course of the first session most people will already pick the mantras, right sounds, rhythm and pronunciation. Used mantras are quite basics.
- Don’t think about mantras much if you are not comfortable with this aspect of the workout – think of them as “massaging your voice and central nervous system tools”.
Meditation and resting
- …are plenty during the session – so, you won’t need 1 hour of rest after workout. You could just do it in the early morning and start/continue your daily routine. — With even more energy, deeper breath and shining smile!
- there are also plenty of comments on spiritual aspect of the practice and influences of that or another move, breathing, mantra. These are more personal things, their interpretation and understanding, acceptance are personal. What I like though in this program – is that those things are given very gently and not not forced. You could just take them for your information if you prefer.

Summary: the “Kundalini Yoga. Transformer. All-In-One Workout. – Transform Your Body, Feed Your Soul, Change Your Life! Ana Brett, Ravi Singh” DVD is a very good, very “positively charged” workout – which would energize you and make you smile, make your body stronger and your mind – at the very least – calmer and happier.