Sacred Yoga Practice with Rainbeau Mars Vinyasa Flow
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A place to breathe deeply, strengthen and nourish your body, and awaken your spirit…
Yoga can help reverse the aging process by improving flexibility, massigning the internal organs and glands, sending oxygen to all the body’s tissues, and enhancing a state of serenity. Breathing deeply into certain postures affects the nervous and lymphatic systems. It increases circulation and promotes radiant skin. It helps relieve tight muscles, increases energy, and improves strength. On a deeper level, it’s a tool for observation. It brings us into the present so that we may fully receive what each moment has to offer and teach.
Join Rainbeau Mars and experience yoga in paradise on the breathtaking beaches of Maui. This 4 Volume Gift Boxed Set includes: For Beginners, Pure Sweat, Pure Tranquility, and Pure Power.
This is truly the heart of yoga. Enjoy… more info
Wonderful Vinyasa Flow with an Excellent, Inspiring Teacher
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Fairly recently I purchased this wonderful four tape set by Rainbeau Mars “Sacred Yoga, Vinyasa Flow” and have done all of the practices in it, some of them several times already.
I have been doing yoga daily for about five years, work weekly with a fantastic and inspired teacher and have over 80 videos that I alternate with. So I feel really confident in praising this yoga practice series by Rainbeau Mars. It is a really outstanding addition to my collection.
The First tape “Beginners” is a wonderful gentle series of flowing poses that open your body mind and spirit. It’s not just for beginners though but can be used by more advanced practitioners who want a gentle routine to do on days when they don’t want to push too hard. It can also be used as an additional warmup for the more challenging tapes in the series(though she does warm you up on those as well) or if you just want to extend your practice.
The Second Tape “Pure Tranquility” is also a gentle practice with emphasis on poses that open the hips, back and shoulders to prepare for meditation. The entire practice is also a meditation in itself as Rainbeau Mars leads you mindfully thru the series of poses.
The Third Tape “Pure Power” is a very challenging tape that emphasizes poses that will build strength throughout your entire body. It’s a nicely balanced sequence that will also increase your flexibility as well.
The Fourth Tape “Pure Sweat” is more of an “Ashtanga” influenced practice that will move you through a flowing set of poses that will challenge your strength, flexibility and build heat in your body as well.
Ms. Mars has a wonderful way of leading you through the practice with clear and very helpful instructions that can deepen your practice. The series is beautifully filmed in a tropical setting with music that really enhances the whole experience of doing the practice.
Each tape ends with a relaxation segment.
I highly recommend this tape to practitioners of all levels.
Namaste.
The Many Colors of Rainbeau’s Yoga
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This 4 tape set by Rainbeau Mars is a treasure of Yoga Gold with many unique colours. I love this set so much that I’m reviewing it for the second time now that I’ve gotten to use it for well over a year.
If you only owned one set of Yoga Videos I would say this would be one of my top choices without a doubt (and this opinion is based on my experience with over 70 yoga programs in addition to studying with an amazing teacher). The reason I would choose this particular set is that there is so much variety between these tapes that you can choose one on any given day depending on your level of energy or depending on what you want to focus on.
What is special about this series is that each of these programs is completely unique. Many Sets of Yoga programs are basically the same routine with more poses added (or harder variations) rather than unique programs unto themselves. Rather these programs are completely different from each other. What’s nice about this is that you can actually alternate these programs each day or combine them if you have more time without the routines overlapping.
The first two tapes “Beginners” and “Pure Tranquility” are gentle tapes that let you melt into wonderful yoga flows that will make you feel incredible as you open up your body, mind and spirit with movement and breath.
The last two tapes “Pure Power” and “Pure Sweat” will challenge you and push you to new levels of strength, endurance and flexibility while maintaining the true essence of yoga which is awareness and breathing.
Rainbeau Mars is a wonderful and inspiring teacher who comes across with real depth and sincerity. You feel like she’s right there with you leading you through the practice. She’s a real yoga teacher and not an aerobics teacher who decided to do a yoga video because it’s the “in thing” .
Also, these tapes clock in at about 30 minutes so they are very easy to fit into anyone’s schedule so there are not reasons to ever skip a day of Yoga.
When your ready to move on to a wonderful intermediate practice I also recommend Sherri Baptiste Freeman’s “Power Of Yoga” which is available on Amazon as well (see my detailed review).
Highly recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Namaste
The real thing
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have spent a few months trying to find new yoga videos when I heard about Rainbeau. These are keepers. She has a way of inspiring me with her gentle words and she motivates you to be yourself and to let all the negative stuff go. I don’t think I could have a bad day after doing her videos. Example, it snowed here and two cars blocked me in at the mall today and I did my yoga breathing and stayed calm and behold I was saved by a kind customer. My point is her tapes help me to stay centered in myself so I don’t get upset about trivial things. Plus the tapes may look easy, and I have done them all, but she holds the poses longer so you do get a good workout. Her explanations and instruction are terrific. I am so very happy to have found this tape series. She is young and new to the yoga world I believe (in video) she definetly has been doing yoga for quite a while. You will not be dissapointed in this. Her kindness and inspiration in itself are worth the tapes. This is one bright light I hope shines for a long time in the yoga world.
Maria
Awesome Awesome Awesome
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I just tried out one video from this series, the yoga “Sweat”, and I can’t say enough about it. As a intermediate yoga’er, I wanted something slightly more challenging, and more of a workout. This is it. This is also one of the few videos that really gives you the mind connection from yoga along with great instruction. This video, however, is NOT FOR BEGINNERS, although please keep in mind that I haven’t tried the other tapes from the set, so I’m sure they might be better for beginners, and if so, this set would follow a beginner for a very long time. Definitely worth it.
Especially recommended for those new to the practice of Yoga
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Sacred Yoga Practice is a “viewer friendly” four volume series of instructional videos where yoga expert Rainbeau Mars celebrates special aspects of the popular form of Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a practice which emphasizes the energizing combinations of breath and movement, awareness and alignment, optimum strength and flexibility. Available individually for $$ each, the 30 minute programs comprising this outstanding Sacred Yoga Practice series include: Vinyasa Flow For Beginners; Vinyasa Flow Pure Power; Vinyasa Flow Pure Sweat; and Vinyasa Flow Pure Tranquility. Ideal for use in the home, this Sacred Yoga Practice series is especially recommended for those new to the practice of Yoga.
I definately recommend these videos.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love these videos! Rainbeau Mars is now one of my two favorite instuctors, (the other being Rodney Yee). She narrates each session, so the flow of the asanas isn’t interupted. The first two videos are pretty easy, so they are good for beginners, but also very resorative, so anyone could benefit from them. The second two are more challenging, and build heat, but they are still good for beginners. I can’t stop raving about these tapes! I get so absorbed in the workout, that it’s over before I know it! I highly recommend this set to anyone who’s serious about yoga!
A series of yoga practices which allow for variety & growth
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The four videos in this set provide a nice variety of yoga practices which are applicable to a wide range of yoga practitioners, from experienced beginners to more advanced yoga students. The videos are led by Rainbeau Mars, who offers voiceover instruction in a calm soothing voice. Her mirrored cueing is excellent (although sometimes slightly out-of-sync with her movements on screen), and she is obviously very knowledgeable about yogic principles and traditions as well as anatomical issues. In addition, the videos are filmed in Hawaii against beautiful backdrops.
The most basic practice in this series is Pure Tranquility, which is designed to prepare the body and mind for meditation. The entire practice is performed in a seated position, and Rainbeau guides you through gentle stretches to open the body and relax the muscles. The Beginners video actually offers a bit of a challenge and requires some pre-existing strength. In this practice, Rainbeau begins slowly with breathing exercises and warm-up stretches. She continues with several vinyasa flow series, still moving slowly but holding some poses (such as downward dog) for an extended period of time.
The remaining two videos in this set are significantly more challenging than the first two. In Pure Power, Rainbeau builds on a series of sun salutations by adding rigorous poses such as side plank, crescent lunges, chair, and 3-legged down dog. Pure Sweat further picks up the pace by adding additional lunges and twists as well as plenty of yogi push-ups (chatturangas). Although these two practices are definitely at an intermediate/advanced level, Rainbeau performs them at a leisurely pace and does not include inversions, thus making the practices extremely accessible.
One of the things I like best about this series is that each video is only 30 minutes long, which is especially rare for intermediate/advanced practices. However, the videos could be easily combined to form an hour long workout if desired: Beginners would make a perfect warm-up for Pure Sweat, and Pure Tranquility would work well for winding down after Pure Power.
As an intermediate yogi who has been practicing yoga for several years now, I would not recommend this set for those totally new to yoga: while Rainbeau’s cueing is excellent, her instruction is not overly detailed, and she does not offer modifications for the poses. However, beginners who have had some prior experience with yoga can start with the first two videos and build up to the remaining two over time. Finally, this series is not for someone who is looking for a fast-paced, power yoga or ashtanga-type practice, as everything about Rainbeau is laid back and relaxed. Rather, this set is perfect for intermediates looking for softly flowing practices which will provide a gentle challenge to their home practice.
Wow
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I had heard that yoga gave a good workout, but had no idea until I received this set. You will sweat, but feel so good afterward. I needed something that would be good for my back and also relieve a lot of stress. Rainbeau s very competent and gives great direction. You can set your own pace, and while she’s explaining the moves, once you get it down, you can do several before she moves to the next move. So, you can make it burn, or make it meditative.