Fat Free Yoga Lose Weight and Feel Great FOR BEGINNERS and BEYOND with Ana Brett and Ravi Singh NOW WITH THE MATRIX
NOW WITH THE ALL NEW DESIGN YOUR OWN WORKOUT MATRIX MENU OPTION Experience Kundalini Yoga’s sophisticated approach to effortless conditioning. Breathe, move, stretch, relax, meditate, celebrate! Boost your metabolism. Slim down, tone and feel inspired. These workouts and meditations will help you optimize your glandular system, bring emotional healing, reduce problem areas, and help you attain your personal ideal. This conveniently chaptered 90 min. DVD offers four 20 min. workouts (plus two meditations) to help you reshape your body and your life! This DVD starts with a breathing exercise for energizing and to curb impulsive habit patterns. Then the first segment Start Your Engines, features exercises to boost metabolism. Our favorite is the cardio warm-up called ‘Ravi Rolls’ with the breath of fire. The Fight Fire w/Fire segment focuses on abdominal strengthening and toning. These are exercises anyone can do, but you will really feel the burn. Segment 3: No Impact Aerobics really gets your circulation moving. You haven’t lived until you’ve tried Frog Pose and Piston Pose! Your Life is in Your Own Glands will optimize hormonal balance. The two meditations on this DVD are for calming and emotional healing. The soothing Breath Meditation w/Hands Like a Teapot is more relaxing than a day at the spa! This DVD is for all levels. Modifications are given so that everyone can always participate. Long time yogis will find much new material to add to their yoga repertoire. This DVD features an inspired musical score by Tom Carden.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The Gold Standard of Weight Loss Yoga DVD’s
Kundalini Yoga is the only type of yoga I’ve found which actually works for weight loss. I am not disciplined enough to work out regularly but when I decide I need to lose some pounds and tone up I reach for one of my Ravi/Ana DVDs. I really love all 4 of the Fat Free Yoga sets and usually do them all at once. They are fall somewhat challenging but still doable and so darn enjoyable that I don’t want to stop! Fat Free Yoga, of course, the Ravi/Ana workout that focuses on losing weight and I love that the exercises are designed to work in a deeper way then other weightloss workouts I have tried. Not only do I tone up but the peace of mind this brings me is amazing! This is the most all-inclusive yoga style I have found. I could keep gushing about this but it’s time to do my Ana/Ravi workout!
1 Star It’s NOT Yoga
“Fat free yoga” is a workout DVD that is loosely inspired by yoga, much as Pilates is loosely inspired by yoga. Visually, the workout is performed by a lady on a white background, using a small round pink rug for her “yoga” mat. The voiceover is done by a man. The workout emphasizes calisthenics and seated aerobics. There are long segments where you sit and chant “ohm” (4 minutes), sit and breath in different ways (4 minutes), lay prone and relax (3 minutes), and so on, so that the “90 minute workout” claim is much exagerated. There are also frequent corpse pose rest breaks between exercises, so this isn’t likely to raise your pulse.
The majority of the workout does not in the least resembles Yoga — like march in place, or sit while flapping your arms like a bird. Some movements are yoga inspired, but changed — like taking what would usually be an isometrical hold for 30 seconds, and instead moving in & out of the position for a minute. Yoga’s “breath of fire” is used occasionally to further work the abdominals, which may have the rather unpleasant side effect of leaving you in a bad mood — this is an oversimplification, where the long version involves a chemical trigger nicely explained in Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners. The yoga moves do not build upon one another (e.g., toward looser hips), but rather are separated in time and randomly mixed with non-Yoga moves.
I found the DVD voice over to be very annoying. There is an occasional bit of instruction, and a whole lot of new age mumbo jumbo like “your kidneys will love you for this” or “if you’ve ever failed at self improvement, don’t loose hope.” I’ve not quoted him exactly, this is the gist of it.
The “matrix” idea has some merit, but will only be valuable if you adore this DVD and aren’t really wanting a Yoga workout anyway. The DVD is divided into around 12 chapters, between 3 and 21 minutes long. The “matrix” option allows you to choose the chapters you want to do, and the order in which these chapters should appear. Nonetheless, the DVD’s claim to “four 20-minute workouts” is a huge exageration. This DVD is intended to be ONE 90-minute workout, and while it can be separated into shorter workouts using the “matrix”, these do not flow well and feel incomplete. And they are NOT 20 minutes long!
The emphasis of “fat free yoga” is strengh (NOT flexibility), and it has the feel of calisthenics. Unfortunately, calisthenics are relatively infefficient at building strength — if you really want to build strength, you are much better off weightlifting, especially if you are a woman. “Fat free yoga” may give moderate aerobic bennefits, but not nearly as good as step aerobics or any other traditional aerobic workout. I never had the feeling that I was building flexibility.
Personally, I think of exercise as (1) necessary and (2) boring. I’ve tried a huge variety of exercise routines — swimming, weight lifting, step aerobics, rowing, belly dance, pilates, exercise bike, etc. Yoga is not the most effective, but I feel better afterward, and I can’t say that about any of the others. I was really excited to try this highly rated Yoga DVD, and felt betrayed that the name on the box (”Yoga”) in no way matched the contents. Expectations aside, this workout was nothing special, as forgetable as 30 minutes on an exercise bike.
Overall, I wouldn’t recommend you purchase this DVD. If you want a combined strength building and aerobic workout, you’ll be much better off buying one of “The Firm” workouts like The Firm – Total Body Toner. If you want yoga, consider Yee’s A.M. Yoga for Your Week. If you want something fun, try Bellydance Fitness for Beginners – Basic Moves & Fat Burning. If you are uncomfortable in any way, I’m awed by Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain.
5 Stars Fat free yoga with ana brett & ravi sing If standard YOGA bores you then get this!
I have almost every one of the Ana & Ravi programs and love them all, but this one is one of my favorites, and I highly recommend it to beginners to start with! Its FUN!!! It has 4 sets you can do individually, or do the whole thing which I often do. The sets have fun names like FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE, and START YOUR ENGINES, NO IMPACT AEROBICS, & YOUR LIFE IS IN YOUR OWN GLANDS. This type of yoga is just GENIOUS FOR WEIGHTLOSS since it works internally and externally to make some real and lasting changes. Can’t say enough about this, or any of Ravi/Anas workouts!
Thanks,
EVE
5 Stars great dvd
I received my dvd and it had damage to it. I e-mailed seller and they promtly answered my e-mail and put another dvd in mail. It was in perfect condition and arrived very fast. The dvd was just as described and is just what I was looking for. Will do business with this seller again.
4 Stars Energising
I am a beginner, and I found this DVD to be a great intro into Kundalini. I felt really energised afterwards. Highly recommended.
