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DVDs •& CDs


I am dedicated to creating transformational home practice tools for embodying yoga that are born from the roots of yoga and branch into the frontiers of what is possible. These DVD 's and CD's are offerings from our heart : labors of love : for yoga practitioners from yoga practitioners. We are creating media that is out of the commercial box, creative, effective and accessible to all. Thank you for all of your enthusiastic support in a world where people are easily jaded and take for granted the juice that goes into the creative process. May your personal practice of yoga flourish on behalf of humanity.



DVDs from Acacia

For all questions and inquiries on these DVDs, please contact Acacia directly. You can purchase these DVDs from the Acacia online store by clicking on their title or photo below.

To order from Europe and Australia click here

Flow Yoga for Beginners

Flow yoga, also called vinyasa yoga, combines fluid movement with rhythmic breathing for a dynamic mind-body workout. Surrounded by the splendid scenery of Kauai, renowned flow yoga teacher Shiva Rea begins with a seated meditation to link breath with movement, then leads you through three sets of classic poses. As you flow from pose to pose, you feel yourself becoming stronger, more supple, and more relaxed. No previous yoga experience is necessary. Approx. 70 min. on 1 DVD.

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Fluid Power

Shiva Rea’s innovative sequences move with natural flow for a completely original style of yoga that enhances vitality, agility, and creativity. The rhythmic, circular, and spiraling movements liberate poses that are often rigidly held, enhancing strength and grace. Approx. 213 min. on 1 DVD

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Yoga Trance Dance

Winner! Health magazine’s 2007 Best of Fitness Award

Shiva brings her most popular workshop to DVD in a stunning production. Appropriate for all ages and experience levels, Yoga Trance Dance is a full-spectrum practice with an emphasis on free-form, high-energy movement meditation. Approx. 130 min. on 1 DVD

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Creative Core Abs

An enlightened way to a powerful core. Unlike repetitive conventional abs work, Shiva’s fluid yoga-based approach awakens creativity and inner fire, building strength and grace in the same way that surfing, rock climbing, or dancing does. Approx. 37 min. on 1 DVD

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Creative Core + Lower Body

World-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea brings her creative spin to yoga once again. Targeting both the core and lower body, Shiva offers a challenging two-part vinyasa flow program. Part one fires up the core and part two tones the hips, thighs, and lower back. Approx. 24 min., plus bonus segment on 1 DVD.

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Creative Core + Upper Body

All good things flow from a strong core. "One of the world’s greatest yoga masters" (Vanity Fair), Shiva Rea, has transformed abs work, turning crunches into flowing poses that get results. Sculpt your abs, arms, and shoulders. Approx. 35 min., plus bonus segment on 1 DVD.

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Radiant Heart Yoga

Encourages practitioners to harness the power of yoga as both an inward and an outward journey by connecting to the heart’s capacity for love and healing. A great introduction to Shiva for all experience levels. Approx. 35 min on 1 DVD

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Surf Yoga Soul

After teaching yoga to surfers for over a decade, Shiva Rea merges the two cultures in the first-ever program to bring wave motion onto the mat. Strengthen your body, increase energy and balance, and gain flexibility in 7 segments that allow you to customize your workout every time. Challenging but worth it. Approx. 78 min. on 1 DVD.

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DVDs from Yoga Journal

 Free Flow Vinyasa

Yoga Journal presents the Great Instructor series filmed live at the San Francisco Yoga Conference. This DVD features Shiva Rea in “Free Flow Vinyasa Yoga.” Shiva leads you through vinyasa flow style yoga that will tune and tone you from the inside out while giving you the tools you need to navigate life’s challenges with grace, power, and confidence.

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DVDs from from Sounds True

 Yoga Shakti the Complete Practice

Filmed on location in India and the Maldive Islands on stunning digital video, Yoga Shakti integrates tradition and modern innovation in a powerful new learning system that evolves with the student. Viewers simply select their favorite practices from a simple-to-use yoga menu filled with a rich variety of moving postures, meditations, and shavasana relaxations and then press play to enjoy.

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Sun Salutations

On Sun Salutations, join Shiva for a dynamic sequence of asanas (postures) that includes guidance in yoga breathing and a rich background of world beat and ambient music. With inspiring instruction in basic alignment and flowing variations, Sun Salutations gives you the latest DVD technology to create an evolving home yoga practice suited perfectly to your personal needs.

Contains material excerpted from Yoga Shakti

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 Solar Flow Yoga

This practice revitalizes and strengthens both beginning and intermediate students with the invigorating energy of the sun. A progressive program of 15 vinyasa (flow) sequences from sun salutations to Shiva’s innovative “Dancing Warrior” technique, Solar Flow Yoga features two hours of immersive material: tutorial instruction in the techniques of flow yoga; four complete, pre-set guided practices; brought to life by an ambient fusion soundtrack and stunning scenery from the Maldives’ Cocoa Island and Kerala, India.

Contains material excerpted from Yoga Shakti.

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 Lunar Flow

Hatha yoga symbolizes the union of the sun (ha) and the moon (tha), and, in practice, lunar refers to the calming, slower-paced, internal poses that are appropriate for any time of day especially when you are seeking a soothing, rejuvenative practice. This DVD contains sequences for restoration and relaxation. Shot in the stunning Maldives Cocoa Island and Kerala, India, and accompanied by a down-tempo, world-groove soundtrack.

Contains material excerpted from Yoga Shakti.

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DVDs from Gaiam

Prenatal Yoga

Respected yoga expert and mother Shiva Rea designed this program specifically for pregnancy. Safe stretching and strength-building prenatal yoga exercises increase energy and stamina, and develop concentration for labor and delivery. Includes modifications for each trimester. 60 minutes.

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Postnatal Yoga

Respected yoga expert and mother Shiva Rea designed this program specifically for new moms. Postnatal program teaches yoga moves to restore muscle tone and strength, ease strain from carrying baby, and help mom and child bond with yoga that includes baby. 60 minutes.

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Guided Asana Practices and Meditation CDs from Sounds True

The Beginner's Guide to Yoga

For those interested in starting a practice of their own but hesitant about attending a class, The Beginner's Guide to Yoga presents the perfect introduction to hatha yoga. Complete with a 60-minute guided session with yoga basics and simple poses plus a detailed study guide with instructional photographs.

Yoga Wave

Yoga Wave "Wave motion is the movement of life," teaches yogini Shiva Rea. On Yoga Wave, this world-renowned instructor invites you to turn your yoga practice into a communion with the fundamental cyclical principle that nourishes the evolution of all life. With progressions that combine the physical (solar) practices for strength and flexibility with the meditative (lunar) practices for balance and energy flow, she gives you all the tools you need to build and expand your home practice to enhance your vitality, fluidity, and creative energy.

Yoga Sanctuary

The first complete hatha yoga class offered on compact disc, Yoga Sanctuary is the most flexible, convenient tool ever devised for self-directed practice. Thanks to CD technology, the exercises can be cued in any order or combination to create customized sessions suited to your individual needs. Ideal for both experienced beginners and advanced practitioners, Yoga Sanctuary includes a detailed, study guide illustrated with over 110 photographs. Includes seven "solar" sequences designed to energize and strengthen, and six "lunar" exercises for deep release and relaxation. With graceful, original music by Lisbesth Scott. Includes study booklet.

Yoga Chant

A transformative inner flow yoga practice that blends traditional kirtan chant, postures, movement, meditation, and breathwork to release the physical and emotional armoring of daily stress and nourish your heart center with prana (vital life energy). With music by acclaimed world music artist Jai Uttal and musician Ben Leinbach.

Yoga Trance Dance

Ecstatic trance dance enters the flow of your yoga experience with this liberating workout for cultivating inner power, creativity, fluidity of the spine, and natural movement. Includes a full-length music CD for self-guided sessions.

Drops of Nectar

One of the great pleasures of yoga is the relaxation session or shavasana traditionally offered at the end of a class. When taught skillfully, shavasana invokes the flow of energetic nectar down the spine to permeate the entire body with blissful energy. Yoga practitioners can experience this rejuvenating dimension of yoga at home and at their convenience.

The Heart of Yoga

With The Heart of Yoga, Shiva offers two of her most popular flow yoga classes on compact disc, bringing these exhilarating alternatives to yoga students everywhere:

Yoga Chant: A transformative inner flow yoga practice that blends traditional kirtan chant, postures, movement, meditation, and breathwork to release the physical and emotional armoring of daily stress and nourish your heart center with prana (vital life energy). Featuring Jai Uttal.

Yoga Trance Dance: Ecstatic trance dance enters the flow of your yoga experience with this liberating workout for cultivating inner power, creativity, fluidity of the spine,and natural movement. Includes a full-length music CD for self-guided sessions, produced by Geoffrey Gordon and Ben Leinbach.

For yoga lovers who seek to deepen and expand their practice at home or on the road, here is an unprecedented 4-CD series of flow yoga sessions - comparable to two of Shiva Rea's weekend yoga retreats - The Heart of Yoga. Complete with detailed photo-illustrated guides demonstrating postures and movements.

We offer you these compilations as musical journeys as well as being celebrated collections of the best music we have found for the yoga of living and dance. Whether this is for fertilizer for your life, yoga practice or your own yoga trance dance, enjoy and live fully!

Yoga Rhythms

brings together a mix of world beat, dance, and sacred music that moves you from beginning to end to enhance the flow of yoga and your life.
This is Yoga Rhythms - the unifying pulse. Like the current of a river, this music is sometimes dynamic, invigorating, and uncharted, at other times tranquil, ancient, and steady - always satisfying. "these tracks," says Shiva, "are the ones that inspire people, after a class, to ask: 'What was that? I want more!"

Shakti Rhythms

Shakti. The creative pulse of life moving through all things. The space where physics and yoga meet. Shakti Rhythms melts the boundaries between ancient and modern music, offering a tantalizing blend of ecstatic chant and evocative rhythms perfect for dance, yoga, and creative living.

Tandava

In the realm of electronic world beat, Pathaan is arguably the singular choice. Truly the ambassador of international sounds, his Stoned Asia Music series and sound are solid. Now, he teams up with co-producer and internationally renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea to offer Tandava, an energizing mix of sensuous rhythms, meditative riffs, and world music. Inspired by Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti DVD series, Tandava is perfect for flow yoga, bodywork, exercise, or just terrific listening. www.pathaan.com

Jala

Like a winding river with organic, changing rhythms, Jala flows from sublime invocations, Asian electronica, high-energy percussion, and passionate vocals into soothing sitar and chant.

With 12 richly layered soundscapes, Jala is an energizing plunge into the universal flow. Features the talents of sitar virtuoso Uwe Neumann; multi-instrumentalist Benjy Wertheimer; Canadian Grammy nominee Adham Shaikh; Desert Dwellers; Niraj Chag; Daphne Tse with Matt Pszonak; and Burning-man favorite—Alcyone. Enhanced CD includes bonus Fluid Power DVD footage available nowhere else.

For playlist go to resources section »

Nataraja

Nataraja: the Lord of Dance, source of creativity and all movement within the cosmos. To enliven you with this regenerative spirit, Shiva Rea offers Nataraja, a pulsating collection of world-influenced electronica from the evocative soundtrack to her Yoga Trance Dance DVD.

On Nataraja, Benjy Wertheimer, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Dum Dum Project, Kaya Project, and other favorites are joined by Shaman s Dream, KDZ, John De Kadt, Clan Travelers with Byron Metcalf, Sivakumar, and more to lift you on an upward spiral and align you with the moving rhythms of creation.

Enhanced CD includes exclusive footage from Yoga Trance Dance.

Yoga Sol

On Yoga Sol, Shvia presents an album that returns to her southern California roots. This collection of mellow beats, sultry guitar riffs, and dreamy vocals includes Thievery Corporation’s sublime collaboration with Indian singer Gunjan; multiinstrumentalist and international performer David Ralicke; Girish, rising star of the West Coast’s underground kirtan scene; and the laid back sounds of German dub duo Boozoo Bajou.

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Wholesale Orders 


To order Shiva Rea's products (CDS, DVD S from Sounds True, including Yoga Shakti DVD and newest music compilations, Jala, Nataraja and Shakti Rhythms) for wholesale please contact:
Peggy Metz
peggym@soundstrue.com

For Shiva's newest DVD S by Acacia/Acorn Media (including, Fluid Power, Yoga Trance Dance and Creative Core Abs)
Please contact:
In the US:
Kari Ostafinski
kostafinski@acornmedia.com

In the UK:
Christine Romano
cromano@acaciauk.com

International Orders

Please contact yogamatters
for personal orders click here    
for wholesale orders email enquiries@yogamatters.com


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